AUDREY

Posted on 2020-11-30

Audrey Hepburn won her first Academy Award at the age of 24 and went on to become one of the world’s greatest cultural icons: a once-in-a-generation beauty, and legendary star of Hollywood’s Golden Age, whose style and pioneering collaboration with Hubert de Givenchy continues to inspire. But who was the real Audrey Hepburn? Malnourished as a child, abandoned by her father and growing up under Nazi occupation in Holland, Hepburn faced a life-long battle with the traumas of her past, which thwarted her dreams of becoming a ballet dancer, and cast a shadow over her personal life. Yet she found inner peace using her superstardom for good as a global ambassador for UNICEF and bringing her life full circle; first a victim of war, then a source of relief to millions.

Available to rent and own on digital from November 30th in the UK, December 15th in the US and December 16th in Australia.

www.universalpictures.co.uk

  

DJ DEEP – FOSPH EP

Posted on 2020-11-30

DJ Deep returns to Tresor with his new EP ‘Fosph’, his first release on the label since 2015. In the time between then and now, the Deeply Rooted boss has been particularly active, from b2b DJ sets with Jeff Mills, his work as part of the duo Sergie Rezza, to his newly released jazz-house remixes of Cotonete. Listening to his mixes, which regularly spin from essential Chicago and Detroit house sounds, through blends of Afro-percussion and dub reveals an ear sensitively tuned to the ground searching stories through music.

tresorberlin.bandcamp.com

  

LIFE AFTER THE NAVIGATOR

Posted on 2020-11-30

In 1986, Joey Cramer was cast as 12-year old David Freeman in Disney’s “Flight Of The Navigator” and his life would never be the same.

​Directed by Randal Kleiser, “Flight Of The Navigator” found it’s way into the hearts of children all over the world. The story of a young boy who goes out with his dog, and returns 8 years later is today still regarded as a classic.

​Joe’s life, however, wasn’t so glamorous.

​”Life After The Navigator” not only celebrates this 1986 classic, also starring Sarah Jessica Parker and Paul Reubens, but takes an open, honest and in-depth look at the life of this former child star, and the path his life took since that breakthrough role.

Available on blu-ray and streaming via Amazon from 9th December.

www.lifeaftermovies.com

  

WRANGLER X STRANGER THINGS

Posted on 2020-11-30

To celebrate “Stranger Things Day,” Wrangler partnered with Netflix on a limited-edition apparel collection. The appreciation day is observed annually on November 6th, the day Will Byers went missing in 1983.

The collection offers two styles that’ll automatically make you honorary members of the Hellfire Club, the name of the recently unveiled Hawkins High Dungeons & Dragons club.

The Hellfire Club denim jacket features a vintage stone wash pulled from Wrangler’s ‘80s archives for an authentic, lived-in look.

www.wrangler.com

  

JOHANNES KAHRS – SLEEP

Posted on 2020-11-30

Perception’s analysis and images’ manipulation are at the core of Johannes Kahrs’ reflection. The subjects of the German author’s artworks present themselves in all their human indecipherability, shaken by pressures and malaise: the monstrous yet familiar realism of Kahrs’ paintings provokes entangled empathy and reveals the hidden and violent side of humanity. Starting from images collected from magazines, the internet, newspapers, advertisements, amateur and feature films, but also from photographs taken by himself, Johannes Kahrs releases the image from its original context, depicting fragmented and isolated scenes and escaping a coherent narrative. By cutting the image, enlarging its details and disconnecting it from its original embedded context, the artist emphasizes the symbolic meaning of the scene to reveal its deeper and mysterious contents.

Opposite – Untitled (nose mouth eye), 2017

Exhibition runs through to January 16th, 2021

Massimo De Carlo
55 South Audley Street
W1K 2QH
London

massimodecarlo.com

  

AL HELD – THE SIXTIES

Posted on 2020-11-30

Focusing on paintings made in New York during the 1960s, the selection includes key works which exemplify Held’s unique exploration of hard-edge geometric abstraction. Featuring large-scale paintings and works on paper, the exhibition reveals the artist’s dedication to developing his own distinctive graphic language. As the poet Frank O’Hara saw it, Held was ‘one of the most controversial and powerful painters’ working in New York at that time.

The Sixties were a decade synonymous with an explosion of new styles and ideas aimed at expanding consciousness and bridging the gap between aesthetics and technology. During this period, Held became widely recognised for his individual approach to abstraction, leading fellow painter Alex Katz to comment of his 1960s works: ‘Some of them are as good as anything painted on the planet at that time.’ Held’s rigorous exploration of hard-edge geometry to distil the decade’s tumult into elemental forms and relationships resulted in two of his most well-known bodies of work: the ‘Alphabet’ paintings (1961–67) and the ‘Black and White’ paintings (1967–78).

Opposite – I Beam, 1961

Exhibition runs through to December 12th, 2020

White Cube
144-152 Bermondsey Street
SE1 3TQ
London

www.whitecube.com