Category: july 2018

Heavenly Bodies @ The Met

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Heaven Avenue beckoned and we followed, taking a couple of breaks along the way.

First stop, The Met on Fifth Avenue where, for a short while, some truly divine gowns had descended to take their rightful places next to precious jewels, crosses, relics, mosaics and other objects of medieval art from the Museum’s permanent collection.

When fashion crosses that fine line between ”nothing is sacred” yet ”everything is”, in supreme style.

Dolce & Gabbana, A/W 2013-14

Thierry Mugler
”Madonna” evening ensemble, A/W 1984-85

This ensemble served as the finale to Thierry Mugler’s tenth anniversary collection, staged awt Le Zenith, an indoor arena in Paris. The model Pat Cleveland wore it as she was lowered from the ceiling of the auditorium on a cloud of dry ice, as if descending from heaven.

Alexander McQueen
Ensemble, S/S 1999
Birch plywood and ivory leather’ ivory wool twill and ivory silk lace

Riccardo Tisci
Statuary vestment for the Madonna Delle Grazie, 2015 (original design, 1950)

Yves Saint Laurent
Statuary Vestment for the Virgin of El Rocio, ca. 1985
Tiara and accessories by Goossens

Yves Saint Laurent
Wedding Ensemble, A/W 1977-78

Christian Lacroix
Wedding ensemble, A/W 2009-10

Jean Paul Gaultier
Ensemble S/S 1994

House of Dior by John Galliano
Evening ensemble, A/W 2000-2001

House of Dior by John Galliano
”Madonna” wedding ensemble, A/W 2005-6

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

July 14th, 2018

Available Light || Lincoln Center

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Available Light was a 1983 creation, a collaboration between three American icons: choreographer Lucinda Childs, composer John Adams and architect Frank Gehry, commissioned by the Museum of Contemporary Art, in Los Angeles.

The work was revived in 2015 and it was this updated version that we had the chance to enjoy as part of Lincoln Center’s ”Mostly Mozart Festival”, in 2018. Lucinda Childs’ interpretation of John Adams’ music that moves and unfolds like an expanding universe, was a deceivingly simple – in reality highly complex, energetic choreography, wonderfully complemented by Frank Gehry’s architectural set design.

A compilation of interviews with with John Adams, Lucinda Childs and Frank Gehry, with photographs of the original production, can be found in this 2015 article, by Julie Lazar, curator of the original work, in 1983.

Jazz @ Lincoln Center

July 13th, 2018

 

 

Manhattanhenge Pandemonium || July 2018 Edition

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The real picture

[wiki:  Manhattanhenge is an event during which the setting sun or the rising sun is aligned with the east–west streets of the main street grid of Manhattan, New York City. The sunsets and sunrises each align twice a year, on dates evenly spaced around the summer solstice and winter solstice. The sunset alignment occurs around May 28 and around July 13. The sunrise alignment occurs around December 5 and around January 8. Excellent places for viewing Manhattanhenge are 14th, 23rd, 34th, 42nd, and 57th Streets.]

July 12th, 2018

In Pieces

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Man & Art


Artwork (with a slightly more elaborate title), by Mariechen Danz:

The Dig of No Body (soil sample), 2018
Copper, plaster, bronze, ground glass, resin, soil, cement, shells, plastic trash, clay, marble, horn, steel, sand, semi-precious stones, wood, aluminium, Coal, Steel base

Art on the Highline

July 8th, 2018