YUSSEF DAYES EXPERIENCE – LIVE FROM MALIBU

Posted on 2024-03-25

Multi-instrumentalist, producer, and composer Yussef Dayes releases The Yussef Dayes Experience (Live from Malibu), featuring music from his critically acclaimed debut solo album, Black Classical Music. Dayes is joined by his longtime collaborators Rocco Palladino, Venna, Elijah Fox, and Alexander Bourt on the new release, which was originally shared as a live-performance video filmed in the Malibu mountains last year and is available on YouTube.

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HELLEN VAN MEENE – THE DISSOLVE

Posted on 2024-03-25

One of the most influential international photographers of her generation, Hellen van Meene is known for her intimate color portraits of adolescent girls and young women inspired by traditions of classical painting.

Van Meene’s subjects are often caught in dreamlike states or otherworldly situations. In one, a bride stands calmly as the train of her wedding dress ignites in a semi-circle of flames. In another, a sitter cradles a fish like a baby, and in another, butterflies carefully position themselves on the subject’s face, neck, and chest. One young woman immersed in a body of water is surrounded by flowers while fully dressed, recalling Shakespeare’s Ophelia. Van Meene’s subjects appear detached and unflummoxed about their unusual situations, absorbing the ambiguity of being at the brink of adulthood, while caught in the liminal space between childhood and womanhood.

Opposite – Untitled #534, 2021

Exhibition runs through to March 30th, 2024

Yancey Richardson Gallery
525 West 22nd Avenue
New York
NY 10011

www.yanceyrichardson.com

  

IN THE ROOM WHERE IT HAPPENED

Posted on 2024-03-25

Our understanding of the U.S. presidency is largely shaped by images. Photographs of political campaigns, international engagements, historic legislation, and national tragedy, accompany more intimate family scenes and humanizing portraits, each contributing to the global perception of the American presidency for generations to come.

Featuring the work of the official White House photographers Shealah Craighead, Eric Draper, Michael Evans, Sharon Farmer, David Hume Kennerly, Bob McNeely, Yoichi Okamoto, Adam Schultz, Pete Souza, David Valdez and staff photographer Joyce Boghosian, this group has shaped our vision of the presidency for the last 6 decades.

Opposite – President George W. Bush talks with President of Mexico Vicente Fox during an Oval Office telephone conversation, May 14, 2002

Exhibition runs through to March 30th, 2024

Griffin Museum of Photography
67 Shore Road
Winchester
MA 01890

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CAROLYN DRAKE – GLORIFY YOURSELF

Posted on 2024-03-25

The series takes its title from the book Glorify Yourself, a “beauty and charm guide” for women, popular in the U.S. during the 1940s and 1950s. The guide included chapter titles such as “Inviting Lips” and “Sitting Technique,” offering advice for its female readers on how to increase their allure to men. With pages of the book ‘s instructions plastered on one wall of the gallery, Drake’s darkly comedic self-portraits intersect with the misogynistic material that inspired them.

Opposite – Self-Portrait with Gene Tierney (Inviting Lips), 2023

Exhibition runs through to March 30th, 2024

Yancey Richardson Gallery
525 West 22nd Avenue
New York
NY 10011

www.yanceyrichardson.com

  

ZOMBILL BY CODEC ZOMBIE

Posted on 2024-03-18

Italian artist Codec Zombie’s MiniMurrays art toy series features his take on Bill Murray’s cinematic performances including MiniZissou (The Life Aquatic of Steve Zissou) and Boss Murray (Isle of Dogs). It’s fitting that the brand-new third figure in the series from Codec Zombie is none other than Zombill.

Transcending the Wes Anderson-lineage of the previous two drops, Zombill is inspired by Bill Murray’s turn in Zombieland which gifted movie fans with the memorable line: “I do it to blend in, you know, zombies don’t mess with other zombies.” Zombill debuts in a pale tan with purple hair edition. The stylized proportions of the sculpt amplify Murray’s comedic genius with an oversized head and instantly-recognizable face.

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ELISA BEE – I LOVE ACID 029

Posted on 2024-03-18

Elisa Bee makes her (official) debut on Balkan Vinyl’s I Love Acid series for their 29 entry. Having landed a few singles on Balkan proper and remixed WTCHCRFT within the series itself, it was only a matter of time before the Milan-based Bee dolled out her own sheet. Taking cues from all the classically squelchy moods and motifs of the genre, she brings her own nerve-y, but infectious energy to the affair that’s made her one of the most in-demand selectors around. The darkly psychedelic ‘In Acido’ in particular will fill floors all year long.

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