CLASS PICTURES

Posted on 2009-05-25

Following a successful kick off in New York and subsequent stops in Houston, Indianapolis, Greensboro, and Baltimore, Dawoud Bey’s traveling exhibition Class Pictures, featuring striking, large-scale color portraits of students at high schools across the United States is now showing at the Milwaukee Art Museum. For the past fifteen years, Bey has been photographing teenagers from a wide economic, social, and ethnic spectrum, and—intensely attentive to their poses and gestures—has created a highly diverse generational portrait that challenges stereotypes of teenagers. A brief autobiographical statement by the subject—by turns poignant, funny, or harrowing—accompanies each portrait.

This exhibition runs until the 12th of July, 2009

Milwaukee Art Museum
700 North Art Museum Drive
Milwaukee
Wisconsin
USA

www.mam.org

  

POPPY DE VILLENEUVE – YOU ARE EVERYWHERE

Posted on 2009-05-25

The Gallery’s current exhibit, “You Are Everywhere,” features the photography of Poppy de Villeneuve. Born in London, de Villeneuve now lives in New York. With photographic work most recently commissioned by Nanette Lepore and a photographic series on the life-serving inmates of ‘Angola’, the Louisiana State Penitentiary, de Villeneuve’s work is diverse with a signature style shot using a Hasselblad. She has also exhibited in group and solo shows in the UK and US.

“You Are Everywhere” is a specially commissioned series for Soho Grand Hotel which captures awestruck individuals amongst crowds watching live music.

This exhibition runs until the 2nd of September, 2009

Soho Grand
310 West Broadway
New York
10013
USA

www.grandlifenyc.com

  

NATURE NATION

Posted on 2009-05-25

The Nature Nation exhibition is based on diverse aspects of distinctions, positions, beliefs, ideologies, and social, political and economic points of departure that explore the complex encounter between man and the environment and between man and nature. The exhibition is not based on a romantic reading that interprets nature and its expanses as pre-existent to man’s shaping intervention. Rather, it proposes a critical reading, which presumes that the encounter between them is a mirror for broader phenomena. This mirror reflects the crisis in the relations between man and nature, which finds expression in neglect, conquest and deterioration.

Opposite – Edward Burtynsky – China Recycling #9, Circuit Boards/Guiyu,2000, Guangdong Province, 2004

Museum on the Seam
4 Chel Handasa st
P.O.B. 1649
Jerusalem 91016
Israel

www.mots.org.il

  

PUBLIC ENEMIES

Posted on 2009-05-25

Public Enemies is the 2009 film directed by one of our favourite directors Michael Mann. Set during the Great Depression, it focuses on the true story of FBI agent Melvin Purvis’s attempt to stop criminals John Dillinger, Baby Face Nelson, and Pretty Boy Floyd. The film is an adaptation of Bryan Burrough’s non-fiction book Public Enemies: America’s Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933–34. Christian Bale plays FBI agent Purvis, Johnny Depp plays Dillinger, Marion Cotillard plays Dillinger’s girlfriend Billie Frechette, Channing Tatum plays Floyd and Giovanni Ribisi plays Alvin Karpis.

On release July 1st

www.publicenemies.net

  

THE HANGOVER

Posted on 2009-05-25

The Hangover from director Todd Phillips, who also directed some of our favorite comedies of the last few years including Road Trip and Old School. The main plot follows four friends who travel to Las Vegas for a bachelor party, only to wake up the next morning not remembering a thing and missing the groom, whose wedding is scheduled to occur the next day. The film stars Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, Zach Galifianakis, Justin Bartha, and Heather Graham. The movie passed the 5 times laugh out loud rule with flying colors and is on release now now.

www.hangovermovie.com

  

BALLETS RUSSES

Posted on 2009-05-25

Karl Lagerfeld, Creative Director of CHANEL, has designed an exclusive costume for the ‘The Dying Swan’ as part of English National Ballet’s Ballets Russes season at Sadler’s Wells in June 2009. This year marks the centenary of the first performance by Serge Diaghilev’s ballet at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris. Karl Lagerfeld has always had a personal interest in ballet and admires the creativity of English National Ballet. He comments that “…as a child I was already impressed by old images of Anna Pavlova dancing the ballet” adding that “…the Ballet Russes were an influence for me”. The costume has been created for English National Ballet’s Senior Principal dancer, Elena Glurdjidze, who will wear the design for her performance of ‘The Dying Swan’. She says “we always say that the look is 50% of how you are going to dance, so it is very important to have a beautiful costume”. During her final fitting, she danced ‘The Dying Swan’ for Karl, who filmed the performance himself.

www.chanel.com