MAJOR LAZER – GET FREE
2012-08-27Major Lazer “Get Free” – is the first official single and video off of the new album “Free The Universe.”
The video, featuring Diplo and Amber from Dirty Projectors, was shot in Jamaica.
ARIEL PINK’S HAUNTED GRAFFITI – ONLY IN MY DREAMS
2012-08-27The clip was directed by Travis Peterson, who previously did Pink’s “Gray Sunset” video and has directed videos for the likes of Vivian Girls, Glass Candy, and Nite Jewel. It features appearances by Geneva Jacuzzi and Puro Instinct’s Piper Kaplan.
TweetJJ DOOM – GUV’NOR
2012-08-27New video from JJ DOOM, the collaboration between DOOM and producer/rapper Jneiro Jarel. This is for “Guv’nor”, a track from the duo’s new album Key to the Kuffs. The clip, which was directed by Ninian Doff as part of a RizLab project.
TweetBREATHE MINI BILLBOARD BY RON ENGLISH
2012-08-27The first in a new series of Mini Billboard releases features the infamous “Breathe” artwork. First seen in 2005 on a life size billboard in Jersey City, this satirical poke at the tobacco industry is limited to just 30 pieces (worldwide).
Stands at 9.5″ tall and will be signed and numbered by Ron English
SARAH LUCAS – ORDINARY THINGS
2012-08-20Ordinary Things is a consideration of the ways in which Lucas uses the sculptural languages of the figure and the cast. Made by her own hand, her objects are produced through the languages that surround them, materials that are ready at hand, and sculptural procedures and traditions, taking in cutting, welding, moulding, handling, stuffing, assembling; monumental, ready-made, formal, quick-build, representational and abstract.
Lucas’ sculptures are made of and from the human body – a decaying and sensible object that requires maintenance and care. ‘Au Naturel’ (1994) is a portrait of a couple on a bed, a man represented by a cucumber and a pair of oranges and a woman by a pair of melons and a bucket. Both vulgar compositions are constructed from materials and vernacular slang that are commonplace, their ‘human’ component made from organic matter that needs to be replaced as inevitable decay sets in. In the seven ‘NUDS’ (2009-2010) here on display, limbs can be seen wrapping around each other in knotted couplings and solo acrobatics, the cellulite-marked flesh formed from ‘natural’ tights stuffed with fluff and stiffened by wire, the delicate surface bruised and wrinkled as the bodies perch on their breeze-block supports.
Exhibition runs through to October 21st, 2012
The Henry Moore Foundation
Dane Tree House
Perry Green
Much Hadham
Herts
SG10 6EE
WADE GUYTON – OS
2012-08-20Over the past decade, New York–based artist Wade Guyton (b. 1972) has pioneered a groundbreaking body of work that explores our changing relationships to images and artworks through the use of common digital technologies, such as the desktop computer, scanner, and inkjet printer.Guyton’s purposeful misuse of these tools to make paintings and drawings results in beautiful accidents that relate to daily lives now punctuated by misprinted photos and blurred images on our phone and computer screens. Comprising more than eighty works dating from 1999 to the present, Guyton’s first midcareer survey will feature a dramatic, non-chronological design in which staggered rows of parallel walls will confront the viewer like the layered pages of a book or stacked windows on a monitor. The exhibition will include paintings, drawings, photography, and sculpture, and will conclude with two spectacular new canvases, stretching up to fifty feet in length, which Guyton created specifically for the Whitney’s Marcel Breuer–designed building.
The title, Wade Guyton OS employs the common acronym for a computer’s “operating system,” linking Guyton’s art to the technologies of our time.
Exhibition runs from October 21st to January 13th, 2013
Whitney Museum of American Art
945 Madison Avenue at 75th Street
New York
NY
10021
