THE COACHELLA DIARIES, PART 2

I hate to break it to you, but if you are not in Palm Springs this weekend, you are missing out on one of the best outdoor festivals in the world. The line-up for the 2010 Coachella festival is unprecedented. And for me personally a dream come true. Over the next three days, four of […]

The first thing you notice when you step off the small twin-prop airplane in Page, Arizona, is the power plant. Its three smokestacks piercing the vibrant blue sky, the coal-burner sits in otherworldly contrast to the surrounding red desert. Still, it keeps its distance, and after a few days, it becomes just as much a […]

American war reporting is going through a strange phase at the moment. With soldier-produced images and text so easily and readily available—and, often, so poignant—the idea of journalists and photographers giving us in-the-thick-of-it reportage seems anachronistic. Aren’t all those pros just hanging out in some hotel in Baghdad drinking whiskey, forming alliances and cultivating throwback […]

Dance on film has more than its fair share of detractors: as with any performance, the artifact often cannot compare to the live experience. Ready to silence the critics, and perhaps bring the feelings around dance documentation to a different place, are New York City Ballet soloists Ellen Bar and Sean Suozzi. Their new film, […]

The environmentalist Edward Abbey once said, “You can’t study the darkness by flooding it with light,” but David Nye is out to prove him wrong. In his new book, When the Lights Went Out, Nye traces the 20th-century significance of a blanket of night falling over society. The imposed blackouts during World War II make […]

This world is filled with too many people who are content with being empty. Yet, every now and then, an underground wildcard pops up, full of intrigue and ready to redeem everything. Band of Bikers, a photo book recently published by PowerHouse (and a must-see photo exhibition opening tonight), is a collection of photographs that the poet and gallerist Scott […]

We are proud to present a unique film collaboration between The Last Magazine and Y-3: The Third Wave. Directed by The Last Magazine’s Magnus Berger and co-directed by Jacob Sutton (who also photographed still images from the project, which appear in our new issue), the film will be shown on thelast-magazine.com and in Y-3 stores world-wide. The Third Wave […]

The inconsistencies and broken promises of Hawaii are fascinating. A godlike postcard of beauty made mortal by greed, war, drugs and development, Hawaii illustrates the human condition at its most destructive. For every perfect beach and unforgotten native tradition, there’s a shady real estate deal gone wrong, a tourist-trap hotel claiming an unspoiled landscape’s chastity, […]

Every gallery has a Gallery Girl. They sit in their white cubes, answering the phones and making copies, catering to the inflated egos of their bosses, clients, and artists. Mary Blakemore, who knows from experience, began chronicling their goings-on in October 2008 in her photographic comic strip “Gallery Girls,” which Blakemore says is “a fantasy […]