JOHN ALBOK – REVISITED

Posted on 2018-01-29

The exhibition will include extraordinary vintage prints, revealing the soul of the city that was Albok’s home. Photographs of the Great Depression era are mixed with more uplifting images of children and parades and lovers in Central Park. People were his main character in the urban landscape. He brought them together with grace and humanity.

John Albok’s photographs are included in the permanent collections of many important museums including the Metropolitan Museum of New York, The Museum of the City of New York, J. Paul Getty Museum, Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Dallas Museum of Art, and the Virginia Museum of Fine Art.

Opposite – Central Park (Airplane), 1938

Exhibition runs through to February 10th, 2018

PDNB Gallery
154 Glass Street
Ste. 104
Dallas
TX 75207

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PUMA VALENTINE’S DAY PACK

Posted on 2018-01-29

PUMA releases its Valentine’s Day collection featuring its Suede Platform Trace and Lead Cat Slide silhouettes draped in bold Barbados Cherry, as the tone essentially symbolizes love and beauty.

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SWATCH BRIT-IN

Posted on 2018-01-29

Swatch introduces BRIT-IN from its Spring-Summer 2018 collection, which dives into the Swiss watchmaker’s DNA. At a fantasy picnic with the Queen, floral patterns are in full bloom, exotic frill meets daringly dashing and 5 o’clock calls for tea. The Brit-in collection takes the best quintessential elements of British culture and recreates them with modish motifs and a little tongue-in-cheek humour that is understood around the world. Keep calm and wear Swatch!

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NORÐUR OG NIÐUR FESTIVAL ICELAND – PEACHES

Posted on 2018-01-26

As the light-filled days of the Icelandic Summer drew to a close in 2017, Sigur Rós revealed the initial round of acts for NORÐUR OG NIÐUR, their ambitious curation of Harpa, Reykjavík’s premiere state-of-the-art venue. From December 27-30, the dark days of Winter played host to the four-day event bringing together performances from the band’s friends, collaborators, artists and heroes.

Headline Performances included an exclusive series of concerts with Iceland’s very own Sigur Ros alongside, Jarvis Cocker; an Icelandic debut for Kevin Shields, iconic leader of My Bloody Valentine; Dan Deacon and Julianna Barwick also both made welcome returns to Reykjavík.
Performances across the 4 days also featured Peaches, Dustin O’Halloran Tangerine Dream and Ulrich Schnauss alongside Icelandic homegrown talents JFDR, Hugar Alex Somers, Amina, Gus Gus and Mr Silla to name but a few.

No-one lights up December’s darkest days quite like the Icelanders. Reykjavík’s reputation for being able to throw a party is not lightly earned, and NORÐUR OG NIÐUR significantly ramped up a holiday season already filled with fun, festivities and a truly insane arsenal of fireworks.

Photography – Patrik Ontkovic

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ROBIN RHODE – THE GEOMETRY OF COLOUR

Posted on 2018-01-22

This recent series culminates Rhode’s well-known work engaging the public through cooperative visual and performance art, documented through c-print photographs, at a wall in Johannesburg where he and his team have worked since 2011. In The Geometry of Colour, Rhode sets forth to make a case for the role of art in developing the skepticism and spirituality he views as necessary to challenge a surge of global divisiveness.

Rhode has established his unique practice with a multifold approach, working across media, including drawing, performance, photography, video, and music. As a young artist inspired by the rebellion and possibility of graffiti, he was first drawn to working in public, unsanctioned spaces. Since then, his practice has evolved to become more closely aligned with and influenced by the minimal wall drawings of Sol Lewitt, and the 1970s performance work of artists such as Vito Acconci and Bruce Nauman, as well as earlier art historical references such as Eadweard Muybridge’s stop-motion photography.

Opposite – Joints (detail), 2017

Exhibition runs through to February 24th, 2018

Lehmann Maupin
536 West 22nd Street
New York
NY 10011

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RACHEL FEINSTEIN – SECRETS

Posted on 2018-01-22

In richly detailed sculptures and multipart installations, Feinstein considers the sumptuous materiality of historical European luxury, updating its refined surfaces and edges with a gritty and approximate excess. Borrowing freely from Baroque and Rococo sculpture, religious iconography, Romantic landscapes, and mainstream media, she explores issues of taste and desire, synthesizing visual and societal opposites such as romance and pornography; elegance and kitsch; the marvelous and the utterly banal.

“Secrets” consists of new sculptures, wallpaper, and paintings in which Feinstein cannibalizes notions of beauty, belief, and spectacle to reveal perfection as a form of burlesque. The Secrets is a series of eight large-scale sculptures that reflects on the Victoria’s Secret phenomenon, with its trademark “Angels” in their jaw-dropping lingerie costumes—butterflies, firebirds, baby dolls, snow queens, and more—strutting their stuff at the brand’s annual fashion extravaganza that is broadcast to millions of ogling fans worldwide. Feinstein’s figures have been scaled up in hard foam from small clay maquettes, then individual hues applied piece by piece in hand-colored epoxy resins.

Opposite – Bandleader, 2018

Exhibition runs through to February 17th, 2018

Gagosian
456 North Camden Drive
CA 90210
Beverly Hills
USA

www.gagosian.com