Who Shot Rock & Roll: A Photographic History, 1955 to the Present is the 1st major museum exhibition of its kind. The exhibit is guest curated by the distinguished photography historian Gail Buckland.

From the Brooklyn Museum blog:
The exhibition will cover the rock and roll era from the 1950s to the present and will be organized in 6 sections with the following working titles: Behind the Scenes; Live Performances; Crowds and Fans; Portraits; Young Artists; Conceptual Images & Album Covers. Together these will represent the varied approaches to rock and roll photography . . . which is as varied as the artists themselves. Though not a compendium of everyone in the history of rock, the exhibition will include Ike Turner, Little Richard, Rolling Stones, The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, The Ramones, Tina Turner, and Amy Winehouse. And of equal note, the photographers William "Popsie" Randolph, Barry Feinstein, Mick Rock, Richard Avedon, David Gahr, Pennie Smith, Jean-Paul Goude, Henry Diltz, and Max Vandukul.

Italian artist, Maurizio Cattelan focusses his lens on iconic supermodel Linda Evangelista.   She's still got it.    Here she is a saint and sinner.    Maurizio is represented by the Marian Goodman Gallery and has shown at the MOMA in NY, the MOCA in LA and the MOCA in Chicago and is part of the permanent collection at the Guggenheim, the Rubell Family, and the Dakis Joannou collection.  pictures ran in W this month.  

Anyone with a Pug knows you just can't fight the urge to dress that little sucker up.   Halloween is the funniest time of the year for the pug.     One of my favorite pug sites is Go pug yourself.   pug yourself  I found these pics on there.  I've done the skunk, hotdog, princess, and pumpkin- this is hilarious.   YoDA meets the werewolf.    LOVE!!  


 

Tavi has a fashion blog with 4 million followers....the thing is she is only 13 years old!
Her blog is such a hit, she was invited to all the shows at NY fashion week and featured in NY Times magazine in an article about tween bloggers. Check her out... she's kind of a big deal....http://tavi-thenewgirlintown.blogspot.com

Kate Bellm is a great young photographer (born in '87) living in Berlin. I'm impressed with her unique visual style and experience for such a young age.
Her work is inspired by famed photographers: Terry Richardson, Martin Parr, Helmut Newton & Guy Bourdin. Check out her site: http://www.katebellm.com

I really love Andrea's new series and was very inspired by her artist statement:

I enter into the process of creating a photograph on both a conscious and subconscious level. My portraits of children contain various layers of information relating to the artist, the subject and a mutual exchange between the two. The work seeks to explore the psyche of complex individuals. Each young girl, while physically existing in the natural world, also thrives in another realm, an insular dream state, with her gaze turned inward. The photographs exist as both fictional and autobiographical creations. Relating to the temporary situation of childhood, I am fascinated by young individuals' imagination and intensity of experience. My curiosity about childhood, as a state of limbo and a game of illusion, creates additional layers with which to contemplate. Visually exploring the girls' stances and environments, the audience enters into a private world of vulnerability, isolation, imagination and memory. A delicate balance exists between the real and the imagined, the beautiful and the grotesque.


Please take a closer look at the whole series here: http://www.andrea-land.com

Tracy Nakayama, The Seekers, 2009

ink on paper, 30 x 22 inches

November 7 - December 19, 2009

From her psycho-sensual ink-drawings depicting couples and trios engaging

in hairy love-making one might assume that Tracy Nakayama is obsessed

with sex. Of course you'd only be half right. She's actually obsessed with the

fleeting freedom the act leaves us with. It's the same reason she's into

drawing hippies holding candles and '60s counterculture figures like Anita

Pallenberg and Yoko Ono. Like the sex act itself, these anachronistic icons

represent an idealized moment in time that couldn't be sustained, but can be

frozen briefly in ink on paper.

For this exhibition--her first at Kinkead Contemporary--Nakayama mines

deeper than the vintage smut mags she has in the past used as reference.

