Ivy Style at FIT
The organizers of “Ivy Style” acknowledge that this clothing can seem “conservative, even static,” but they provide a detailed history of its evolution. A wall bears an amusing quotation from F. Scott...
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Ed Ruscha’s book projects–explained January marked the 50th anniversary of Ed Ruscha’s influential book “Twentysix Gasoline Stations,” in which Ruscha’s Route 66 road trip yielded a collection of...
View ArticleEye on Auctions
Asian Week Wonders New York auction houses present an astounding variety of top-quality items from India, Tibet, Japan and China during mid-March “Asia Week.” From archaic bronze vessels to modern...
View ArticleEye on Auctions
Photos and Fine Books loom large A spate of auctions cluster around the annual AIPAD (Association of International Photography Art Dealers) Show, April 4-7 (aipad.com), and the New York Antiquarian...
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Impressionists, Fashion and Modernity at the Met A big show founded on a simple idea, “Impressionism, Fashion, and Modernity” is like taking a gander at the walk-in closet of some very elegant people,...
View ArticleBlink First
Luigi Ghirri’s photographs give new perspective A few of the images in Luigi Ghirri’s “Kodachrome” series (on view now at the Matthew Marks gallery) are unexpectedly religious. A wooden bench with a...
View ArticlePunch-drunk Humanism
Time to revisit the great Terminal Bar As an alternative to the patronizing media praise of Portrait of Jason, consider Terminal Bar, a non-exploitive documentar. Review originally printed Oct. 15,...
View ArticleThe Season of Cambodia
Royal Ballet of Cambodia performs Apsara Mera at BAM Cambodian classical dancers move as slowly as rain sliding down a window, their hands curving and curling in intricate patterns as they look out...
View ArticleDon’t Blink
On “Blinkey” Palermo’s vehicles for color Palermo, born Peter Schwarze in Leipzig in 1943, was 34 when he died in 1977. He and his twin brother Michael were adopted by a couple named Heisterkamp and...
View ArticlePynchon for the Postmodern Soul
Visionary author takes the modern world to the Bleeding Edge In his new novel Bleeding Edge, Thomas Pynchon uses the word “postmodern” for the first time in his fiction – a notable event in the career...
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