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Who’s Nekst? A Legacy of Graffiti in New York City
Graffiti is everywhere in New York City. The city’s many surfaces are cleaner than they once were, thanks to Rudy Giuliani and subway cars that are easier to buff, but even a brief stroll down … read more »
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Sun Ra and Ayé Aton’s Afrofuturistic Murals Unveiled In New Book
Sun Ra was as much philosopher as he was experimental Free Jazz composer, and his principles about race, basically the precedent to Afrofuturism, inspired countless artists and musicians. A new book called Space, Interiors and … read more »
Our Father: Life in the Source Family
Isis Aquarian remembers life in the Source Family. When she was in her late twenties, Charlene Peters grew her hair long, changed her name to Isis Aquarian and moved in with the Source Family, a … read more »
Preview Tough Bond, A Documentary on Street Kids in Kenya Scored by The Very Best and Seye
Tough Bond, named after a commonly huffed adhesive, is a new documentary about four homeless children in Kenya who band together in a family. It looks devastating. The film was shot, directed and edited by … read more »
Look: Ruvan Wijesooriya’s Seven-Year Portrait of LCD Soundsystem
From 2004 until the day LCD Soundsystem quit being a band, Ruvan Wijesooriya followed the group, first as a fan, and then as their adopted resident photographer. This month, powerHouse Books is releasing a monograph … read more »
Watch the Trailer for Grant Singer’s Bradford Cox Documentary
We’ve seen some of Grant Singer’s grainy, spirited camera work for the likes of DIIV and Gambles, and now he’s turned his lens on the ever enigmatic Bradford Cox in his new documentary Youth Museum. … read more »
Watch the Trailer for Harmony Korine’s Spring Breakers
There’s finally an official trailer for Spring Breakers, the upcoming Harmony Korine movie we first heard about last year, when Riff Raff took credit for inspring James Franco’s character Alien, a white rapper with cornrows, … read more »
Watch: Exclusive Clip of Will Oldham’s Performance in New Jerusalem
The Comedy (and James Murphy’s cameo in it) may have stole a bit of the thunder of Rick Alverson’s other movie, 2010′s quiet and intense New Jerusalem, but the film still feels incredibly pertinent even … read more »
SF: Jason Nocito’s I Heart Transylvania Opens Tonight
King of photos of flies fucking, as well as frequent FADER photographer, Jason Nocito brings work from his book I Heart Transylvania to San Francisco’s Little Big Man Gallery tonight. The show is up until … read more »
Thandi Sibisi: Gallery Girl
Thandi Sibisi opens eyes to a new crop of South African artists. This past February, Thandi Sibisi, the 25-year-old daughter of cattle farmers from the rural southeastern province of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, opened SIBISI Object … read more »
