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The digital camera as film camera revolution is here to stay and Tokion is there to throw a party for the movement with Imperfect As They Are, a showcase of video art and home movies shot with the digital Harinezumi camera at the New Museum. Featuring works created by Charlotte Gainsbourg, Kim Gordon (Sonic Youth), Miranda July (Me, You and Everyone We Know), Harmony Korine (Gummo), Erroll Morris (The Fog of War), Chan-Wook Park (Oldboy) and many more.

Click here or flyer below to RSVP.

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Our NY/LA homie Ito resurfaces at Saturdays Surf in New York along with a selection of his latest photos for the premiere of the short documentary on Grain Surfboards.

From the case sensitive Ito:

“please come to our casio event at SATURDAYS SURF on thursday evening.
we’ll be premiering the short documentary on GRAIN SURFBOARDS we shot in yorke, maine.
also exhibiting my photos.

after this event,
our documentary will be showing on the following sites:
surfline
surfer magazine
transworld surfing
foam“

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For the east coasters who weren’t able to view Giant Robot’s Biennale 2: 15 Years at the Japanese American National Museum, you’ll soon be able to see what made Giant Robot’s anniversary show such a success as Prints and Pieces comes to GRNY this Saturday.

Among the artists featured will be Takashi Murakami, Chiho Aoshima, David Choe, Ai Yamaguchi, David Horvath, Dehara, and Le Merde.

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Rosson Crow, the talented young woman from Texas, goes boy crazy as her show Bowery Boys “explores the history of “bad boys” in underground art and as an agent of culture in New York City”. Opening tomorrow night at New York’s Deitch Projects.

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As The Armory Show and PULSE art fairs make their annual return to New York this weekend, a couple of Los Angeles galleries have joined in on buying and selling art fun with Roberts & Tilton of Culver City and West Hollywood’s M+B.

• Roberts & Tilton will be showcasing stalwarts such as Barry McGee, Ed Templeton and Kehinde Wiley among others at the aforementioned Armory Show.

Martin Denker

Alex Prager

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Tell Them Anything You Want, the brilliant short documentary on Maurice Sendak filmed by Spike Jonze and Lance Bangs during the making of Jonze’s adaptation of Where the Wild Things Are, will be playing theatrically one night only at New York’s IFC Center. This exclusive screening also concludes with a special Q&A session with directors Spike Jonze and Lance Bangs.

And if you can’t make it out to NYC tonight, you can see Lance’s Q&A from The Cinefamily here.

More on Where the Wild Things Are:

• Tony Soprano vs. Where the Wild Things Are
• The Wild People Behind the Wild Things
• Wild Things Week Starts in a Vice
• A Tribute to Maurice Sendak
• What the Wild Things Sound Like
• Where the Wild Things Become Banners
• Where the Wild Things Are covered by the New York Times
• New Wild Things imagery, music, and interviews
• Where the Wild Things (Titles) are Made by McFetridge
• Where the Wild Things Are Featured in a Featurette
• Where the Wild Things Love You So
• Kubrick and Geoff McFetridge meet the Wild Things
• New Wild Things theatrical poster
  
• Where the Wild Things Are theatrical trailer and photo gallery
• One sheet poster and theatrical trailer info
• Wild Things skateboards and shoes

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Gabriel Reese’s (aka Specter) clever faux-advertising pieces can currently be seen around the streets of Brooklyn as they speak on what’s going on in the community as well as promoting MoCADA’s (Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts) group show The Gentrification of Brooklyn: The Pink Elephant Speaks which opens tomorrow night in, of course, Brooklyn.

Click here to see the entire set of Specter’s ads here via the wonderful Wooster Collective.

More from MoCADA:

“This exhibition, guest curated by Dexter Wimberly, will examine how urban planning, imminent domain, and real estate development are affecting Brooklyn’s communities and how residents throughout the borough are responding. The exhibition will include the works of several Brooklyn-based artists, as well as those who have been forced to relocate as a result of gentrification. In addition to works of art featured at MoCADA, there will be a schedule of public programs taking place throughout Brooklyn.”

Also…Read more about the show including Specter’s thought on the project here from The Brooklyn Paper.

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The brilliant Brazilian twin graffiti artists known as Os Gêmeos do D.I.Y. America for Aaron Rose’s latest installment for WKE.

Click here or the image below to see the twins in action in Episode five of D.I.Y. America.

An excerpt from the D.I.Y. America page:

“Os Gêmeos (Portuguese for “The Twins”) are identical twin brothers from São Paulo, Brazil. They started painting graffiti in 1987 and gradually became a major influence in the local scene, helping to define Brazil’s own style. Stylistically, Os Gêmeos are heavily influenced by the cryptic art of the São Paulo–based pixação graffiti movement as well as American hip-hop, which the twins grew up with in Brazil.”

Also…Flashback to 2008 for Cool Hunting’s piece on Os Gêmeos as they prepped their legendary Deitch Projects show beautifully filmed by the good man Tobin Yelland.

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Yo New York, Michael Rapaport took a break from editing the Tribe film with me out here in LA to head back east to host tonight’s diabetes fundraiser featuring the “funky diabetic” and guest of honor Phife Dawg, along with Ghostface Killah, Talib Kweli, Jay Electronica, Consequence and many more at the Knitting Factory in Brooklyn.

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New York’s Jonathan Levine Gallery pulls off a winning trifecta with Josh Keyes’ Fragment, Saelee Oh’s Infinite Roots and new works by Doze Green in three different rooms.

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