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ROBERT HEINECKEN para-photographer
The Moma museum offers first retrospective Object Matter of the groundbreaking work of Robert Heinecken since he died in 2006. He has devoted his life to making art and teaching. He came of age artistically in 1960s Los Angeles, where the burgeoning art scene provided ways to experimentation. Heinecken has always pushed the boundaries between mediums and also between high and popular culture. Heinecken described himself as a para-photographer because his work stood beside or beyond traditional notions of the medium.
Photo report by Pascal GILLET

MOMA
The Museum of Modern Art
11 West 53 Street
New York, NY

Standard hotel le bain
Le Bain rooftop terrace bar and superlative inspiring views during sunset. Hypnotic!
Photos and video by Pascal GILLET

MORRISON HOTEL GALLERY
Morrison Hotel Gallery and Dream Downtown hotel in Soho present rotating exhibitions of fine art music photography. This space is a celebration of the greatest music photographers and the artists they captured through their lenses over the last sixty years. All of the limited edition, hand signed artwork is available for purchase.
Here some picture of Kurt Cobain signed by photographer Jesse Frohman
Photos report by Pascal GILLET

WWW.MORRISONHOTELGALLERY.COM

— Kurt Cobain, Standing with Evian Bottle
© JESSE FROHMAN, 1993
Shot before MTV Unplugged session with Nirvana at the Omni Hotel in NYC.
60×80, Black and White, Archival Digital Print, Limited Edition, Signed

— Kurt Cobain, Smoking B Pink
© JESSE FROHMAN, 1993
60×80, Color, Type: Archival Digital Print, Limited Edition, Signed

— Kurt Cobain, Looking Up
© JESSE FROHMAN
Black and White, Archival Digital Print, Limited Edition

COMME DES GARCONS store in NY
At the first sight, a vast field of scaffoldings pipes on the frontage building for refurbishment! Who notices the beautiful store located in the trendy heart of the meatpacking district in New York… by luck, aficionados surf on familiar grounds and know exactly where they have to go, as the store is just amazing. It’s worth it!
Photos by Pascal GILLET

TAG OF THE DAY
Tag of the day, somewhere in New York… Sense of humour or reality, art form or intox, question or answer? The city of massive consumerism is full of tag messages sometimes cynical…
Photo by PASCAL GILLET

AMERICAN GRAFFITIS part two
Continuing to investigate where are most of the best graffitis in New York city
Photo by Pascal GILLET

NEW YORK space and lines
Lines and space! Gigantic geometric architecture of the skyscrapers in New York city.
Photo by Pascal GILLET

MOMA colorfull
Selected artists viewed at the MOMA… on the POP ART color fingerprints!
Photo by Pascal Gillet

MOMA
11 W 53rd St
New York, NY 10019

THE ELM in Williamsburg
King & Grove (the lifestyle hotel brand) has partnered with Michelin-starred chef Paul Liebrandt, to open The Elm in Williamsburg, considered by many’s as one of the best new restaurants of 2013. If you go there, try the brunch and a glance at the swimming-pool during warmer days!
Photo by Pascal Gillet

THE ELM
160 North 12th Street
Brooklyn NY 11249

WWW.KINGANDGROVE.COM

MEATPACKING high line
Following the freight rail line elevated above the streets on Manhattan’s West Side… The High Line design is a collaboration between James Corner Field Operations (Project Lead), Diller Scofidio + Renfro, and planting designer Piet Oudolf.
Photo by Pascal Gillet

COMME DES GARCONS in meatpacking, NY
Stroll down to 22nd Street then pass through the huge pivoting door and jagged aluminum tunnel into the cavernous home of Comme Des Garçons…
Photo by Pascal Gillet

COMME DES GARCONS
520 W 22nd St
New York, NY 10011

WWW.COMME-DES-GARCONS.COM

MOMA museum architecture
The model for MoMA is Manhattan itself, says its architect, Yoshio Taniguchi.
The Sculpture Garden is Central Park, and around it is a city with buildings of various functions and purpose. MoMA is a microcosm of Manhattan.
Photo by Pascal gillet

PIN UP and SUPER HEROES
Impossible to escape Pin-Up and Superheroes iconic representations in America… movies, museums, tee-shirts, accessories or even in the street!
They’re everywhere! They pass through out the Pulp Culture of the years 1920^th and emerged to the pantheon of the Pop Culture. Godlike, they reflect part of our history in the 20^th century.
Here in the New York streets, near MOMA.
Photo by Pascal Gillet

