“Silver Snail” is off The Pixies’ first album in 23 years, Indie Cindy, out now Pixiesmusic/PIAS. In continued support, the band’s on tour this summer/fall, including slots at Glastonbury, T in the Park, and Primavera Sound. The video is directed by Mount Emult.
TweetFor almost four decades Kay Rosen has applied the visual strategies of color, spacing, composition, material, elements of graphic design, and scale to written language to make drawings, collages, paintings, editions, and wall installations that challenge the way that we read and understand language.
The current body of work – consisting of acrylic gouache paintings on watercolor paper, paintings on similarly proportioned canvases, and one wall installation – represents a shift in the way that Rosen considers the relationship between the text and the support. In previous paintings and drawings, the size and shape of the canvas or paper conformed to the size and shape of the text. Conversely, the texts in her wall installations were customized to fit the available space. For the works in Blingo, the text and space, content and site (including horizontal, vertical, and diagonal orientation, height and width, corners and edges), are treated equally, and are more integrated.
The wall painting Monuments is composed of the word “obelisk” painted vertically floor-to-ceiling intersecting at the letter “s” with the word “odalisk” stretching horizontally across the wall. The careful composition of the two words together establishes a parity between the vertical and horizontal texts, as Rosen explains: “Vertical does not trump horizontal; nor upright, prostrate. Male does not trump female. Sculpture does not trump painting. The representation of both ODALISKS and OBELISKS throughout the history of art is equally iconic and illustrious. Any perceived hierarchy is supplied by the viewer.”
Opposite – * Risk, 2013
Exhibition runs through to June 28th, 2014
Sikkema Jenkins & Co
530 West 22nd Street
New York
NY 10011
Created exclusively for The Beauty Project, the CHANEL Butterfly Garden reveals itself from 29th May to 18th June 2014 at Selfridges London.
A celebration of summer and the world of CHANEL make-up and fragrance, discover trees fluttering with butterfly-leaves in an abundance of delicate peach, lustrous green and soft pink, shades of the CHANCE fragrances. Over the 3 week period discover exclusive products, enjoy complimentary makeovers, book in for a nail shape and paint with top celebrity nail artists, all in the surroundings of the one-of-a-kind CHANEL Butterfly Garden.
Relax on a garden swing as you enjoy a complimentary makeover with the House’s team of makeup experts, or take control yourself using the iPad guide of exclusive looks. With three makeup choices for each look, ranging from light to intense.
Los Angeles based Jackson has been a pre-eminent figure in American contemporary art since the 1970s, counting Edward Kienholz and Bruce Nauman among his contemporaries. Influenced by both Abstract Expressionism and action painting, Jackson explores a performative painting process which seeks to extend the potential of painting by upending its technical conventions. For Jackson, paint is not a tool used to create a representational image, but is used as a ubiquitous liquid which is spurted, splattered and sprayed over the surface of his installations.
Jackson responds to the high-mindedness of painterly practice by repositioning painting as an everyday experience. He draws on domestic environments and basic human activities, such as defecation and sexual behaviour, to create the foundation of his installations. His approach to artistic practice is democratic as he combines it with references from lowbrow American culture, including motifs from hunting and baseball.
In a characteristic display of crudeness, ‘Pain-t’ (2012) depicts a line-up of boys with their pants pulled down, coated in paint which has been fired from their orifices. During the seminal action, paint was ingested through the figures’ mouths and followed the entire digestive tract before forcefully spurting from their behinds. In a similarly degrading image, ‘Copy Room’ (2014) entails a sex doll positioned on top of a photocopier, legs spread and recalling a scene from debauched office parties as the machine churns out endless replicas of her bodily imprint.
Opposite – Who Painted My Horse Yellow?, 2013—2014
Exhibition runs through to July 26th, 2014
Hauser & Wirth
23 Savile Row
London
W1S 2ET
“Maleficent” explores the untold story of Disney’s most iconic villain from the classic “Sleeping Beauty” and the elements of her betrayal that ultimately turn her pure heart to stone. Driven by revenge and a fierce desire to protect the moors over which she presides, Maleficent cruelly places an irrevocable curse upon the human king’s newborn infant Aurora. As the child grows, Aurora is caught in the middle of the seething conflict between the forest kingdom she has grown to love and the human kingdom that holds her legacy. Maleficent realizes that Aurora may hold the key to peace in the land and is forced to take drastic actions that will change both worlds forever.
In theatres May 30th, 2014
TweetSeth MacFarlane directs, produces, co-writes and plays the role of the cowardly sheep farmer Albert in A Million Ways to Die in the West. After Albert backs out of a gunfight, his fickle girlfriend leaves him for another man. When a mysterious and beautiful woman rides into town, she helps him find his courage and they begin to fall in love. But when her husband, a notorious outlaw, arrives seeking revenge, the farmer must put his newfound courage to the test.
In theatres May 30th, 2014
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