As Janie recovers from a violent psychotic break, she’s subjected each day to a bizarre holistic health and wellness regimen designed, and enforced, by her lifelong nanny and caretaker. But when she develops an obsession with a stranger, Janie’s buried demons begin to surface.
In theatres August 5th, 2016
TweetDaydreaming with Stanley Kubrick, a new exhibition at Somerset House, curated by James Lavelle, Mo’Wax and UNKLE founder, and co-curated by James Putnam, former founder curator of the British Museum’s Contemporary Arts and Cultures Programme, features work by 45 contemporary musicians, film makers and artists responding to a film, character or theme from the extensive Kubrick archives.
Following the patterned flooring, paying homage to the iconic hotel carpet in The Shining, visitors are forced around a maze of immersive work. The work was diverse, from Sarah Lucas’s daring concrete phalluses to Chris Levine’s LED light display, where an image of Kubrick appears then vanishes as the viewer moves their head from side to side. There is a strange cinematic atmosphere throughout the exhibition, shaped by the soundtracks, set design and vivid imagery.
A highlight was the striking red neon ‘When You Talk About Love You Make Me Feel Invisible’ which was placed next to two life size teddy bears, one with a lollipop and red heart shaped sunglasses, referencing Vladimir Nabokov’s novel, Lolita.
Daydreaming with Kubrick is a playful hybrid of conceptual art, graphic design, sculpture, film making and installation drawing on themes such as sex, violence, discovery and dystopia. The spectrum of work presented and the immersive nature of this exhibition makes it a must see for any Kubrick lover.
Words – Lo Harley
Photography – Peter Macdiarmid/Somerset House.
Exhibition runs through till August 24th, 2016
Somerset House
Strand
London
WC2R 1LA
The food, clothing and consumer products in Walter Robinson’s paintings are instantly familiar. Cheeseburgers, gin bottles, swimsuits and donuts are the stuff of life, or at least somebody’s. Is that a Whopper or a Big Mac? Gordon’s or Beefeaters? A Lands’ End one piece, or is it from Target?
Advertisements, product packaging and catalogues provide Robinson with unlimited source material. Yet, keen editor that he is, each painting and its subject becomes an archetype: there may be lots of polka dot swimsuits out there but Robinson’s seems like the one.
The subjects in Robinson’s acrylic on linen paintings fall under two broad categories: still life and portraiture. Art historical references abound: the brushwork in a painting of an Excedrin bottle may call to mind a Manet still life; the soft surface of a men’s tattersal shirt could be from a Fairfield Porter portrait. Yet Robinson makes them all uniquely his own: the banal becomes something more, and maybe that model in the Macy’s insert really does have something to say, after all.
Opposite – Yellow Stripes, 2015
Exhibition runs through till August 7th, 2016
Jeff Bailey Gallery
127 Warren Street
Hudson
NY 12534
COMME des GARÇONS has launched their latest fragrance, Blackpepper. A powerful subversion of olfactive convention. An incessant investigation of the perpetually unknown.
Warm, dry Madagascan Pepper cracks against fiery Cedarwood. Rich, fragrant Akigalawood (Patchouli, Agarwood) fuses with the caramel resin of Tonka Bean. Precious seeds and opulent woods blend in blazing harmony, laced with a musky accord
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Guillermo del Toro (b. 1964) is one of the most inventive filmmakers of his generation. Beginning with Cronos (1993) and continuing through The Devil’s Backbone (2001), Hellboy (2004), Pan’s Labyrinth (2006), Pacific Rim (2013), and Crimson Peak (2015), among many other film, television, and book projects, del Toro has reinvented the genres of horror, fantasy, and science fiction. Working with a team of craftsmen, artists, and actors—and referencing a wide range of cinematic, pop-culture, and art-historical sources—del Toro recreates the lucid dreams he experienced as a child in Guadalajara, Mexico. He now works internationally, with a cherished home base he calls “Bleak House” in the suburbs of Los Angeles.
Taking inspiration from del Toro’s extraordinary imagination, the exhibition reveals his creative process through his collection of paintings, drawings, maquettes, artifacts, and concept film art. Rather than a traditional chronology or filmography, the exhibition is organized thematically, beginning with visions of death and the afterlife; continuing through explorations of magic, occultism, horror, and monsters; and concluding with representations of innocence and redemption.
Opposite – Guillermo del Toro’s Bleak House
Exhibition runs through till November 27th, 2016
LACMA
5905 Wilshire Blvd.
Los Angeles
CA 90036
Originally released for Record Store Day 2012, on yellow vinyl, this reissue is pressed on black vinyl.
Since its original release in 2008 via Actress’s Werk Discs label, Where Were U In ’92? threw a spanner into the works of people expecting Zomby to roll out a debut album of grime and dubstep flavoured club sounds. Instead he harked back to the golden age of British dance music with a rinsin’ ’92 hardcore session that sounds like it could have been lifted from the very best AWOL Randall sets.
The vinyl repress comes with an instant download code.
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