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Artist Joana Vasconcelos Created the Psychedelic Backdrop for Dior’s Paris Fashion Week Show. See the Dazzling Images Here
During last month’s Paris Fashion Week, Dior’s creative director Maria Grazia Chiuri chicly reinterpreted the house’s 1950s codes. The scenography, however, tapped into another dimension entirely thanks to the creative vision of Portuguese artist Joana Vasconcelos. Vasconcelos installed a hallucinatory, stalactite–like sculpture that served as the undeniably bombastic backdrop for the Fall 2023 collection. Ornamental, […]
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Desert X Arrives in Coachella Valley, Bringing Art That Reflects on Ecology. See Images of the Show Here
The newest iteration of Desert X is all about water—which might come as a surprise, seeing as how there’s not much liquid of any kind to be found along the dusty stretch of land in south-central California where the biennial exhibition is installed through May 7. But, for Neville Wakefield and Diana Campbell, the show’s […]
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A New Book Gathers Every Single Documented Frida Kahlo Painting, Including Lost Works—See Images Here
Despite her lasting fame, Frida Kahlo made surprisingly few works in her life. Now, all 152 of the artist’s documented paintings have been collected in a massive new coffee table book from Taschen, Frida Kahlo: The Complete Paintings by Luis-Martín Lozano. The gorgeously illustrated $200 tome includes reproductions and analysis of all of Kahlo’s known paintings, including several […]
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In Hans Op de Beeck’s New Show in Italy, Rich Narratives Unfold in Lifelike Sculptures—See Images Here
A young couple, teenagers it seems, sit on the edge of a cliff clasping hands. A man stands, shirtless, rowing a canoe that is filled with baskets of fruits and vegetables, a hen, and a dog—perhaps all of his worldly possessions. A woman dressed in a Brazilian carnival feather headdress sits on a couch in […]
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An Artist Just Transformed Berlin’s Berghain Nightclub Into an Eerie, Immersive 3D Swamp—See Images Here
It feels familiar and alien at the same time. Many Berliners have stepped inside the towering walls of Berghain, the most famous nightclub in Germany, but it is different this summer. Its halls are not yet again filled with strobing lights and beating techno music. Instead, filling its empty dance floors is a glimmering, two-story […]