George Condo for Kanye... again

Damien Hirst

TATE MODERN

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Right now we're in Australia, but can't wait to visit this Exhibition when back in London. If you're there, make sure you visit the Tate Modern.

Opening Times:

4 April – 9 September 2012

£14 - Concessions available

Open late Friday – Sunday until 22.00

Juliet's COVEN mag

Action and adventure meet style and culture

Ever-amazing Juliet has begun her own mag, covering the international women of the world.

Issue 001 sees Sanna Charles, Jenny Jones, Krystle Wright, Roisin Dunne amongst many more others.

Issue #1 launches April 12, at Red Bull Studios, London

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Anton Zolotov Solo Exhibition

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Hannah Barry Gallery - Peckham location

Opening Reception Friday March 30th - 6.30 - 9pm

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A chronicler of contemporary American experience, Anton Zolotov’s latest paintings are provocative and lyrical collisions of images, objects, forms and ideas. 

Zolotov is a Russian-American artist living in New York, and his work condenses the familiar tumult of city lifeinto stable, austere geometrical figures.

The integration of found and trash objects allied to the appropriation of abstract, ideal forms challenges the artificial separation of art from life. Equal inspiration is here taken from the formal innovations of early modernism and the aesthetics of throwaway consumerism. The effect is a precarious balance, a seductive combination of the ideal and the mundane thatreflects our own impure experience of the world.Several of the assemblage paintings have the flavour of a palimpsest, with the detritus of post-industrial urban existence simultaneously obscured and preserved by the paint that glues it to the canvas. The ephemeral is thus conserved in paint, a neat twist on the painter’sconventional efforts to immortalise.The artist has expressed his determination to be “an idealist and a storyteller at the sametime”, and these works reflect the complexity of his, and our own, experience of the world around us.

-Press Release Hannah Barry Gallery

Exhibition continues through March 31 - May 12 2012

For more :

Hannah Barry Gallery - Peckham

Unit 9i

Copeland Road Industrial Estate 

133 Copeland Road 

SE15 3SN

+44 (0)20 7635 0464

Thomas Demand

The Dailies

23 March - 22 April

In the incredible mushroom-shaped sculpture of a building, known as the Commercial Travellers' Association Club, you'll find Berlin-based artist Thomas Demand's latest project for the 25th Kaldor Public Art Program.

Perhaps one of the most intriguingly simplistic yet notable works in Australia currently.

Go all x

Thomas Demand, Daily #12, 2009, Dye Transfer Print

79.9 x 80.2cm (framed) copyright Thomas Demand, VG Bild-kunst,

Bonn/ Viscopy, Sydney, courtesy Sprueth Magers Berlin London

Wil Polson

What the Thunder Said

Conor Harrington

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Conor's new body of work is now on display at Lazarides Gallery, London.

In addition, he is also gracing the latest cover of VNA Magazine - which saw it launch Issue 18 last Thursday.

Pick up a copy of VNA and head down to Lazarides to see the work which is breathtaking in the flesh.

His first solo art exhibition in NY since 1989...

David Lynch

March 6 - April 14, 2012

Tilton Gallery

8 East 76 Street

New York 10021

IVORY AND BLACK GALLERY

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The new gallery in - Berwick St, Soho, London - launching with it's first exhibition. 


With a bill of solid artists, we except big things from I&B. We can't wait to see the premises..

C H A M P i s s u e # 4

B E H I N D T H E S C E N E S

Each person we interview is extremely knowledgeable and humble in their profession, an absolute pleasure to meet and showcase their work for you.

A few snaps that weren't featured, include Bless, Dan Attoe, Lucas Grogan & Hitomi Thompson.

Champ x

Mira Schröder at BLESS | Issue #4 | Berlin | 2011

Hitomi Thompson epicly going From Tokyo to Warsaw | Issue #4 | Madrid | 2011

Dan Attoe at Peres Projects | Issue #4 | Berlin | 2011

Lucas Grogan in PAGEANT and Pointer, at Pierre & Charlotte | Issue #4 | Melbourne | 2011

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      Milkmade       

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We are pleased to announce that Champ is now being stocked in Venice Beach, California at store Milkmade.

Their brand list is more than impressive. Stocking the likes of Aesop, Bedwin and the Heartbreakers, Common Projects and WoodWood - we feel like we fit right in.

They describe their store as ''thoughtfully edited'' and we agree. 

It's easy to shop online at Milkmade (their website is painstakingly effective, simple and easy to use, whilst being aesthetically pleasing), but why not visit them?

MILKMADE S.S.

                                                                                        1413 Abbot Kinney Blvd. 

     Venice, CA 90291-3740

Phone: +1 310 581 8890

ELAD LASSRY PERFORMANCE AND EXHIBITION

AT DAVID KORDANSKY GALLERY

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Elad Lassry

March 23 –– May 26, 2012

Opening reception: Friday, March 23, 6:00––9:00pm

Elad Lassry: Untitled (Presence 2005)

A performance work featuring members of the New York City Ballet

March 2, 2012

Hayworth Theatre, Los Angeles

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David Kordansky Gallery is very pleased to announce its second exhibition of new work by Elad Lassry, opening March 23 and open through May 26, 2012.  The show will reflect an expansive sense of the picture as an ontological category, one in which a viewer's customary associations with familiar forms are exposed to physical and perceptual paradoxes. Associated with this exhibition, Elad Lassry will premiere a performance work featuring members of the New York City Ballet, Untitled (Presence 2005), on March 2, 2012 at the Hayworth Theatre in Los Angeles.

