I NEED THAT RECORD

Posted on 2010-03-29

“I Need That Record” is a documentary feature examining why over 3000 independent record stores have closed across the U.S. in the past decade. Are they going to die off? Will they survive?
Featuring- Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth/ Ecstatic Peace! Label, Ian Mackaye of Dischord Records Fugazi/Minor Threat/Teen Idles, Chris Frantz of the Talking Heads, Pat Carney of the Black Keys, Mike Watt of the Minutemen/reunited Stooges, Patterson Hood of The Drive By Truckers, Noam Chomsky, guitar composer Glenn Branca, punk author Legs McNeil, rock photographer Bob Gruen

www.ineedthatrecord.com

  

KARL LAGERFELD X COCA-COLA LIGHT BOTTLE

Posted on 2010-03-29

Coca-Cola have enlisted the help of Karl Lagerfeld to design an aluminum Coca-Cola Light bottle. “The designer affixes his style and his famous silhouette on the bottle delivering an exclusive creation with chic lines and also a unique limited edition box accompanied by a bottle-opener discreetly hidden in a drawer.

www.colette.fr

  

MUHAMMAD ALI – DAVID KING

Posted on 2010-03-28

David King’s photographs of Muhammad Ali, taken at his training camp in the Pennsylvania Mountains in 1974 when the “Greatest Of All Time” was preparing for his legendary world heavyweight title fight against George Foreman, held later that year in Kinshasa, Zaire.

The photographs document Ali’s sixteen-week training programme for the fight (memorably named by him as “The Rumble in the Jungle”) and are of considerable historical importance.
David King first started shooting photographs when he was Art Editor of the Sunday Times Colour Magazine (1965-75). His photographic biography of Ali was published by Penguin in 1975 and sold 175,000 copies.

Exhibition runs through to April 29th, 2011

Lucy Bell
46 Norman Road
St Leonards on Sea
TN38 0EJ

www.lucy-bell.com

  

DANIEL & GEO FUCHS – NEW WORKS

Posted on 2010-03-22

After the enormous success of TOYGIANTS, Daniel & Geo Fuchs were inspired to work on new TOYGIANTS pictures, with a different view they look at their “Giants”, a bit more from the outside and give surprising new views of the work.
In the last year Daniel & Geo Fuchs have also focussed on new series, they deal with the nature and the force of nature. In their series “Forest” they were overwhelmed to enter nature places that seems to be untouched. Powerful colors and sounds in virgin
forest appearing environments,

Opposite – Camouflage 1, 2009

Exhibition runs from the 4th of April to the 14th of June, 2010.

Young Gallery
811 Zeedijk
8300 Knokke
Belgium

www.younggalleryphoto.com

  

CRASH – HOMAGE TO JG BALLARD

Posted on 2010-03-22

The exhibition “Crash” which takes its title from the famous novel by JG Ballard, brings together works by artists tuned to
the Ballardian universe.
From his contemporaries such as Ed Ruscha, Richard Hamilton, Andy
Warhol and Helmut Newton, to younger artists such as Tacita Dean, Jenny Saville, Glenn Brown
and Mike Nelson.

Opposite – Elvis, Richard Prince (2007)

Exhibition runs through to the 1st of April, 2010.

Gagosian Gallery
6-24 Britannia Street
London
WC1X 9JD

www.gagosian.com