I always feel existential when I finish bodies of work and I’m in the pitching phase. Not only looking forward to making new work, but the angst of showing it to art dealers and gallerists. It’s exciting to be on ArtNet and work with Martha Takayama. I’ve also dropped off packets around town. I’m [...]
Tags: art, artists, artnet, artspace, column, fruit, jeff koons, Martha Takayama, new york magazine, skull, wall street
Although I know the move to Lincoln Center was supposed to be better. I still miss fashion’s former home in the park. Call me nastoglic and brand me an aging fashionista (who would have thought?). 1) There was always an open bar in the lobby. 2) The pop burgers in the W Hotel Lounge. 3) [...]
Tags: bryant park, column, Fashion Week, Lincoln Center, SS13, SS2013
I think I’ve always judged the art world by its worst art, never the good stuff. This has been a practice of mine for many seasons. When I first used this metric, plastic bags and found art were the norm. On the flip side, I only judge fashion by the very best, because that’s the [...]
Tags: artnet, artspace, chelsea galleries, column, contemporary fine art photography, Damien Hirst, fine art photography, great depression, Great Recession, photography, Saatchi Online, tina turner
Gazelle Paulo has been a fixture in the New York social scene for years. I’ve been watching him come up with creative creations time after time, season after season. He’s constantly colorful and I’m excited that he spent some time during Pride to answer some questions about his projects and creative process. I hope you [...]
Tags: column, gay, Gazelle, interview, Julie Atlas Muz, Leigh Bowery, performance art, pride, pride 2012, roger padilha
Major music movements have escaped me. I missed Brooklyn and the skinny jeans shaggy haired new wave. I’m not old enough to remember the hay day of the actual CBGB’s and its’ piss filled ambiance that spawned some of the greatest rock bands in America. Low lit black boxes that often act like Petri dishes [...]
Tags: 2012, Bowery Electric, cbgb, column, Duff McKagan, Endless Boogie, Guided by Voices, Guy Fawkes mask, John Varvatos, Mamma Mia, Manhattan, Mohawks, music, music festival, Mykke Blanco, New York, photojournalism, review, robert pollard, SummerStage, The Box, times square, War on Drugs
“Can you make me famous?” a model insists, while trying to arm twist me into creating an image that will propel him to the fabled pages of Vogue and into a Prada campaign. I tried to gently explain that it takes a lot of time and testing to get there, and models don’t always have [...]
Tags: book, Botticelli, column, food photography, Just Kids, Nan Goldin, Patti Smith, photography, Prada, Robert Mapplethorpe, Tim Walker, Vogue
It’s taken awhile but we’re entering a new age in fashion focused on modernism, architecture and sadly climate change. I talked to one creative director who pondered the almost ubiquitous looks strutting down fall’s runway of vests, bare arms and shortish skirts. After many seasons the spikes and armor are falling off and leaving behind [...]
Tags: column, Donna Karan, DVF, Fall Fashion Week 2012, Helmut Lang, Lindsay Degen, Marlon Gobel, Michael Bastian, Number:Lab, Peter Som, Rodarte, Swarovski
The Huffington Post was a large part of my life, but things change and mergers happen. I was one of the first few bloggers to be invited in when the site moved beyond politics and one of the first to be allowed into the Bryant Park tents to report on the once rarefied world of fashion. [...]
