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An Art Bar
The Frieze Art Fair is responsible for all kinds of inventive art installations, but our favorite might be the bar in the basement of Hotel Americano in Chelsea. German artist Tobias Rehberger has created a temporary bar, Bar Oppenheimer, a replica of his favorite bar in Frankfurt. The intimate, modernist bar is not only an […]
Dark Optimism At MoMA’s PS1
After the devastating effects of Hurricane Sandy on New York and the surrounding areas, the curators at MoMA’s PS1 gave pause to consider how art and the environment might influence social change. Today sees the opening of Expo 1: New York which occupies the vast building of PS1, with large-scale projects exploring the theme of […]
Walk Slowly In The Rain
This Sunday at MOMA sees the debut of the much-anticipated Rain Room by artist collective Random International. The monumental installation is on display in a specially constructed stand alone space next door to the main MOMA building. You enter an enormous, pitch black room which apart from a thin walkway around the edges, is pouring […]
Feet First
After the whirlwind of outfits, hairstyles and the fanfare that surrounded the Costume Institute’s PUNK: Chaos To Couture debut this week, we wanted to share with you a little part of the exhibition that has gone largely unnoticed, the shoes. We live in a time when shoes are such a statement so it was fascinating […]
Goodbye To the Panda
At a brilliantly staged event last night in a run down, dirty, trash filled empty building on 15th Street, artist Rob Pruitt’s glorious new (and last ever) panda painting went on show. The space formerly Passerby, the legendary bar and gallery of art dealer Gavin Brown where 12 years ago today, Rob Pruitt held his […]
Stand Out Hair
Forget all the wonderful gowns on show at Monday night’s Costume Institute Ball, we’ve been checking out the best hair of the night. Our favorite looks came down to two people, actress Elizbeth Banks and model Miranda Kerr. We asked Matthew Monzon, the genius behind Elizbeth Bank’s cutting edge modern style, how he came up […]
