THE WORLD AS SEEN BY HARRY BENSON

Posted on 2019-11-25

As one of the world’s most consequential photographers, Harry Benson’s renowned photographs managed to capture some of modern history’s most iconic moments. His pictures helped frame how we think and remember the world. The World as Seen by Harry Benson, showcases a comprehensive, broad and versatile range of images from his 60 plus year career.

Harry Benson’s story starts in Glasgow, Scotland. From an early age, his experience of listening to Winston Churchill on the radio, while his family hid from the nightly air raids happening during WWII, gave him a profound desire to “get to the center of things and see for myself.” As a young man, he attended art school and later went to work as a photojournalist in the world of Fleet Street printing and publishing, London’s highly competitive newspaper industry. Working for The London Daily News was like a “boot camp” for the young photographer, leading him to a journey that took Benson to document some of the most recognizable pictures of the past 60 years.

Opposite – The Who, photograph executed in 1980, printed 2010

Exhibition runs through to January 4th, 2020

Holden Luntz Gallery
332 Worth Avenue
Palm Beach
33480 FL

www.holdenluntz.com

  

UGO RONDINONE – THANX 4 NOTHING

Posted on 2019-11-25

Ugo Rondinone’s thanx 4 nothing, is a mutli-channel video installation that pays tribute to the artist’s late husband, John Giorno. Rondinone reconstructs the gallery into a black box theater, creating an immersive environment through the use of black-and-white film, minimalist score, and the rhythmic intonations of Giorno’s own voice. This exhibition is a prismatic paean to the poet, raconteur, muse, cultural icon, and New York fixture.

Opposite – Installation view

Exhibition runs through to January 18th, 2020

Gladstone Gallery
530 West 21st Street
NY-10011
New York

www.gladstonegallery.com

  

STENNY – WATER MAZE

Posted on 2019-11-25

Stenny’s debut LP Upsurge makes good on its title in the sense that this one of those records which gathers momentum as it goes along. Beginning with ‘Water Maze’, the sort of weightless atmosphere that Jay Glass Dubs would be proud of, Upsurge soon locks into a set of dubstep-tinged IDM grooves which balance innovative drum programming with wistful synths. Come the end of the record Stenny has gone full breakbeat, with drums clattering around the speakerbox (though the synths maintain an air of melody even at this point).

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GANG STARR – BAD NAME

Posted on 2019-11-25

From the album, One Of The Best Yet, drops the single Bad Name, starring Spice Adams and Keith Casim Elam (Guru’s son).

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MICHAEL WOLF – METROPOLIS

Posted on 2019-11-18

Over his 40+ year career, Wolf intimately explored architecture and urban life from Paris to Hong Kong. He examined not only building facades as art objects themselves, but also the lives within these buildings. Bodies of work such as Architecture of Density, Transparent City, Tokyo Compression, and Paris Rooftops are all explorations of the realities of 21st century metropolitan life and the constant etching away of privacy.

For Wolf, photographing was also an act of preservation. Making images was a way to remember, not only physical structures, but also the fragile social constructs that bind humans together. Structures built in the closest of proximities do not necessarily translate into close neighbors, and Wolf’s work poetically captured the tensions within these physical and mental boundaries. Shot with a large-format camera, Wolf exposed private moments among the multiplexes, and reminds us that isolation can be a hallmark of city living.

Opposite – Architecture of Density #101, 2005

Exhibition runs through to December 21st, 2019

Bruce Silverstein Gallery
529 West 20th Street
New York
10011 NY

www.brucesilverstein.com

  

BETTER GIFT SHOP X ROOTS X MOTOWN RECORDS

Posted on 2019-11-18

Motown Records is celebrating its 60th year as a record company and, with help from Better Gift Shop and the Canadian heritage label Roots, it is releasing a limited-edition 60th-anniversary varsity jacket.

Manufactured at Roots’ leather factory in Toronto, Canada, the jacket comes in rich delicate navy-toned melton wool, complemented by cream-colored Italian leather sleeves. The back of the jacket features an arched “MOTOWN” felt patch sewn at the top, followed by its “M” logo and “Better Gift Shop” branding below. Coming with sleek tonal central snap buttons, the front of the jacket sees a large “B” patch sewn over the upper left chest, contrasted by “Motown / 60th Anniversary / 1959 – 2019 Detroit, U.S.A.” embroidery on the right side. One noteworthy highlight of the jacket is all the tight-woven patches placed along the sleeves, etched with graphic logos of some of Motown’s sub-labels.

www.bettergiftshop.com