Big up to my AM ONLY crew for an amazing 4 Disclosure gigs over 3 nights in NYC. As the final song of the long weekend was about to start, the queen of R&B/hip-hop Mary J. Blige made a surprise appearance. After the song ended and she vanished, both, crowd and the two brothers seemed in joyful disbelief that it had actually happened.
Its funny how I've become so accustomed to iPhone photography, that when a real photographer takes a photo it stands out so brilliantly, its almost shocking. The super talented Jaime Rojo, photographer for BSA shot Eve while she was "helping out" at Swoons open studio visit.
Super happy to have caught this show, as it only has one day left!
I've been a fan of Burden since I read about his 1971 "Shoot" work, which will be included in my upcoming book. The exhibition was extra fun, as I was being given a couple of insider facts by artist James Hyde, Max's best friend Silas's dad. James also perfectly described a lot of the show, as if if was from the imagination of twelve year old boy.
“The Big Wheel,” from 1979, joins a large, rusty cast-iron flywheel (eight feet in diameter, three tons in weight) with a 1968 Benelli 250cc motorcycle. The bike is run for 4 minutes, and the back wheel gets the big wheel spinning. When the bike is tuned off, the wheel still silently spins for another 90 minutes.
"All the Submarines of the United States of America" From 1987 is 625 small, handmade, painted-cardboard submarines, suspended on monofilaments from the ceiling, representing all the submarines built by the United States Navy up to 1987.
“Porsche With Meteorite” 2013 Suspended from opposite ends of a graceful, telescoping beam of steel are a beautifully restored 1974 Porsche, and a small meteorite that ways nearly 400 pounds. (photo from museum site)
“Tale of Two Cities.”, uses tons of sand, live plants, live bullets and 5,000 toys. My fave 2 two were the model Concord and the Thunderbird Two, bottom right of this photo (both very important to me as a British kid)
Silas & Max in front of seven foot L.A.P.D. Uniforms, apparently with live rounds in the guns.
NY Times Review here.
The whole 3 track EP is next level shit!
Haters are going to hate, because its not skeletal.
Rammellzee
Reinhard Voss
Matthew Day Jackson
Henrietta Harris
Michael Johansson
Brainfarts
Bridget Mullen
Gabriela Gutierrez
Anthony Lister
BAST & FAILE
Robert Moskowitz
Soshiro Matsubara
Amy Ellingson
Duane Michaels
Dondi White
Reinhard Voss
Matthew Day Jackson
Henrietta Harris
Michael Johansson
Brainfarts
Bridget Mullen
Gabriela Gutierrez
Anthony Lister
BAST & FAILE
Robert Moskowitz
Soshiro Matsubara
Amy Ellingson
Duane Michaels
Dondi White
Do Ho Suh (Polyester fabric)
Gavin Turk
George Condo
Robert Longo (6 foot high graphite drawing)
Mike Kelley
Clare Rojas
Yan Pei Ming
James Rosenquist (only $2,000,000)
Christian Marclay
Miriam Cahn
Peter Saville (Unknown Pleasures) sculture
Natalie Kates kindly invited Eve & I to an open house at Swoon's studio in Red Hook. Eve didn't want to go at first but once there she got stuck in, and I couldn't drag her away.
Photo op with Swoon as we were about to leave.
1st is daughter at home.
2nd is a bronze sculpture at Art Basel.