AMERICAN GRAFFITIS
— Despite of the anti-graffiti law that the famous british artist BANKSY does not miss an opportunity to mock about (see his graffiti graffiti is a crime)
— Despite of deletion in the Queens (NY) to the epicenter of the hip-hop culture 5 Pointz in last November 2013 (hundreds of graffitis have been destroyed by covering white painting in a hurry in one night by the owner …)
Therefore, best graffitis continue arising in New York cityscapes to give them a more artistic soul ever!
photo by Pascal Gillet

See previous article 5 Pointz on traffic magazine HERE

MAST BROTHERS CHOCOLATE
Come in Brooklyn and taste the Mickael and Rick Mast finest chocolate (two lanky and bearded thirty somethings brothers…)
It’s a real pleasure, you will not regret it!
Photo by Pascal Gillet

MAST BROTHERS CHOCOLATE
111 N 3rd St, New York
NY 11211

WWW.MASTBROTHERS.COM

MINI MALL MARKET in brooklyn
If you’re around, step in Mini Mall Market and go straight to the back!
Then, in front of your amazed eyes, expect a real surprise for those who are fan of big racing machine!
In fact this is not really my case, therefore taking time for a flash back memory on some of the most mythical films: Easy Rider, Back to the future, Batman or even K2000… I feel like i’m going to see Hooper’s shadow! Rest in peace Dennis.
Photo by Pascal Gillet

Mini-Mall Market
218 Bedford Ave
Brooklyn, NY 11211

DI PALOS little italy
One hundred years old, DI PALO’S traditional italian grocery store, located in Little Italy, NY city.
Over there, it smells like in a real Italian. Once you’ve been patient enough for waiting your turn, you will be able to taste and choose some of the best amazing italian products ever, such delicious goat, sheep and cow cheeses (mozzarella, ricotta, pecorino…) Don’t forget amazing salumi, mortadella and prosciutto… for those who like it!
A tasty and friendly classic Little Italy experience !
Photo by Pascal Gillet

Di Palo’s
200 Grand St
New York, NY 10013
b/t Mulberry St & Mott St.

DOVER STREET MARKET New York

A shopping mecca in which street-wear and high-end design are intertwined, Rei Kawakubo’s Dover Street Market is now open in New York.  The seven-floor luxury department store takes visitors on a whimsical exploration of avant-garde fashion design from designers such as Simone Rocha to Jacquemus, all woven into the story of Kawakubo’s own line, Comme des Garçons. With no clear differentiation between women and men’s collections, visitors are encouraged to explore the store with an unconstricted outlook. Non-fashion related attractions include specially commissioned artworks that can be found throughout the store as well as a Rose Bakery pop up on the first floor.  Kawakubo gave designers creative freedom to model their respective spaces in a manner that architecturally represents the designs; a key highlight being the permanent Prada space enveloped by large scale Pierre Mornet murals pursuant to the Spring/Summer 2014 collection. In Kawakubo’s own words, Dover Street Market will exist as “an ongoing atmosphere of beautiful chaos”.
Photos and report by Leila Samïi

DOVER STREET MARKET
160 Lexington Avenue
New York, NY 10016

WWW.DOVERSTREETMARKET.COM

Nicopanda Pop Up

In an act of holiday defiance, newly appointed Diesel art director Nicola Formichetti’s studio has been transformed into a Nicopanda pop up store open for the holiday season.  Envisioned by Formichetti’s assistant Prince Franco, the shop merges downtown culture, fashion, and performance into a collaborative space inspired by Franco’s childhood trips to laser tag arenas. Nicopanda inspired graffiti illuminated by black lights envelop the entire studio, creating a neon haven for downtown culture that offsets the neutral area of Tribeca. Along with the newly designed holiday Nicopanda gear, visitors can pick up last minute gifts from downtown designers such as Forfex, Illesteva and Baron Von Fancy.  Performances by musicians such as Ian Isiah and Princess Nokia (Wavy Spice) as well as an in house production studio available to shoppers are just two ways in which the Nicopanda team is turning an otherwise linear activity into an all-encompassing event.
Photo and report by Leila Samïi

