The 1970s series Silueta is one of Cuban American artist Ana Mendieta’s most enduring feats. Created at historical locations in both Iowa and Mexico, the series involved Mendieta capturing her body or the imprint of its silhouette in dialogue with the natural world, using materials like clay, water and plants. Various iterations of the images saw Mendieta’s naked body covered in flowers, or the outline of her figure set alight and captured on film. The practice of…
The Shed is a new cultural hub on New York’s West Side, part of the block-spanning Hudson Yards, a vast shopping mall-cum-business park which opened in the city last month. In opposition to the motionless tower blocks around it, it moves: the outer shell expands and contracts on giant wheels, entirely transforming the shape and volume of the space. For the past weeks, <a…
The most recent iteration of the Chris Vargas’ Museum of Trans Hirstory and Art – commonly known as simply ‘MOTHA’ – is an archival and artistic history of San Francisco’s Bay Area, and currently resides in the Oakland Museum of California as part of their just-opened Queer California: Untold…
A quick Google search on the village of Floresti, Transylvania, takes you to a tourism web page, the first line of which reads: “If serenity is what you are looking for, then come to Floresti.” It’s a fitting description to come across in the wake of Jamie Hawkesworth’s new exhibition opening, <a…
The huge interior of Paris’ Grand Palais was transformed into a Belle Epoque train station for Virginie Viard’s Cruise 2020 collection for Chanel, her first as artistic director of fashion collections for that great French house. She took over from Karl Lagerfeld who died in February this…
Satisfy your inner pyromaniac with these flame-print trousers from Marine Serre’s S/S19 collection. The eagle-eyed among you will recognise these pants from Serre’s latest campaign (see above) – photographed by longtime collaborator Tanguy Poujol close to where the designer grew up – appearing alongside a real-life bonfire (and <a…
Taking its name from its original trade route, the word satin stems from the city at the beginning of Silk Road, the Chinese port town of Quanzhou, which, in medieval Arabic, was called ‘Zayton’. As the sheeny fabric traversed the world it became a fixture in the wardrobes of the world’s upper echelons – the stuff of royal trousseaus, Marie Antoinette’s court, Hubert de Givenchy’s bow-fastened ball gowns and the…
Taking its name from its original trade route, the word satin stems from the city at the beginning of Silk Road, the Chinese port town of Quanzhou, which, in medieval Arabic, was called ‘Zayton’. As the sheeny fabric traversed the world it became a fixture in the wardrobes of the world’s upper echelons – the stuff of royal trousseaus, Marie Antoinette’s court, Hubert de Givenchy’s bow-fastened ball gowns and the…
Capturing the ‘real’ America might sound like a challenge of epic proportions, but it came naturally to Marie Tomanova, whose debut monograph, Young American, sees the Czech Republic-born photographer train her lens on the country’s contemporary youth culture.
Prior to moving to the States at the age…
“How do we want to live together?” is the question that Walter Gropius, founder of the Bauhaus School posed. It is this core aspect of the modernist movement’s manifesto – one that considered the entirety of life itself as a place to enact its design principles – that forms the central motto of a new museum that…