 Lassry has increasingly looked to diverse media––including drawing, sculpture, and performance––to test current possibilities for engagement with pictures.  In each case, the ability to recognize a given subject presents itself as a faculty on the verge of failure, a dissonant constellation of formal characteristics and competing cultural histories.  By incorporating objects and immersive situations into his practice, Lassry blurs the boundary between the tangible and cognitive experiences of a picture.  As such, his work is indicative of the way in which the virtual defines contemporary culture, not merely on a technological level, but as an embodied mode of perception.   

REMINDER

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Wapping Project Bankside Gallery

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Paolo Roversi Exhibition  \

/ Feb - 31st March

E1

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Carhartt - Work In Progress announce their 4th UK store opening on London’s Shoreditch High Street on Friday 2nd March 2012

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To celebrate the opening of their new Shoreditch store, Carhartt have teamed up with Japanese brand Neighborhood.

This first time collaboration set consists of a limited edition T-shirt and an umbrella manufactured by London Undercover and only in the black and white colour way.

Available from March 1st exclusively in the Shoreditch, NYC, Sydney Carhartt stores and at EXIT. – Hong Kong.

E1 from Carhartt UK on Vimeo.

Shawn Stussy 

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 S/Double

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Shawn Stussy at his Studio from Seth Epstein on Vimeo.

Yay!

Having accidentally locked myself out of my blog (don't ask) I have FINALLY managed to reactivate it.  Phew! Not easy when Google sends you round in ever decreasing circles without letting you reset the password.  Soooo my friends, watch this space because lots has been happening in the silence.

agIdeas 2012

21-25 May

TICKETS NOW ON SALE!

agIdeas International Design Week is one of the largest and most prestigious design festivals in the world.

Over 40 speakers from a range of disciplines are invited to speak to an audience of over 10,000.

In addition, throughout the festival there are also accompanying exhibitions and workshops.

One not to miss, get on board.

The above below is courtesy of Sydney-based photographer Carine Thevenau. One of the brilliant speakers at this years agIdeas.

Visit main man Joe at:

Motto x Neon Parc

Melbourne

February 18 to 26

6 Duckett Street, Brunswick

12 - 7pm daily.

[wonderful image via Broadsheet]

David LaChapelle

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Earth Laughs in Flowers

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Exhibiting his new body of works, we are loving it...

London

Dates: 14 February – 24 March 2012 

Reception for the Artist – Monday 13 February 

Public Lecture by the Artist – Tuesday 14 February 

Location: ROBILANT+VOENA Gallery, 38 Dover Street, London W1S 4NL

Open: Mon – Fri 10am – 6pm, Saturdays 11am-5pm

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Tonight!

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ABOUT

Kensei Yabuno was born in Hokkaido, Japan 1975, studied Fine Art at Camberwell College of Art from 1996 to 1998 and is presently residing in Tokyo

Exhibitions of his collections at Spitz Gallery - London, New Image Art Gallery - L.A. and Beams Gallery, Limart, and The Last Gallery – Tokyo, have introduced Kensei to the international artist stage.

Illustrations and supplying the cover artwork for Beck, won Kensei the coveted 2007 ‘Yellow Pencils’ D & AD Prize and the D & AD Awards for Big Active Agency, thus also allowing Crue-l Records the position to also boast the use of his artwork.

Collections of Kensei’s artwork have been displayed and sold at Isetan department store and Beams in Tokyo as well as Colette in Paris.

Collaborations have included the Comme des Garçons 2011 Women’s Spring/Summer collection, Porter by Yoshida & Co and Medicom Toy.

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Jethro Haynes

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London-based sculptor, illustrator, designer and all round good guy, Jethro Haynes, is at it again. His new works are exhibited at Wayward Gallery. 
Wayward have recently renovated and extended their gallery and it's quite a space now. 


Our favourite gallery + + +  one of our favourites.
Don't miss this one....

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Kingdom of Kicks

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Exciting new works from the Hackney Wick collective.


Loving the music and great edit by Alex Berry at Ladoja and Sons.











Kingdom Of Kicks from Ladoja & Sons on Vimeo.

Jonathan Zawada

'Kindred Spirits'

30 January - 25 February

Galerie | Colette, Paris

american photographer irving penn and japanese fashion designer issey miyake had a deep creative understanding of each other's work.

the result of the cross-cultural collaboration is showcased in 'irving penn and issey miyake: visual dialogue',

an exhibit at 21_21 design sight tokyo.

until 10 April, 2012

Sticky Annual Zine Fair,

Melbourne

Rob Cordiner & Joe Miranda

reppin'

Hard Workers Club

Smalltime Books

Parts & Crafts

Motto X Neon Parc

Melbourne

FRENCH

"Oath of Armageddon"

M U S T S E E

Backwoods Gallery

25 Easey Street

Collingwood 3066

John Waters

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Is the man

Role Models available at DSM

Paolo Roversi 

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The Wapping Project Bankside

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Collaborating with Comme des Garcons and Yohji Yamamoto, Roversi is one of the most esteemed fashion photographers to this day. 

His images are both breath-taking and bewildering. Capturing the most beautiful women amongst a grey backdrop, the images really have a French feel which perhaps is not the intention, but what attracts us to them.

 It is Roversi's first solo exhibition at The Wapping Project Bankside, and it is able to be viewed until the 31st March.

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The Opening Reception was held on the night of the 2nd. 

The crowd attractive, the champagne aplenty - the afternoon was a positive and successful start to an important show.

All images thanks to Petra Valenti

The Wapping Project Bankside is a gallery focusing on lens–based media founded by the Director of The

Wapping Project, Jules Wright. 

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Artists represented include Elina Brotherus, Susan Meiselas, Lillian Bassman,

Deborah Turbeville, Annabel Elgar, Peter Marlow, Edgar Martins, Stephen J. Morgan, Paolo Roversi and

Jeffrey Stockbridge.www.thewappingprojectbankside.com