Rob Pruitt has worked for 2 years and the result is for just one more day to be seen on 8200 square feet (760 square metres sounds too little) at Gavin Brown’s enterprise and Maccarone NYC. His exhibition Pattern and Degradation takes inspiration from the Amish tradition of Rumspringa, a Pennsylvania German term that directly translates to “running around.” During the Rumspringa, Amish adolescents
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Nick Knight doesn’t really need a big introduction. If you are not a regular reader of Vogue (latest Lady Gaga photo shoots), W Magazine, Dazed & Confused and earlier i-D, you may know him from the ad campaigns for Christian Dior, Alexander McQueen, Calvin Klein, Levi Strauss, Yohji Yamamoto and Yves Saint Laurent. As a fashion photographer, Nick Knight has consistently
Read MoreAsher Levine is realistic about summer – it may be the brightest season, but it doesn’t mean it saves us from all the darkness there is. Or in other words – he creates the perfect mix of clothes for the warmer months for Berlin – where we get maximum of 30 sunny days a year. Dark and twisted cloaks and
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Have you ever dated a deaf or numb boy? I tried once and I guess my attempt was unsuccessful because of my poor sign language knowledge. This GIF breaks it down to the essentials. Now I know what a boy wants. Even in sign language. Thanks to @P4ULCHEN for the link by electru who claims not to be queer but
Read MoreSlava Mogutin is in town. OK, almost. He is here as part of the Streeple show that opened last Friday in Berlin’s Kunstraum Richard Sorge. The opening was amazing and featured also artists J.Jackie Baier, Alex Da Corte, Ari Versluis & Ellie Uyttenbroek / Exactitudes, Versus Collective (Gihan Tubbeh, Musuk Nolte, Renzo Giraldo). “When you think we’re lost, we’re exploring,
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Let’s get political, shall we? I usually avoid to get involved with political issues, because I’ve made bad experience with that in Bulgaria while I was an editor for a radio show. Anyway, this issue keeps bugging me – so I thought it’s time to say something about it. Prop 8 is H8. And the video those guys did is just
Read More40, cleans houses and washes dishes in diners to get by media: painting, clothing Scooter wanted to become a dancer or a fashion designer. Those were his childhood dreams which got very quickly shut down by his parents. They were very strict and wanted him to be nothing else but a book keeper: “My dad wanted me to go into
Read More31, wasn’t asked if he wanted to live in the U.S, he was brought there media: drawing, painting, music, performance Gio Black Peter (Giovani Paolo Andrade Guevara) was born in Guatemala and emigrated illegally to the United States with his family at the age of five. The name Black Peter is taken from the folkloric elf who delivers “bad” presents
Read Morehelps save the world and improve all of our lives media: photography, text, performance If you ask Gerry what she’s doing, you better get ready for a pretty long answer. A writer, performer, photographer, fashionista, and radio show host on WKCR FM, she regularly covers parties, art events, and the arts for New York Press in a weekly column and
Read More27, wants to have a third eye, an extra arm and an extra pineal gland media: multimedia, focus: illustration and music Brian Kenny was born 1982 in Heidelburg, Germany, on an American military base. While growing up he traveled extensively throughout the US with his Army family. As a teenager, Brian was a competitive gymnast. After high school, he went
Read MoreTim Hetherington was born in Liverpool, UK. He studied literature at Oxford University and later returned to college to study photojournalism. He is based in New York and is a contributing photographer for Vanity Fair magazine. His interest lies in creating diverse forms of visual communication and his work has ranged from digital projections at the Institute of Contemporary Art in London, to fly-poster exhibitions
Read MoreRaquel Nave is a ruthless photographer and explorer of American fuck-ups. Her artwork contains polaroids of landscapes, still lifes, nudes, Nave, her family, and her companions. The snapshots represent the identity exploration of a young woman and the journey of an artist working in her style and medium. Stances and expressions in Nave’s photographs reveal her unique personal narratives. Used alternately, they suggest the subsuming
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