Dearest princess, some may find it inconceivable that you chose to Instagram a photo of a homeless woman thumbing through an issue of Vogue. However, when I read your charming caption—”Paris is full of surprises… and @voguemagazine readers even in unexpected corners!”—I wasn’t nervous. Maybe I was a little bit concerned, but that’s not the […]
OK, we get it—a lot of people are not impressed with MoMA’s attempt to package the one-person cultural maelstrom we know as Björk. Critics have used the occasion of a less-than-successful exhibit to launch an art world roast of the MoMA, and writers have been competing to outdo each other with their best zingers. Art
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Museo del Gioiello Palladian Basilica, Piazza dei Signori, Vicenza, Italy I had a wish. I wanted to be among the first visitors at the Museum of Jewellery in Vicenza. Last year, on December 24, I purchased the ticket. It was number 3. Symbolically prophetic, I thought, while hiding in my hand the precious memento. The
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Mayor Eberhard van der Laan, with mayoral chain and beaded necklace, before giving a speech during the protest event “To Russia With Love,” organized in response to the Russian government’s homosexuality policies, August 25, 2013, Amsterdam. Photo: ANP/Robin van Lonkhuysen
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Pablo holding Martin Parr’s Fashion Magazine (New York: Magnum photos, 2005) © Baptiste Lignel/Otra Vista “But [the photographer] learned also that the factuality of his pictures, no matter how convincing and unarguable, was a different thing than the reality itself.[1] Now of course photography is not about equipment. Who cares if it was film, chrome,
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Edith Sitwell had a dissonant, resonant, voice that she employed to recite her avant-garde poetry—most notoriously Façade (1923), performed to Sir William Walton’s modernist music via Sengerphone (a megaphone made of papier-mâché) jutting through the open mouth of a primitivist mask, painted by sculptor Frank Dobson, on a curtain, which concealed her six-foot body. The
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What’s the best way of disseminating a political slogan today? Where once the badge was a common medium for rallying calls, it now seems to have been eclipsed by the hashtag. The political messages of the day are less often worn on the body and more frequently disseminated through social media with the use of
Shaking hands to say hello or to thank, waving good-bye, clapping hands to approve, holding hands to express affection, moving fingers to mock or insult or mimic, joining hands to pray, raising hands up to indicate surrender, kissing hands to pay homage to a superior authority or person, or just to please somebody in a
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Diane Azzam Diane Azzam: I left the Middle East twice. The first time, in 1967, I followed my parents, who had decided to leave. It was just after the Six-Day War between Israel and the Arab states. We were living in Lebanon and the political situation was beginning to get tense. So my father, who
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A Symposium Review ThinkingJewellery 10—SchmuckDenken 10On Our Way to a Theory of JewelleryArt and good life – Art between leisure and social responsibilityOctober 18–19, 2014Trier University of Applied Sciences, Idar-Oberstein The unexpected German train strike during the weekend of the ThinkingJewellery 10 symposium could almost be interpreted as a response to this year’s theme of “art between leisure
“Which is your favorite?” This question was the most common one asked of me throughout my experience as curator of the Design Museum exhibition, Unexpected Pleasures: The Art and Design of Contemporary Jewellery. I could never answer it directly; each work had its place in the show. However, my curiosity did lead me to ask
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Contemporary jewelry is expanding. This year’s program at the annual German jewelry think-fest Schmucksymposium is titled Exceeded Borders. It profiles conceptual moves in contemporary jewelry that take the field into the territory of visual art. Elsewhere, contemporary jewelry crosses geographical borders. Art Jewelry Forum has recently featured profiles of emerging scenes beyond the West, including
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