Zig Zaj is the Boom Bip’s first album since his Mercury-nominated Neon Neon adventures with Gruff Rhys and features contributions from Luke Steele (Empire of the Sun), Alex Kapranos (Franz Ferdinand), Cate Le Bon (Neon Neon), Money Mark, Josh Klinghoffer (Red Hot Chili Peppers), as well as members of Warpaint and Bon Iver.
Released on September 26th, 2011.
TweetPhotographer duo Claudia Knoepfel and Stefan Indlekofer have teamed up again with Swiss skateshop Doodah for a new deck featuring Freja Beha Erichsen naked. Other special editions of their desks have had Isabeli Fontana and Lara Stone, equally undressed.
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Evans began painting stamps of imaginary countries as a child and a novice stamp collector, and revisited and developed the concept as an adult, as he traveled the world, eventually settling in Amsterdam. Evans’ imaginary countries are complete with their own history, geography, currency and customs. The artist recorded each stamp series in his Catalogue of the World, organizing the work as one would an actual stamp collection.
Exhibition runs through to October 15th, 2011
Tibor de Nagy Gallery
724 Fifth Ave
New York
NY 10019
Vibrantly colourful yet sometimes deeply troubling, Micallef’s canvases interweave social commentary with self-examination. Antony’s work is built upon the profound belief in the act of markmaking; figures and faces loom through the veil of loose, confident, almost abstract brushstrokes that explore experiences of life in London through sensations of light and dark, mirrored in both his palette and his choice of imagery.
Focussing on the contradiction inherent to mass-consumerism, the artist satirizes the rampant social suspicion of multi-national brands while simultaneously being outwardly seduced by products and marketing. Basing his art on social commentary and selfexamination over propaganda and style, Micallef is a traditional fine artist, weaving elements of pop-art into his large canvases.
Exhibition runs through to October 22nd, 2011
Lazarides
11 Rathbone Place
London
W1T 1HR
Ritter’s politically and emotionally charged works utilize the vernacular of the information age to create vibrant images of politics, celebrity, crime, and catastrophe.
By exposing the inherent anxiety of today’s world, these subversive works fashion unseen relationships and contexts through humor and clever juxtaposition. Ritter’s works are simultaneously complex and accessible, offering new political as well as artistic
possibilities.
Ritter studies and sources potential subjects from found photographs then manufactures compositional elements by layering and combining his own original photography to make a fabricated context in which the subject matter exists. His work exists in its purest form, as a digital configuration, that has been appropriated, reconfigured and recycled into a form that is humanly expressive, provocative and consumable.
Opposite – Mistress’s Daughter, 2011
Exhibition runs through to October 9th, 2011
Lyons Wier Gallery Project Space
175 7th Ave
New York
NY 10011
Following on from the success of their 2009 collaboration, Fred Perry have teamed up with seminal band The Specials once again to create two new shirts that stay true to the band’s ethos of ‘Black and white unite.’
www.fredperry.com
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