Performance art is generally experienced live, but what documents it and ensures its enduring life is, above all, photography. Yet photography plays a constitutive role, not merely a documentary one, when performance is staged expressly for the camera (often in the absence of an audience), and the images that result are recordings of an event […]
FRIDAY 20
Hip Hop Karaoke NYC
Here’s your chance to rap like you’re from the hood! They provide the lyrics, mics and beatz. You bring your swagger (if you can fid it!). Choose from a song list that includes Beastie Boys, Ghostface Killah, Jay-Z and Kanye West for the B-boys; or for the single ladies, MC Lyte, […]
Known primarily as an abstract painter and colorist, Sonia Delaunay applied her talents and theories to all areas of visual expression, including graphics, interiors, theater and film, fashion and textiles. A trademark of Delaunay’s work is the sense of movement and rhythm created by the simultaneous contrasts of certain colors. This exhibition will focus on […]
Wearing a Nooka watch, you spend a lot of time hoping a stranger will approach you asking what time it is. That way you can pull up your shirt sleeve, twist your wrist around to show them your watch and then see a wonderful, bewildered expression appear on the stranger’s face.
How does it work?
The big […]
YSL goes guerilla with a unisex pop-up store in NYC.
The collection, designed by Stefano Pilati, is based on the iconic tuxedos designed by YSL in the 60s.
Check it out now! The masculine vs feminine looks are on display until February 21st, after that you’ll have to drag your ass to the uptown store.
55 Great Jones […]
Jackson Pollock
More than sixty years have passed since the critic Robert Coates, writing in the New Yorker in 1946, first used the term “Abstract Expressionism” to describe the richly colored canvases of Hans Hofmann. Over the years the name has come to designate the paintings and sculptures of artists as different as Jackson Pollock and […]
The Costume Institute’s spring 2025 exhibition presents a cultural and historical examination of Black style over three hundred years through the concept of dandyism. In the 18th-century Atlantic world, a new culture of consumption, fueled by the slave trade, colonialism, and imperialism, enabled access to clothing and goods that indicated wealth, distinction, and taste. Black […]
THURSDAYS
NYC’S super hot Latin party is every Thursday night at Hush Bar. DJs Alex Mendez & Efe Ramirez.
Hush Bar, 348 West 52nd Street, NYC, 11:30 PM
