Photograph by ADARSHA BENJAMIN. Venice, Italy.

An amazing I FUCKED DIANA DORS T-SHIRT.  Las Vegas, Nevada

Torontos dark-synth duo Trust, who also star in this music video, with a track off their album which was released last March. 

Raquel Zimmermann photographed by Inez Van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin for YSL Fall 2011

On May 25th 1986, a nineteen year old Kurt Cobain was arrested for spraypainting “Ain’t got no how watchamacallit” on a brick wall in Aberdeen, Washington.

RICHARD KERN, Nirvana, Courtney Love

left: WILLIAM ENGLISH, Vivienne Westwood in Sex, 1975, courtesy of Maggs Brothers, London right: URS LÜTHI, Un’isola dell’aria, 1975, particolare, 28 fotografie, cm60x50 cad, Collezione Fabio e Virginia Gori

IAIN FORSYTH & JANE POLLARD, A Rock’N'Roll Suicide, 1998, Live performance, Photo: David Cowlard courtesy Kate MacGarry, London

Museo Pecci di Prato in Florence, Italy presents an exhibition entiled LIVE! Art Meets Rock. The exhibition, curated by Luca Beatrice and Marco Bazzini, adopts a suggestive perspective to show how the history of contemporary art and of rock music have followed parallel paths to contribute to the construction of the cultural universe of the last forty years. Music and the visual arts have crossed and overlapped, over time, engendering a unified and consistent landscape; what draws them together is the performative dimension, articulated according to the specific occasion within an exhibition or a concert. LIVE!offers a parallel and original reading of historic events by exhibiting paintings, sculptures, installations, video clips, artworks, LPs, graphic works, photographs, magazines and films. Artists include Andy Warhol, Yoko Ono, William English, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Cindy Sherman, David LaChapelle and more. The exhibition will be accompanied by Live!, a book published by Rizzoli with contributions by Luca Beatrice and Marco Bazzini. LIVE! Art Meets Rock view at the Museo Pecci di Prato until September 16.  

Alice Arisu is a 24 year old artist based in Milan. Her work leans on the powerful ability to communicate with the psychological methods advertising – she is studying Theories and Methods for Communication at the University of Milan – so Arisu uses slogans, in effective, passive protest, to articulate our societal shortcomings – namely the identity of women in the multi-fragmented, exploitive landscape of mainstream media. SEE MORE….

On view now at The MAMBO (museum of modern art in Bogotá) – works by Colombian artist Ruven Afanador. The exhibition has been awaited for more than twenty years and features his greatest works. The exhibition, entitled “I’ll be your mirror, Ruven Afanador: 80 Portraits”, features pictures from the artist’s books: Torero (2001), Shadow (2004) and Thousand kisses (2009). In his last book, Thousand Kisses, the photographer drew his attention to various flamenco dancers. The artist is fascinated by staging the body, so he did not choose any old dance at random. Ruven Afanador was born in Columbia in the sixteenth century city fo Bucaramanga, La Ciudad de los Parques high in the scenic plateau above Rio de Oro. Afanador’s photography is a celebration of the poetry of bodies motion. Exhibition is on view until October 9.

Another outtake from a photoshoot in Los Angeles for a special collection by Geronimo for DNA (the shop). Photography by Oliver Maxwell Kupper