Shanti Celeste: Melbourne Deepcast Mix

MoMA PS1’s annual Warm Up series has always guaranteed a steamy summer Saturday dance affair in Long Island City, and they’ve pulled all the stops for their 20th anniversary on international names you need to know. Set the mood with longtime NTS fixture and renowned party-starter Shanti Celeste’s hour-long mix for Melbourne Deepcast—she’ll be performing at the kick-off, on 1 July—and check out the full …

New African Photography II

The second annual exhibition of emerging African artists shows personal reflection of their home turf

In an impressive exhibition of visual artists on the rise, Brooklyn’s Red Hook Labs and London-based Nataal Media have teamed up for the second consecutive year to co-curate “New African Photography II.” The display coincides with the illustrious 1:54 Contemporary Art Fair—a reference to the 54 countries that comprise the continent—which has traveled from Somerset House to New York’s Pioneer Works this week. “This is …

Louis De Belle’s Portraits of NYC Commuters

Creases, sweat spots and stains on clothing makes up Milan-born photographer Louis De Belle’s “Cartographies” series. The photographs are unconventional, close-up portraits that show very specific details which reveal information about the subject. He tells It’s Nice That, “The idea reducing visual information to a minimum, by isolating pedestrians’ clothing, originated from a personal interest for drapery, the depiction of folds of cloth in sculpture …