Across nearly three decades of making music, French producer SebastiAn has simultaneously remained a dedicated student of his craft and established himself as one of its pioneering talents. Working with regional rap groups and studying the work of fellow forward-thinking electronic artists, among them Daft Punk and Björk, eventually gave way to the genre-bending Total…
In her new music video, world-renowned art-pop techno star Björk creates a fantastical world of fungus. Following the release of her Grammy-nominated 10th studio album, “fossora,” in September 2022, the musical artist co-directed the title track’s visual alongside videographer Vidar Logi, art agency M/M (Paris), and creative studio FutureDeluxe. A word created by Björk, “fossora”…
Eponymous New York fashion house KAIMIN launched its Meta Couture collection, titled Science of Dreams, on Friday, November 4th with a cross-dimensional art and fashion show at Samsung’s NYC flagship store. The physical-digital line brought the brand together with vSpace to build a virtual metaverse gallery within Samsung’s Decentraland, where visitors can experience an installation…
A cursory Google search yields few resources attempting to accurately define what makes a queer icon, well, iconic. And there’s a good reason for that. Whats makes a queer icon is at the same time simple and incredibly difficult to define. One one hand, its is easy to use blanket terms like “glamorous” or “camp”…
Two weeks ago, yet another detrimental action was put into effect against women’s health provider, Planned Parenthood. On March 30th, Vice President (and longtime enemy of women’s and LGBTQ rights), Mike Pence, broke a tie on a measure that would give states the authority to withhold federal funding from Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers,…
View coverage from “Cardiac Insomniac” Receptions, June 14th and June 20th at The Untitled Space Gallery. (83 Photos) “Cardiac Insomniac: A Solo Show of Works by ANGE” On Tuesday, June 14th, Indira Cesarine of NYC gallery, The Untitled Space, and Coco Dolle of Milk and Night, presented a new show at The Untitled Space in collaboration with avant-garde design collective,…
“Cardiac Insomniac: A Solo Show of Works by ANGE” The Untitled Space 45 Lispenard St Unit 1W, NYC 10013 June 14 – 21 OPENING RECEPTION June 14 | 6pm – 9pm EXHIBITION ON VIEW June 15 – 21 | 12pm – 6pm ARTIST TALK + CLOSING RECEPTION Q&A with ANGE Moderated by JESSICA MITRANI June…
Björk MoMA 11 West 53rd Street, New York March 8 – June 7, 2015 MoMA presents Björk, a retrospective dedicated to the multifaceted work of the singer, composer, and musician. Björk offers an experience of music in many layers, with instruments, a theatrical presentation, an immersive sound experience, a focused audio guide, and related visualizations—from photography…
“My main instrument has always been my voice because I never had to practice, you know?” says Josef Salvat, who has been singing professionally since “before my balls dropped.” Salvat’s first introduction to professional performance came when he was still in primary school in Sydney, Australia. He landed a part in Puccini’s acclaimed opera Turandot,…
What does Maya Jane Coles—the UK-born house music producer and artist who is currently considered one of the rising stars of the industry, love most about music? “Everything!” she exclaims. “The fact that the same piece of music can make someone laugh, cry, smile, remember, forget, dance; it’s such a powerful medium and such an…
“When I was eighteen, my sister saved me from doing a beauty course in Southampton and insisted I come up to London, stay on her sofa and go to music school,” says London-based singer/songwriter Louisa Rose Allen. “After a year of living out of a suitcase, I ended up dropping out of music school, as it…
The 13th annual Tribeca Film Festival launched April 16th. For the opening night at the Beacon Theatre, the festival presented a screening of the Nas documentary “Time is Illmatic,” followed by a performance by the rapper. Some of the more anticipated films that are slated to be screened at the festival include: the Bjork concert film…
