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The Michael Hoppen Gallery is delighted to announce their summer show: A Gallerist's Choice. Delving into their substantial holdings of unique photographs at the gallery, they have selected a stunning array of beautiful and rarely seen images to savour and enjoy. This is a rare opportunity to buy these seldom seen images. Works by Abelardo Morell, Peter Beard, William Klein, Alexander Rodchenko, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Roger Mayne, Desiree Dolron, Sarah Moon, Henri Cartier-Bresson and Fernand Fonssagrives among others are now hung, beautifully framed, in thier first floor gallery. London, Michael Hoppen Gallery, until August 31st.

Sexy and the City is a summer group show hosted by Yossi Milo Gallery. It shows the alluring, romantic and some­times scandalous side of New York's people and places. Capturing private, intimate moments and blatant displays of sexuality, these photographs span the decades from the 1940s to the present day, taken in landmark locations like the Brooklyn Bridge and in the quiet, out-of-the-way corners of the city. From Alfred Eisenstaedt's iconic image of a kissing couple in Times Square on V-J Day (here on the right), 1945, to Nan Goldin's drag queen on an anonymous New York street in the 1990s, from Garry Win­ogrand's topless woman surrounded by a crowd in Central Park to the homosexual couples photographed by Alvin Baltrop in the seclusion of the West Side piers, Sexy and the City celebrates diverse views of New York City passion. This show is part of the citywide exhibition New York Photographs. From Thursday, July 9, through Friday, August 28, 2009.

Black Math is the title of the next exhibition by Andy Gilmore. Bright swirling colors, intricately interwoven lines morphing into sleek harmonius forms - the mesmerizing kaleidescopic images of Rochester, New York-based multi-talent Andy Gilmore have a futuristic, almost alien feel to them. His designs transcend straight-forward aesthetic beauty, their forms inhabiting a realm of mathematical complexity, containing a certain geometric musicality. The "musicality" of his works is more than a coincidence - Andy Gilmore is also a musician. Deeply interested in the physics of sound and acoustics, his work reflects just that. In these pieces, Gilmore explores the physical properties of tone - the resonance of a single string creating a range of vibrations and sound waves, both audible and inaudible - and mirrors that relationship visually, producing complex images with overtones swimming through undertones, melodies dancing with accompaniment. Composed primarily of bold and bright colors on black backgrounds, Gilmore‘s hypnotic forms seem to hover like spacecrafts - out-of-this-world figures of elaborate and sophisticated design. More than a participant in the rising trend of digital art, Andy Gilmore is an innovator, dreaming up works that, without computers, could not exist. Andy Gilmore currently lives and works in Rochester, New York. His graphic design clients include The New York Times, Dazed & Confused Magazine, Wire Magazine, and many others. Berlin, Pool Gallery. Opening on Friday, 10th from 7 pm and running until August 22nd.

The first edition of the Parklife Festival will be held in Milan at the Circolo Arci Park Magnolia on July 21-22 2009. The location chosen for Parklife Festival is the natural frame of the Segrate-Milano Idroscalo. It's a two days event dedicated to independent music from the international scene, an event whose organization is aimed to look like the great european camp meetings. The two days entry fee is 10 euros per day, as never before for such a high value content manifestation.

This summer event will be able to keep people back in touch with the new independent music and nature, ten hours of live music on three stages with the most important artists from the alternative scene, international indie and electro as well as all night dj set. The concerts start in the afternoon both the days to run all night.

July 21st: Pontiak (USA) / The Horrors (UK) / Caribou (Canada) / Arbouretum (USA) / Joe Gideon and The Shark (UK) / The Chap (UK) / Ebony Bones! (UK) and many more to be announced. July 22th: Cornershop (UK) / Piano Magic (UK) / Rolo Tomassi (UK) / Monotonix (Isr - USA) / Dent May and his Magnificent Ukulele (USA) / Bleech (UK) / Sleepy Sun (USA) and many more to be announced.