Her newest drawings, though still resplendent in their russet-colored

washes, as often as not depict movements other than the erotic. Mimes,

tumblers, and interpretative dancers flit across the marbled pages,

seemingly oblivious that the times have been 'a changin' around them. In

another scene, a trio of nudes sunbathes nonchalantly on modern society's

detritus--a junkyard--as sylphish as the scrambling cherubs of Houses of the

Holy. Be they blissfully narcoleptic or obscenely acrobatic, what Nakayama's

subjects have in common is an uninhibited naturalness, an incognizant Idon't-

give-a-fuck that verges on what we'd typically call "zoning out." "I'm

interested in the idea of portraying figures in some sort of cathartic state,"

admits Nakayama, "Like a psychic vacuum."

Tracy Nakayama's work has been exhibited widely throughout the U.S.,

Japan and Europe. Nakayama has had solo exhibitions at Hiromi Yoshii

Gallery (Tokyo), Acuna-Hansen Gallery (Los Angeles), ATM Gallery (New

York), and Bodybuilder and Sportsman Gallery (Chicago) among many

others. She received her MFA from the School of Visual Arts (New York,

NY). Nakayama currently lives and works in Los Angeles.

Next exhibition at Kinkead Contemporary:

Jered Sprecher

January 9 - February 13, 2010

For further information, please contact:

John Kinkead

Kinkead Contemporary

6029 Washington Blvd

Culver City, CA 90232

Tel: (310) 838-7400

E-mail: john@kinkeadcontemporary.com

The quirky and bizarre drawings of legendary artist R. Crumb are on view in this months W magazine. 

Fashion photographer Juergen Teller shot actress Charlotte Rampling and model Raquel Zimmerman at the famed Louvre museum.  Paradise magazine published the work with an interview by photographer William Egglestein.  Charlotte was convinced by Juergen's wife, art dealer, Sadie Coles, to go nude.    How often do you get to be butt naked in front of the Mona Lisa?  These are spectacular. 

I love these Mexican Wrestler eco bags by Rezon/Kawamura

Stussy created a capsule collection with Japanese cartoon Hello Kitty.  on a side note, (Hello Kitty also has an exhibit up in LA at Royal T in Culver City 8910 Washington St.) Hello Kitty is everywhere right now-she just celebrated her 35th anniversary.
The Stussy range features keychians, T's and will be released Nov. 7 in Japan.    CUTE.

Richard Dawkins has got to be the smartest writer on the planet.   When I first read his book the God Delusion it changed my life.   The book was banned in many airport book stores when it first came out and I can see why.    He talks about the "wanton suppression of science", belief without evidence, and has said that traveling on book tours through the bible belt has allowed him to effect people's lives.    If you are interested in the origin of species, history "deniers" and organized religion as the drug of the masses,  you have to read this Revolutionary Evolutionist.   His new book, The Greatest Show on Earth is out now.      

Victor & Rolf always do cutting edge work.   The artistry in their collections and presentations raises the bar for the fashion and design world.    Here is a collab by Studio Job for their 2010 Spring /summer show.

JCrew is doing some great stuff with their men's line incorporating iconic artists into the pictures and layouts.    I like that its more interesting with a personality.   The artists are photographed in their studios or "on the job" which is really cool.  They have great style and kudos to JCrew for featuring them.

for more information on JCrew and the Artists, Designers & Photographers featured, go to jcrew.com

Photographer Stephen Shore

Artist and Designer Vito Acconci

Artist Lucien Smith

Artist Chris Dorland

This was a gorgeous layout in Vogue by the always on photographer Raymond Meier.    Originally a still life photographer, Raymond now shoots fashion and accessories almost every issue.

Fusing art and design, UXUS creates new experiences for their clients.   They like to think of their work as "brand poetry."    Uxus collaborated with H&M on their home collection.
THis is called "Home Reflections".uxus

Tsubota Pearl makes chic and trendy lighters.   So elegant and chic it's like jewelry.

