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HILTON ALS AT LAXART

“Hilton Als will present a new, unpublished text that is part of his ongoing body of work investigating various narratives of race and gender. The reading will be followed by a conversation between Als and poet Robin Coste Lewis,” an essayist and the Poet Laureate of the City of Los Angeles.*

(A conversation with Als will be published later this year in the forthcoming print issue of PARIS LA.)

HILTON ALS, Friday, June 29, at 7:30 pm.

LAXART, 7000 Santa Monica Boulevard, Los Angeles.

* laxart.org/events/hilton-als

See Hilton Als recent interview with Lisa Cohen in The Paris Review:

theparisreview.org/hilton-als-the-art-of-the-essay

Above: Hilton Als at The Artists Institute in 2016.

Below: Als. Image coutesy of the Steven Barclay Agency.

ARIANA REINES AND AMY GERSTLER AT LAXART

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This weekend, join longtime PARIS LA contributor Ariana Reines and L.A.-based writer Amy Gerstler for poetry and afternoon cocktails at LAXART.

I HEART POETRY AND DAY DRINKING—AMY GERSTLER AND ARIANA REINES READING, Saturday, June 9, at noon.

LAXART, 7000 Santa Monica Boulevard, Hollywood.

laxart.org/amy-gerstler-and-ariana-reines

Image credit: Ariana Reines.

TAYLOR MAC AT TOWN HALL

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In his first New York stage performance since his 24-hour show at St. Ann’s Warehouse a year ago, Taylor Mac brings HOLIDAY SAUCE to Town Hall.

“Christmas as calamity. Celebrating the holiday season in all of its dysfunction, Taylor Mac is joined by longtime collaborators designer Machine Dazzle, music director Matt Ray, and a band of eight to reframe the songs you love and the holidays you hate.”*

TAYLOR MAC—HOLIDAY SAUCE, Tuesday, December 12. Doors at 7:30.

TOWN HALL, 123 West 43rd Street, New York City.

* thetownhall.org/event/taylor-mac

See “A Time to be Born—Taylor Mac in Conversation with Barlo Perry,” PARIS LA 15:

cap.ucla.edu/data/files/general/PARIS_LA_15_Taylor_Mac

Taylor Mac in California, 2017. Photograph by Little Fang.

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WOLFGANG TILLMANS

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Two opportunities to see the work of Wolfgang Tillmans:

In his first exhibition at Tate Modern, a selection of photographs, recorded music, publications, videos, and digital slide projections by Tillmans since 2003 are now on view through the first week of June.

WOLFGANG TILLMANS: 2017, through June 11

TATE MODERN, Bankside, London

tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/exhibition/wolfgang-tillmans-2017

“What does this constant self-expression mean? Is that maybe a terror of self-expression?” — Wolfgang Tillmans*

“A thoughtful, intelligent confidence has guided his long, successful journey, but Wolfgang has claimed that he would be lost without the strong sense of doubt that defines his photography, from the representational documents of his community to his abstractions. He is highly engaged in the international discourse around politics and power. Yet, as he told writer Paul Flynn in 2009, ‘purposelessness is quite crucial to art.’ These contradictions are the connections that define Wolfgang’s body of work.”**

In its first large-scale show devoted to photography, the Fondation Beyeler will exhibit over 200 works from 1989 through 2017 by Tillmans, together with a new audiovisual installation.

WOLFGANG TILLMANS, May 28 through October 1.

FONDATION BEYELER, Baselstrasse 101, Basel

fondationbeyeler.ch/en/exhibitions/wolfgang-tillmans/

*”Sound and Vision: Wolfgang Tillmans in conversation with Dorothée Perret,” PARIS LA 15, Spring 2017, 53.

**Barlo Perry, “Sound and Vision” introduction.

Wolfgang Tillmans, La Palma, 2014 © Wolfgang Tillmans Image credit: Tate Modern

[NEW ISSUE]: PARIS LA 15—SPRING 17—MUSIC

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PARISLA 15—SPRING 2017—MUSIC

112-page color
English edition
$20/€18

I don’t write music. We never did. Sonic Youth never did. Our writing is sitting around and playing, and reforming it. — Kim Gordon

In America we have this history where we forgive the oppressor and vilify the outsider. — Taylor Mac

I mean, I see the life politic, the life that we live all together as people, is the sum of what people throw into their world. — Wolfgang Tillmans

The last twelve months have seen Wolfgang Tillmans’ return to music after a nearly thirty-year absence, Taylor Mac’s one-time-only 24-hour concert performance, and the first release of Kim Gordon’s music under her own name.

PARISLA 15—an issue devoted to music—brings together conversations with these artists, as well as interviews with Carrie Brownstein (with Kim Gordon), Josh Da Costa and Matt Fishbeck about Solid Rain, Pulitzer Prize-winning Caroline Shaw, art and music entrepreneur Aaron Bandaroff on Know Wave, and Chloé Maratta and Flannery Silva of Odwalla88 (joined by Dean Spunt of No Age).

Issue 15 also features a conversation between LA-based curators Sohrab Mohebbi and Aram Moshayedi, and writer Gaye Theresa Johnson about her first book Spaces of Conflict, Sounds of Solidarity: Music, Race, and Spatial Entitlement in Los Angeles, essays on Lady Tigra and on Black Sabbath’s final tour by Noah Lyon, Yelli Yelli in her own words, a piece by associate editor Evan Moffitt on Berlin and Bowie, an excerpt from The Standard Book of Color by Andrew Berardini, and a report from Standing Rock by Oscar Tuazon.