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Goings On: Art Openings In May

Goings On: Art Openings In May

Richard Hawkins. New Paintings at Greene Naftali in New York

NEW YORK—Between fairs and the official listings and the soft-launches in someone’s cousin’s Chinatown loft, May represents an upward swing. Skip the overload and go...
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The Primordial Purity of Yasmin Bawa

The Primordial Purity of Yasmin Bawa

Detail of 'Louhi' (2024) by Yasmin Bawa. Hemp, lime, natural pigments. 96 x 83 x 10 cm.

BERLIN—In a studio tucked into Berlin’s Kreuzberg district, Yasmin Bawa is reshaping the language of sculpture—literally. Working primarily with hempcrete, a natural material composed of...
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Featured Fashion: Shoes by “Miista”

Featured Fashion: Shoes by “Miista”

Miista

Miista may not be a household name—yet—but the London-based label has quietly built a reputation for thoughtful design and slow, deliberate craftsmanship. Founded in 2011...
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Character Studies in Commercial Literature

Character Studies in Commercial Literature

Portrait of a young woman in white #2 by Jacques-Louis David, used for a cover for Ottessa Moshfegh's book MY Year of Rest and Relaxation.

MILAN—Fashion and literature have always shared a fascination with surface and depth. Baudelaire, Wilde, Capote, catalogued fashion details obsessively in their writings, and used clothes...
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The Geometry of Motion and Zadie Smith

The Geometry of Motion and Zadie Smith

Photograph by Erich Höhne. Courtesy of Deutsche Fotothek.

The Geometry of Motion and Zadie Smith. Wassily Kandinsky, a painter of color and form, once envisioned a future where dance would shed its ornamental...
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