February 2012
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Coco Chanel & Elegance
A woman has the age she deserves.
There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!
Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress.
Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future.
Elegance is refusal.
Fashion is not...
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She Builds Domes in Air In this 16mm film by the acclaimed artist Catherine Sullivan, Kristen McMenamy stalks the darkly delicate world of the Alexander McQueen spring/summer collection – Sarah Burton’s third and most celebrated yet.
The spring/summer 2012 issue of AnOther Magazine presents an exclusive Alexander McQueen special, with stills from Sullivan’s film accompanying an intimate...
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Ten thousand waves takes us to the shore Home will arrive under our feet —Wang Ping, The Great Summons
Isaac Julien’s Ten Thousand Waves is an immersive, nine-screen video installation that interweaves three stories linking China’s ancient past and the present. The first story is inspired by the Morecambe Bay tragedy of 2004, in which 23 Chinese immigrant workers were drowned while...
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Yinka Shonibare MBE at James Cohan
British-born Nigerian artist Yinka Shonibare MBE: Addio del Passato will open on February 16th and run through March 24th.
In this multi-part exhibition of new sculptures, photoworks and the premiere of a new film, Shonibare explores the concept of destiny as it relates to themes of desire, yearning, love, power and sexual repression. Yinka Shonibare, well known for creating multi-faceted...
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The Selby Profiles Deaf Performance Artist Sun Kim’s Sonic Experiments
Cult photographer and filmmaker Todd Selby’s latest short is a revealing portrait of performance artist Christine Sun Kim. Deaf from birth, Kim turned to using sound as a medium during an artist residency in Berlin in 2008, and has since developed a practice of lo-fi experimentation that aims to re-appropriate...
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A little bit Eternal | An intimate film portrait of Rick Owens and his wife Michele Lamy by Danielle Levitt
January 2012
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Bottega Veneta green