New York Textile Month
To promote the survival of the different textile expressions, the first ever New York Textile Month was initiated, a celebration of textiles all over the city and its boroughs…
To promote the survival of the different textile expressions, the first ever New York Textile Month was initiated, a celebration of textiles all over the city and its boroughs…
On the occasion of New York Design Week, Hermès of Paris presented its encounter with visionary Robert Wilson, the acclaimed Director and Visual Artist, in the heart of Chelsea, at Cedar Lake…
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum is now exhibiting “Beauty—Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial,” the fifth installment of the museum’s popular contemporary design exhibition series…
Before the launching of its own label AMOIA Studio in 2015, Samuel (Amoia) grew up traveling internationally and working with esteemed hoteliers like Ian Schrager and Andre Balazs…
Premiered on October 9, 2015 and lasting til January 6, 2016, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum hosts a retrospective — the first in the United States in more than thirty-five years and the most comprehensive in this country — devoted to the work of Italian artist Alberto Burri (1915–1995). Exploring the beauty and complexity of Burri’s process-based works, the exhibition positions the artist as a central protagonist of post–World War II art and revises traditional narratives of the cultural exchanges between the United States and Europe in the 1950s and ’60s. Burri broke with the gestural, painted surfaces of both American Abstract Expressionism and European Art Informel by manipulating unorthodox pigments and humble, prefabricated materials. A key figure in the transition from collage to assemblage, Burri barely used paint or brush, and instead worked his surfaces with stitching and combustion, among other signal processes. With his torn and mended burlap sacks, “hunchback” canvases, and melted industrial plastics, Burri often made allusions to skin and wounds, but in a purely abstract idiom. Bringing together more than …
Change of scene for the french maison Givenchy led by italian designer Riccardo Tisci. To celebrate the opening of its first store on Madison Avenue and the launch of the denim collection, for the first time the haute couture house chose to display its spring/summer collection in New York…