KNOX MARTIN – HOMAGE TO GOYA

Posted on 2021-07-05

Over the course of his seven-decade career, acclaimed artist Knox Martin has engaged with a wide range of artistic movements, from Cubism to Abstract Expressionism to Pop Art, establishing his own distinct style. On July 8, Hollis Taggart will open an exhibition that explores Martin’s particular affinity toward Francisco Goya and the ways in which that artist has served as an important source of inspiration for Martin since childhood. The exhibition, titled Knox Martin: Homage to Goya, features a selection of drawings from Martin’s series, titled Caprichos, which the artist has been evolving for several decades.

Opposite – Shadow, 2003

Exhibition runs through to August 6th, 2021

Hollis Taggart
521 W 26th Street, 1st Floor
NY 10001
New York

www.hollistaggart.com

  

BOTTEGA VENETA FLASH BOOT

Posted on 2021-07-05

These core house colorways combine with traditional Chelsea boot design cues, yet come together on a subverted take that’s quintessential of Daniel Lee‘s expressive and progressive design language. This is the same approach that has made his Puddle boots, Lean boots, Bounce boots and more becoming instant successes and footwear must-haves, and we don’t see why the Flash can’t have the same effect.

Using 100-percent lambskin, Bottega Veneta crafts a rather subtle shape that’s elegant and traditional. Working your way towards the mid-panel, you find the classic Chelsea boot segment but it now appears in a sporty mesh fabric, and from here, we notice the pull tab and an architectural sole unit.

www.bottegaveneta.com

  

BRIA – CUNTRY COVERS VOL. 1

Posted on 2021-07-05

Bria is an intimate and incisive labor of love from multi-instrumentalists Bria Salmena and Duncan Hay Jennings. Catapulted by a deep sense of dread and confusion in the depths of 2020, Salmena decided to forgo writing her own music. “I wanted to listen for what might reflect my life back to me,” she says, “six tracks that could be my mirror.” The result is a pointillistic knockout of an EP that weaves a landscape both luscious and a little rogue; showing us exactly what good songs can do.

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HEINESKET 8″ CUSTOM DUNNY EDITION BY SKET-ONE

Posted on 2021-07-05

Sket-One returns to pour out another cold one with his brand-new Heinesket 8″ Custom Dunny Edition resin art toy. Following the slightly tipsy path of his previously released Sketrona and Sketweiser editions, Heinesket reshapes the iconic Dunny into the signature green Heineken bottle complete with a bottle cap on the left ear and of course, a Sket-branded version of the instantly recognizable label.

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ATELIER DELL’ERRORE – RED LIGHT GOLD LIGHT

Posted on 2021-07-05

“Alarming Red light, blinding gold light. This is how the recent work of Atelier dell’Errore BIG shows itself. A work that arises, as in the past, from the edges of a precipice overlooked by many young people who experience the idea of limit. Atelier dell’Errore leaned on the edge of the precipice and a monstrous multitude emerged from its magmatic bottom. In the span of almost twenty years, they gave it shape, coming to develop a rich and composite language, which includes the sign, but also the word and, more recently, the dramaturgy. From its activity a collection of sprawling animals was born, with terrible names and abnormal dimensions, equipped with jaws, claws and beaks, always ready to attack to protect those who conceived them. An imaginary zoology in which the authors, rather than representing themselves as victims of an existential failure, have chosen to project their anxieties, but also to talk about themselves in their own conscious otherness of unsuitable, intractable, unassimilable creatures: a way to give power to their positions by radically opposing the mere positivity advocated by a society that admits only equal and compliant people. To this day, those deep black recesses continue to express telluric energy. The organisms that erupt are still formless, and equally indomitable; more metamorphic than ever, more incandescent than ever.

Opposite – La Tenda Oracolare, 2021

Exhibition runs through to July 21st, 2021

MASSIMODECARLO
Piazza Belgioioso 2
20121 Milan
Italy

www.massimodecarlo.com

  

MUHAMMAD ALI IN MIAMI

Posted on 2021-07-05

Muhammad Ali versus Joe Frazier was billed as the “Fight of the Century” and, in preparation for the March 8, 1971 bout, Ali spent time in Miami Beach training at the famed 5th Street Gym.

“These photos captured a historic moment for Ali. He was just returning to boxing after his conviction for refusing to register for the draft in 1967 had been overturned,” HistoryMiami Museum Executive Director Jorge Zamanillo said. “These photos show him preparing to return to the biggest stage in sports at that time, and we hope everyone will visit the museum to view an incredible and rarely seen collection of images.”

Exhibition runs through to August 29th, 2021

Historymiami Museum
101 West Flagler Street
Miami, FL 33130

www.historymiami.org