GZA X WAVVES X LIQUID SWORDS
2011-08-22Wu-Tang Clan’s GZA joins forces with Wavves for a “Liquid Swords”!!!
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2011-08-22NASA released staggering new images this week of our familiar Moon but in a crisper guise never before seen, old human footprints still imprinted on its alien-like surface in startling clarity. The images come just before the space agency launches another mission to the Moon, but whilst space exploration is to be saluted for all its great strides for mankind – let’s not forget those truly ethereal sights a little closer to home.
Meet La Luna Valley, Chile. The clue is in the name with this one. Carved out by wind and rain erosion, this strange lunar landscape is one of the driest places on Earth. Great arid lakes are sprinkled with salt creating a grey-white otherworldly surface. Like battle scars; pot holes pepper the land telling tales of meteoric collisions. Prepare for dreamlike desert days giving way to ‘out of this world’ nights as the land is bathed in subtle moon-glow. No need for a lunar capsule here, just a healthy dose of curiosity and a pair of fidgety feet.
For more information about Chile and to book, visit www.blacktomato.co.uk or call on 020 7426 9888.
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SUPREME X GALLERY 1950 – FUCK RUG
2011-08-22Inspired by Robert Indiana’s LOVE artwork (which was originally designed as a Christmas card for the Museum of Modern Art in 1964). Supreme presents in collaboration with Japanese brand Gallery 1950, the ‘FUCK’ rug. Measuring 32′ x 32′, the rug will be released along with their Fall/Winter 2011 Collection this coming weekend.
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MAKE SKATEBOARDS
2011-08-15Make Skateboards is a group exhibition and pop-up skate shop conceived as a throwback to the days when art took precedence over branding and a welcoming vibe met you at the door. The show will be a playful take on running a skateboard shop, transforming I-20 into a functional retail space offering a custom line of artist-designed skateboards, skate-related ephemera and accessories, original artwork, vintage objects, custom furniture and clothing by up-and-coming New York designers.
A true working skate shop, Make Skateboards will offer decks that are fully skate-able yet designed to an artistic standard. Two types of boards will be available: affordable, limited-edition silk-screened skateboards; and one-of-a-kind decks altered and embellished by hand, including several conceptual takes on the idea of skateboarding itself.
Exhibition runs through to September 17th, 2011
I-20 Gallery
557 West 23rd Street
New York
NY
10011
LYNDA BENGLIS
2011-08-15This travelling exhibition spans the range of Lynda Benglis’s career, including her early wax paintings, her brightly colored poured latex works, the Torsos and Knots series from the 1970s, and her recent experiments with plastics, cast glass, paper, and gold leaf. It features a number of rarely exhibited historic works, including Phantom (1971), a dramatic polyurethane installation consisting of five monumental sculptures that glow in the dark, and the installation Primary Structures (Paula’s Props), first shown in 1975.
Alongside her sculptural output, Benglis created a radical body of work in video, photography, and media interventions that explore notions of power, gender relations, and role-playing. These works function in tandem with her sculpture to offer a pointed critique of sculptural machismo and suggest a fluid awareness of gender and artistic identity. They also contribute to an understanding of the artist’s objects as simultaneously temporal and physically present, intuitive, and psychologically charged.
Opposite – Fling, Dribble, and Drip, February 27, 1970
Exhibition runs through to October 10th, 2011
MOCA Grand Avenue
250 South Grand Avenue
Los Angeles
CA
90012
EMORY DOUGLAS
2011-08-15Emory Douglas is a pivotal figure in the development of political graphic art. Appointed ‘Minister for Culture’ for the Black Panthers in 1967, he became in-house illustrator for the quasi-revolutionary civil rights movement’s eponymous newspaper. Douglas’ instantly recognisable graphics filled the incendiary journal and would form its back page, a ‘cut out and paste up’ propaganda poster.
A cornerstone of the Black Panthers until their dissolution in the early 1980s, Douglas was one of the first agitants to use the visual language of the right wing to express the ideas of the left. His powerful pieces swapped hand-wringing for aggression and victim status for insurgency. Using a strong but consistent, simple yet brutal visual style Douglas’ artwork defined the Black Panther’s pride, resourcefulness and charisma. The illustrations’ accompanying battle cries, including ‘all power to the people’, ‘in revolution one wins and one dies’ and ‘seize the times’, entered the lexicon of a generation.
In and out of youth detention as a teen, Douglas kept busy working in the print shop of Ontario’s Youth Training School. Encouraged to draw by social workers, he went on to study commercial art at San Francisco’s community college, where he learned to use collage and what would today be called ‘found media’ to create high-impact pieces using minimal time and money.
Employing a ‘DiY’ ethos to make potent, populist imagery re-enforced by slogans is a defining characteristic of many of today’s heralded street artists.
Exhibition runs from August 18th to September 10th, 2011
The Outsiders
London
Soho
W1D 4DG
