Harlem rapper A.$.A.P Rocky teamed up with VICE to create a video inspired by Scarface, Belly, Enter The Dragon, The Warriors and Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory.
The result is a video that follows A.$.A.P Rocky through a dreamy fantasy world filled with 40s, Ferari’s, homies and hoards of cash.
TweetAfter popping up in a “quick-strike guerilla campaign decrying the high sugar content in children’s cereal, Ron English’s ‘Fat Tony’ is about to make his way from the parody cereal box to the art toy shelf.”
First Fat Tony will come in the OG edition, limited to 500 pieces followed by several smaller follow-up drops of 100 pieces each.
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Highlights of the exhibition will include four extruded, mirror polished, nickel plated, aluminium benches made without fixtures or fittings – the world’s first single component of metal furniture, extruded by machine. Heatherwick Studio commissioned a specially designed die through which a single billet of aluminium was ‘squeezed’ into a chair profile, complete with legs, seat and back. The aluminium emerges in a raw unpolished finish, which is then cut and sometimes shaped; each cut piece of bench then undergoes 300 hours of polishing.
The project, 18 years since conception, takes technology used in the aerospace industry to produce the world’s largest ever extruded piece of metal. The graceful aluminium pieces each have a unique, dramatic form that combines the back, seat and legs into one element. Until now, extrusion technology has been limited to smaller dimension profiles, and since graduating from the RCA in 1994, Heatherwick has been searching for a machine capable of producing a chair with legs, seat and back from a single component.
Opposite – Untitled, 2011, Glazed Ceramic
Exhibition runs through to February 18th, 2012
Haunch of Venison
550 West 21st Street
New York
NY 10011
This exhibition, drawn entirely from the deep holdings of the Whitney Museum’s permanent collection, will focus on the tension and overlap between two strong currents in twentieth century art. Although the term “realism” has many facets, a basic connection to the observable world underlies all of them; the subversion of reality through the imagination and the subconscious lies at the heart of Surrealism. Yet there are convergences in these different and even oppositional approaches to experience, and they encourage new ways of looking at the art of the twenties, thirties, and forties in America.
For example, Edward Hopper, famous for chronicling New York urban life, is also a painter whose own subjectivity and imagination are integral to his work. Many artists who developed imagery based on new and very specific, concrete conditions of industrial American, such as Charles Sheeler, were essentially interested in artificial worlds and presented these as distillations of reality. Even totally abstract painters such as Yves Tanguy depended on techniques developed from traditional, realist art to render bizarre worlds.
By willfully distorting such techniques, Helen Lundeberg and Mabel Dwight could quietly undercut our sense of stability even while showing us recognizable and even mundane objects and settings.
Opposite – Man Ray, La Fortune, 1938
Exhibition runs through to February 12th, 2012
Whitney Museum of American Art
945 Madison Ave. at 75th Street
New York
NY
10021
EXPANSIONS … is the theme of the recent artwork at the Galerie Jérôme de Noirmont. Over the past three décades ; I have tried to define a style & technique that would separate my work, from the other artists within my subculture. the process has allowed me to explore the realm of the ABSTRACT and spontaneous.
A new successor to Pollock’s “Action Painting” and Clyfford Still’s “colorfields” , FUTURA 2000 brings up to date what art critic Harold Rosenberg wrote in 1952: One after another, the American painters began to see the canvas as an arena in which to act, rather than a space in which to reproduce, redesign, analyze or express an object, real or imagined. What was produced on the canvas was not an image but an event.
Like Jackson Pollock, it is on the ground that FUTURA’s paintings most often take shape. In this way, he can understand the media as a whole and adapt it to his “paint brush”: the spray can.
A way to control the energy and impulsive creativity he projects onto his paintings.
Exhibition runs through to February 29th, 2012
Galerie Jérôme de Noirmont
36-38 Avenue Matignon
75008 Paris
France
This Spring see’s another impressive series from Taka Hayashi, who once again plays with themes culled from traditional American hand craft, mating them with Vans DNA and top notch materials. The TH Engineer Boot, TH Sierra Trek Hi and TH Sierra Trek Lo will be out for February.
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