Death Grips drop a new FREE album in its entirety. This one is called Government Plates
Death Grips released their last full-length, No Love Deep Web, online in similar fashion, sharing it for free with fans to the surprise of their label (who dropped them).
In these photographs, made in Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia and the Philippines not long after the Americans departed from Saigon, there is no more violence, but the lush and gorgeous landscape of Southeast Asia seems to brood with the silence that remained where the war had been. Beyond the War is presented in conjunction with our exhibition Vietnam: The Real War: A Photographic History from the Associated Press.
A Map of the East is one of the most esteemed photographic books of the 1990s. It appeared in 1992 together with one-man exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Seibu Art Forum, Tokyo. Rubinfien spent much of the 1980s exploring the lesser known streets and back roads of Japan (where he had grown up), China and Southeast Asia, and producing a body of work admired for its lyricism, intimacy, humanity and vivid detail. The New York Times praised “these elegant, lonely pictures,” and the New York Review of Books called them “superb.”
Exhibition runs through to November 30th, 2013
Steven Kasher Gallery
521 West 23rd Street
New York
NY
10011
As photography’s designation as a medium of pure documentation becomes slowly archaic through the fissures of the Photoshop era, the possibilities of photographic cross-pollination with collage, sculpture, and installation are increasingly eminent. Digitally shot yet manually pieced together, Williams’ hybrid forms blend a Dadaist-photomontage aesthetic with cohesive imagery and architectural sensibility to create deviant impressions of space and setting. Her works largely reject the square frame; they instead engulf corners, sprout out of walls, or drip languidly onto the gallery floor.
Williams’ work also twists the role of the picture in the tradition of site-specific artworks. Rather than using photographs as gallery-ready records of off-site installations, she instead creates photographic installations inside the gallery space that directly reference the building or neighborhood in which the show is mounted. Her installation at Robert Mann Gallery will specifically focus on the High Line, the recently-constructed elevated parkway that runs directly through the gallery district in Chelsea, Manhattan. The piece will make use of the gallery ceiling, walls, and floor to manifest not only the physicality of the High Line skimming above the streets below, but also the intangible disconnects between park and city.
Exhibition runs through to December 7th, 2014
Robert Mann Gallery
525 West 26th St.
Chelsea
New York
10001
Lewis Hine (1874–1940) is widely recognized as an American original whose work has been cited as a precursor to modernist and documentary photography. While certain of Hine’s photographic projects—such as on immigration, child labor, New York City, and the building of the Empire State Building—are well known, few exhibitions have considered his entire life’s work. The aim of Lewis Hine is to provide a broad overview of his photographic career, using supplementary material to situate the photographs in the contexts of their original consumption while providing a platform for reconsidering the work today—both historically and artistically. The exhibition includes Hine’s earliest work from Ellis Island (1905) and extensive selections from every major project that followed, including “Hull House,” “American Red Cross in Europe,” and “Men at Work.” The exhibition is curated by Alison Nordström, Curator-at-Large at George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film, which holds the largest and most comprehensive archive of Hine’s work.
Exhibition runs through to December 8th, 2014
International Center of Photography
1133 Avenue of the Americas at 43rd Street
Midtown West
New York
10036
Drawing on Ercol’s rich archives, as well as stunning new photography, the book explores the Windsor Range in detail, showing how the designs have evolved over the years, and how the furniture was (and still is) manufactured – hence the title, Ercol : Furniture in the Making.
Researched and written by design historian Lesley Jackson, a leading authority on 20th century design, the book provides a visual feast for Ercoloholics. Appealing to awide audience, including post-war design buffs, collectors, students and anyone interested in interiors, it is lavishly illustrated and attractively designed.
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Julianna Barwick drops new video for her Nepenthe track “The Harbinger”. Directed by Derrick Belcham, it features Barwick floating in a pool and walking around as a semi-transparent ghost.
Belcham explains: “The video illustrates a moment in which an individual makes a sudden choice which they know will change their life forever, for better or worse, and the freedom that this affords them, liberating or oppressive. It is a non-linear illustration of catharsis.”
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