It’s always exciting when a museum puts on a carefully selected exhibition from its own collection, featuring works that have never been shown to the public before. And exciting is the perfect word to sum up the Denver Art Museum’s new “Conversation Pieces: Stories from the Fashion Archives.” Dresses by Geoffrey Beene (left) and Norman … Read more
Installation view of “Schiaparelli: Fashion Becomes Art” at the V&A Museum in London. (Photo: Jamie Stoker) It is a truism that fashion and visual art are closely related. But for Elsa Schiaparelli, it wasn’t just about these two disciplines coexisting. In her mind, it was something that fundamentally connected them, so much so that the … Read more
An art collector in his 60s or 70s stands in a gallery booth, staring at an image of a mysterious alien figure produced by what appears to be two surveillance cameras in a nearly empty room. Collectors seem confused. collector teeth The decision was based on a snapshot of his face taken by a camera, … Read more