Big Boi confesses what “Mama Told Me” in his slick new video. He rests upon a colorfully accentuated throne, smooth-talking to duet partner Kelly Rowland
Big Boi’s next album, Vicious Lies and Dangerous Rumors, will be released on December 11th.
TweetThe animated video for the Sea and Cake’s “On and On”, from their latest album, Runner, is a deceptively simple thing. Video and Sand animation by Naomi Nagata.
TweetVideo for the brand new single by Deerhoof, directed by Richard Huntington Swanson, off their album ‘Breakup Song’.
Single out via ATP Recordings on December 3rd, 2012.
Legendary Skate publication, Thrasher Magazine joined forces with BLK LTD to release a branded ring. Available in three sizes, the ring boasts Thrasher‘s iconic Skategoat logo and was constructed by hand in the United States from nickel clad.
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Domingo Milella’s subjects are cities and their borders, cemeteries and villages, caves and homes, tombs and hieroglyphs – in short, signs of man’s presence on earth. His interest lies in the overlap between civilisation and nature and how landscape and architecture are invested with individual and collective memory. He is drawn to places where the cultural and the natural meet, where architecture grows out of the earth and is born of necessity, mirroring its makers and inhabitants.
Polignano a Mare (2008) shows fortifications and housing built on top of a rocky outcrop, appearing almost as if they have grown organically out of the land. In Cheops and Chephren, Giza, Egypt (2009), the Pyramids rise up from behind modern apartment blocks on the edge of the desert and in Acitrezza (2008), teenagers perch high up on the distinctive lava rocks watching a wintery sunset. Milella seeks to create an alternative imagery, of looking for a sense of identity and a culture that is simultaneously ancient and modern. In an increasingly virtual age where communities are being eroded by technological interaction and the pressures of consumerism, his images question where we headed and what kind of world are we creating in the process.
Opposite – Naucalpan, Mexico City, 2004
Exhibition runs through till January 26th, 2013
Brancolini Grimaldi
43–44 Albemarle Street
London
W1S 4JJ
For the exhibition Moments of Clarity Kiki Smith has created a group of new works of art that examine the issue of sources and communication of artistic inspiration. The American artist, who has been regarded as one of the great contemporary artists since the late 1980s, examines the theme from all sides in the wide variety of media characteristic of her.
Ideas are often as stubborn as shy animals. They retreat when you reach for them, won’t come when you call, and refuse to be lured at all. But at some point, without your having done anything, they are abruptly there, calm and quiet, yet suddenly clear and sharp. Smith has already explored the essential experience of such moments of clarity in earlier works under a decidedly feminine perspective. In Smith’s Munich show, this image recurs in a more universal form. Here, light serves as a metaphor for illumination, enlightenment, the breath of life per se.
One of the show’s recurrent motifs, which succinctly sums up the notion of the happy idea, is the light bulb, for Smith is fascinated by its archaic, simple, energetic, yet simultaneously fragile form. The rows of girls and women lined up beneath the rays of paper lanterns in Assembly have the facial features of the artist’s friends and assistants. They tell us that the artistic idea is not simply a gift of some sort, but has to be worked for by co-existing with one another in society. This also includes the possibility of failure, for which Smith has invented a concentrated image – that of the broken Lightbulbs made of blindingly white porcelain and manufactured at the Nymphenburg porcelain factory.
Opposite – Visitor, 2012
Exhibition runs through to January 12th, 2013
Barbara Gross Galerie
Theresienstr. 56, Hof 1
80333 Munich
Germany