You know I love my pugs.   Well, they are the most photogenic dog.   I'm biased-- ofcourse.   Here's a great shot of the little devils with Linda Evangelista.  Love this hat.

MARK WHALEN (KILL PIXIE): SUPREME BEINGS

Opening Reception: Saturday, 24 October, 19:00 - 22:00 H


MERRY KARNOWSKY GALLERY BERLIN
TORSTRASSE 175
10115 BERLIN-MITTE
GERMANY
+49 30 28 50 30 72


Experiments, 2009, acrylic, ink, gouache and resin on paper on wood panel, 44.5 x 60 cm, 17.5" x 23.5"


Exhibition Dates:
24 October - 19 December 2009

Gallery Hours:
Tuesday - Saturday 13 - 19 H


Merry Karnowsky Gallery Berlin is proud to present Supreme Beings, a solo exhibition by award-winning artist Mark Whalen, also known as Kill Pixie. Whalen began as a graffiti artist on the streets of his native Sydney, Australia. Once he transitioned to fine art, his medium of choice became ink and acrylic on paper mounted to wood, coated in shiny resin.

In his latest body of work, Whalen's masked humanoid characters inhabit celestial pools and spas in a futuristic bathhouse where gravity loses all meaning. The humorous candy-colored geometric paintings depict scenes of excessive human consumption and obsession with objects, as the characters worship the almighty dollar.  Inspired by folk art, mechanical sciences, structures, and urban culture, Whalen says, "My work is an exploration of the objects and the elements that repeat to infinity, and I am using these elements to illustrate what I am trying to communicate."

In Whalen's meticulously crafted work, the viewer senses the indomitable spirits of creativity, resistance, and the power of adaptation. His work questions the games people are forced to play, as it fractures and realigns old divides between street and studio, and reinterprets the universal human struggle between our antagonistic instincts for freedom and control in the contemporary era. For Whalen's rapidly expanding audience around the world, the work points toward dynamic new understandings that will be necessary for survival in the future of our world.

Accompanying the exhibition is a limited edition zine, Project Rooms, published by Izrock Pressings, which is available at http://www.izrock.com/.

Since 2006, Whalen has shown in a constant stream of exhibitions in Los Angeles, London, Australia and Berlin. Izrock Pressings recently published his first book, Kill Communication. It includes 64 pages of fine art paintings and works on the street. Whalen has also appeared in publications such as Juxtapoz, Modart Europe, Arkitip, and Monster Children.

In 2008, Whalen (as Kill Pixie) was awarded the Sydney Music, Arts & Culture Award for Best Visual Artist. He currently lives and paints in Los Angeles, California.

I've passed by this rocker over at Huset several times before and it always stops me in my tracks.http://designbyproxy.blogspot.com/
Fredericia Stingray Rocker by Thomas Pedersen is pretty cool if you ask me.

The gold plated saucer represents the desert and the reflective characteristics mimics the illusion you would expect to see in a mirage.    so sublime.   I'm not a small cup tea person and I don't drink espresso, but these are little art pieces.   A great gift.molla space

Beijing on view at 535 West 22nd st
October 23rd - November 21st

Friedrich Petzel Gallery is pleased to announce "General Control" an exhibition of new works by Sarah Morris.

"It all gets back that there is no inside or outside, you're just a part of it. There is no periphery. There is no being on the edge. You're in this system. To me, that is what the films and the paintings aspire to confront".*

Sarah Morris is an internationally recognized painter and filmmaker, known for her complex abstractions, which play with architecture and the psychology of urban environments. Morris views her paintings as parallel to her films - both trace urban, social and bureaucratic topologies. In both these media, she explores the psychology of the contemporary city and its architecturally encoded politics. Morris assesses what today's urban structures, bureaucracies, cities and nations might conceal and surveys how a particular moment can be inscribed and embedded into its visual surfaces. Often, these non-narrative fictional analyses result in studies of conspiratorial power, structures of control, and the mapping of global socio-political networks. *courtesy of Fredrich Pezel gallery

These love Grenades are really cute and I like the message.    Proceeds are donated to Act now to stop war and end racism. A.N.S.W.E.R.   molla space

The gold one is so cool.

