WELCOME BACK TO SEASON TICKETS
NYC TODAY: COOKIES CLASSIC’ 21 (HAPPENING NOW)
Our friends and fantasy basketball colleagues Ben and Kuo aka Cookies HOOPS are throwing a basketball tournament today in NYC, there’s a great line up of teams who will be competing to be crowned the most elite & ethical team of the day, also be sure to check their forthcoming book The Joy of Basketball
LA(EASTSIDE)TODAY: POWERS(SUPPLY) EXTENDED PLAY
THE FAIRLY RECENTLY RELOCATED ERIC ELMS HELMED POWERS IS HOSTING AN EVENT WITH SOME PALS TONIGHT, COME EAT PIZZA, DRINK WINE AND LISTEN TO SOME GREAT TUNES. IN ADDITION TO ALL OF THE AMAZING POWERS PRODUCT THEY ALSO CARRY GASIUS, FULL COURT PRESS AND OUR CURRENT OBESSESION AGARIC FLY
LA(WESTSIDE)TODAY: BROTHERX2 SPIRAL
OUR FRIENDS AND LA STOCKIST BROTHER BROTHER ARE HOSTING OUR COLLEAGUES IN QUALITY SPORT CULTURE PUBLISHING AKA RAD MAG SPIRAL FOR A HANG WITH YAKITORI, EXCLUSIVE MERCH AND GOOD TIMES 6-9PM, WHILE YOU’RE THERE CHECK THEIR STOCK OF JAPANESE PUBLICATIONS, NEW HATS, SHORTS AND IF YOU’RE LUCKY THEY MIGHT HAVE SOME FRANCHISE FALL ITEMS REMAINING, WINTER IS COMING…
ON AIR - NTS ON FIRE AS USUAL
LA TOMORROW
Jeffrey Deitch and Black Rock Senegal (@blackrocksenegal) are thrilled to announce 𝙎𝙀𝙇𝙁-𝘼𝘿𝙍𝙀𝙎𝙎𝙀𝘿, an exhibition of self-portraits by contemporary African artists curated by Kehinde Wiley.For this landmark exhibition, @kehindewiley has invited a selection of contemporary African artists living throughout the world to each produce a self-portrait. Together these portraits will present a new exploration of identity, perception, and self-regard within the global stage through the lens of figuration, exploring notions of perspective, authorship and control within acts of expression that directly address the self. This collection of self-portraits will offer an examination of the myth of the monolithic ‘Africa’ and an exploration of contemporary artists’ visual definitions of what it means to be ‘African’ or ‘of Africa.’
Taste, precisely because it’s an intensely subjective matter we feel compelled to make others agree with, is awash in bad feeling. The buzzkill always has the advantage over the ardent fan, an advantage the literary theorist Gérard Genette called the “authority of the negative.” The question “How can you like this?” is, he noted, always more disturbing than “How can you dislike this?” The quickest way out of this bad feeling is to imitate your naysayer: surrender your taste, learn to despise, or to believe that you despise, what you had previously enjoyed. (More bad feeling, of a new variety, ensues.)