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TUESDAY 5
Stella McCartney Trunk Show
Brit designer Stella McCartney, known for her leather-free products, is in NYC doing a trunk show of her Fall 09 designs. Get a frock and check out the Q&A hosted by legendary Barneys window designer Simon Doonan.
Barneys New York, 660 Madison Ave, NYC, 212-826-8900, 1-3pm, www.barneys.com
Lady Sovereign + Chester French + […]
One of the most critically acclaimed and controversial American artists of the late twentieth century, Robert Mapplethorpe created daring and formally rigorous photographs. He is widely known for images that deliberately transgressed social mores and for the censorship debates that transformed him into a symbol of the culture wars in the late 1980s and early 1990s. In […]
MONDAY 4
Electric Six have often been confused with being some freakish, euro-trash band. But in actuality, they’re basically a garage band from Motown. Known for whimsically disturbing videos like Danger! High Voltage, which explores feelings of gerontophila, and Gay Bar, the ode to everything homo (later covered by Peaches), E6 have managed to muster up […]
Through more than 250 objects dating from the seventeenth century to the present, The Costume Institute’s spring 2019 exhibition explores the origins of camp’s exuberant aesthetic. Susan Sontag’s 1964 essay “Notes on ‘Camp’” provides the framework for the exhibition, which examines how the elements of irony, humor, parody, pastiche, artifice, theatricality, and exaggeration are expressed […]
SUNDAY 3
Times Talks Sundays
Talk show host and executive producer Tyra Banks talks with New York Times Magazine editor-at-large Lynn Hirschberg, about her career, her future, her weave, her butt – and asking Barack Obama to gaze into a crystal ball when he appeared on her show…should be very in depth!
The Times Center, 242 W 41st […]
Lévy Gorvy is pleased to announce Warhol Women, an exhibition devoted exclusively to Andy Warhol’s portraits of women from the early 1960s through the 1980s. On view from April 25 through June 15 at Lévy Gorvy’s landmark building on Madison Avenue, the selection of paintings, covering the full scope of Warhol’s career, invites the viewer to […]