I can't wait to see this amazing film. - groundbreaking stuff as far as animation and use of puppets goes.  George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Jason Schwartzman, Willem Dafoe, Bill Murray. wow.   This looks so good.   

The miniature lighter is chic and cute.   molla space I really like these by Japanese brand Tsubota Pearl.

I love the clean, sharp graphic quality of these PLINC and Marilyn Neuhart prints from House Industries by David Dodde. Each one is hand printed and numbered.my blog
~via apartment therapy

I love the gorgeous curves and sensual lines of this chair by Mathias Bengtsson

On October 14th and 15th, Caro Marketing and TheLookBook.com hosted the 3rd Annual Simply Stylist event at Siren @ Orange, where top brands from around the globe featured their Spring 2010 collections. 100 of LA's top stylists and media previewed 15 contemporary, couture and accessories collections including Ronald Abdala, TOMS Shoes, Mike Vensel, Paul & Joe, Bordeaux, Ashi Studio, Rafe NY, Oday Shakar, Kao Pao Shu, The Fear and Hobo International. Attendees included Nicole Chavez, Britt Bardo, Jeanne Yang, Penny Lovell, Johnny Wujek, Jessica Paster, Joey Tierney, Audrina Patridge, and Jamie Pressly. TOMS Shoes, the charity sponsor for this year's event featured "Style Your Sole" custom designed shoes, while quests were pampered by W Hotel's Bliss Spa, OPI, celebrity make-up artist Hala Ajam, and Hairroin Salon and enjoyed gourmet hors d'oeuvres from Meg Hall catering.

Make Art and Make a Difference.

Public Option Please is calling for entries of visual artwork that use positive messaging
to convey and encourage national dialogue around the importance of a Public Option in Healthcare Reform.

Thirty finalists will be reviewed by the public and a panel of qualified judges to include
Arianna Huffington, Aaron Rose, Jesse Dylan, Marshall Ganz, Arlene Holt Baker and others.

Four Cash Prizes From $500.00 to $1000.00

All of the winners will receive national visibility through our grassroots promotional efforts.
Entries for submission to this profound call-to-action are due by 31 October 2009.

Register and see contest rules for more details the official website.

Public Option is a non-profit, grassroots organization committed to achieving affordable health care for all Americans, is calling on artists concerned about health care reform to submit entries to our Campaign Art Contest. The winning design will be featured on Public Option Please campaign items, and offered at our online store. All proceeds will go directly towards helping us rally nationwide support for meaningful health care reform.

not for walking, but so HOT!

Ryan McGinley started making photographs in 1998. In 2003 he was the youngest artist to have a solo show at the Whitney Museum of American Art. He was also named Photographer of the Year in 2003 by American Photo Magazine. In 2007 McGinley was awarded the Young Photographer Infinity Award by the International Center of Photography.

Bellow are images made during four summers worth of three-month trips accross the US with friends, in untouched caves.

Cartier is my favorite jeweler and they have always come out stunning and innovative pieces.   A long history of embracing artists, (Jean Cocteau wore his Trinity Pinky ring for most of his life) also makes them super cool in my book.   

Loved and adored by many elegant women including Elizabeth Taylor, Grace Kelly, Ali Magraw, and Gwen Steffani Cartier, like a diamond can be a gir'ls best friend.    Ofcourse, its always lovely when your boyfriend or husband buys it for you.    One of my favorite Cartier collections is the Panther collection.    Here is a little info about the incredible woman this collection was named after.

