Photographer Ryan McGingley’s latest additions are a continuation of his glossy themes — same adventurous tits, fireworks and flying taints — yet… it isn’t provoking my irritable banter syndrome, what gives? It’s almost scientific how these bright hues and jiggling shapes are smooshing up harmoniously, albeit artificially. A tad too much saturation there, Ry, that one dude looks like he’s drowning in piss. Read more »
That far-fetched copyright lawsuit against Ryan McGinley and his alleged biting of 150 of photos from photog Janine Gordon has been dismissed as expected, as per the judge’s decision (PDF) — “the dictates of good eyes and common sense lead inexorably to the conclusion that there is no substantial similarity between Plaintiff’s works and the allegedly infringing compositions of McGinley.” Oh, and it’s worth a read. Proceed to juicy bits. Read more »
Photographer Janine “Jah Jah” Gordon is suing Ryan McGinley and Levi’s for stealing her ideas and the “style, idea, composition, backgrounds, foregrounds, expressions, gestures” from her work. She claims he’s been ripping her since the ’90s and wants $30,000 for each of the 150 times he’s allegedly done so. Read more »
Ryan McGinley’s new photo series is chockfull of pretty artifice, tits with sparklers, butts with fowl and sun-streaked naked people, spontaneously tossed taint-first over ethereal landscapes. Life Adjustment Center at San Francisco’s Ratio 3 Gallery is 1/2 monochrome emotional bestiality and 1/2 “exuberance, optimism, and power of youth” in color. It kind of makes you want to take a road trip with lots of bored, naked, fire-repellent friends. Photos below. Read more »
Earlier, Ryan McGinley’s had M.I.A. jumping through basketball hoops and prancing around NYC’s impromptu street fires. After Lynn Hirschberg’s NYT feature presented M.I.A. as a bourgeois, under-informed political poseur (even giving M.I.A.’s ex Diplo a chance to rag on her “terrorist shtick”), M.I.A. got all mad and Tweeted the journalist’s personal cell number. Counterproductive: The story picked even more steam since. Hey, at least she still looks cute in the pictures. See them below. Read more »
Dubbed “the less creepy Terry Richardson,” Ryan McGinley expectedly drew an obnoxious, canned crowd last night at the opening party for his new show at Team Gallery “Everybody Knows This is Nowhere.” The well-connected photographer is known for stripping down the fashionably unkempt down to their tattoos. This time, he strips them of his signature aesthetic as well. Peek a preview of plain, pretty snaps of naked skinny scene kids with good hair. Read more »
Christie’s is auctioning off a collection of contemporary art that includes Dash Snow’s cheap leather sofa and other oddities. A gift from his friend, photographer Ryan McGinley, the old couch lived in Snow’s LES apartment where it was excavated in a fruitless search for a mythical bag of coke. Snow later planted a palm tree and various other drug den decorations in the hole he and McGinley dug and titled it “This Was Your Life.” The party mess was exhibited at the now closed Rivington Arms Gallery in 2005, sold to collector Charles Saatchi, and is estimated to be worth between $40,000 and $55,000. Also up for bid at the Post-War & Contemporary Art auction on October 17th in London is a tattooed pig by Wim Delvoye, a couple of trashy fucking rats, a $30k FAILE painting and Damien Hirst’s statue of a girl with a broken leg, featured after the jump. Read more »
Going underground for his latest exhibition, Ryan McGinley stays focused on young, naked models in the wild. This September, the New York-based photographer opens “Moonmilk,” an exhibition of photos in caves across America at London’s Alison Jacques Gallery. The show opens September 10th but you can preview some of McGinley’s work below. Read more »
Having survived a monstrous forest fire, Disney’s Bambi lives on to help noted vegan Stella McCartney sell her special brand of fur-friendly fashions this Fall/Winter. I honestly don’t have a fucking clue how animated woodland creatures will help McCartney sell clothing, but I do love the tension in the ad; by which I mean, well, that bored-looking fox would viciously devour the cute little fawn and all his friends, especially meaty plump Thumper, getting blood all over Sigrid Agren, the even more bored-looking model. That’s a layout I’d like to see. The campaign was shot by Ryan McGinley, who lensed the worst jeans ads ever created—the French “We Are Animals” Wrangler campaign. |Image: All The Rage/LA Times|
In these French ads, The US jeans maker is apparently trying to shed its cowboy image and reposition Wranglers as Diesel. And, to the eyes of this Irish adman, they fail dreadfully. Yes, “we are animals.” Animals with cognitive ability. Animals who can look at these ads that say “we are animals” and respond ‘WHAT?” I know: it’s fashion advertising. But there are good WTF fashion ads and there are idiotic WTF fashion ads. And signing off these ads with rope-type Wrangler logo kinda kills the faux-edgy mood, doesn’t it? The guilty ad agency, FFL Paris, also produced this animated, hyper-sexual animal commercial for Orangina. So…maybe one or more of the partners has a bestiality fetish? Here’s the pretentious, overproduced TV spot of the campaign. And after the jump, you can view a 2nd print ad with another maybe-dead, waterborne female “animal” (muskrat?) showing ass crack, of course.
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