Persona features the world-premiere of Julia Fullerton-Batten’s new series Mothers & Daughters, her most recent exploration of the unique and difficult time of adolescence. The series, inspired by her and her sisters’ relationship with their mother, portrays the complex and sometimes challenging relationship between mothers and their daughters. She continues to work with street-cast, non-model subjects, whose subtle awkwardness and discomfort in front of the camera emphasize the reality of the scenes. Her use of eerie artificial light gives the final photographs a theatrical, other-worldly atmosphere. Through depictions of infant, adolescent, middle-aged, and elderly subjects in this series, Fullerton-Batten showcases the changing nature of mother-daughter relationships throughout their lifespan.

6PM – 8PM
@ Jenkins Johnson Gallery
521 West 26th Street
212.629.0707

6PM – 9PM
@ EVA NY
355A Bowery
btwn 3rd + 4th

Cocktail reception for unveiling of installation and special discount event.

Come out this Wednesday night for the Beached Days Magazine launch party at Pilgrim Surf + Supply!

Special Guest Fletcher C. Johnson will play and adult beverages will be served.

6PM – 10PM

68 North 3rd St.
Brooklyn NY
718-218-7456

(corner of North 3rd St. and Wythe Ave.)

Boo-Hooray is proud to present a complete facsimile of The Situationist Times, Jacqueline De Jong’s self published periodical, on the 50th anniversary of its inaugural issue.

The six issues are reissued as facsimile in an edition of 900, bound individually and enclosed in a silk-screened slipcase signed by editor Jacqueline De Jong. The set will also include a 7th issue, with commentary, ephemera and interviews.

Jacqueline De Jong: The Situationist Times 1962-1967
Opening Party – Wednesday, May 9th – 6PM-9PM
Talk – Thursday, May 10th – 7pm

265 Canal St, 6th Fl., New York, NY 10013

RSVP

You are invited to join Steve Madden Music on Wednesday, May 9 at their Lower East Side location (corner of Ludlow & Stanton Streets) for an exclusive performance by Karmin and DJ Kalkutta. The evening will be hosted by Fuse’s Allison Hagendorf and Tito’s Vodka will provide complimentary beverages.

List is closed so you’ll have to crash!

Duffy / Photographs

The First Stateside Retrospective of Photographs by Brian Duffy
Clic Gallery
255 Centre Street, NY, NY

Opening Reception: Thursday, May 3, 6-8pm

It is with greatest excitement that Clic Gallery presents Duffy, the first stateside retrospective from legendary fashion/commercial photographer Brian Duffy opening on May 3rd.

The opening reception will take place from 6-8 pm the same day.

The exhibition will run from May 3 – June 3, 2012.

By the end of the 1950s, the static and chaste status quo that had come to dominate fashion photography was usurped by a new, freewheeling mode of documentary fashion photography. Fashion bibles like Vogue and Elle, responding to the times, began zeroing in on what was hip, young and “prêt-à-porter” — replacing the untouchable debutante of the 1950s with the energetic, playful every-girl who would come to exemplify the 1960s. Kinetic, sexy, and cheekily humorous, this new photographic sensibility helped reinvent London as Swinging London and give a visual identity to mod culture. At the forefront of this new wave were three British enfant terribles named David Bailey, Terry Donovan, and Brian Duffy — all irreverent, working class lads, contemptuous of the norm, who sought to rest the scepter of fashion photography from the grips of so-called ‘gentleman’ photographers such as Norman Parkinson and Cecil Beaton. The three, dubbed “The Black Trinity” by Parkinson, ushered in a new era where youthful vibrancy trumped old-guard patricianism and fashion photos coursed alive with devil-may-care attitude and guerilla-style candidness. The three inspired a new cult of the cool photographer which culminated in Michelangelo Antonioni’s worldwide smash hit Blow-Up about a jaded young fashion photographer working in mod London — a film still considered an artistic high water mark of the Swinging 60s.

For more Duffy images click here

THINK YOU Projects and Whitewall Magazine
cordially invite you to the VIP opening of

LARGER THAN LOVE

A collaboration between Shony Rivnay and Lindsay Compton
Curated by Tim Goossens

Friday, April 27th
18h bis 20h

Art Campus at the Hamburger Bahnhof
Museum of Contemporary Arts
Halle am Wasser at Kunst-Campus
Invalidenstrasse 50/51
Berlin

RSVP – largerthanlove@thinkyouprojects.com

Closing Party of “Elsa” by Guy Aroch

7PM – 10PM
@ Milk Gallery
450 West 15th Street

RSVP – guyaroch@milkstudios.com

Archizines is an exhibition and a research project to celebrate and promote the resurgence of independent and alternative publishing practices. Making its American debut at Storefront with a bespoke design by \ / | < | \ | (Giancarlo Valle, Isaiah King, Ryan Neiheiser) the exhibition draws inspiration from the quintessential New York model of publication display - the newstand - and turns it on its side. Instead of a vertical, 2-dimensional billboard, the show will offer a horizontal, 3-dimensional field of objects: 80 architecture publications displayed on delicate metal rods, which sprout from the floor. The exhibition will evacuate all other content from the space, creating an information vacuum that focuses the visitor's attention on the objects themselves: 80 architecture magazines, fanzines and journals from over 20 countries that provide new platforms for commentary, criticism and research into the spaces we inhabit and the practice of architecture today.

Tuesday, 4.17
7PM - 9PM
@ Storefront for Art and Architecture
97 Kenmare Street
10012 New York, NY
Tel. 212.431.5795

Please join Boo-Hooray and St. Mark’s Bookshop
at a book event to celebrate the release of
Brad Pitt’s Dog
by Johan Kugelberg

Tuesday, April 17th, 7 pm
@ St. Mark’s Bookshop
31 Third Avenue
(between 8th and 9th Streets)

Reading and signing with Johan Kugelberg and Jack Womack, who contributed the afterword to Brad Pitt’s Dog

Published by Zero Books

For more information, please contact press@boo-hooray.com

This is the first book of essays by a long-time renowned chronicler of underground culture. The way this book mashes up lo-bro and hi-bro is readable, funny and thought-provoking, and also downright provoking. Johan Kugelberg’s essays on punk, style and pop culture have entertained readers of international publications including Dazed and Confused, Another Man, Ugly Things, Perfect Sound Forever, Spin, Hip Hop Connection, Raygun and Fact over the last couple of decades.

Brad Pitt’s Dog explores topics ranging from the psychogeography of record fairs, eulogies for Michael Jackson and Malcolm McLaren, a discussion of satire on Youtube, and essays on artists Dash Snow, Daido Moriyama, Carl Johan De Geer and Ragnar Persson, amongst other enthusiastic writings on photography, art, punk, and popular culture.

Johan Kugelberg runs the exhibit space Boo-Hooray in New York’s Chinatown. Recent exhibitions include In All Our Decadence People Die – Crass-era Fanzines, Artists’ Book Not Artists’ Book, Dreamweapon – The Art and Life of Angus MacLise, Ed Sanders – Fuck You / A Magazine of the Arts 1962-1965.