AWAKE NY X UNION CAPSULE COLLECTION
2021-03-29Awake NY drops a new capsule collection with Union!
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GREG GORMAN – IT’S NOT ABOUT ME
2021-03-29Greg Gorman’s exhibition is an assemblage of “outsiders” and auteurs who have come to define the cultural experience of a global audience. Gorman’s portraits not only reflect the true essence of these personalities, but also provide a record of the individuals that influenced and informed future generations. The works on display are a collection of images both unique and familiar. Gorman’s connection with these personalities is evident, and his ability to recognize early outsiders of a time, who became cultural titans of the future, was profound.
Along with other prominent photographers out of the “School of Los Angeles” (Herb Ritts and Matthew Rolston), Greg Gorman continued in the tradition of George Hurrell, Robert Coburn, and other early Hollywood image makers. Gorman’s direct and confrontational style enhances and reflects the contemporary glamour inherent in the unique characters and cultural icons he photographs. Gorman’s images unquestionably push and pull the boundaries with his visual style and selection of personalities.
Opposite – Kevin Costner, Los Angeles, 1987
Exhibition runs through to May 1st, 2021
The Fahey/Klein Gallery
148 North La Brea
Los Angeles
CA 90036
MOFFIE
2021-03-29The year is 1981 and South Africa’s white minority government is embroiled in a conflict on the southern Angolan border. Like all white boys over the age of 16, Nicholas Van der Swart must complete two years of compulsory military service to defend the apartheid regime. The threat of communism and “die swart gevaar” (the so-called black danger) is at an all-time high. But that’s not the only danger Nicholas faces. He must survive the brutality of the army – something that becomes even more difficult when a connection is sparked between him and a fellow recruit.
Opening in theaters and VOD April 9th, 2021
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2021-03-29There’s a certain child-like innocence to naming your debut LP Blush, appropriately, London-based producer and Wisdom Teeth boss Facta made the album in the spirit of unfussy and refreshed creativity. Having honed his craft as a dance producer across years of material for esteemed labels including Livity Sound, Ancient Monarchy and Idle Hands, Facta’s music has gathered a wealth of other influences in that time, from modern classical and ambient to fourth world and folk music.
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2021-03-29From the director of Double Take, Middle Men, and The Poison Rose comes this stylish, glossy action-thriller starring Morgan Freeman (Se7en) and Ruby Rose (“Orange Is the New Black”) that shows what desperation can drive a person to do. A mother, Victoria (Rose), is trying to put her dark past as a Russian drug courier behind her, but retired cop Damon (Freeman) forces Victoria to do his bidding by holding her daughter hostage. Now, Victoria must use guns, guts, and a motorcycle to take out a series of violent gangsters, or she may never see her child again.
Opening in theatres and VOD April 20th, 2021
TweetCHLOE WISE – THANK YOU FOR THE NICE FIRE
2021-03-29In this series, Wise proposes scenarios of simulated familiarity, where smiles, hand gestures, and utterances are at odds with underlying realities, such as widespread uncertainty, willful ignorance, growing inequality, and aspirational notions of “unity” that reinforce a status quo. Underneath (or alongside) the comfort of platitudes resides the chaotic potential of the abject.
In Baudrillard’s experimental travelogue America (1986), he cross-examines the American smile in postwar America and its own travel within Reagan’s America:
“The smile of immunity, the smile of advertising: ‘This country is good. I am good. We are the best’. It is also Reagan’s smile – the culmination of the selfsatisfaction of the entire American nation […] Smile to show how transparent, how candid you are. Smile if you have nothing to say. Most of all, do not hide the fact that you have nothing to say nor your total indifference to others.”
Opposite – All that free speech is very expensive, 2021
Exhibition runs through to April 24th, 2021
Almine Rech
39 East 78th Street
NY 10075
New York
