Ryan McGinley’s Moonmilk
- story Peter Macia
Back in September of 2003, The FADER published a feature story on Ryan McGinley, the same year he became the youngest artist to ever receive a solo show at the Whitney Museum of American Art. The story included many of the photos from his first book, The Kids Are Alright, that made him famous and a favorite of ours. He was 26. About an hour ago, McGinley once again shredded our blasé brainstems with his Moonmilk series, in which he took a bunch of stripped kids spelunking across the country. Big deal, you say? Well you try to make a naked dude in a cave look like he’s punching the sun in the face and see how it comes out. View the images at Tiny Vices, look out for an exhibition soon and a book most likely to follow.
Ryan McGinley and Sigur Ros History Lesson
- story THE FADER
With yesterday’s debut of Sigur Ros’ Ryan McGinley-assisted video for “Gobbledigook,” we were compelled to search our magazine archives for the July 2002 issue of Dazed & Confused where ex-Vicer, current-Street Carnager Gavin Mcinnes wrote about spending twenty-four hours with McGinley. Here is a selection from the article’s opening:
“Yo that dude is fucking hot!” says Ryan pointing to the cock-eyed lead singer of Sigur Ros. We were looking at a magazine on the plane and we were on our way to Midnight Sun in Iceland; a pretentious fashion show with tons of free booze and great parties. After a ten-day work bender of sitting in front of computers and slaving in the darkroom, we were ready for a ten-day booze bender of cum, coke and fist-fights. Ryan was looking smug and I could tell he had convinced himself he was going to find that dude, photograph him and do lots of stuff that I don’t like to think about…
Soon after arriving in Reykjavik, I noticed Ryan taking the Sigur Ros guy’s picture. The rest of the night involved following the unimpressed singer from bar to bar until the two of them were necking like Puerto Rican teenagers playing hooky.
And now, six years later, the two are making videos together of naked wood shenanigans. Who says romance is dead?
NYC: Ryan McGinley at Team Gallery
- story THE FADER
Ryan McGinley’s new show I Know Where The Summer Goes opens tonight at Team Gallery. Here’s their description of the show:
The title of this exhibition, taken from an early B-side by Belle & Sebastian, is more than just a piece of poetic musing. McGinley does, in fact, know where his summers go. In the summer of 2007, for example, he traversed the United States with sixteen models and three assistants, shooting 4,000 rolls of film. From the resulting 150,000 photographs, he arduously narrowed down the body of work to some fifty images, the best of which are on display here at the gallery.
That’s also how we write blog posts here oddly enough. Team also held a McGinley solo last year and in 2003 had him in Bob Nickas’ epic My People Were Fair and Had Cum in their Hair (but Now They’re Content to Spray Stars from your Boughs) group show, which has to be the best riff off an album title ever. The opening reception is tonight from 6-8p and the exhibition runs through May 3rd.
