T Magazine: The Real Artists of Marfa | Jennifer Lane
The latest installment in Vincent Dilio’s series of portraits: A filmmaker creates a festival to showcase the work of visual artists.
Feeling Heavenly Artistic
FAILE TEMPLE – STUDIO EDITION BOOK
Faile’s newest 128-page book titled,
CINDY’S NIGHT OUT
Few photographers meld art and artifice as deftly and delightfully as Cindy Sherman. The subversive self-portraitist’s penchant for wigs, props and prosthetics was on full display last night in MoMA’s 6th floor gallery, where a crush of people had gathered to fête the artist’s eponymous retrospective. Coincidence or not, some of the assembled gawkers bore more than a passing resemblance to the Sherman characters (fashion victims, society matrons and retro ingenues) they were admiring, a fact not lost on legendary lensman Bill Cunningham.
TheSeventhLetter: 50 Characters in Miami
As the final videos from Art Basel 2011 begin to roll out, TheSeventhLetter’s “50 Characters in Miami” is certainly a nice way to end the event coverage if this is indeed the swan song from the art exhibition. Featuring MSK’s RIME, he takes on an expansive space as he tries to expand on a repetitive theme popular among graffiti enthusiasts. The finished piece is certainly an awe-inspiring display that TheSeventhLetter crew continues to churn out on a consistent basis.
Todd James "King Of the Wild Frontier" @ Gering & Lopez, NYC
Todd “REAS” James, recently part of our Graffiti Spotlight and his August 2008 cover in our Top 25 Covers list, will be opening a solo show, King of the Wild Frontier, at NYC’s Gering & Lopez Gallery on March 1, 2012. The exhibition will present two new bodies of work: canvases depicting James’ familiar Somali pirate series and a recreation of the Vandal’s Bedroom that was so essential to the Street Market installation at MOCAs’ Art In the Streets.
Christopher Kane. London, 20/02/12
Click images to enlarge. Christopher Kane’s collection started in smart pinstripes and blacks, and then bloomed into dark flowers and intricate embellishments. Prints included abstracted, low-contrast concoctions of purple wood grains on dresses and bluish cheetah spots on leather macs; details included large blossoms embroidered on scarlet sheer blouses and skirts, and flower beds of beads and shiny sequins.
Fashion East. London, 20/02/12
Click images to enlarge. Fashion East showed the exact same line-up as last season – Maarten van der Horst, Marques’Almeida and James Long.
Joshua Marston Draws Blood
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Hovering Sculptures by Thomas Jackson
We immediately became transfixed with Thomas Jackson’s work after seeing this particular hovering sculpture piece. As Jackson says of this body of work, he was inspired “by self-organizing, ‘emergent’ systems in nature such as termite mounds, swarming locusts, schooling fish and flocking birds.”
McQ. London.
Click images to enlarge. Monday night’s McQ show was the most extraordinarily theatrical event that London Fashion Week has seen in a long while
Discovery: Leonard Friend
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Pringle of Scotland. London, 20/02/12
Click images to enlarge. In a wonderful space – Phillips de Pury’s pristine white auction rooms, illuminated by floating lantern-moons of light – Pringle of Scotland’s show was like a wonderful dream of angora, cashmere, faux-astrakhan, merino and ice cream colours. Alistair Carr, in only his second season as Creative Director, has transformed the label into one of London’s most exciting and desirable brands, and his autumn/winter collection did not disappoint: there were fluffy triangle-knit sweaters in puppy-soft pastel pinks and mints, mirrored in the models’ subtly dip-dyed hair; there were illusions of cardigans, actually contrasting colours on woollen dresses; there were cashmere roll necks with pie-crust collars and ruffles… all stand-out staples that any girl would want in her wardrobe
The Work of Andrew Millist
Andrew Millist is a freelance illustrator based in Brisbane, Australia, and is represented by Drawing Book Studios.
John Pawson: A Visual Inventory
John Pawson: The Anecdotes Wednesday, February 22, 2012 Collected over the past decade, the hundreds of images included in John Pawson’s forthcoming book, A Visual Inventory, are accompanied by the story of their creation. Here Pawson reveals where, when and why each of his photographs came into existence. Clockwise from top left: Glass House Estate, New Canaan, Connecticut, USA
SOFTEN UP
Our moisturizer can multitask.
Cambridge band Night Fruit
The Cambridge-based band Night Fruit has been in my regular rotation these past few months. Female fronted dreamy-synth-pop-shoegaze textured bliss
Tyson McAdoo
After graduating from The Joe Kubert School of Cartooning and Graphic Arts, illustrator Tyson McAdoo began working for Marvel Comics, DC Comics, Dark Horse, and Cartoon Network. McAdoo spent several years in the cartoon and comic business before deciding to leave the industry and begin his own line of dangerously seductive art, depicting unconventional yet classically-inspired modern day pin-ups.
Anthony Lister @ New Image Art: Video and Photo Preview
Antony Lister will be showing all new work this Thursday February 23, 2012, at New Image Art Gallery in Los Angeles.
GET INTO THE TUBE WITH V!
Above, watch Cecilia Dean introduce her personally curated playlist of art videos for V Magazine’s brand new YouTube Channel! To see the full playlist of videos from artists like Marilyn Minter, Doug Aitken, Tom Sachs, Ryan McNamara, and more, CLICK HERE ! Be sure to Subscribe at youtube.com/vmagazine .
IMPOSSIBLE PROJECT SPACE NYC presents MOMENTUM Photo Exhibition
It has been almost two years since the very first release of Impossible instant film for Polaroid SX-70 cameras. Although the film was initially in a developmental stage and highly experimental, it dawned on both fanatics and photographers alike that the impossible would actually become possible
