SEX CRIMES

Posted on 2019-09-16

The exhibition “Sex Crimes” provides artwork and literature with homosexual content that was often created in a shadow world of criminality, organized crime payoffs, and under the threat of arrest. These pieces, aimed primarily at gay men, were often passed surreptitiously from person to person. Producers of the artworks faced imprisonment and harassment if they were caught.

The body of work presented in “Sex Crimes” provides a window into the camaraderie and defiant response of sexual outlaws to governmental, religious, and cultural homophobia that has historically criminalized them. Until the Stonewall riots in 1969, gay people had not collectively organized in resistance to repression and discrimination. And it was not until 2003 in Lawrence vs. Texas that the US Supreme Court finally ruled that nonremunerative sex between consenting adults in private was protected by the Constitution and could not be criminalized.

Opposite – Laura Rubin, “Mario Montez”, 1969/printed 1975

Exhibition runs through to September 28th, 2019

ClampArt
247 West 29th Street, Ground Floor
New York
10001 NY

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KITH X DEF JAM 35TH ANNIVERSARY CAPSULE

Posted on 2019-09-16

To celebrate Def Jam Recordings’ 35th anniversary, Kith partners with the iconic music label to craft a co-branded collection.

The centerpiece of this collaborative offering is an updated rendition of Def Jam’s coveted varsity jacket. Originally conceived founder Rick Rubin at the onset of the label, this storied jacket was given to artists and employees of Def Jam and was never intended to be made for the public. 35 years later, Kith has tapped Golden Bear to create an incredibly lux version with subtle updates. The jacket features a wool body with chainstitch embroidery on the front, leather sleeves with chenille patches, and a chenille Def Jam logo on the back. Other styles included in this capsule are two Williams Hoodies and two Tees.

The Kith x Def Jam 35th Anniversary Capsule releases, September 16th, 2019

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CARLOS CAIROLI – A RETROSPECTIVE

Posted on 2019-09-16

The Mayor Gallery presents the first retrospective of the Constructivist artist Carlos Cairoli whose rigorous works from the 1950s onward, are the historical witnesses of his perpetual researches to materialise the invisible, light, time and space.

After studying Fine Arts in Buenos Aires, from 1943 to 1952, Carlos Cairoli was initiated to the constructive art with the Experimental Group of Art Spatial directed by Lucio Fontana then Torres Garcia. In France, where he settled in 1952, his encounter with the De Stijl founder Georges Vantongerloo led him to perform works of a fluid and lyrical geometry from which he then moved away, towards a more rigorous language. The creation of reliefs from 1953 and of “Constructions spatiales” in 1957 demonstrates his desire to rally to the principles of constructivism. Virtual architectures, these works are executed exclusively in altuglas, a resistant and transparent acrylic glass, and assembled together orthogonally with metal rods. By their precision and transparency, they are the worthy inheritors of the dematerialised assemblages of the constructivists Pevsner, Gabo and Moholy-Nagy and also address the question of integration in the field of architecture studied by the De Stijl members.

Opposite – Temps-espaces complémentaires, 1955

Exhibition runs through to October 25th, 2019

The Mayor Gallery
21 Cork Street
First Floor
W1S 3LZ
London

www.mayorgallery.com

  

JUDY

Posted on 2019-09-16

Winter 1968 and showbiz legend Judy Garland arrives in Swinging London to perform a five-week sold-out run at The Talk of the Town. It is 30 years since she shot to global stardom in The Wizard of Oz, but if her voice has weakened, its dramatic intensity has only grown. As she prepares for the show, battles with management, charms musicians and reminisces with friends and adoring fans, her wit and warmth shine through. Even her dreams of love seem undimmed as she embarks on a whirlwind romance with Mickey Deans, her soon-to-be fifth husband. Featuring some of her best-known songs, the film celebrates the voice, the capacity for love, and the sheer pizzazz of “the world’s greatest entertainer.”

In theatres October 2nd, 2019

www.judythefilm.com

  

FRIEDRICH KUNATH – LIVE FOREVER

Posted on 2019-09-16

On nature’s comic indifference towards the human condition.
Drifters stranded on these landscapes connected by one singular horizon, balancing as though on a tightrope.
Balancing as ever between happy and sad, heaven and hell, silly and serious, history and the burden of it.
Idiocies of popular culture and the pathos of philosophy, the ambiguity of our existence.
The California sun is all I had for breakfast, and it sure did burn my mind…
Is the problem that we can’t see, or is it that the problem is beautiful to me?
These drifters are bit actors from a recurring cast. Homeless, although they are home.
Homelessness is the mission, being found is the game…I waited for you, but I never told you where I was.
The search for meaning and happiness and for cats to pet in a dirty alley on a rainy day when you’ve had too much and the weight seems insurmountable.
The end of all wanting is all that I wanted. The horizon just laughed back.

From his precipitous rise in the late 1990s and early 2000s, Friedrich Kunath has been making art that beautifully and lyrically combines the experience of the ordinary with the sublime.

Opposite – I Miss You Already, 2019

Exhibition runs through to October 19th, 2019

Blum & Poe
1-14-34 Jingumae, Shibuya
150-0001 Tokyo

www.blumandpoe.com

  

SKIN

Posted on 2019-09-16

After a difficult childhood drives him into the grasps of a white supremacist gang, Bryon (Jamie Bell) tries to escape to a new life, all the while questioning whether he’s capable of undoing—and repenting for—the evil he’s done.

Filmmaker Guy Nattiv, whose short film of the same title won the Academy Award earlier this year, makes his English-language feature debut with this galvanizing story of transformation, inspired by actual events.

In theatres September 27th, 2019

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