SEBASTIAN GROSS OSSA homeland

Recently, I visited my friend Sebastian Gross and his painting studio in Brooklyn to check out a serie he had been working on. Upon walking in, I was greeted by his cat and a glass of prosecco. I spoke to Ossa, regarding his number one influence, german artist Neo Rauch (whose work echoes industrial evolution in urban landscapes) as well as painting influences (deriving from Cubism, Expressionism, and Surrealism), style ranging whenever devised and felt necessary. Within his studio process, Ossa uses real time photographs taken on location, particularly of those in his life and scales them on his stretched canvas. He then creates a luminous atmosphere of great heights, improvised activities, industrial layouts, branding and advertisement overload (his signature is Anti-Gravity), various architectures, and Fifth-Element like vehicles, including flying FedEx automobiles and spaceships (for the thread of conversation regarding modern civilization).
— Born in Chile, Sebastian Gross Ossa now works and lives in the neighborhood of Williamsburg, located in Brooklyn, NY.
— He was previously represented by Pablo’s Birthday art gallery located in downtown Manhattan.

Words and report by Taylor Ghrist

WWW.GROSSOSSA.COM

Yayoi Kusama New York exhibition: I Who Have Arrived in Heaven at David Zwirner gallery.
Following the success of installations at the Whitney Museum of Contemporary Art and The Tate Modern, Yayoi Kusama joins the David Zwirner gallery for her exhibit I Who Have Arrived in Heaven.  The exhibit spans over all three of the gallery’s spaces and includes twenty-seven new large-scale paintings, two infinity rooms and a video installation entitled Manhattan Suicide Addict.  From the biomorphic shapes presented in the paintings to the polka dot laden tentacle formations in the second infinity room, the exhibit functions as an animated playground in which the viewer can consider their own existence in relation to their surroundings. Transcending pop art and minimalism, Kusama’s frenetic work fulfills the question of life and death by means of alluding to autobiographical content and exploring ones place within a given cosmic realm.
Words and picture by LEILA SAMII

David Zwirner Gallery
525 W 19th St
New York, NY 10011
November 8 – December 21, 2013

WWW.DAVIDZWIRNER.COM

BG BOOM Dusan Reljin — Fashion photographer Dusan Reljin fuses past and present in his latest project, BG BOOM-Dusan Reljin, on display at Milk Gallery. The exhibit harmonizes two sides of Reljin’s life, that of a New York fashion photographer and his upbringing in Serbia, melding them equally into a series of provocative photographs. Each photograph functioning as a collage of its own, the numbered series layers neon images of the wreckage from the 1999 NATO bombing’s in Belgrade with sensual images of some of today’s top models, including Jessica Stam, Daria Werbowy, and Eva Herzigova. The series altogether expresses the dark contrast of Reljin’s life, albeit in a manner that hides the horror of the bombings and screams fashion editorial shoot.

Words and report by Leila Samii

Milk Studios
450 West 15th St.
New York, NY
WWW.MILKSTUDIOS.COM

PAOLA PIVI, GALERIE PERROTIN

Housed in the new Madison Avenue home of internationally acclaimed Galerie Perrotin, Paola Pivi’s eight whimsically positioned neon plumed life-size bears welcome visitors into art dealer Emmanuel Perrotin’s world of contemporary wonder.  The inaugural exhibition for the gallery in New York, Paola Pivi’s “Ok, you are better than me, so what?” embodies the audacious nature of the artist.  Known for her Dada-esque technique, Paola Pivi has taken a room full of bears, alarming under realistic circumstances, and has transformed it into a showcase of playfully animated creatures. As a possible homage to the landmark space, which used to be the headquarters of the Bank of New York, Pivi continues the exhibit to the basement floor with “Money machine (true blue, baby I love you)”, a blue stainless steel box that spits out cash and coins on the hour.

Words and pictures by Leila Samïi

Galerie Perrotin
909 Madison Avenue
New York, NY 10021
September 18th – October 26th
WWW.PERROTIN.COM

In its final days, Le Corbusier exhibition: An Atlas of Modern Landscapes takes visitors on a retrospective journey through the influential oeuvre of Swiss born architect Charles-Édouard Jeanneret (1887-1965).  The first major exhibition to honor Le Corbusier at the Museum of Modern Art, the exhibit showcases Jeanneret’s megalomaniacal work as an architect, interior designer, writer, artist, city planner, and photographer. From Jeanneret’s animated urban plans for Algiers to the precise model for the iconic Villa Savoye, guest curator Jean-Louis Cohen emphasized Le Corbusier’s focus on the modular dialogue between the interior and exterior in all of the pieces on display. Pieces such as the seashells Jeanneret collected from his seaside property on the gulf of Monte Carlo, juxtaposed with the French mountaintop chapel at Ronchamp whose sculpted concrete roof largely resembles a shell itself distinctly exemplify the architects fascination with the interplay between indoor space and its natural surroundings.
The exhibit was on view at MoMA through September 23rd before moving to Barcelona and Madrid next year.

