Al Pacino stars as aging 1970s rocker Danny Collins, who can’t give up his hard-living ways. But when his manager (Christopher Plummer) uncovers a 40 year-old undelivered letter written to him by John Lennon, he decides to change course and embarks on a heartfelt journey to rediscover his family, find true love and begin a second act.
In theatres May 29th, 2015
TweetIn the aftermath of a massive earthquake in California, a rescue-chopper pilot makes a dangerous journey across the state in order to rescue his estranged daughter. Stars Dwayne Johnson, Carla Gugino and Alexandra Daddario.
In theatres May 30th, 2015
TweetChanel’s latest fine jewellery collection, Café Society, collates art deco and geometric mosaics that abounded Coco Chanel’s social set.
From flamboyant balls and cruises to extravagant parties held in elegant Paris hotels or fairy tale Venetian palazzi, the exclusive circles of the cafe society drew together aristocrats, millionaires, artists, couturiers, choreographers and musicians in a glittering whirl of fashion and frivolity, opulence and ostentation. Yet this cosmopolitan set was also lavish in the commissions it showered upon some of the greatest creative talents of the early 20th century.
The villas and yachts that acted as backdrops to the cafe society’s sumptuous parties were decorated by the most daring artists, its members sported the creations of up-and-coming couture and jewellery designers and this sophisticated, sometimes avant-garde, lifestyle, was captured by celebrated photographers such as Cecil Beaton, Horst P. Horst and Richard Avedon.
A world in which fantasy and imagination mingled with thoroughbred elegance and beauty, the cafe society nurtured some of the most original and diverse talents of the last century including Cristobal Balenciaga and Elsa Schiaparelli, Edith Sitwell and Noel Coward, Tamara de Lempicka and Cole Porter, as well as the dancers of the Ballets Russes. Of course Gabrielle Chanel was a considered member this group – amongst other influences she designed costumes for Serge Diaghilev’s ‘Le Train Bleu’ with the ballet.
Photography – Sarah Moon
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This year marks the 20th anniversary of Larry Clark’s debut film, KIDS, the portrayal of NYC youth’s escapades in the early 90’s. Some were offended by the raw and anarchic world Larry Clark documented, for those that weren’t, the film became an important document of the time, place and culture.
Through photographing skaters in NYC, Larry Clark came to meet the film’s writer, Harmony Korine and star, Leo Fitzpatrick. The rest of the cast was pieced together with a variety of downtown New York characters including original Supreme team riders Justin Pierce and Harold Hunter. It is a testament to KIDS cultural impact that it resonates today just as much as it did in 1995.
To commemorate the 20th anniversary, Supreme is proud to release a collection of items featuring stills from the iconic film KIDS. The Collection will consist of a Hooded Sweatshirt, Long Sleeved T-Shirt, two graphic T-Shirts, and three Skateboards.
Available in-store NY, LA, London and online May 21st.
Available in Japan May 23rd.
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Gray’s transcontinental studio practice is informed by cultural hybridity, body politics, and global pop culture. Pulling from his archive of documentary images taken in Ghana, and photographs taken as personal photographer to Michael Jackson in the 80’s, Gray produces temporal and spatial schisms by juxtaposing decontextualized images in overlapping, found frames in low relief compositions. In afrofuturist aesthetic, he combines sculpture and photography to create ambiguous “third” objects that provide the viewers with a multiplicity of perspectives of layered space and time that aid in problematizing singularity.
Gray writes, “I am placing MJ and, by extension, the black body in a global context. My work is also autobiographical and informed by my position in the African Diaspora. The recently made photographs from Ghana serve to evoke a historical/political and economic context. The layering adds complexity and multiple narratives, resisting an iconic singular read. I’ve introduced cosmic imagery to create an even broader context to consider the condition of the African body in contemporary culture. Images were made adjacent to, or blocks away from, historic slave castles (Cape Coast and Elmina), traditional funeral ceremonies held in the village near my studio or portraits of friends who live in the village (Akwidaa). The used frames from South Los Angeles thrift stores and garage sales carry their own narratives and signifiers of taste, class and desire while the imagery from my MJ archive resists any preconceived readings as it intersects with colonial architecture, African landscape, the cosmos, etc., insisting on the viewer to sort it out for themselves and arrive at new destinations of understanding. The physical depth and optical depth causes shifts in perception, destabilizing the inherently fixed nature of the photograph – its ability to freeze time.”
Opposite – Cape Coast Cosmos, 2014
Exhibition runs through to June 13th, 2015
SAMSØÑ
450 Harrison Avenue / 29 Thayer St
Boston
MA 02118
Inge Morath (1923 – 2002) and artist Saul Steinberg (1914 – 1999) engaged in a unique collaboration by having friends and acquaintances don his paper bags drawn with fantastic faces and then posing them for her photographs. In a delightful series of individual and group portraits taken from 1959 to 1963 the images convey both humor and an unnerving psychological depth. We may not know who is beneath each bag, but we seem to know the type they are playing. Between Morath’s deadpan style and Steinberg’s flights of fantasy they created a veritable encyclopedia of attitudes, postures, and mannerisms.
Inge Morath joined the photographic cooperative Magnum in Paris by invitation of Robert Capa in 1953 and was assistant to Henri Cartier-Bresson before becoming a full member. Her work was widely published in magazines, including Life, Paris Match, and Vogue, and in numerous books.
Exhibition runs through to June 13th, 2015
Danziger Gallery
521 W 23rd St
New York
10011
