The most noteworthy shows opening across NYC galleries this week. All We Need is Inside Jeppe Hein April 16 – May 30, 2015 303 Gallery, 507 W 24th Street, New York Arm’s Length Erin Shirreff April 17 – May 22, 2015 Sikkema Jenkins & Co., 530 West 22nd Street, New York, 10011 Performing for the Camera Tseng Kwong […]
Kevin Drew and Andy Kim: A New Social Scene
When we spoke to Broken Social Scene’s Kevin Drew last year, it was during the singer’s promotional push for his sophomore solo album, Oh My Darlings—a beautiful record which we described as “Drew singing the pages of his journal over discrete orchestral moments and thoughtful synth swells.” Throughout the recording of Darlings, and for many years prior, Drew has maintained a […]
David Lynch, Between Two Worlds: A Union of Art, Film and Xiu Xiu
Despite the fact that his latest directorial feature, the obscurely fascinating Inland Empire, was released almost a decade ago, David Lynch’s legacy as a filmmaker, artist and visionary is perhaps more profoundly vital today than it has ever been. Beyond his work as a filmmaker, David Lynch has been, throughout his entire career, a prolific painter and artist, with a body of work that […]
Alien She: Riot Grrrl Through Art
Today, the city of Boston will officially proclaim April 9 as “Riot Grrrl” day, in honor of original riot grrrl, musician Kathleen Hanna. Hanna, a pivotal figure on the hardcore-punk scene and frontwoman of seminal feminist bands Bikini Kill and Le Tigre, is in Boston to lecture and perform at the Wilbur Theater. The Riot Grrrl movement has been at […]
Milan Design Week: A Danish Showcase at Salone del Mobile and Art Around Town
Milan’s Salone del Mobile has grown into the largest fair of its kind in the world, far surpassing its founding mission of showcasing Italian design, and instead becoming a platform for the showcase of over 13,000 global designers’ work. Taking place during what is known as Milan Design Week, the Italian city becomes a “living gallery,” playing host to a myriad presentations, installations and […]
Ars Magna: Diana Al-Hadid
Diana Al-Hadid’s opus inhabits multiple media: large-scale sculptures, drawings, site-specific installations and painting all feature throughout the Syria-born, Brooklyn-based artist’s work. Al-Hadid’s work is rooted in history: she often references art from centuries past, from which she borrows motifs that she rearranges, reinterprets and uses in her own compositions. It is a symbiotic fascination, one that lends Al-Hadid’s work a […]
Erotica and Subversion: The Films of Walerian Borowczyk
Perhaps the best description of master eroticist filmmaker Walerian Borowczyk’s is that of a “genius who was also a pornographer.” An apt description of a man who, throughout his prolific film career that spanned over four decades, directed over 40 films that have come to inhabit the cult pornography canon. Yet ‘pornography’ is also not the most accurate descriptor for […]
Playlist: Oh Wonder, Speedy Ortiz, SBTRKT, Jamie XX + more
Spring broke: Here’s a playlist of the twelve freshest new tracks to help you forget spring break. Featuring Speedy Ortiz, Jamie XX, Nice Legs, Baauer, Fictonian, iLoveMakonnen and more.
Exclusive: Watch Vin and Omi’s FW15 Runway Video
London-based creative multi-media duo Vin and Omi showcased the latest collection for their eponymous label, Vin and Omi, in London during Fashion Week. Shown at the Drury Club, it was all about thick, matted wool, lively colors, bomber jackets and bold knitwear, set to music by New York-based musician Justin Dean Thomas. The designer duo, who call Debbie Harry, Pamela Anderson […]