Words and photographs by Leila Samii

MOMA
11 W 53rd St
New York, NY 10019
USA

Architecture and ray of light effecs at the MOMA museum, New York city.

MOMA
11 W 53rd St, New York, NY 10019

Photo. Charles Mercier

Le Venus over Manhattan est LE nouvel espace New Yorkais dédié à l’art. Situé sur Madison avenue, dans le même building que la fameuse Gagosian gallery, ce lieu d’échange artistique proposera des évènements hors normes grâce à des collaborations avec des artistes, des marchands, des collectionneurs, des conservateurs et d’autres institutions liées à ce domaine. Il a ouvert ses portes il y a quelques mois et présente son troisième show sans demi mesure. Peter Coffin, artiste emblématique de l’art contemporain américain (représenté par Perrotin) est à l’honneur et nous dévoile ses récents travaux à travers une exposition intitulée A,E,I,O,U à la hauteur de son talent, on peut le dire : énorme… Entre son (un haut parleur diffuse des cris d’animaux en boucle), vidéo (la projection d’un feu de bois défile sur un mur), sculpture, dessin et (genre de) peinture, le cheminement entre chacune de ses oeuvres se savoure tandis que nos sens s’éveillent les uns après les autres (ou tous en même temps).
Il s’agit d’une vraie bouffée d’air frais où l’humour ne manque pas d’air !

Peter Coffin – A,E,I,O,U
September 21th – November 2nd 2012
Venus over Manhattan
980 Madison Avenue, 3rd Floor
New York, USA
venusovermanhattan.com

Photo. Manon Gorgé

Il y a quelques semaines avait lieu à New York, la première édition de Pop Souk. Un marché pas comme les autres où tout un monde créatif et extravagant se réunissait pour vendre, échanger et partager d’incroyables trésors. L’occasion rêvée de dénicher son costume pour Halloween ou d’agrandir sa garde robe de pièces uniques, customisées ou vintage. Cet évènement soutenu par Oak, StyleLikeU et Patricia Field, était un vrai moment jubilatoire pour les curieux et un lieu de rencontre fascinant pour les modeux! Coup de coeur particulier pour Chromat, jeune marque à suivre…

Pop Souk
Hiro Ballroom
NYC
popsouk.com

Photo. Manon Gorgé

5 POINTZ NY
Considéré comme “la Mecque du graffiti”, le 5 Pointz (Aerosol Art Center) est un lieu d’exposition unique à ciel ouvert où les graffeurs du monde entier viennent poser leurs empreintes. Située dans le Queens à Long Island  et sur prés de 20 000 m², l’ ancienne usine désaffectée accueille et loue des ateliers à des centaines d’ artistes. Ouvert au public, cet immense espace, sur lequel il est désormais difficile de voir la couleur des murs d’origine, est devenu un lieu incontournable des visiteurs de New York. Créé en 1993 pour lutter contre le vandalisme urbain, si le 5 Pointz n’a pas réussi ce pari, il aura le mérite d’avoir valoriser l’art de rue.

Regarded as “the Mecca of graffiti”, 5 Pointz (Aerosol Art Center) is a unique exhibition in open space where graffiti artists from all over the world ask their footprints. Located in the Queens in Long Island city, spread on 20 000m², the old abandoned factory hosts workshops and rents hundreds of artists. Open to the public, this huge space, on which it is now difficult to see the original color of the walls, has become a must for visitors to New York. Established in 1993 to fight against urban vandalism, if the 5 Pointz failed this challenge, it will enhance the merit of street art.

Photo. Manon Gorgé

Diane Arbus (New York, 1923-1971) a révolutionné l’art de la photographie ; l’audace de sa thématique, aussi bien que son approche photographique ont donné naissance à une œuvre souvent choquante par sa pureté, par cette inébranlable célébration des choses telles qu’elles sont. Par son talent à rendre étrange ce que nous considérons comme extrêmement familier, mais aussi à dévoiler le familier à l’intérieur de l’exotique, la photographe ouvre de nouvelles perspectives à la compréhension que nous avons de nous-mêmes…