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What to Do This Winter in New York

What to Do This Winter in New York

Chinatown, New York. iPhone photo by Eric Van Nynatten

Things happening in New York this Winter. Art-wise. See the newly restored Frick, now open. Charlie Stein: Almost Human at LOHAUS SOMINSKY, at 62 White... Read More

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Flats

Flats

Comme des Garçons Mary Jane ballet flats, Spring 1999

A quick look back at a small but unmistakable moment from Spring 1999. Read More

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Art Focus: Elegance in a Post-Ironic Era

Art Focus: Elegance 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.

DOWNTOWN—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 beautiful... Read More

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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 found everyone, no less in Franco Maria Ricci’s Labirinto della Masone, the sprawling bamboo maze outside Parma, stands... Read More