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PUNK: Chaos to Couture
Zandra Rhodes, 1977 Photograph by Clive Arrowsmith for Zandra Rhodes Archive
John Lydon, 1976 Photograph by Ray Stevenson/Rex USA
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PUNK: Chaos to Couture exhibition will be on view from May 9 through August 11, 2013 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Costume Institute will examine punk’s impact from the 1970s to its continuing influence on high fashion now.
The exhibition will feature approximately one hundred designs for men and women. Original punk garments from the mid-1970s will be juxtaposed with recent fashion to show how haute couture and ready-to-wear borrow punk’s symbols, with the traditional paillettes being replaced with safety pins, feathers with razor blades, and bugle beads with studs. Punk’s “do-it-yourself” concepts will be contrasted with couture’s “made-to-measure” mindset. Visitors will see the materials and techniques of PUNK in an immersive multimedia gallery experience where the clothes will be animated with music videos and soundscaping.~metmuseum
~images Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art
A STRANGE MAGIC : : GUSTAVE MOREAU’S SALOME
Salome Dancing before Herod ( detail ) , 1874-76
On view now til December 9, 2012, the Hammer Museum presents an exhibition devoted to Gustave Moreau’s Salome Dancing before Herod, one of the most remarkable and best-known paintings in the museum’s collection. This exhibition includes approximately 50 works—including related paintings, drawings, and preparatory studies—drawn entirely from the collection of the Gustave Moreau Museum in Paris. Many of the works have never before been seen in the United States, and the Hammer will be the sole American venue.
I got a glimpse of Gustave Moreau’s work at the Hammer when I was actually there to see the last day of Made In La exhibit. Moreau’s work is truly incredible and must be seen in person. I urge you to go.
RED
Jonathan Groff, left, and Alfred Molina star “Red.” (Gina Ferazzi, Los Angeles Times / August 14, 2012)
I got our tix and I’m so excited to see RED, the Tony Award winning play about the fury of Mark Rothko.
In a review of the play by Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times Theater Critic:
Consider the play’s title, a primary color symbolizing to Rothko a stand against encroaching blackness and hence a source of vitality but also serving as a vivid reminder of blood and human vulnerability. These dimensions of life and death are as entwined as art and money, order and chaos (another prevailing theme) and, of course, the emotional needs of fathers and sons.
“Red” invites us to ponder these shifting relationships with the same open-minded engagement that Rothko’s pulsating masterpieces expect and deserve.
The play runs until Sept. 9th at the Mark Taper Forum. Here and Here for more info.
ATOMIC SUMMER
Atomic Summer is CURIO Studio & Collection’s newest exhibition, inspired by the hot summer nights of retro California. For this exhibition, the gallery will be transformed to showcase a unique and historically significant collection of Mid-Century Modern furniture, décor and original art, guest curated by Brandon Vega, an enigmatic, young collector-on-the-rise, based in San Diego, CA. Hosted by CURIO Studio & Collection, Anne Faith Nicholls, Hpnotiq Vodka & Prometheus Springs, art & design lovers are welcome to lounge, sip an “Atomic Cocktail”, and purchase these unique pieces at the exhibition’s public opening Saturday August 4th, 2012, 7-11pm. Atomic Summer is a special, limited time engagement, on display through August 25th, 2012.
CURIO Studio & Collection is located at 324 Sunset Ave. in Venice, CA.
More info. here.
Donnie Molls : DISPOSABLE CULTURE
Piston 1, 2012
Edward Cella Art + Architecture is pleased to present Disposable Culture, the first solo exhibition at the gallery for Los Angeles based artist Donnie Molls. The exhibition features the newest suite of mixed media paintings and objects by Molls which invoke the indelible hold of the automobile on the recesses of the North American psyche. Even after we discard them for scrap and recycling, our cars remain loaded with narrative, suggestion, and spectral traces of identity. Building on his fascination with objects and places that are overlooked or abandoned, and yet charged with the transient presence of absentia, Molls transforms the gallery space into a modern day memento mori with images of wrecking yards, tire piles, and car part graveyards. Our cars become a significant emblem of our consumption, our waste, our mutable identities, our optimism, and ultimately of our own impermanence. An apt signifier for the dystopian facets of the American Dream, and the ravages and remnants of its consumptive appetites and excesses, the wrecked car is a heavy ghost in the American landscape. ~via Edward Cella
You might remember the post I did on Donnie last year. He’s my friend and neighbor. Excited to see this show! Opens tonight.
dwell on Design 2012
LOS ANGELES, CA (March 13, 2012) – Dwell on Design, the
West Coast’s largest Design Show, returns to the Los Angeles Convention Center
June 22-24, 2012. Curated by the editors of Dwell Magazine the three-day celebration brings together the best and brightest products, services, and thought leaders in modern design today for a series of conversations, demonstrations, tours, and much more. In addition to featuring over 350 exhibitors on the show floor, Dwell on Design encourages an ongoing design dialogue, showcasing over 70 presentations on three separate stages. This year, the show goes beyond the urban dwelling to encompass all aspects of the modern lifestyle, seeking out a new definition for modern beyond expectations.
I will be attending on Friday. If you see me, please be sure to say Hi!
JUBILEE, 2012 : : Sixty Punk Singles
Toby Mott has teamed up with The Vinyl Factory in London for a genre-defining exhibition* of 45s covers, posters and other PUNK paraphernalia from and around 1977 with an accompanying limited edition book, Jubilee 2012: SIXTY PUNK SINGLES.
On view now at at The Vinyl Factory in Chelsea, London.
Read more about the exhibition here on high50 and the Mott Collection here.
*high50
REBEL
James Franco’s REBEL for MOCA brings together a high-concept group exhibition “that is a loose, interpretive ode to the 1955 James Dean film “Rebel Without a Cause.” with paintings, sculpture and multimedia works by Ed Ruscha, Harmony Korine, Paul McCarthy, Damon McCarthy, Douglas Gordon, Terry Richardson, Aaron Young and even Franco.
“Rebel” will be held off-site at JF Chen’s 20,000 sq. ft. exhibition space on Highland Avenue.
More information here and here.
~via curve and latimes
