ABSOLUT LIMITED EDITION LGTB BOTTLE

Posted on 2017-07-10

This summer, Absolut continues its celebration and support of the LGBTQ community with the launch of a new limited edition bottle. The bottle, which includes a ‘Taking pride in diversity’ statement on the back, contains Absolut Original and features a rainbow flag depicted in brush strokes, creating a hand-made look in-keeping with the brand’s artistic heritage. Celebrating the six colours of the LGBT Pride flag, paint strokes circle the bottle while leaving the label clear, symbolising Absolut seeing through labels.

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CHRIS KILLIP – NOW THEN

Posted on 2017-07-10

Poetic, penetrating, and often heartbreaking, Chris Killip’s In Flagrante remains the most important photobook to document the devastating impact of deindustrialization on working-class communities in northern England in the 1970s and 1980s.

The fifty photographs of In Flagrante serve as the foundation of this exhibition, which includes maquettes, contact sheets, and work prints to reveal the artist’s process. The show also features material from two related projects — Seacoal and Skinningrove — that Killip developed in the 1980s, included selectively in In Flagrante, and revisited decades later.

Opposite – Bever, Skinningrove, North Yorkshire, 1980

Exhibition runs through to August 13th, 2017

J. Paul Getty Museum
1200 Getty Center Drive
Los Angeles
California
CA 90049

www.getty.edu

  

REYNER BANHAM – AMERICA

Posted on 2017-07-10

British architectural historian Peter Reyner Banham was not only a vivid writer but also a compulsive snapshot photographer who described himself as an ‘observational historian.’ Banham repeatedly visited and recorded buildings, cities and landscapes with one of his many cameras and several Ecktachrome and Kodachrome films. This exhibition gives an insight into his America to which he moved in 1976 to join the University of New York in Buffalo. Industrial landscapes, car lots, ordinary houses, a view of the road; these photographs are only a selection of his hundreds of 35mm colour slides housed at the AA Photo Library that reveal his distinct photographic body of work.

Peter Reyner Banham was an English architectural critic and prolific writer best known for his theoretical treatise Theory and Design in the First Machine Age (1960) and for his 1971 book Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies.
Banham was based in London, but lived primarily in the United States from the late 1960s until the end of his life.

Opposite – Bus depot, Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz, California

Exhibition runs through to July 28th, 2017

Architectural Association (AA) School of Architecture
36 Bedford Square
London
WC1B 3ES

www.aaschool.ac.uk

  

BRAINWALTZERA – OUTDIVES EP

Posted on 2017-07-10

Analogical Force, the most crucial label operating within the Braindance sphere today collects up what amount to its greatest record yet, having been favourited by none other than AFX, the mysterious Brainwaltzera debuts with a seriously good six-tracker of leftfield electronics and dynamic gabba, acid and tough drill & bass, following up the long sold out Aescoba EP.

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PATRICIA – SPEED WAGON NIGHT BRIDE

Posted on 2017-07-10

Having been locked away in the studio since 2015’s Bem Inventory, Several Shades Of The Same Color expands on the tape tekno of previous Opal albums to provide a thorough journey into the late night hours that often supply the perfect environment for this sort of sound. Each track shines through the atmospheric mist like a crunchy lullaby, from the Low Jack style dronal escape The Words Are Just Sounds Patricia to the Sound Stream deep in a Ghettoville blues shuffle on Shiba Inu Dub.

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MICHAEL LESY – LOOKING BACKWARD

Posted on 2017-07-10

Michael Lesy: Looking Backward looks at how the United States viewed the world at the dawn of the twentieth century. Presented in tandem with the release of Lesy’s book, Looking Backward: Images of the World at the Beginning of the 20th Century, published by W.W. Norton in conjunction with the California Museum of Photography, the exhibition is drawn from scholar Michael Lesy’s 2013 Guggenheim Fellowship, which he spent researching in the museum’s Keystone-Mast Collection, the largest surviving archive of stereoscopic photographs.

The photographs featured in the exhibition Michael Lesy: Looking Backward are featured in the book. Presented in the gallery, they will utilize various stereoscopic devices that engage images’ sense of three-dimensional depth. These viewing methods include stereoscopes like one might have found in a Victorian parlor, including several historic devices drawn from the California Museum of Photography’s extensive photographic technology collections, as well as 3-D projection, like one might encounter in a 3-D movie today, and the View-Master, a stereoscopic viewer ubiquitous in the second half of the twentieth century.

Opposite – San Francisco Earthquake, 1906

Exhibition runs through to July 15th, 2017

California Museum of Photography
3824 Main Street
Riverside
California
CA 92501

artsblock.ucr.edu