This spring, The Jewish Museum will present a major exhibition of sculpture from the 1960s featuring the work of artists from Latin America, Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and Eastern Europe, much of which has rarely been seen in the United States. Other Primary Structures revisits the premise of and […]
Day: December 13, 2013
New Concierge Service hits the web! The Met’s sell-out Rigoletto?
The 2014 World Cup in Brazil? The Winter Olympics in Sochi? The Nobel Peace Prize Dinner in Oslo? Ruth Valensi’s elite concierge ticket service is now online, with access to impossible-to-get tickets for events around the world. Formerly the exclusive province of moguls, sheiks and tycoons, this high-end service is […]
The Killer Detail: Defining Moments in Fashion
Written by Elisabeth Quin and Francois Armanet, Foreword by Azzedine Alaia (Flammarion: $40). Striking photographs of 120 influential figures of the twentieth century highlight a singular sartorial detail that the stars wore first and that, as a result, redefined fashion. In a series of iconic portraits accompanied by insightful and […]
Fifth Floor Gallery at New Museum Transformed into Simulated Interior of a Spaceship with more than One Hundred Artworks on View as part of the Museum as Hub
For their presentation “Museum as Hub: Report on the Construction of a Spaceship Module,” tranzit will transform the Fifth Floor gallery of the New Museum into the simulated interior of a spaceship. The spacecraft, specially designed for the exhibition “Report on the Construction of a Spaceship Module” at the New […]