Meet the Artist Behind Dries Van Noten’s Illustrated Invites
For the past four days, artist Gill Button has been in her studio hand-painting 1,200 invitations for Dries Van Noten’s Fall 2016 show. “I allowed myself two minutes maximum for each invitation,” Button proclaims over the phone from Paris, where she’s found a cozy corner backstage at the Gare Saint-Lazare to speak about her dreamy watercolors. “I jumped at the chance to work with Dries because I love his aesthetic and I love his work. To me, it was just perfect.”
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Craig Ward - Subvisual Subway
The samples were taken using sterilized sponges, from each of New York City’s twenty-two subway lines, that had been pre-cut into the letter or number of the subway line from which the sample was to be taken - A, C, 1, 6 etc etc. The swabs were then pressed into pre-poured agar plates - their circular shape echoing the graphic language of the subway - and incubated for up to a week in his Brooklyn workshop, and photographed at various stages of development before being safely neutralized and disposed of.
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Sam Falls - Somewhere
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New York Venue Death by Audio Eulogized in 'Goodnight Brooklyn' Trailer
When underground Brooklyn music venue Death By Audio shuttered in November 2014, its demise signaled the end of an era for Williamsburg's music scene. The space had played an instrumental role in launching bands like A Place to Bury Strangers and Dirty on Purpose and left a hole that may never be filled. Fortunately, DBA cofounder Matthew Conboy had the good sense to film just about everything that happened between news of the warehouse space's closing and the night of its raucous last gasp of life. Rolling Stone has an exclusive look at the trailer for the documentary cut together from the footage.
John Baldessari and the Art of Not Making Sense
It’s been almost forty years since John Baldessari burned all his paintings and turned the ashes into freshly baked cookies for his “Cremation Project” in 1970. While it might have been bold (back then, slightly mad), it wasn’t for nothing – marking his transition from painter to a conceptual artist. For the ensuing installation, the LA-native placed the cookies in an urn and paid homage to the lost works by having their names immortalised as bronze plaques, featuring their birth and death dates, and kindly including the recipe for the cookies.
John Baldessari will be on show at Los Angeles’ Sprüth Magers from 24 February – 2 April 2016
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Kohei Nawa - Foam (2013)
Small bubbles (cells) continue to form on the surface of a gently lapsing liquid. They accumulate to form an autonomous structure comprised of foam. Each bubble cannot escape the cycle of birth and destruction, which is not unlike the way our cells operate as they metabolize and circulate
Caitlind Brown - Cloud (2012)
Conceived by Calgary-based artist Caitlind Brown, her project ‘Cloud’, a life-sized interactive light installation, engages the public to participate by standing beneath the structure and pulling lights on and off, creating the flickering aesthetic of an electrical cloud. Developed using steel, metal pull-strings, and over six-thousand illuminated and burnt light bulbs, the project reimagines waste and implements the excess in an interactive art exhibition.
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Steve McQueen at Marian Goodman Gallery
With neon art so au courant, a newly installed work at the Marian Goodman Gallery in Paris featuring 77 unique fixtures that read 'Remember Me' might register at first as a witty bid for attention. But reducing it to an Instagram opportunity would be like judging a book by its cover. For starters, the piece was conceived by Oscar-winning director Steve McQueen, whose roster of films—Hunger, Shame, 12 Years a Slave—depict complicated and uncomfortable aspects of the human condition.
Jan 9th - Feb 27th at 79 Rue du Temple, Paris
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Stephen Shore - Granite, Oklahoma (1972)
Age is something that doesn’t matter, unless you are a cheese.
Luis Bunuel