New trailer for American Ecstasy, the new feature-length chiller from celebrated photographer and filmmaker Jonathan Leder and starring playboy bunny Britney Nola. An anthology film exploring tales of resilient women snared in a single terrifying, hallucinatory nightmare, fates left gasping in the gloved hands of a mad everyman.

Part 1 of Adarsha Benjamin’s road trip across the American South West. See more photographs by Adarsha after the jump. [CLICK HERE...]

Miltos Manetas, founder of NEEN, in his studio near the Olympic Stadium in Rome. photograph by Marco Annunziata

Damian Ortega, Fortuitous rotation

The Player (journey into contemporary passions) is a small selection comprising of international mid-career artists from the collection of Sandra and Giancarlo Bonollo. Comprising of philosophically intimate objects effused with the theme of travel. Globes positioned in a snail-shell whirl espouse many-worlds theories, as do photographs of allegorical space and time. Quietly haunting, the show is an orchestration of journeys and possibilities. This journey takes you across invisible borders, across separate timelines and back again. The Player will be on view until April 6 2013, at Museo Marini Marino, Piazza san Pancrazio, 50123 Florence, Italy. Text and photography by Yanyan Huang (see more photographs after the jump) [CLICK HERE...]

photograph by Terry Richardson

Do Bananas Decompose? is a new editorial by European photographer Tsasha Olivier. See more photographs after the jump. [CLICK HERE...]

In Rita Ackermann’s art, the systematic and the accidental are kept in a state of constant dialogue and debate. Balance and the effort to achieve it have become the main focus of her process, and a kind of magical flux has become both the subject and condition of her art. Nowhere is the alchemy of Ackermann’s work more vivid than in the group of seventeen paintings made between the years of 2010 and 2013 and presented in Negative Muscle, the artist’s first exhibition with Hauser & Wirth in New York, opening 5 March 2013.The exhibition takes its title from the very first painting Ackermann made following an intensive collaboration with filmmaker Harmony Korine on ‘Shadow Fux’, their 2010 exhibition of jointly-made collages at the Swiss Institute of Contemporary Art, New York NY. Negative Muscle will be on view until April 20. 2013 at Hauser & Wirth, 32 East 69th Street, New York. See more photographs by Annabel Graham after the jump.  [CLICK HERE...]

Jonathan Leder’s new video teaser featuring Amy Hood with music by Serge Gainsbourg.

Luca Trevisani’s “Fino alla punta delle tue dita” (Until the edge of your finger) at Valentina Bonomo Gallery. Curated by Claudia Gioia. Via del Portico d’Ottavia, 13, Rome. Text by Yanyan Huang and photograph by Marco Annunziata

Cura is a magazine, publishing house, and project space. British artist Oliver Osborne shows his leafy paintings for Cura’s inaugural basement show. Reckless Project No. 1 with Guest Oliver Osbourne will be on view until March 25, 2013 at Cura, via Ricciotti, 4, Rome. Text by Yanyan Huang and photograph by Marco Annunziata