Music Monday: Start This Week Off With Five Hot, New Tracks

Admiral Fallow, Squealing Pigs

Can’t get enough of this! And, a little birdie just delivered the news… a new album is on its way.

admiralfallow.com




Civil Twilight, Fire Escape

First single off the new album, Holy Weather, out everywhere on March 27, 2012.

civiltwilightband.com





Stori, Just Another Day

A remix by Stori, The Queen’s Classic tells the story of the upcoming singer/songwriter from Newark.

storimusic.bandcamp.com




Eugene McGuinness, Shotgun

Hot new track from a smooth Brit himself.

eugenemcguinness.net




Exlovers, Starlight, Starlight

Starlight, Starlight the new single off their upcoming album Moth, out in May.

exlovers.co.uk




Enjoy, and have a great week!

Fowler exhibition highlights artist Alighiero Boetti's embroideries by Afghan women in Order and Disorder.

On display at the Fowler Museum at UCLA from Feb 26–July 29, 2012, Order and Disorder: Alighiero Boetti by Afghan Women is the first exhibition to underscore the production of this oeuvre by Afghan women.  It features twenty-nine works by Boetti along with documentary photographs of the Afghan embroiderers taken by Randi Malkin Steinberger, as well as examples of the traditional styles of embroidery that first inspired Boetti to this pursuit when he encountered them in Kabul.

From 1971 to 1994, Italian artist Alighiero Boetti (1940–1994) embarked on a series of projects with Afghan embroiderers, creating monumental pieces that would become some of the artist’s most iconic works. Working first in Kabul in the 1970s and then in refugee camps in Pakistan after the 1979 Soviet occupation of Afghanistan,  Afghan women embroidered works based on Boetti’s templates that include: colorful grids of letters that spell out phrases (such as “Order and Disorder”); Mappe (maps), wall-sized world maps with countries filled-in with the colors and symbols of their flags; and Tutto (everything), large-scale works entirely filled with intricately embroidered shapes representing diverse objects—sunglasses, a Hindu goddess, a protractor, twins, and more. 

Come join the opening program on Feb. 25^th, 2012 Featuring Fowler OutSpoken Conversation: Alighiero Boetti’s Embroderies

Speakers: Christopher Bennett, Alma Ruiz, Randi Malkin Steinberger.   Feb. 25, 2012 / 5–6 p.m.

The Fowler Museum

308 Charles E. Young Drive North, Los Angeles, CA 90095

*Located in the North Campus of UCLA

Wednesday - Sunday

Noon - 5 PM

Thursday

Noon - 8 PM

Admission is free.  Parking is available for a maximum of $10 in Lot 4.

Music Monday: Five Great Songs to Start Off The Week

Virals, Magic Happens
An infectious, fun track from the Virals, a new band out of Worcester. Obsessed!



The Big Pink, Hit the Ground (Superman)
Great track from their recent album, Future This. Can’t stop hitting the replay button with this one!
www.musicfromthebigpink.com



Feist, The Bad in Each Other
Feist never fails to outdo herself. Here is the video for The Bad in Each Other off her latest album, Metals.
www.listentofeist.com



Lucy Rose, Red Face
Lucy Rose, on her own but still sending chills down our spine.



The Twilight Sad, Another Bed
This pulse rising track is on No One Can Ever Know out February 6th – as in TODAY!
www.thetwilightsad.com



Enjoy and have a wonderful week!

Daniel Arsham, better known as “The Illusionist,” has his new exhibit The Fall, The Ball And The Wall showing at OHWOW Gallery now till February 16th 2012.

This is one not to miss! It features two and three-dimensional pieces crafted against the norm (whatever that might be). This NY-based artist, dubbed as the “Illusionist” by some, cleverly put together a surreal collection with three diverse areas of focus.  The first, a simple manipulation of basic architecture- where walls appear to be melting and oozing from the surface- reversing the notion of architectural rigidity and of a partition’s standard presentation. The second, a new series of work on canvas where he depicts realistic building constructions, which include elements that spell out words, such as “OOPS and HUH.” And the grand finale, a large-scale hanging mass of tinted spheres, from the set of Merce Cunningham’s final performances, a three-dimensional sculpture based from the pixels of a hyper-magnified photograph of a cloud formation.

Here's a glimpse.

OOPS. Inkjet print and Acrylic on Canvas. 51.25 x 74.25 x 1.625". 2011. Courtesy of the Daniel Arsham and OHWOW

You have until February 16, 2012 to experience this noteworthy exhibit so catch it while you can!

OHWOW

937 N. La Cienega Blvd

Los Angeles, CA 90069

Tuesday – Saturday  11 AM –  6PM

oh-wow.com



The Newbies changing the face of Photography

Today’s big names in photography chose international rising talents they believe to be most influential in the changing face of photography for a new exhibit, titled State of the Art Photography.  

The exhibit, featuring collections and installations by the more than 40 selected artists, opens February 4 and runs through May 6, 2012 at the NRW Forum in Düsseldorf, Germany.

The title of the exhibition points at the new relationship of photography and art. 

The artists and works selected represent more than just a change in the technology and ways photos are taken, they represent a change in the sources for creativity, such as celestial spheres, and the new global data space. This means new perspectives and new inspiration for emerging artists, mixed with new themes such as globalization and migration.  

Examples from the exhibit are the landscape photography of Alex Grein, reminiscent of paintings in the tradition of Caspar David Friedrichs, but made up of fragments of images she found on the Internet and Google Earth; Mikhael Subotzky and Patrick Waterhouse investigate the high-rise residential building Ponte City, an icon of the Johannesburg skyline; and Olaf Otto Becker focuses on the traces left on the landscape by human overpopulation. 

The many new forms of presentation, installations, and blends of media and materials visible in the exhibits at  State of the Art Photography suggest that photography is arriving at new artistic forms, and Andreas Gursky, one of world’s best known photographers and a native of Düsseldorf and professor at the city’s world-renowned State Art Academy, confirms:

“The future does not belong to pure photography, but to the free arts.”

Alex Prager: "Barbara" from the "Week-End" (2009) © Alex Prager

Bianca Brunner: From the series "Uninhabitable Object 's (2009) © Bianca Brunner Gallery and Bolte Long Zurich

Mischa Kuball: "Image Apparatus_Polaroid" (2010 FF) © Mischa Kuball / © VG Bild-Kunst Bonn, 2012

*The artists were chosen by a committee of advisors, including Andreas Gursky, Thomas Weski, Klaus Biesenbach, Udo Kittelmann, FC Gundlach, Thomas Seelig, Andrea Holzherr, and Werner Lippert.