On the heels of their collaboration with Crooks & Castles comes this rad capsule with Blind. Consisting of a facemask, glove, and jacket in two colourways rust and grey, with all over print artwork from OG Blind artist Marc McKee.
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Italian brand Prada celebrated this season with a series of diverse interventions featuring the work of renowned fashion illustrator, Richard Haines. The project combines hand-made artistry and cutting edge technology. The 6 different motives on t-shirts will be available exclusively at Prada stores in Milano, New York, London, Paris, Hong Kong and Tokyo.
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The exhibition explores early photography from the mid-19th century and the most exciting contemporary photographs, alongside historical painting. It takes a provocative look at how photographers use fine art traditions, including Old Master painting, to explore and justify the possibilities of their art.
Work by leading photographers such as Martin Parr, Craigie Horsfield, Sam Taylor-Wood, Richard Billingham, Julia Margaret Cameron and Gustave Le Gray will be on display beside key paintings from the National Gallery collection.
Exhibition runs through till January 20th, 2013
The National Gallery
Trafalgar Square
London
WC2N 5DN
With explanatory text by the photographer, A Permanent Record features over 160 black and white photographs of Joe Strummer, legendary Clash frontman, as well as unpublished images of seminal all-girl punk band The Slits.
Yewdall first met Strummer in 1974 when the then John ‘Woody’ Mellor moved into the squat at 101 Walterton Road in London’s Maida Hill. Yewdall sang and played harmonica in an early line-up in The 101’ers, then briefly managed the band before abandoning the musical for the visual by picking up a camera. These intimate pictures are direct from the heart of the West London squatting movement of the early seventies, that exceptional period when access to abandoned properties provided opportunities for artists to develop their craft without the constraints of financial imperatives. The pictures include posed portraits as well as informal reportage taken when stardom was only a glimmer in the eye of this inimitable artist. The images of Strummer date back to his earliest days when he was a singer with The101’ers, the quintessential squat-rock group in which he learned his musical and political ‘chops’.
In Yewdall’s live pictures of the hirsute guitar-player you can see the frenetic movement and stage presence that he honed to perfection as frontman of the Clash, today considered one of the greatest bands of all time.
Exhibition runs through till December 22nd, 2013
Subway Gallery
Kiosk 1
Joe Strummer Subway
Edgware Rd / Harrow Rd
London
W2 1DX
Coated in white marble dust and set against the void of the photographer’s studio, the subjects of Nadav Kander’s BODIES. 6 Women, 1 Man serve as monumental studies of the human condition.
Far from the airbrushed perfection that permeates images of nudity in popular culture, Nadav Kander presents us with honest photographs of the human form. The ‘bodies’ featured reference the forms of the classical and renaissance past, whilst modernising the genre of the nude to act as a tool for philosophical investigation. Faces turned from the viewer, but bodies offered completely, the forms invite the meditation and self-reflection customarily associated with religious iconography and tomb sculpture. Kander has cited Elizabethan notions of purity as an influence for his bleached treatment of the auburn haired bodies.
The subjects are placed awkwardly, contorted and twisted or bowed reverently. In Audrey with Toes and Wrist Bent (2011) the form reclines, her toes and fingers curled uncomfortably from limbs. Flaws laid bare, the figure is exposed and vulnerable to our gaze. It is this sense of vulnerability, and of humanity stripped of its defences that Kander investigates as a point of beauty.
Exhibition runs from January 11th to February 9th, 2013
Flowers Gallery
21 Cork Street
London
W1 3LZ
In an innocent heartland city, five are shot dead by an expert sniper. The police quickly identify and arrest the culprit, and build a slam-dunk case. But the accused man claims he’s innocent and says “Get Jack Reacher.” Reacher himself sees the news report and turns up in the city. The defense is immensely relieved, but Reacher has come to bury the guy. Shocked at the accused’s request, Reacher sets out to confirm for himself the absolute certainty of the man’s guilt, but comes up with more than he bargained for.
In theaters December 26th, 2012
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