New York-based photographer Jonathan Leder is bringing a series of 92 of his most iconic and signature prints to Los Angeles as a solo show at Superchief Gallery. Leder is widely known for capturing intimate, highly sexualized portraits of female models including Emily Ratajkowski, Britany Nola and Amy Hood, who appears in most of Leder’s projects. His images are visceral, […]
Last Chance: Pussy Don’t Fail Me Now
This singular show, now on view at Cindy Rucker Gallery through August 13th, explores three female artists’ disparate, but ideologically related, expressions of feminism. Featuring works by Doreen Garner, Sophia Narrett and Kenya (Robinson), Pussy Don’t Fail Me Now is a group show of challenging but thoughtful approaches to feminist ideals. Doreen Garner is known for panting and decorating found […]
John Waters’ Beverly Hills John On View in London
Artist and director John Waters, known for off-kilter cult favorites as Pink Flamingos and Serial Mom, has been subverting common themes — religion, domesticity, glamour and fame — throughout his career. A prolific artist, alongside films, Waters has been creating still photo-based work since the early 1990s. His latest show, a photographic exhibition called Beverly Hills John, has, after a successful […]
Germaine Krull: Revolution, Erotica and Ads
Pioneering modernist photographer Germaine Krull was as much a photojournalist as she was a story-teller. Through her work, most of which originated over a period of a few years in the 1920s and 1930s, Krull created an impressive portfolio that tackled artistic photography, advertisements, portraits and photojournalism. As one of the most famous female photographers of the inter-war period, she […]
Philippe Parreno: H{N}Y P N{Y}OSIS
In his largest installation in the U.S. to date, French artist Philippe Parreno gives American audiences an opportunity to experience first-hand the monumental scope of his work through a large-scale fusion of art, film, music and architecture. In Park Avenue Armory’s expansive Wade Thompson Drill Hall, Parreno, with the help of set designer Randall Peacock, will stage an ambitious, multi-sensory […]
Kim Gordon: The City Is A Garden
Kim Gordon’s — the former front-woman of Sonic Youth — long-standing, and quite accomplished, foray into arts has landed her shows at MoMA/PS1 and White Columns in New York and Künstlerhaus in Graz. Now, the 303 Gallery in NYC is putting on the first solo exhibition of new work by Gordon, after signing the musician and visual artist in 2014. After last […]
Art Openings This Week in NYC
From Pulse to Art on Paper, our favorite shows debuting this week. Featuring a retrospective on fashion photographer Richard Prince, Art on Paper, the debut of the Armory Show at Piers 92 & 94, and Victor Moscoso’s “Psychedelic Drawings.” See them all listed below (clicking on addresses takes you to the show or gallery page). FASHION RICHARD PRINCES March 3 – April […]
Gallery Openings This Week: NYC, LA, SF
REVIVAL DAVANA WILKINS February 19 – March 21, 2015 AC Institute, 547 W 27th St #210, New York, NY 10001 HERE THERE, ACÁ ALLÁ 2015 Febaury 21 – February 28, 2015 601 Art Space, 601 West 26th St., #1755, New York, NY 10001 CASTAWAY JOYCE PENSATO February 19 – March 18, 2015 Petzel Gallery, 456 W 18th St, New York, NY 10001 […]