HOLY SCUM – A WORLD ABOUT TO DIE

Posted on 2022-05-16

“Holy Scum”. Say it out loud. It’s a name that can’t help but be spat out viciously; a snarling exclamative that fits the bludgeoning sludge and feedback drenched improv rock that its progenitors unleash.

Initially a Manchester-based collaboration between guitarist Peter J Taylor (formerly of Action Beat) Gnod co-founder Chris Haslam on bass and his bandmate Jon Perry – also of Shuck – on drums, the thick gauze of Holy Scum’s jams from deep inside a Victorian mill have been pulled apart in production by one of half of legendary hip-hop duo Dälek, Mike Mare (aka Mike Manteca). In fact, he also provides the growling, guttural vocals that fight the elements around them. This all comes together like a ten-car pile-up on their debut record Strange Desires.

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ALEX STODDARD – INSEX

Posted on 2022-05-16

The photographs from INSEX explores the parallels between metamorphosis in the natural world and human coming-of-age. Through staged, highly stylized images, Stoddard invites viewers into a colorfully dark world of budding sexuality and crawling insects. This series of previously unreleased images paints a surreal picture of adolescence in a glorious frenzy of buzzing hormones and sprouting wings. The works on display were created over a span of (5) years in locations around the world. Each constructed scene features a youthful subject, often Stoddard himself, in a state of change or paired with a many-legged counterpart.

Opposite – Carry On

Exhibition runs through to June 23rd, 2022

Fahey/Klein Gallery
148 North La Brea
Los Angeles
CA 90036

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JANETTE BECKMAN – REBELS

Posted on 2022-05-16

Janette Beckman has spent decades creating iconic images of larger-than-life rebels in music, fashion, and beyond. What gives her photographs their arresting flair is the unrehearsed and raw nature of each image — not unlike like the spontaneous wildness of the 1970’s and 1980’s subcultures themselves. Whether Janette’s images are grainy or slick, black & white or saturated with color, they’re never pretentious. With her fondness for rebellious eccentricity, Janette has a keen ability to capture her subjects’ complex inner lives. Her subjects seem ennobled by the complexity she strives to capture – resulting in images that translates sub-cultural life to intrigued outsiders. While Janette’s photographs span several years and continents, the tread that connects each image is that for those who found themselves in front of Janette’s lens are, in one way or another, rule breaking rebels.

Opposite – The Raincoats, London, 1979

Exhibition runs through to June 18th, 2022

Fahey/Klein Gallery
148 North La Brea
Los Angeles
CA 90036

www.faheykleingallery.com

  

ANTIHERO X SUPREME

Posted on 2022-05-16

Supreme has reunited with Antihero on another team-up for Spring 2022 collection. The upcoming range continues the New York imprint’s major collaboration series for the season and centers around a mashup “SUPR/HERO” logo. The release this week is comprised of a Work Jacket, Work Pant, Hooded Sweatshirt, two T-Shirts, 5-Panel and two Skateboards.

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ADGER COWANS – SENSE AND SENSIBILITY

Posted on 2022-05-16

Adger Cowans (American, b. 1936) is a celebrated photographer whose wide-ranging work includes the civil rights movement, jazz musicians, landscape, and artistic studies of the human form, water, and light. He is also one of the founding members of Kamoinge, a Black photographers collective whose mission is to ‘Honor, document, preserve and represent the history and culture of the African Diaspora with integrity and respect for humanity through the lens of Black Photographers.’ This exhibition, curated by Halima Taha, presents Cowans’s use of photography to articulate the beauty within the human condition and the world we live in with over fifty images from his illustrious career.

Exhibition runs through to June 18th, 2022

Fairfield University Art Museum
1073 North Benson Road
Fairfield
CT 06824

www.fairfield.edu

  

NAUTICA X THE TREVOR PROJECT

Posted on 2022-05-16

The Trevor Project is an organization at the forefront of LGBTQIA+ awareness and empowerment, and for this year’s celebration of Pride, it has teamed up with Nautica on an exclusive ‘Pride Collection’ that commits a financial pledge to the organization.

The collection features a range of T-shirts, tank tops, shorts, polo shirts, and accessories that each incorporate the Nautica brand’s logo. In celebration of Pride, the logo has been adapted to reflect the multi-hued rainbow colorway of the LGBTQIA+ community’s Pride flag, while items such as the 9” short feature rainbow-hued pipe stitching along the sides and back of the product.

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