AVER (The Natural Curriculum) makes his Village Live return with his brand new album ‘Dressed For CCTV’. To kick off the album the official video for the track ‘Something For Nothing’ features Nottingham’s finest Cappo on vocal duties
TweetAdidas Skateboarding has partnered with MTV to release a limited-edition collection featuring Beavis and Butt-Head.
Playing on a theme of the pair’s hustle at Burger World, the adidas x Beavis and Butt-head footwear and apparel collections are inspired by a day’s work at the burger joint. The collection also has a lively rendition of the recently released 3MC sneaker designed in an all-over Beavis and Butt-Head graphic canvas upper with adidas branding in red.
The adidas x Beavis and Butt-Head also includes apparel that has Burger World graphics and the faces of Beavis and Butt-Head plastered across a fleece-blend pullover hoodie, lightweight jacket, sporty two-button polo and two ribbed-neck cotton t-shirts.
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Peter Jackson, best known for directing The Lord of the Rings trilogy, has created a new film using original footage from Imperial War Museums’ extensive archive, much of it previously unseen, alongside BBC and IWM interviews with servicemen who fought in the conflict.
Footage has been colourised, converted to 3D and transformed with modern production techniques to present never before seen detail.
In theatres November 9th, 2018
TweetThe exhibition presents McKenna’s most recent work Generation alongside work from two of her previous series Automatic Earth and Web Studies. With each series, McKenna uses the photogram process innovatively to create unique gelatin silver prints that contain both vivid detail and ethereal abstraction. She pays homage to her subject’s histories while re-animating them through her engagement, revealing nuance, depth and energy.
Unlike a photograph created with a camera, a photogram is a one-of-a-kind object that involves physical contact between a subject and the light sensitive printing surface, representing the mark of that interaction. McKenna emphasizes the physicality of this process and builds on it by forcing the paper to record texture as well as light. Working in near darkness she applies pressure on her subjects to physically imprint their texture into the photographic paper and then selectively exposes the paper to light creating what the artist calls “photographic reliefs.”
Opposite – Snakes in the Garden (1), 2018
Exhibition runs through to November 10th, 2018
Gitterman Gallery
41 East 57th Street
New York
10022 NY
The Coca-Cola Girls were an integral component of the company’s advertising from the 1890’s through to the 1960’s, emanating an ideal of the American woman. Initially, the Coca-Cola Girls were reserved and demure, evolving during WWI, and through the era of the pin-up, to images of empowered service women in uniform, and athletic, care-free, women at leisure. In the context of pre-televised advertising, the wall decals and large-scale billboards depicting these figures made a significant impact on the visual language of the American urban landscape.
For Katz, this optimistic figure also encapsulates a valuable notion of nostalgia; “That’s Coca-Cola red, from the company’s outdoor signs in the fifties… you know, the blond girl in the red convertible, laughing with unlimited happiness. It’s a romance image, and for me it has to do with Rembrandt’s ‘The Polish Rider.’ I could never understand that painting but my mother and Frank O’Hara both flipped over it, so I realized I was missing something. They saw it as a romantic figure, riding from the Black Sea to the Baltic.”
Opposite – Coca-Cola Girl 19, 2018
Exhibition runs through to December 21st, 2018
Timothy Taylor
15 Carlos Place
Mayfair
London
W1K 2EX
Ron English is a contemporary pop artist who explores popular brand imagery and advertising. One aspect of his work involves ‘liberating’ commercial billboards with his own messages. Ron English can be considered the “celebrated prankster father of agit-pop”, who wrangles carefully created corporate iconographies so that they are turned upside down, and are used against the very corporation they are meant to represent. He takes inspiration from Andy Warhol and references him in his work. His many influences include Andy Warhol, KISS and various cartoons.
Opposite – “Melting Mona in Grin Bubbles” 2018
Exhibition runs through to November 18th, 2018
Galerie Matthew Namour
217 Boulevard Saint Laurent
Montréal (Québec)
H2Y 3T9
