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Syd Mead’s 80s Futurism at Corman Gallery in Tribeca

Syd Mead’s 80s Futurism at Corman Gallery in Tribeca

“The Sleepcentre 2000” by Slumberland 1978.

TRIBECA—A new exhibition at the Corman Gallery brings the late designer Syd Mead to New York for the first time in a solo show. Titled...
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Art Focus: Classical Aesthetics in a Post-Ironic Era

Art Focus: Classical Aesthetics in a Post-Ironic Era

Slip House, the brand new gallery opened at the base of a 19th-century, three-story former carriage house at 246 East 5th Street.

EAST VILLAGE—Every two decades is a response to the previous two. After decades of irony, the purposeful ugliness of the 80s and 90s (“Anything that’s...
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The Language of Bamboo: Tradition and Innovation at Gucci’s Bamboo Encounters

The Language of Bamboo: Tradition and Innovation at Gucci’s Bamboo Encounters

Image courtesy of Gucci.

MILAN—Italy’s long affection for bamboo can be glimpsed beyond fashion and design. Franco Maria Ricci’s Labirinto della Masone, the sprawling bamboo maze outside Parma, stands...
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Scenes from a Night of Want

Scenes from a Night of Want

Photo by Anne Miek

Seaport—On a still semi-chilly day in February, at McNally Jackson’s Seaport outpost, Dalya Benor brought her project, The Pleasure Lists, into the incandescent glow of the...
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