The Spring/Summer issue of Purple Fashion includes a story on Barack Obama, a candid interview with “French New Extremist” filmmaker Gaspar Noe, and enough glossy fashion photographs to wallpaper Robert Longo’s Manhattan studio (which, by the way, is also featured in the issue). Readers will recall Longo’s drawings from Dossier’s first issue, and the chance [...]
Author Archives: Jared Killeen
Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs
March 24, 2009 – 5:03 pm
If the world is not black and white, perhaps love is. In his new show at Kumukumu, Fernando Mastrangelo renders the rawest of human emotions in dichromatic figures and shapes. This is not to say that love is simple, of course—only that it eschews gradation. Like fellow-Brazilian artist Vik Muniz, Mastrangelo uses ‘symbolic’ media: in [...]
Happiness…
March 20, 2009 – 1:32 pm
The elliptic title of Andrew Cramer’s new show at Milk invites us to complete a well-worn phrase. According to Cramer, however, the line has been changed: Happiness is no longer a warm gun, but a cool one. Behold a KMK automatic rendered as a hip Warholian screen print. Notice that the image is both strident [...]
The Visionaire Collection Goyard Trunk
March 16, 2009 – 6:10 pm
Visionaire, the boutique publisher of multi-format art and fashion “albums,” has released its first fifty issues as a single collection big enough to fill a Goyard trunk. As it happens, this particular Goyard trunk opens into a chiffonier, and each issue can be stored snugly in its own shelf, slot, compartment or pouch. For Visionaire, [...]
The Other Night Sky at Bellwether
March 7, 2009 – 8:46 pm
In “The Other Night Sky,” Trevor Paglen’s new exhibition at Bellwether, dozens of American spy satellites are depicted as pricks of light in the sky. The show is a photographic appendix to Paglen’s most recent book, Blank Spots on the Map, of which an entire chapter is dedicated to the study of satellites (charting their [...]
Web Folks Meet In Real Life
March 6, 2009 – 3:26 pm
It’s likely that you’re a young person between, say, 18 and 35, and that you spend a good chunk of your time on the Internet. It’s also likely that you spend little of that time considering the ontological nature of online commerce, or how exactly one might describe that nature, or if one can describe [...]
The fields, the lakes, the forests and the streams
March 4, 2009 – 5:11 pm
Shot from atop cliffs, or high-ranging coastlines, or sometimes from a helicopter hovering below the clouds, Florian Maier-Aichen’s photographs are of unearthly beauty. No small accomplishment, given that most of them are landscapes. His new exhibition at 303 Gallery, which opened last Saturday night, is a collection of land and sea shots, some color, some [...]
Uniqlo for Opening Ceremony
March 3, 2009 – 5:23 pm
Like any practiced Japanese tourist, Yamaguchi-based clothier Uniqlo has visited both New York and Los Angles. On February 26th the ultra-hip line, known for its colorful and affordable menswear, launched a new collection at Opening Ceremony on La Cienega. Those in attendance got a first-look at the new Spring catalog, including pastel plaid button-downs and [...]
Tokyo! and the Multi-Director Movie
March 2, 2009 – 1:42 pm
Tokyo! is the newest example of a peculiar genre of film: the multi-director movie. Of course co-direction is as old as cinema itself (cf. the Lumière brothers), but the true multi-director film is rare. It typically consists of three or four loosely connected mini-movies, each one directed by a different director and parceled together as [...]
A Song of My (Fictional) Self
February 28, 2009 – 8:05 pm
The original soundtrack for Daryl Wein’s contemplative and cleverly titled relationship film Breaking Upwards is now available on iTunes. The music is composed in part by Zoe Lister-Jones, the film’s female lead and co-writer, adding a layer of self-reflexivity to the entire project. Kyle Forester – “Fan of Shades”
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