Death Grips drop an instrumental album called Fashion Week, a free download on their website.
The titles of each track on Fashion Week is the word “Runway” followed by a single letter. All together, those letters spell out: JENNY DEATH WHEN. (Jenny Death is the second half of their album “the powers that b”)
TweetPJ Harvey has chosen to record her ninth album inside an architectural installation designed by Somerset House-based Something & Son. The structure, a recording studio in the form of an enclosed box, has one-way glazing, displaying PJ Harvey, her band, producers and engineers as a mutating, multi-dimensional sound sculpture.
Visitors experience exactly what is happening at a particular moment in the studio, as Harvey and musicians, together with her longstanding producers Flood and John Parish, go through the creative process of recording an album of songs.
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When the Superstar shoe was first launched by adidas back in 1969, the word ‘Superstar’ was unambiguous. Today, the word has been corrupted to the point of confusion. This year adidas Originals sets out to question what it means to be a superstar, beginning with this film featuring Pharrell Williams, David Beckham, Rita Ora and Damian Lillar
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TweetInspired by Edouard Manet’s late series of flower paintings, Roland Reiss began his new “floral paintings” in 2008 as a meditation on the impact of color on our consciousness. Here, Reiss deploys roses, lilies, and sunflowers as color delivery devices; they float in large-scale compositions layered with collaged stencils and cutouts that reference cityscapes, modernist painting, and forms found in his early sculptural tableaus. The artist recently described this major body of work as an effort to “put everything I have learned about painting into a painting.” This exhibition will include a selection of fifteen paintings from the past six years.
Mr. Reiss will also show five important “Miniatures” from his personal archive, including tableaus from The Dancing Lessons (1977), Gravity Observations (1982), and F/X (1991). These boxed Miniatures are a major legacy of the Southern California conceptual and vanguard art scene; and recently were also the focus of the solo exhibition, Roland Reiss: Personal Politics: Sculpture from the 1970s and 1980s, at the Pasadena Museum of California Art (2011-2012).
Opposite – F/X: In Search Of Truth, 1990
Exhibition runs through to January 17th, 2015
Diane Rosenstein
831 North Highland Avenue
Los Angeles
CA 90038
The long arc of trees hanging over the water seemed to drip and glitter with myriads of prisms, the trunks and branches sheathed by bars of yellow and carmine light that bled away across the surface of the water, as if the whole scene were being reproduced by some over-active technicolor process.
J.G. Ballard, The Crystal World, 1966
The exhibition A Crazed Flowering featuring works from Freya Douglas-Morris, Nicholas Johnson and Lucy Whitford, is inspired by the dystopian vision of J.G. Ballard’s The Crystal World in which a crystalline entity overwhelms a jungle environment transforming it into a dazzling, bejewelled mass. The characters of the novel are inexplicably drawn towards its dark and elaborate beauty, journeying further inside the crystalline forest and eventually yielding to its irresistible force. The apocalyptic phenomenon is a prismatic growth, an unstoppable menacing transformation with the capacity to suspend time as well as life.
A shimmering organic overabundance runs through all three of these artists’ work. Flower painting is an anachronistic genre, as far as the main events of the history of art are concerned. These artists grasp this historical model—associated with frivolous aesthetics and notions of decay—and draw out its contemporary relevance. Through their work the floral motif has become elusive and fragmented, associated with ominous visions of degeneration.
Opposite – Nicholas Johnson, A Stop at Magnon Point, 2014
Exhibition runs through to January 24th, 2015
Frameless Gallery
20 Clerkenwell Green
London
EC1R 0DP
There is a speaker in a rotating barrel whose grilles are plugged with cumin.
There is one box that rattles, one that taps, and a third that is quiet.
There are fly tapes and glue traps.
There is tuning fork three ways, elongated, blackened and quartz.
There is a pickled ghost text measured to fit the length of an office.
There is an ignorant system of amber hung at equidistant points.
There is recycled clock glass held in lead channels.
There are cages and ball bearing games and resonator boxes.
There is data and some of its potential derivatives.
Opposite – Untitled, 2014
Exhibition runs through to February 10th, 2015
M+B
612 North Almont Drive
Los Angeles
California 90069
