Rizzoli releases the New York funhouse artist’s first book of monographs. We love Will Cotton’s joie de vivre, his big-arse nudes, his candy palate. We’ll be there to wish him well at the Partners & Spade book release party this … Read More
Husband and wife team’s nature-branded art collective, Clamdiggin’–the darling of LA designers–gets LA exhibition. Clamdiggin’ is more than an artist’s moniker—its founders, artist Kevin Johnson and designer Alexandra Fisher, describe it as “15-year relationship with love and art.” Founded in … Read More
Go-Go Gives Queen Elizabeth a Retrospective Send-Off. Through October 22nd, NYC’s Gagosian Gallery is giving Elizabeth Taylor her 1 millionth close-up. At least it’s the guy who got it right: Andy Warhol. The show, “Andy Warhol: Liz,” features Warhol’s silkscreen … Read More
That guy on the bicycle, don’t he never stop? King David blows up the Earth. Another reason to say frick-all, and do what the tourists do: Hit the Meat District’s wooly-awesome High Line, and discover its worldly pleasures. David Byrne … Read More
Thompson Beverly Hills debuts L.A.’s first Camilo Pardo Solo Art Show As then-chief designer of Ford Motor Company’s Living Legends Studio, pop artist Camilo Pardo led the creative evolution of the timeless GT40. In 2005, the iconic super car had its … Read More
The title of Joann Sfar’s Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life may have a drizzle of irony, but the bio-pic makes a case for why Brigitte Bardot’s old lover mattered. Early next month, the gorgeous film opens at indie theaters in New … Read More
Forget Manhattan: The ‘big shows’ are in the Hamptons, come summer. This past Saturday evening, the art elite hit the upscale sticks to turn out for fashion designer Helmut Lang’s multi-media exhibition’s opening of “Make It Hard,” running through August … Read More
Group show at David Zwirner creates helter-shelter Get outta’ the house and into this show. Through August 5th, New York’s David Zwirner is featuring “The House Without the Door” at its 525 & 533 West 19th Street gallery spaces. The … Read More
Montreal hosts saucy (but serious–not!) Jean Paul Gaultier retrospective. Another reason to go to lovely and so-civilized Montreal this summer: The Montreal Museum of Art’s just-opened “The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier: From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk.” Pity … Read More
Isn’t it ironic? Pocketbooks made of sponge? It’s just one of the many extremely distinct items carried at TriBeCa, New York’s new Patron of the New boutique. Super chic, something new, we diggin.’ Check out their other stuff, and images … Read More
Treme bringing you down? There’s a reason (it’s got the city all wrong) HBO’s post-Katrina Sunday night drama Tremecontinues to get more depressing and annoying with each episode. One wonders why, amid all its self-conscious insider-referencing and maudlin earnestness and … Read More
Screening our must-have picks of sunblock products Any Coppertone sun lotion or block immediately takes us back to our childhood. That nostalgia inducing, non-coconut-y smell? Somebody should bottle it as a perfume or cologne, and call it “Summer of ’42,” … Read More
Sean Connery in the 1974 summer blockbuster that…wasn’t In the realm of cinema’s greatest “What Were They Thinking?” moments–such as Beatty and Hoffman as desert cut-ups in Ishtar–somehow Zardoz isn’t given its due. Directed by the great John Boorman (The … Read More
The “see” creatures came out for the debut of Christopher Tennant’s nautically-challenging Aquatic Cases Last week at NoLita’s Haus Interior Designs boutique, “Official Filthy Rich Handbook” author Chris Tennant unveiled what a life spent admiring and collecting horseshoe crabs amounted … Read More
The late Alexander (the Great) McQueen, always late, is given the proper sendoff with the Met’s phantasmagoric showcase of his finest fashions, from high art to full-on crazy-time. Love it! Organized by the Met’s Costume Institute, the posthumous retrospective, “Alexander … Read More