Jeanne Toussaint was appointed the Director of Cartier High Jewelry in 1933. She was a woman of exquisite elegance as imaginative as she was demanding. Designers and Master jewelers were in awe of her and she was nicknamed "The Panther" by Louis Cartier, as every new idea had first to be submitted to her merciless judgement.

Cartier's unofficial mascot has been prowling the design studios since 1914, in one form or another, including black-spotted watches and jewel-encrusted brooches but in the 1950's the American-born Duchess of Windsor made the fine-jeweled felines world famous with her Her Panther Brooch.

Beyond Eden Art Fair was amazing.  Held at LA Municipal Art Gallery at Barnsdall Park, which is a fantastic space, housed multiple talented artists and galleries. 

Outside was pretty epic as artist strutted their stuff, Live painting...!  Among the artist were:

• Mear One
• Prince Parise
• John Parks
• Dabs Myla
• Michael Pukac
• Paul Torres
• Anthony Clarkson
• Sharktoof
• Bumblebee
• Unification Theory
• Jesse Hotchkiss
• Nathan DeYoung
• Yoskay Yamamoto
• Scott Belcastro
  
• Nate Frizzell
• Joshua Mays
• Luke Holden

Inside was a plethra of galleries:
Synchronicity Space
Thinkspace
Subliminal Projects
Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery (LAMAG)
LeBasse Projects
La Luz De Jesus
Gallery Nucleus
Gallery 1988
DRKRM
Crewest
Copro Gallery
Carmichael Gallery of Contemporary Art
Black Maria Gallery
Billy Shire Fine Arts

THE HUMAN ECLECTIC A GROUP EXHIBITION CURATED BY  KENT WILLIAMS Saturday, October 17, 8-11pm with work by Peter Liashkov, Barron Storey, Jon J Muth, Kent Williams,  Aaron Smith, Dean Karr, Mari Inukai, Chris Anthony, Jennifer Poon,  Jason Shawn Alexander, Kevin Llewellyn, Sara Escamilla Kent Williams, Mother and Daughter, 2009, oil on linen, 42 x 50 in. MERRY KARNOWSKY GALLERY 170 S. LA BREA AVENUE (IN THE ART 170 BUILDING) LOS ANGELES, CA 90036 323.933.4408 Exhibition Dates: October 17 - November 7, 2009 Gallery Hours: Tues - Sat 12-6pm

Way more elegant than a slinky but just as cool, probably more wearable.    Love this. 

When great minds get together this is what you get.  Another sublime series by Ryan McGinley and muse, Kate Moss.ryan's site

This chair/ sculpture really takes skull art to another level.    I want this.

TOM's have always been cool and comfortable.   He's developing his design with a new style.   Same mission, same quality, same ethics.   Just goes to show you can be sustainable and make a hip shoe.     In 2006, Blake Mycoskie began operrating TOMS SHOES on the premise that they give away a pair of shoes to a needy child for every pair purchased; Toms One for One model. They maintain that they're using peoples purchasing power to benefit the greater good and since they're beginning, TOMS has given over 150,000 pairs of shoes away to children in need through this One for One model.

Susan Anderson: "High Glitz"

Dates: October 24^th ­- December 124th, 2009

The Kopeikin Gallery is pleased to present the first solo exhibition by Susan Anderson in the United States. Anderson is a Los Angeles-based commercial and editorial photographer specializing in fashion and portraiture. The series "High Glitz: The Extravagant World of Child Beauty Pageants" is Anderson's first major body of personal work to receive international attention (http://www.highglitz.com). The exhibition opens on Saturday, October 24th with a reception for the artist from six to nine and continues through December 24th 2009. It is free and open to the public.

"I make a point of not directing my subjects, but provide a platform for them to present themselves to the camera."

                                                                        - Susan Anderson

(Information provided by Kopeikin Gallery) 

"Playing dress-up is part of being a kid, but when adults step in, apply the makeup, the clothes and instructions on composure, posture and gesture the game becomes something else... Their lives become an act, a mark of grown-up affectation that they are unable to remove after the performance ends."

