DROOPY CAT – TRIPPY EDITION BY POOL X MIGHTY JAXX

Posted on 2022-03-28

French artist PooL brings us another look at his trippy take on Wonderland with the new Droopy Cat – Trippy Edition GID vinyl art toy from Mighty Jaxx. Something’s gone wrong with the iconic striped cat, very wrong indeed. A follow up to the OG classic pink edition, the Trippy Edition could have easily been called the toxin edition. While Droopy Cat has never really been super spry, something awful has come over him this time around. The deep purple flush and a green tongue point to a trip gone awry. In fact, it’s so bad that our funky feline glows a sickly green in the dark.

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NIGHTPORTS W/ TOM HERBERT – OCTOBER

Posted on 2022-03-28

Nightports w/ Tom Herbert is the third in a series of albums from musician-producers Adam Martin and Mark Slater to be released on The Leaf Label, following 2018’s Nightports w/ Matthew Bourne and 2020’s Nightports w/ Betamax.

Tom Herbert made his name as the bass player in Mercury Music Prize-nominated bands Polar Bear and The Invisible, and has become an in-demand collaborator and session musician, including work with Adele, Lana Del Ray and most recently The Smile. Having honed his craft holding the low-end down in some of the most forward-thinking British groups of recent times, and also appearing on some the biggest tracks of the last twenty years, Nightports w/ Tom Herbert brings Herbert’s command of the double bass into the spotlight.

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ROBERT CUMMING – LARGE PRINTS

Posted on 2022-03-28

This is the first solo gallery exhibition in over ten years to feature Cumming’s fabricated photography from the 1970s and the first time this work has been seen reinterpreted at a large scale.

Cumming, who passed away in December of 2021, spent almost two years toward the end of his life supervising the enlargements of his 1970s photo-based work. Many negatives were scanned and proofed using his original artist’s prints as guides. The result is a curated selection of works by the artist that displays his devotion to the medium in the service of visual puns and precisionist wit. This exhibition serves as an introduction to this new iteration of Cumming’s most important work.

Opposite – 67- Degree Body Arc Off Circle Center, 1975/2020

Exhibition runs through to April 23rd, 2022

Gallery Luisotti
Santa Monica
CA 90405

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MARK DION – THEATER OF EXTINCTION

Posted on 2022-03-28

Tanya Bonakdar Gallery is pleased to present Mark Dion: Theater of Extinction, an exhibition of new sculpture and drawings. Dion has shown with the gallery for over two decades, but this will be the artist’s first solo presentation in the Los Angeles space. The exhibition will include four new sculptural works and over a dozen new drawings, some among the largest Dion has produced to date.

Mark Dion uses his work to investigate systems of knowledge production and presentation, and to critique the underlying assumptions that determine how disciplines like science, geography, and art classify, organize, and display information. His large-scale installations and sculptural works often mirror the strategies and aesthetics of academic methodology or museum display, and they prompt viewers to consider how these institutions frame our understanding of the material presented, pointing to the social rather than innate construction of knowledge. To deconstruct the notion that the logic comprising these systems is immutable and authoritative, Dion often inserts irrational elements or other non sequiturs into the works, subverting the seemingly rational picture they present.

Opposite – Cabinet of Extinction, 2022

Exhibition runs through to May 25th, 2022

Tanya Bonakdar Gallery
1010 North Highland Avenue
CA 90038
Los Angeles

www.tanyabonakdargallery.com

  

HIT THE ROAD

Posted on 2022-03-28

Panah Panahi, son and collaborator of embattled Iranian master Jafar Panahi, makes a striking feature debut with this charming, sharp-witted, and deeply moving comic drama. Hit the Road takes the tradition of the Iranian road-trip movie and adds unexpected twists and turns. It follows a family of four – two middle-aged parents and their sons, one a taciturn adult, the other an ebullient six-year-old – as they drive across the Iranian countryside. Over the course of the trip, they bond over memories of the past, grapple with fears of the unknown, and fuss over their sick dog. Unspoken tensions arise and the film builds emotional momentum as it slowly reveals the furtive purpose for their journey. The result is a humanist drama that offers an authentic, raw, and deeply sincere observation of an Iranian family preparing to part with one of their own.

In theatres April 22nd, 2022

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DC X WARHOL COLLISIONS COLLECTION

Posted on 2022-03-28

The apparel collection houses an assortment of graphic T-shirts, long sleeves and hoodies, remixing some of Warhol’s most familiar iconography. Riffing on Warhol’s affinity for primary colors and visual repetition, the footwear capsule incorporates graphic overlays and mirrored motifs centered on themes of religion, mortality and the human condition. Including signature slides, slip-ons and high and low top sneakers, the collection upgrades DC Shoes’ heritage design with pops of vibrant imagery.

Available April 16th, 2022.

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