Art and Music
HOLY SHIT: The Art of Alan Suicide Vega
“My sculpture is an example of Punk visually, a not-give-a-shit attitude about just piling up a load of garbage and proving it could look good too… I found TVs in the street… I would go into these light stores and shove lights into my pockets… occasionally I throw in radios… four or five radios playing different stations… People won’t get close to the sculpture… there are lots of broken wires, smashed bulbs, chains, broken glass, and other kinds of things that just threaten people” - Alan Vega. Primarily known as co-founder with Martin Rev of the legendary NYC duo Suicide, Alan Vega (aka Alan Bermowitz) began his prolific career as a visual artist. Read the rest of this entry »
TRUE AS FILMS: An Interview with Cosimo Terlizzi
Photographer, visual artist, filmmaker and sculptor, Cosimo Terlizzi is an eclectic and versatile artist who, despite his age, has already gained a strong artistic identity and an international success. His works have been exhibited in lots of museums and galleries in Italy and in Europe, such as the MACRO in Rome, the Gallery of Modern Art of Bologna, Galleria Civica d’Arte Contemporanea of Trento, the Merz Foundation in Turin or the National Museum of Wroclaw in Poland and his films have been screened in different film festivals, such as the International Film Festival of Rome, the Milano Film Festival the London International Documentary Festival, Prix International du Documentaire et du Reportage Méditerranéen of Marseille and France Doc in Paris. He’s represented in Italy by Traffic Gallery in Bergamo.
We reached him between a trip and another for festivals and this is the interview that encloses the pleasant chat with him about his work, his poetry and his background. Read the rest of this entry »
Coyotes in My Backyard: TRAVIS MILLARD
Founder of the Fudge Factory Comics publishing company in 1997, Los Angeles-based artist Travis Millard marvellously combines social and political irony with absurdity in his theatrical yet overtly bizarre and hilarious pen and ink drawings on paper. Primarily influenced by skateboarding graphics, horror movies, punk rock and comics, Travis Millard has always been exploring and experimenting with new ideas, mediums and techniques as a means to convey humour and to provide for a low-key satire built around a series of open-ended sketches on common things. Read the rest of this entry »
The Kills: Dream & Drive by Kenneth Cappello
In celebration of the band’s tenth year anniversary, The Kills’ Alison Mosshart and Jamie Hince have just released a special luxury photography book, entitled Dream & Drive, which documents over nine years of the band’s career. It includes an intimate collection of rare and never-before-seen photographs of the band taken over the course of the last decade by their friend, renowned photographer and long-time collaborator Kenneth Cappello. This unique book features photographs ranging from reportage and behind the scenes to press and live shots sourced from over 20,000 photographs of the band and 600 rolls of film. Read the rest of this entry »
ADAM GREEN: Houseface
American musician and artist Adam Green recently opened a new solo show at The Hole in New York City. Entitled Houseface, the exhibition consists of a series of paintings and sculptures and introduces a continuous loop screening of his feature-length film The Wrong Ferrari. Read the rest of this entry »
The Alchemy of Love and Fire: NEIL KRUG
Self-annihilating ennui, protest, the feeling of total freedom that brings us closer to the final redemption. It could be a scene from the late 60′s dramas about teenage idealism or disillusionment . A stirring yet static suspension from the glimmering surface of the world we live in. It is precisely this loose allegory about the quest for spiritual enlightenment through the aesthetics of the visionary and psychedelic experience that American artist Neil Krug employs in his playful and sophisticated photography and filmmaking. Read the rest of this entry »
This Is The One: DENNIS MORRIS and THE STONE ROSES
St. Andrews, Scotland. Summer 1990. A tiny independent record shop. A Jackson Pollock-style record cover as the only object in its even tinier window, as if to say “this is the only record you need right now; this is the one”. To a teenager’s ears, to any teenager’s ears, there was no need for words. Read the rest of this entry »
The Vision of a Dum Dum Girl: MALIA JAMES
François Truffaut once wrote, “The film of tomorrow appears to me as even more personal than an individual and autobiographical novel, like a confession, or a diary. The young filmmakers will express themselves in the first person and will relate what has happened to them. It may be the story of their first love or their most recent; of their political awakening; the story of a trip, a sickness, their military service, their marriage, their last vacation…and it will be enjoyable because it will be true, and new […] The film of tomorrow will be an act of love.” No art form captures the fragility and authenticity of life quite like photography and filmmaking and Malia James’ work can be seen as an unpretentious celebration of the fullness of love in its most universal form. Read the rest of this entry »
WHO SHOT ROCK & ROLL: A Photographic History
Originally shown and created by the Brooklyn Museum with Gail Buckland, Who Shot Rock & Roll: A Photographic History, 1955 to the Present is a major group exhibition exclusively devoted to rock photographers. The summer show includes 166 prints by over 100 iconic photographers and features an original documentary film produced exclusively for the Annenberg Space for Photography. Read the rest of this entry »
Cross Paths: AIDAN BAKER and MATT SMITH
As one of the most intriguing contemporary composers, Toronto-born and Berlin-based Aidan Baker’s path could be summed up as perpetually challenging; whether releasing under his own name, or under the moniker Nadja (which started as a solo project and later evolved into a duo with bassist Leah Buckareff), each record can be treasured not just for its own value but as part of a bigger quest for sound sculpting and, ultimately, for approaching the very idea of music. Read the rest of this entry »
The Future Is Bright: THE FRESH & ONLYS 
Better Than Something: Interview with Ian Markiewicz and Alex Hammond 
Filming The Music: AG ROJAS 
The Alchemy of Love and Fire: NEIL KRUG 
Drenched in The Rain of Dreams: Dimitri Drjuchin 
I CAN SEE FOR MILES: The Art of Jacob Escobedo 