Italian fashion house Prada has launched a new film in collaboration with leading Chinese artist, Yang Fudong to promote its Spring/Summer 2010 menswear collection. First Spring is set in the streets of Shanghai during the 1930s and 40s, ; it is referenced throughout Prada’s new advertising campaign. The project follows similar initiatives by couture designers... »
Daphne Guinness in Three Women, by Steven Meisel for Vogue Italia According to the Woman’s Wear Daily, one of fashion’s most revered muses, Daphne Guinness, will exhibit part of her wardrobe at the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) in September 2011. Some 80 to 100 mainly couture garments from Guinness’ collection will show her exuberant... »
Following last night’s Academy Awards, we highly recommend a visit to The Hollywood Museum, in Los Angeles. The Museum is housed in the historic Art Deco Max Factor Building which was previously home to The Max Factor Beauty Museum. The designed in 1935, the four story, 35,000 square feet building was sold by Proctor... »
Oscar, by Kourosh, a Georgia-based caricature artist The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences was founded by three dozen of the most influential figures in the motion picture industry, in 1927. These included Louis B. Mayer, Mary Pickford, Cecile B. DeMille and Douglas Fairbanks.... »
Between March 3 and 7, 2010, artists, collectors and dealers from around the world gather in New York City during the 22nd annual Art Show, organized by the Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA) to benefit Henry Street Settlement. ADAA has been America’s most... »
The Garage Center for Contemporary Culture, in Moscow, has organized a two part exhibition of contemporary Russian art which opened on March 5th. The Garage is founded by Russian socialite and ex-model Daria Zhukova, the girlfriend of Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich. Futurologia explores the continuing... »
Live on CharityBuzz.com/Guggenheim through March 18, 2010 For the building’s 50th Anniversary, the Guggenheim Museum invited nearly two hundred artists, architects, and designers to imagine their dream interventions in Frank Lloyd Wright’s spiraling rotunda. The exhibition Contemplating the Void: Interventions in the Guggenheim Museum features... »
Sir Gerald Kelly (1879–1972), Portrait of Mr. Frick in the West Gallery, 1925, Pittsburgh, Frick Art & Historical Center Collection The Frick Collecting in New York City is presenting Collector’s Choice: Art on Display in American Private Collections scheduled to take place later in March (26-27),... »
What does Maya Lin, Chinese-American conceptual sculptor, video artist and architect, collect? For the past three years, Lin has been collecting satellite images, historical maps, poetic narratives, birdcalls and videos of such creatures as pronghorns, jaguars and toads. She plans to use this major... »
Unknown, The Lansdowne Herkales, Roman, about A.D. 125, Gift of J. Paul Getty Collecting: Old World Traditions/New World Applications Wednesday, March 3, 2010, 1:00–3:00 p.m. Getty Villa, Museum galleries Art collecting has a long and distinguished history. Art historian Laure Marest-Caffey reviews collecting practices from the Renaissance... »
Welsh born Commander of the British Empire, Anthony Hopkins, is an Academy Award winning actor who has portrayed historic characters including Richard Nixon & Pablo Picasso. In the 1996 Merchant Ivory film, Surviving Picasso, Sir Anthony played the role of the legendary Spanish artist... »
In a 1997 exhibition catalogue for the Museum of Modern Art, William Rubin wrote, “No other dealer has sold so many outstanding works by the modern masters to museums in Europe, the Americas, Asia, and Australia during the past 40 years.” MOMA’s then... »
Calling all Artists! The Stella Adler Studio of Acting is seeking artists for a design competition! Stella Adler Studio of Acting is an educational institution whose “mission is to create an environment with the purpose of nurturing theatre artists who value humanity, their... »
Henry Walters, Courtesy: The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore Sometimes, art collections come from spending sprees that rode the spoils of vice and commerce. Such is the case with a new Santa Barbara Museum of Art exhibit of 40 paintings from such 19th-century giants as Claude... »
Alex Katz, ‘Anna’, 2009, oil on linen, 60×84 American artist Alex Katz has created a portrait of the inimitably feared & revered Editor of the American Vogue, Anna Wintour (OBE). The 82-year-old artist says that he was inspired by British born Wintour’s “lovely eyes” which... »
Hollywood wunderkind, Tim Burton, recently received authoritative nod of approval from the bastion of modern art institutions when the Museum of Modern Art in NYC played host to a retrospective of his career. The American writer and director’s work, hence, became canonized as high... »
Steven Meisel’s Three Women with Jamie Bochert, Daphne Guinness, Agyness Deyn For image credits visit Vogue.it »
Tony Cenicola/The New York Times The artist Jeff Koons in his Upper East Side home, which houses examples of his own collecting efforts. Manet, Courbet, Poussin, Nikolaus Knüpfer, Cornelis van Haarlem and Quentin Massey are among the few canonic artists & Old Masters whose works may... »
Tim Burton at Museum of Modern Art in New York is on view November 22, 2009-April 26, 2010 All images courtesy of Tim Burton and © 2009 Tim Burton Films stills courtesy of Photofest and the MoMA Film Stills Archive Filmed by The People’s DP Inc Ed Roy,... »
When in 1906, French jeweler and watch maker, Louis-François Cartier & his son Alfred, crossed the Atlantic to branch out into the New World, he was already dubbed “the King of Jewelers” by the Prince of Wales. Cartier, who had founded his company sixty years... »
Sexy, edgy, uncensored, controversial & provocative are only a few words which describe the work of American fashion and celebrity photographer, Sante D’Orazio. The 53 year old Brooklyn based artist has captured the faces & bodies – many of them – of some of... »
Photo: Tatsumi Masatoshi/Cai Guo-Qiang Studio Fallen Blossoms: Explosion Project, Philadelphia Museum of Art at sunset on December 11th, 2009 “Mr. Cai, who orchestrated the opening fireworks at the Beijing Olympics, plans a 60-second explosion on a large, flower-shaped apparatus that’s attached to a scaffolding on the... »
Vogue Italia’s December 2009 as inspired by the social networking site Twitter’s layout … »
“My current series explores the dichotomy between high-energy nightlife and a time of broad and introspective contemplation. Since 2006, I have been painting night landscapes of cities such as Atlanta, GA, Charlotte, NC, Los Angeles, CA, and Seoul, Korea. This series began after moving to Atlanta... »
Christie’s auction of items from country home of Yves Saint Laurent, the sequel to The Sale of the Century took place on November 17th, 2009 in Paris. The sale raised four million euros in total. A view of a salon with furnishings from the private... »
~ I dreamt of you together in a sunny field, walking to me, smiling. Is this true? Do you pass from hand to hand what here falls in common light? Is this within your power? Mother, do you kiss the necks of bathing souls and laugh when you lower your Brownie? Are... »
Rare Bird of Fashion: The Irreverent Iris Apfel exhibits more than 80 ensembles from the private collection of renowned style icon Iris Apfel. Celebrated for her “controlled flamboyance,” the fashion maven is also the co-founder of the textile design company, Old World Weavers. Paula... »
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