If you plan on beach-bumming this summer, don’t feel like you have to limit yourself to tabloids, a crank radio and lukewarm beer. Thanks to the Fire Island Pines Performance Series, a healthy 50 miles and a wind-swept ferry ride out from New York City, you can get a serious cultural fix and an ocean-side [...]
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Michele Bubacco is a young artist from Venice who draws inspiration from the ebb and flow of this legendary city. Bubacco works instinctually, making paintings that express the range of human pathos—from lust and desire to conflict and trauma. Kathy Battista interviewed the artist about his technique, subject matter and process. Kathy—Art history is full [...]
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Always eagerly anticipated events among the style set, the exhibitions of The Costume Institute at The Metropolitan Museum of Art have explored fashion from both a macro and micro view, in recent years investigating the ever-evolving ideals of beauty with “The Model as Muse: Embodying Fashion,” in 2009, and the transformation of women’s fashion in [...]
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Sadie—Do you remember when, where and how we met? I think you just came in the gallery, but maybe it was at the recommendation of someone specific. I remember that your first purchase was a Richard Prince Cowboy, one of the best ever, and I think we were both pretty excited. Mario—I remember Johnnie Shand [...]
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After the 1995 cult hit Kids, which received an NC-17 rating, director Larry Clark continued to make provocative films such as “Bully” and “Wassup Rockers” which analyzed the roles teenagers play in contemporary society. His use of unknown actors and non-professionals for his low budget films’ main roles set apart his body of work in [...]
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