[July 9 2014]
In May 2014, the world celebrated the hundredth birthday of musician, bandleader, composer and thinker, Sun Ra, whose terrestrial existence began in Birmingham, Alabama in 1914 and ended in 1993. Sun Ran was a jazz musician who combined a sense of vangaurdism and tradition in equal measures, reveling in the pageantry and buoyancy of 1920s big-bands like Fletcher Henderson and Duke Ellington, while forging new paths by introducing synthesizers and open improvisation into jazz. His legendary ensemble, the Arkestra – alternately dubbed the Myth-Science Arkestra and the Omniverse Jet Set Arkestra amongst other descriptive monikers – was his vehicle into musical space, formed in the early 1950s and still performing 21-years after his passing, now under the leadership of saxophonist Marshall Allen. Photo Elise Gallant
Hawkesworth Jamie
Tomoo Gokita “PEEKABOO” exhibition opening and after party at Tokyo Opera City...
Slutever
Sex Fashion
Balenciaga
Nigora in Los Angeles
See Yasmine Eslami’s new S/S 2018 swimwear campaign
BIRKENSTOCK BOX x Rick Owens Launch Party at Rick Owens, Los Angeles
Sofie in the Dutch fields
PRADASPHERE II, an exhibition at the Start Museum Shangai
Alphajewels in an alphacell a collaboration between Charlotte Chesnais and M/M (Paris)
“Told A Vision” a film by Chloe Wise
William Eggleston
Michael Hemy in Ishigaki, Japan
“Aldo Fallai for Giorgio Armani, 1977 – 2021” curated by Giorgio Armani,...
“Revolution 9” an exhibition by Homma Takashi at the Tokyo Photographic Art...
Juergen Teller “The Myth” opened on November 30th 2023 at Suzanne Tarasieve...
A–COMPANY PREFALL 2024 COLLECTION PRESENTED IN A STAGING OF ANTIGONE BY Daphné...
© Purple Institute