                                                                 Lois Ann Holey-Dort (The Nation)

MARILYN MINTER

October 24 - December 5, 2009

Opening Reception: Saturday, October 24, 6 - 8 pm

Gallery Hours: Tuesday - Saturday, 10 am - 6 pm

 

Regen Projects is pleased to announce an exhibition of works by New York artist, Marilyn Minter.  For her debut at Regen Projects, Minter presents a series of decadent paintings, photographs and her new film Green Pink Caviar. On view at Regen Projects II is a series the artist categorizes as the Mouth series, where tongues and lips lick, suck and drool candy-like substances.  These works implicate the viewer as a voyeur in Minter's unattainable fantasy.  As mouths push lusciously colored materials up against glass, the glass becomes a screen and the viewer, the object these mouths defiantly drive up against.  The velocity of this movement is the ultimate jouissance blurring the boundary between pleasure and pain, attraction and repulsion. Throughout Minter's oeuvre, the artist seeks to imbue our fantasies with reality, showing the viewer that the human condition itself does not permit perfection and the notion of the ideal is impossible to obtain.

 

Also on view at Regen Projects II are paintings and photographs from the Pam series in which Pamela Anderson is the subject.  Originally a project commissioned for Parkett Magazine, the artist works to obscure the distinction between art and advertising, using the language of both mediums to create a vocabulary that is her own. Portrayed in her natural state, the actress is depicted in an unconventional way.  In Minter's works she is both vulnerable and glamorous. Evoking commercially sexualized depictions of femininity, Minter investigates the possibilities and limitations of photography through a lens of beauty.

 

Minter's film Green Pink Caviar, will be on view at Regen Projects as well as two moving image billboards on Sunset Boulevard that will play the film once an hour for the duration of the exhibition.  Drawing upon the same subject matter depicted in the Mouth series, the video simulates painting with the tongue. Slurping and squirting these fluids become abject liquids, both visceral and foreign. Curator Joshua Shrikey writes:

 

"Minter shows us unruly bodies that cannot fit within our culture's carefully drawn lines: greedy, excessive bodies that ooze and leak and are marked by too much sweat, too much makeup, too much hair, too much grime.  These works are about our private ruminations and self-scrutiny; they reveal bodies that, compared to the fantasies that bombard us daily, seem to be in a state of constant eruption."

(New Work: Marilyn Minter. Written by Joshua Shirkey. San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Art, 2005. Published in conjunction with the exhibition "New Work: Marilyn Minter" shown at the San Francisco Museum of Art.)

 

REGEN PROJECTS

633 North Almont Drive

Los Angeles, CA 90069

t 310.276.5424 f 310.276.7430

www.regenprojects.com

 

REGEN PROJECTS II

9016 Santa Monica Boulevard

(at Almont Drive)

Photographer and Berlin resident Michael Najjar's vision and spirit has come to fruition in his most recent project Bionic Angel. This series takes the future transformation and technological control of human evolution as its starting point. Inspired by the development in the field of "g-r-i-n technologies" (genetics, robotics, information and nanotechnologies) which will change our bodies, minds, memories and identities. This work is linked to two eras in human history, one is ancient Greece and the other is the Italian Renaissance. The retro-futuristic aesthetic stems from a blending of the previously mentioned technologies as well as the latter reference to the two historical eras.

A N O T H E R hip spot designed by Roman and Williams. This one's in Midtown Manhattan.
images: Interior Design and Ace Hotel.

Simon de Pury, Chairman and Chief Auctioneer of Phillips de Pury & Company is one of the art world's leading figures, renowned for his legendary performance on the auction podium and for his deep and longstanding knowledge of the global marketplace. This month Phillips de Pury adds four new thematic sales to their annual calendar, beginning with Now: Art of the 21st Century, on September 26th in London; this sale narrows their focus entirely to works done between 2001 and today.