AZEALIA BANKS – COUNT CONTESSA
2015-12-07Azealia Banks drops a video for “Count Contessa”, from the forthcoming Fantasea II, the sequel to 2012’s Fantasea. Directed by Rony Alwin.
TweetCHAIRLIFT – ROMEO
2015-12-07Chairlift have released the video for their new Moth track “Romeo”. The clip, directed by that go, features Caroline Polachek and Patrick Wimberly in a frantic race through the streets and shops of Chinatown.
Their LP Moth comes out January 22nd, 2016.
TAME IMPALA – THE LESS I KNOW THE BETTER
2015-12-07Tame Impala drop a video for “The Less I Know the Better” from their album Currents. It tells the story of a basketball player who gets his heart broken when the cheerleader he loves starts hooking up with the team’s gorilla mascot (named Trevor).
TweetMICKALENA THOMAS PHOTOGRAPHS AND TETE-ATETE
2015-12-07Mickalene Thomas, known for her large-scale, multi-textured, and rhinestone-encrusted paintings of domestic interiors and portraits, has also identified the photographic image as a defining touchstone for her practice. Thomas first began to photograph herself and her mother as a student at Yale—a pivotal experience for her as an artist.
While working across multiple series, much of her photographic work functions as a personal act of deconstruction and reappropriation—both of images she has created herself and images she has singled out as influence. With each series, she grapples with and asserts new definitions of beauty and inspiration. Thomas’s portraits draw equally from 1970s black-is-beautiful images of women such as supermodel Beverly Johnson and actress Vonetta McGee; Édouard Manet’s odalisque figures; and the mise-en-scène studio portraiture of James Van Der Zee and Malick Sidibé, to mention a few. Perhaps of greatest importance, however, this collection of portraits and staged scenes reflects a very personal community of inspiration as well—a collection of muses that includes Thomas herself, her mother, and her friends and lovers, emphasizing the communal and social aspects of art-making and creativity that pervade her work. The accompanying Aperture publication, Muse: Mickalene Thomas Photographs, is the first to gather together her various approaches to photography, including portraits, collages, Polaroids, and other processes.
Opposite – Le leçon d’amour, 2008
Exhibition runs from January 28th to March 17th, 2016
Aperture Gallery
547 W 27th St
fourth floor
New York
10001
