New York-based artist and photographer Jack Pierson came to attention in the 90s as part of a group known as the Boston School—a circle of young photographers who met in 70s Boston before relocating to New York in the 80s and eventually becoming prominent artists. Pierson has since remained a prominent artist with his work in the collections of MoMa, the Whitney Museum of American Art and major museums worldwide. Jack Pierson: The Hungry Years compiles his early photographs taken throughout the 1980s before Pierson had emerged on the art scene. Featuring Boston School artists and friends and informed in part by the 80s AIDS epidemic, the photographs in The Hungry Years are largely autobiographical and showcase the combination of homoeroticism, seduction, glamour and traditional American motifs which have steadily underpinned Pierson’s art. (Damiani)

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Award-winning British documentary photographer, photojournalist and photobook creator Martin Parr has a knack for capturing local color while apprehending the universal thread of human eccentricity. A member of Magnum Photos since 1994, Parr has published around 40 solo books, in addition to many collaborative books, and has featured in exhibitions worldwide, including his touring exhibition, ParrWorld. His newest book, Martin Parr: Think of Scotland, accumulates 25 years of largely unpublished photographs into a comprehensive yet idiosyncratic perspective of modern-day Scotland. Think of Scotland offer an anthropological, satirical and intimate record of Scottish culture, incorporating classic iconography such as the Highland Games, landscapes and bagpipes alongside more absurd scenes. The book’s release is simultaneous with Parr’s current Think of Scotland exhibition at the newly reopened Aberdeen Art Gallery. (Damiani)

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The latest film from critically acclaimed director Todd Haynes, Wonderstruck deftly toggles between time periods as it tells the story of a young boy in the Midwest and a young girl in New York fifty years earlier, both of whom are seeking the same mysterious connection. Adapted from the best-selling novel of the same name, the drama stars Julianne Moore, Michelle Williams and Oakes Fegley, and won Haynes Best Director at Cannes. (Amazon Studios)

›› ISSUE Feature: Todd Haynes in conversation with Gus Van Sant

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A man who plays God for a living meets a boy who chooses to play Devil in this chilling and cerebral psychological thriller from lauded Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos. The film, which won Best Screenplay at Cannes, marks the second collaboration between Lanthimos and Colin Farrell, following 2015’s The Lobster. This powerful and near biblical tale of unthinkable sacrifice also stars Nicole Kidman, Alicia Silverstone and newcomer Barry Keoghan. (A24)

›› ISSUE Feature: Yorgos Lanthimos interview on The Lobster

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An American-British-Canadian drama directed by Benedict Andrews and based on the critically acclaimed play Blackbird by David Harrower, Una is a dark drama that delves into a confrontation between a woman and the man who sexually abused her when she was thirteen years old. Starring Rooney Mara, Ben Mendelsohn, Riz Ahmed, and talented newcomer Ruby Stokes, this tightly focused and unflinching film embraces the dark and twisting, dealing with the long-simmering consequences and raw wounds stemming from a sexual relationship between an adult and child. At times disturbing and difficult to watch, Una paints a complex and harrowing portrait of the multi-faceted nature of abuse, featuring captivating performances from both Mara and Mendelsohn. (Film4 Productions)

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Australian Grammy nominee Courtney Barnett and musician Kurt Vile have announced a full-length collaborative album entitled Lotta Sea Lice. The album results from the pair’s mutual admiration of each other’s music and subsequent friendship, apparent in the personal history and humor woven into its tracks. Contributors include Mick Turner and Jim White of the Dirty Free, Warpaint drummer Stella Mozgawa and Aussie music icon Mick Harvey. Barnett and Vile will embark on a North American tour to perform the album as well as their respective classics, backed by their band The Sea Lice. Comprised of some of this generation’s indie elites, The Sea Lice include Stella Mozgawa, Janet Weiss of Sleater-Kinney and Wild Flag, Rob Laakso from Vile’s band The Violators and musician Katie Harkin of Harkin, Sky Larkin, Sleater-Kinney and Wild Beasts. (Matador Records)

›› ISSUE Feature: Kurt Vile interview by Matty McLoughlin

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Recovering from a heartbreaking and very public divorce, independent filmmaker and son of an Italian Prince Tao Ruspoli takes to the road to talk to his relatives, advice columnists, psychologists, historians, anthropologists, artists, philosophers, sex workers, sex therapists, and ordinary couples about love, sex & monogamy in our culture. What he discovers about his very unconventional family, and about the history and psychology of love and marriage leads him to question the ideal of monogamy, and the traditional family values that go with it. Featuring Dan Savage, Stephanie Koontz, and Christopher Ryan, the documentary chronicles sex, love and marriage in the 21st century in a way that is both bold and thought provoking. (Abramorama)

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Best known as frontman of the New York rock band Parquet Courts, musician A. Savage is releasing his debut solo album Thawing Dawn via his own label, Dull Tools. The album seemingly picks up where Parquet Court’s last album Human Performance left off, with its tracks detailing heartbreak. Savage fell in love while recording Thawing Dawn, a theme that weaves throughout the album as the lyrics try to untangle the mysteries of love with all-female back-up vocals and pedal steel guitar. Contributors to the album include band members of Woods, Ultimate Painting and Psychic TV, among others. (Dull Tools)

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