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Everyone should see this exhibition. You know this. So go and tell us what you think!

Andy Warhol: The Last Decade
June 18–September 12, 2010

Andy Warhol: The Last Decade is the first U.S. museum survey to examine the late work of American artist Andy Warhol (1928–1987). Encompassing nearly fifty works, the exhibition reveals the artist’s vitality, energy, and renewed spirit of experimentation. During this time Warhol produced more works, in a considerable number of series and on a vastly larger scale, than at any other point in his forty-year career. It was a decade of great artistic development for him, during which a dramatic transformation of his style took place alongside the introduction of new techniques.

Warhol continued to expand upon his artistic and business ventures with commissioned portraits, print series, television productions, and fashion projects, but he also reengaged with painting. In the late 1970s, he developed a new interest in abstraction, first with his Oxidations and Shadows series and later with his Yarn, Rorschach, and Camouflage paintings. His return to the hand-painted image in the 1980s was inspired by collaborations with Jean-Michel Basquiat, Francesco Clemente, and Keith Haring. The exhibition concludes with Warhol’s variations on Leonardo da Vinci’s The Last Supper, one of the largest series of his career. Together, these works provide an important framework for understanding Warhol’s late career by looking at how he simultaneously incorporated the screened image and pursued a reinvention of painting.

Good Sport | Isaora
By Bruce Pask

Isaora’s plaid waxed-cotton hoodie.

Bruce Pask, T Magazine’s men’s fashion director, writes on style every week.

There’s a new player on the technical sportswear scene: Isaora, a company with a name derived from the Spanish expression “ahora sí,” which loosely translates as “now’s the time.” The company’s founders — Marc Daniels, a high-tech vet, and the designer Ricky Hendry, formerly at Neil Barrett and Calvin Klein — set out to create a high-performance line of apparel with a fashionable point of view last year. Hendry and Daniels, who are both board-sport enthusiasts, grew frustrated with the baggy, bright and unsophisticated gear that is usually on display on the slopes.

In order to differentiate their line, they keep to a design cycle that is more in keeping with the fashion calendar than with the glacially evolving sports-gear world. They also decided to represent their brand with highly styled imagery that veers away from the extreme action photography common to the genre. A plaid waxed-cotton hoodie paired with sleek utility pocket pants are standouts for next spring, while a fall graphite gray pullover parka will be shipping now to Paragon Sports and Atrium in New York, as well as United Arrows in Tokyo.

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Interesting look from PSFK at a well known brand removing it's logo from the label.

A little while ago on PSFK we let you know about creative mastermind Rick Klotz’s new campaign to make Freshjive clothing logoless and brandless. PSFK spoke to the man behind the line himself to set the record straight and see what directions he’s planning on taking the company in the coming year- and what it really means for a brand to shed it’s identity. Additionally, Rick has provided PSFK with some exclusive images of his new logoless pieces and a glimpse into the Freshjive Studio.

PSFK: I guess first off, can you tell me how you formed the company and what your original vision for it was?

RK: I started Freshjive in 1989 while attending my last year in art school here in Los Angeles. I was really into skateboarding all my life, and then snowboarding and surfing. And I was immersed in the Los Angeles punk rock scene in the very early 80s, and then the club and rap music culture of the mid to late 80s. And I always had an interest in men’s style and fashion. But I couldn’t see myself designing actual “men’s fashion” and the skate and surf clothes at the time didn’t appeal to me. Just wasn’t my vibe. So I naively started Freshjive with t shirts and shorts to more reflect the mixed influences of my life at the time. I must admit that I was way too inexperienced to have some sort of “vision” of what I was doing. I was just kind of figuring it out along the way.

PSFK: Do you believe that the new logoless-less label is in itself a new logo? Are you trying to completely un-brand Freshjive and have it be an anonymous line, or are you trying to reign- in the image of Freshjive through taking away it’s logo recognition? Is this the end of the Freshjive logo or just a redesign?

RK: Well the new logoless label can be considered a logo in itself. But it’s not quite new, as it’s just the same labeling we’ve been running on our garments, less the brand name on it. Hopefully, the company will be anonymous on the retail floor, but it’s still the Freshjive company. It is some form of re-branding as opposed to an un-branding you can say, but it still is taking off the existing company logo/name which in one form or another, in various typefaces has been in use since 1989. Yes, you could say I am trying to reign-in the image of Freshjive through taking away its logo recognition. There’s a lot of baggage in the name, and I thought to myself I could just get rid of the baggage by just dropping the name. And a couple more things: 1) it just looks bitchin’ without any names on the labels. And 2) it’s a total mindfuck.