Need some inspiration for getting ready in the morning that doubles as a coffee table book by night? Guido Palau is the most in-demand hairstylist for editorials and runways such as Calvin Klein, Alexander Wang and Marc Jacobs. His new book “Hair” features 70 avant-garde hairstyles, styled by the top hair artist and trendsetter himself and shot by David Sims.

Written by Guido Palau, Text by Andrew Bolton and Tim Blanks, Photographed by David Sims
Published by Rizzoli

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This Saturday, September 13th, abstraction artist KAWS will open his third exhibit at the Honor Fraser Gallery with an opening reception beginning at 6pm.

“Man’s Best Friend” features drawings, paintings, and sculptures of KAWS’ versions of Charles M. Schulz’s popular 1950’s comic series, “Peanuts,” and Spongebob Squarepants paying homage to the Abstract Expressionism of the 1950’s.

The exhibit will run through October 31st.

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2622 S La Cienega Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90034

Following the release of their 2012 critically acclaimed self-titled album, the Allah-Las and producer Nick Waterhouse have been pouring themselves into the band’s newest offering. “Worship the Sun” presents an even more fine-tuned brand of the Allah-Las’s West coast garage rock, latin percussion and electric folk fusion.

“Worship the Sun” is out via Innovative Leisure, September 16.

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Olivier Zahm, cofounder of avant-garde Purple magazine and artistic director for fashion brands such as Saint Laurent, has released his first ever “visual autobiography” which he described as “very emotional and very personal”. “O.Z. Diary” provides raw, playful voyeurism from Zahm’s personal photography archives, as it navigates the parties, people, and events that culminate the past ten years of Zahm’s life.

Written by Olivier Zahm, Text by Glenn O’Brien and Donatien Grau
Published by Rizzoli

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Congratulations to Issue contributor Jay Ezra Nayssan on the opening show at his gallery in West Los Angeles!

Del Vaz Projects is an exhibition space and residency project within Nayssan’s apartment. As an informal, alternative setting for art, Del Vaz Projects encourages art dialogue within domestic space. The name of the gallery derives from the Farsi phrase “dast-o-del vaz”, meaning open-handed and open-hearted.

Current exhibition:

“Bathymetry”
Participating artists Spencer Ashby, Liz Craft, Carson Fisk-Vittori, Natalie Jones, Daniel Keller, Spencer Longo, Benjamin Phelan and Max Hooper Schneider

On view until November 22.

For more information, visit the gallery’s site : delvazprojects.com

Del Vaz Projects,
1600 Westgate Ave. Apt #208, Los Angeles, CA 90025

A former Riot Grrrl turned new mother experiencing postpartum depression gradually befriends a wheelchair-bound teenager in “Kelly & Cal”, a new comedy drama by director Jen McGowan. The film stars Juliette Lewis and Jonny Weston as unlikely friends each navigating the frustrations of their circumstances.

In U.S. theaters September 5.

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Performance artist, writer, actress, all-round creative pioneer Miranda July has done it again. Her new iPhone app, Somebody, connects experimental art to social networking, confessional culture, and technology and aims to bring people together.

Sponsored by Miu Miu and co-presented by the New Museum, the messaging app will allow the user to have a personal message delivered to someone they know, but by a stranger, in person. The stranger physically nearest the intended recipient will receive the message and let them know what you want them to know IRL. The stranger will have to follow directions, be that hugging the person, proposing to the person, or otherwise.

It’s kind of a natural extension of all of July’s previous work and yet, at the same time, utterly surprising and fresh. She hopes at least some of these deliveries will get recorded and shared. LACMA will be a Somebody “hotspot” where you will be guaranteed to see members pass along messages, although any social gathering can be a hotspot. September 11th will see a launch event at LACMA with July making a video presentation.

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No one from Russia has done as much as designer, photographer and filmmaker Gosha Rubchinskiy to define the aesthetic of post-Soviet youth and bring it into global conversation. “Crimea/Kids” documents Rubchinskiy’s lense into the world of Crimea’s boys and girls skating, loitering, smoking in their natural habitat of Soviet relics.

Published by IDEA Books