#lower east side
AUTUMN CAME EARLY TO THE L.E.S., AND WE STAYED OUT LATE … ALLEGEDLY.
Fall may still be a few seasons away, but some autumnal electricity was definitely in the air last Tuesday at the Ludlow Hotel, as Bonobos offered a select group of editors, writers, and gents about town a preview of the upcoming Fall ‘15 Collection. Bites came courtesy of the LES bistro Dirty French (the Boudain sausage arancini was effing spectacular), and the full line of denim, chinos, suits, and blazers was served up to a soundtrack provided by the Mattson 2. And while we can neither confirm nor deny such scuttlebutt, rumor has it that some attendees kept the festivities going into the wee hours down the street at Cake Shop. We wouldn’t know—we ate our vegetables, finished our homework, and definitely did not challenge any models to a one-armed push-up contest beside the bar. Nope. No way.
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Lower east side.
Samantha Giordano is a NY-based designer and founder of the freshly launched women’s label Dolores Haze. Her prep-school meets garage-grunge style caught our radar while she walked past a piece by Emily Noelle Lambert at the Lu Magnus gallery in New York’s Lower East Side. What we liked about her casual demeanor and cute frock was that neither were screaming for attention and yet they both made us come to a full, slack-jawed tire screech halt. When not modeling her designs for gallery-goers, the Columbia and Parsons grad is hustling between her home in Chinatown, sketching in her studio in Bushwick, meeting with seamstresses in Manhattan’s garment district, and sourcing fabrics in London’s garment district. (photo by Ashley Lake)
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For sale, needs some work.
6th Street between 1st Ave and Ave A, 1985
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Mask No. 1
David Wojnarowicz, ‘Arthur Rimbaud in New York’ series, 1978-79
Arthur Rimbaud in New York, one of David Wojnarowicz’s few incursions into photography, is the articulation of a testimony to urban, social and political change in New York.
Wojnarowicz, using the figure of the accursed poet as the only way for an artist to intervene in reality, chronicles his own life and his emotional relationship with New York City in the late 1970s. The artist portrays himself wearing a mask of the French poet Arthur Rimbaud, thereby taking on his identity and highlighting the parallels in their lives: the violence suffered in their youths, the feeling of being denied freedom, the desire to live far away from the bourgeois environment and the fact of their homosexuality. Wojnarowicz is juxtaposing the historical time of the symbolist poet with the artist’s present.
The series, taken in places that the artist used to frequent with photographer Peter Hujar, represents the emergence of identity politics and queer visibility in contemporary art, and the debates surrounding the public sphere as a space for individual non-conformity that were to shape the 1980s. The series also represents a contemplation of the end of the experimental artists’ collectives on the Lower East Side, as gentrification and urban speculation transformed the neighbourhood, and AIDS had begun to decimate the gay community, also causing the early death of the artist in 1992.
-Salvador Nadales
Update from ilimitablespaces:
“If I may add something to this, the model in the photos is actually Brian Butterick, David Wojnarowicz’s friend and sometime collaborator. This series was part of Wojnarowicz’s break into the art world but also among his first explorations of art as a personally expressive medium.”
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Soda Can Wall, Lower East Side by Liza Charlesworth
Looking north along Orchard Street from the corner of Rivington Street, with Teitel’s Pharmacy, 86 Rivington Street, on the right, 1920s.
Photo: Irving Browning via the NY Historical Society/Getty Images/Fine Art America
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