NATE LOWMAN
at Maccarone Gallery, NYC

Opening Reception:  February 28 from 6 – 8pm

Exhibition running from

February 28 to March 28, 2009

Here We Go Magic on Western Vinyl

Here We Go Magic on MySpace

New & upcoming title from Semiotext(e):

The Importance of Being Iceland
Travel Essays on Art

Eileen Myles

Poet and post-punk heroine Eileen Myles has always operated in the art, writing, and queer performance scenes as a kind of observant flaneur. Myles travels the city—wandering on garbage-strewn New York streets in the heat of summer, drifting though the antiseptic malls of La Jolla, and riding in the van with Sister Spit—seeing it with a poet’s eye for detail and with the consciousness that writing about art and culture has always been a social gesture. Culled by the poet from twenty years of art writing, the essays in The Importance of Being Iceland make a lush document of her—and our—lives in these contemporary crowds.

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HEDI SLIMANE FASHION DIARY

“I’VE ALWAYS BEEN A REBEL. I NEVER DO THINGS THE WAY THEY’RE SUPPOSED TO BE DONE. EITHER I GO IN THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION OR I CREATE A NEW DIRECTION FOR MYSELF, REGARDLESS OF WHAT THE RULES ARE OR WHAT SOCIETY SAYS.” (source The World of Grace Jones)

Picture by Jean Paul Goude for the album cover, Nightclubbing, 1981

Back album cover, Portfolio, 1977

Album cover, Slave to the Rhythm, 1985

V magazine cover by Jean Paul Goude, issue #57, spring 2009

Video still, Corporate Cannibal, 2008

Video still Corporate Cannibal, 2008

Roughs from compilation cover, Island Life, 1985

James Bond 007 movie poster, A View to A Kill, 1985

Album cover, Hurricane, 2008

Grace Jones perfoming, La Vie en Rose, single from album, Portfolio, 1977

Grace Jones on MySpace

Grace Jones on Wiki