French art director Madani Bendjellal plays with our perception of familiar movies by stripping iconic movie posters of all identifiable features: the result are affecting, soothing images that play along a different kind of soundtrack. The images are also an exercise in minimalist presentation: once key credits and key imagery is removed, what remains are blurred genre boundaries and a […]
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 […]
Hanna Liden’s Giant Bagel Public Art
Swedish-born artist Hanna Liden just unveiled Everything — a series of works consisting of nine giant bagel sculptures as part of a public-art project in Manhattan. Seven of the giant bagels are on display in West Village’s Hudson River Park through October 20, while two will occupy a spot on lower Sixth Avenue until August 24. Leiden, a photographer-turned-artist, previously exhibited I Hope These Ruin […]
Art Openings This Week in Los Angeles
A curated list of the best art openings across the best City of Angels galleries this week. Jeff Brian Sharp, Dianna Molzan, Alex Klein, Wolfgang Tillmans, Joseph Beuys, Neal Bashor Alex Klein, Kathleen Ryan, Nicholas Gottlund, Calvin Marcus, Rick Hager, Laeh Glein, Ken Price, Wolfgang Tillmans, Saul Fletcher, Joseph Beuys August 1, 2015 – September 12, 2015 Grice Bench, 915 […]
Sean McFarland: Space and Time
San Francisco-based visual artist Sean McFarland’s work is grand, yet equally small: landscape polaroid photographs that embody space and time through ambitious, captivating imagery of landscapes, mountains and, more generally, nature. McFarland works across the spectrum of light-sensitive materials, which includes cyanotypes, gelatin silver prints, and archival pigment prints to create powerful, visceral and, purposely, compositionally ambigous images. We speak to the artist […]
Thomas Sauvin, Linder Sterling, Henrik Malmström: Three best new photobooks
Henrik Malmström Life is One Live it Well German photographer Henrick Malmström takes us on a tour of Hamburg’s dark underbelly—the central neighborhood of St. Georg—which is home to such reputable establishments as the German National Theater. Around the corner, however, the neighborhood hides the city’s unofficial “red light district”, a collection of old bars, coffee shops and small, dingy […]
The Zeitgeist: Yo La Tengo Covers the Cure, Lars Von Trier’s Childhood Short + More
Lars Von Trier’s Childhood Stop Motion Short Way before the emotional and moral trappings of Dancer In The Dark, or the existential reflectivity of Melancholia, an 11-year old Lars Von Trier immersed himself into the world of stop motion filmmaking and created a cute —and technically impressive, considering his age—stop-motion short called Turen til Squashland… En Super Pølse Film (translated […]
The Ideal Home: Jan McCullough’s Home Instruction Manual
British artist Jan McCullough’s Home Instruction Manual is just that: a photographic portfolio of a new home decorated to comply with what posters on an Internet forum consider the perfect home. Belfast-based McCullogh searched the internet for tips on how to build the perfect home. Starting with a simple Google search for “How to Make a Home,” she stumbled upon […]
Simplicity in Solitude: Four Architectural Treasures
From a lonesome library on the shores of Nandaihe Pleasure City in China to a chapel perched atop a hill in Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, these architectural treasures celebrate restraint and solitude and, in doing so, make a bold noise. Seashore Library, China Vector Architects Capela Joá, Brazil Bernardes Arquitectura Six Walls House, Sweden Arrhov Frick […]