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INTERVIEW: PUSSY RIOT’S NADYA TOLOKONNIKOVA ON BRINGING ACTIVISM INTO THE CRYPTO AGE WITH NFTS AND UNICORNDAO

Art collective, performance artists, girl group, punk band, anarchists… Pussy Riot has been labeled many different ways over the years, although few truly grasp the full scope of what they are about and many have perhaps underestimated their brilliance. Originally a roughly dozen-member Russian feminist collective, Pussy Riot is now a fully-fledged protest movement and…

RUSSIAN FEMINIST PROTEST GROUP, PUSSY RIOT, AND THEIR REBELLION THROUGH MUSIC

Russian girl group, Pussy Riot, has made it their mission to confront Russian President Vladimir Putin and his policies concerning feminism and LGBTQ+ rights through guerrilla performances in public places, which are then filmed as music videos and posted on the Internet. Many of these performances resulted in members of the group being arrested and others…

LAUREN GREENFIELD: GENERATION WEALTH @ THE INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPHY

Lauren Greenfield, "Generation Wealth" The International Center for Photography, NYC September 20, 2017 - January 7, 2018 Documentary filmmaker and photojournalist Lauren Greenfield’s Generation Wealth is a socioculturally pertinent retrospective currently on view at The International Center for Photography. The exhibit features roughly 200 photographs, interviews, and documentary films chronicling the impossible pursuit of wealth, beauty,…

THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E. PREVIEW

Henry Cavill (The Man of Steel) and Armie Hammer (The Lone Ranger) star as United Network Command for Law and Enforcement operatives in The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Guy Ritchie’s film adaptation of the classic spy-fi series. Set during the 1960’s, this period piece pairs American CIA agent Napoleon Solo (Cavill) and Russian KGB agent Illya…

NADAV KANDER’S NEW BOOK + EXHIBITION @ FLOWERS – LONDON – SEPT 9 – OCT 11

DUST Flowers Gallery, London September 9th - October 11th, 2014 This September, Flowers Gallery will present a solo exhibition by London-based photographer Nadav Kander. The show, entitled DUST, explores Kander's three-year survey of secret Soviet scientific cities and missile test sites. These locations unveil the "closed" cities on the border between Kazakhstan and Russia - areas of…

PUSSY RIOT SPEAKS UP ABOUT THEIR RELEASE

On February 21st, 2012, five members of the Russian girl group Pussy Riot staged a performance on the soleas of a church in Moscow. Their performance was stopped by church security but their "riot" had already been turned into a music video entitled "Punk Prayer - Mother of God, Chase Putin Away!" The following month, two…

VALENTIN YUDASHKIN – PARIS F/W 2012 FASHION SHOW VIDEO

VALENTIN YUDASHKIN - PARIS F/W 2012 FASHION SHOW Valentin Yudashkin, mixed velvet, leather, and lace in blacks, beiges, and gold, to create structured body-conscious silhouettes.  Tailored pieces emphasized the body with hourglass shaped pleating and graphic prints, while skirts flared away from the body adding a girly playfulness.  The collection was simple and clean cut…

TEMPERLEY LONDON – LONDON F/W 2012 FASHION SHOW + BACKSTAGE BEAUTY

    TEMPERLEY LONDON - LONDON F/W 2012 FASHION SHOW As the title of Temperley London's Fall 2012 collection suggests, it was heavily inspired by sumptuous Renaissance religious paintings from the beginning of the 18th century.  However, It was not just paintings that gave the "Renaissance" collection its title, but the word itself, meaning creative…

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