Dev Hynes is an international man of mystery as well as the busiest musician on the planet. As if his extensive work as Lightspeed Champion and with Test Icicles or co-writing with Theophilus London and Solange Knowles or a note-for-note cover of Todd Rundgren’s A Wizard, A True Star album weren’t enough, Hynes is launching a new project: Blood Orange. To begin, Blood Orange is releasing a brand new 7″ single, “Dinner” b/w “Bad Girls” on April 26th. Both tracks were recorded with and co-produced by Chris Taylor of Grizzly Bear for release on his Terrible Records label. Blood Orange finds Hynes delving deeper into the fringes of ’80s American musical culture, crossing elements of melancholy synthetic pop balladry with a twangy noir, composing songs exploring the harsh realities of romantic pursuits: longing, suspicion, jealousy, self-doubt and loneliness, to name but a few. This release will be followed by a full-length album which was recorded in Los Angeles with producer Ariel Reichstaid (Cass McCombs/Glasser) and will be released in the late summer on Domino.

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A farmer’s son with his nursemaid, Heimweeberg, Nietverdiend, 1964

Photographer David Goldblatt has explored the social landscape of South Africa since the late 1940s. In 1987, he (READ MORE…)

Tango with an Archangel

The Musée d’Art Moderne is offering a fresh appreciation of Kees Van Dongen (1877–1968), the dazzling, disconcerting painter who made his reputation in Paris in the 1920s. This is a comprehensive look at a multifaceted personality: the socially-conscious Dutchman ever ready to caricature and denounce, the avant-garde artist and iconic Fauve, and one of the Roaring Twenties’ leading figures on the trendy Paris scene. The exhibition includes and adds to “All eyes on Kees Van Dongen”, shown at the Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum in Rotterdam (18 September 2010 – 23 January 2011). www.mam.paris.fr

DAMIEN HIRST, Cupid’s Lie, Gold

To inaugurate the Hong Kong exhibition space, Gagosian Gallery is pleased to present “Forgotten Promises,” an exhibition of new paintings and sculptures by Damien Hirst. Forgotten Promises – Jan 18 – Mar. 19, 2011 at the Gasgosian Gallery, Hong Kong.

Harry Price: Magician and Conjurer

A CAT scan shows a 14.5 millimeter high explosive round which was removed from the scalp of an Afghan National Army soldier at the Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan.

“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”