The new issue of Dazed & Confused features an exclusive series of Grace Jones portraits, shot by black magic video wizard Chris Cunningham. Naked, warped and disturbing, these ain’t your average press pics.
All images after the jump.(NSFW)

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It’s the feelgood art exhibit of the spring. Swiss artist Comenius Roethlisberger just dismantled his “Dearest constellation, sweetest invitation” installation at Colette. The controversial exhibit, celebrating the end of Paris A/W fashion week, featured logos of luxury brands written with a mix of sugar powder and cocaine, all presented in clear polyester resine boxes. You […]

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For all y’all Europeans/global owners of a private jet (I’m talking to you Kanye. I know you’re reading this.): So Me is putting together an exhibition in Paris, in collaboration with Vice, Ed Banger and Lazy Dog. There’s going to be a series of limited edition prints and T-shirts ONLY for sale at the venue. […]

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Aside from a few limited editions, there’s only three proper artworks I own. One is from Matthew Barney. One is from Futura. The other one is by David Shrigley. Shrigley will be releasing a 39-track cd with tracks inspired by his 2005 book ‘Worried Noodles’, featuring the likes of Grizzly Bear, Liars, Psapp and […]

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The book/art show beautiful losers has been the inspiration for a new documentary about street art and outsider art that made it into the galleries and mainstream culture, featuring the likes of Shepard Fairey (Obey), Harmony Korine, Kaws, Glen E. Friedman, Robert Crumb and Mike Mills.
Here’s the awesomely dumb trailer.

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Here’s some of the recent KNOTORYUS loot that made me feel all warm and fuzzy inside.

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So V2 sent us the new Black Francis album ‘Bluefinger’ last week and I’ve been listening to it non-stop. I’ve never been that much of a fan of his solo work, but as our colleagues at Stool Pigeon pointed out: this album is just fuckin’ awesome. The entire cd is a tribute to Dutch artist […]

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On 9/11 we celebrate the release of Kanye West’s third album ‘Graduation’.
He collaborated with Japanese artist Takashi Murakami on all the artwork. The two of them bonded over their shared love of LV leather goods. Takashi designed the multicolor monograms for Louis V a couple of years ago. The glasses are by Jeremy Scott […]

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This has been strangely addicting to me these past few weeks: the Swedish “band” The Tough Alliance are an art collective/political group pretending to be pop stars. This week marks their first official release in the US. The video above is for their new single: ‘Holiday’. Expect them to pop up in your favourite hipster/fashion […]

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When I first saw Blonde Redhead, founded by Kazu Makino and twin brothers Simone and Amadeo Pace, they were a pretty clumsy art band touring with their patrons, Sonic Youth. Singer Kazu was shrieking instead singing and the twins were… let’s just call it ‘experimental’. Nowadays, the band is known for hugely soaring tunes and […]

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