Briá Purdy

What happens when a military archive becomes a fashion lexicon? One year on, Matthieu Nicol’s Fashion Army shows us. Almost a year ago, cultural collector Matthieu Nicol released Fashion Army, his second book drawn from a corpus of 14,000 US Army photographs.

Fanny Howe was born in 1940, during a lunar eclipse in Buffalo, New York. Howe is a writer with a style that melds poetry with prose and her intention is to avoid clarity in expression. Her novella, Holy Smoke, recounts a mother’s pilgrimage to find her daughter, Pepsi. On route,  we, as readers, are swept up in a philosophical meditation on neurosis, spirituality and political rhetoric during a historical period of fractured politics and latent neurosis.

Judy’s Death is a curatorial project and temporary exhibition space founded by Hugo Bausch Belbachir. Operating between New York City and Paris, it has presented work by artists including Alvin Baltrop, Tony Cokes, Moyra Davey, Julius Eastman, Cosey Fanni Tutti, Kim Gordon, Chris Kraus, Michael Krebber, Mark Morrisroe, and Adrian Piper. As a critic, Bausch Belbachir has contributed to publications such as Flash Art, Frieze, 032c, and Texte zur Kunst.