FUCKING AWESOME S/S 2015
2015-05-11Jason Dill’s Fucking Awesome label drops a new collection for Spring/Summer 2015.
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FONDAZIONE PRADA
2015-05-11The highly anticipated new Milan venue of Fondazione Prada, conceived by architecture firm OMA, led by Rem Koolhaas, has opened to the public.
With an overall surface of 19,000m², the new venue will have a significant impact on the cultural landscape of Milan and is the city’s first permanent space dedicated to art, literature, cinema, music, philosophy and science, brought together to fulfill its original mission: to enlarge and enrich our processes of learning.
The opening programme includes Serial Classic, an ancient art exhibition curated by renowned art historian Salvatore Settis exploring the theme of seriality and copy in Greek and Roman sculpture; site-specific installations by Robert Gober and Thomas Demand; a new documentary featuring Roman Polanski and exploring the cinematographic inspirations behind his oeuvre; a bar designed by film director Wes Anderson; and selected artworks from the Prada Collection staged in two thematic exhibitions by guest curators.
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LAMBERT & STAMP
2015-05-11Aspiring filmmakers Chris Stamp and Kit Lambert set out to find a subject for their underground movie, one that will reflect the way it feels to be young and dissatisfied in postwar London. This unlikely partnership of two men from vastly different backgrounds was inspired by the burgeoning youth culture of the early 1960s. Lambert and Stamp searched for months and finally found in a band called the High Numbers a rebellious restlessness that was just what they were looking for. Abandoning their plans to make a film, they instead decided to mentor and manage this group, which evolved into the iconic band known as the Who. The result was rock ‘n’ roll history.
In theatres May 15th, 2015
TweetMAD MAX – FURY ROAD
2015-05-11Haunted by his turbulent past, Mad Max believes the best way to survive is to wander alone. Nevertheless, he becomes swept up with a group fleeing across the Wasteland in a War Rig driven by an elite Imperator, Furiosa. They are escaping a Citadel tyrannized by the Immortan Joe, from whom something irreplaceable has been taken. Enraged, the Warlord marshals all his gangs and pursues the rebels ruthlessly in the high-octane Road War that follows.
Directed by George Miller, originator of the post-apocalyptic genre and mastermind behind the legendary “Mad Max” franchise.
In theatres May 14th, 2015
TweetTIMBUKTU
2015-05-11Not far from Timbuktu, now ruled by the religious fundamentalists, Kidane lives peacefully in the dunes with his wife Satima, his daughter Toya, and Issan, their twelve-year-old shepherd. In town, the people suffer, powerless, from the regime of terror imposed by the Jihadists determined to control their faith. Music, laughter, cigarettes, even soccer have been banned. The women have become shadows but resist with dignity. Every day, the new improvised courts issue tragic and absurd sentences. Kidane and his family are being spared the chaos that prevails in Timbuktu. But their destiny changes when Kidane accidentally kills Amadou, the fisherman who slaughtered “GPS,” his beloved cow. He now has to face the new laws of the foreign occupants.
In theatres May 22nd, 2015
TweetLATOYA RUBY FRAZIER – SELECTED WORKS
2015-05-11Presented here, for the first time in New York, are recent colour images that were part of Frazier’s installation Born By a River at the Seattle Art Museum. These images are an extension of her prior work and document Braddock from the air—a dramatically different vantage point by which to view her community and the landscape-in-crisis that has informed Braddock’s history and the experiences of Frazier’s family.
LaToya Ruby Frazier (born in Braddock, Pennsylvania, 1982) received her BFA in photography and graphic design in 2004 at Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, and her MFA in 2007 from the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University, New York. In 2011, Frazier completed the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program and shortly thereafter was appointed Critic in Photography at the Yale University School of Art. Currently she is an Assistant Professor in Photography at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her first New York solo exhibition, A Haunted Capital, was held at the Brooklyn Museum in 2013. Frazier has received numerous grants and awards, including a 2014 Guggenheim Fellowship and a 2015 TED Fellowship.
Exhibition runs through to July 9th, 2015
Aperture Gallery
547 W 27th St
fourth floor
New York
10001
