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...designers. We invited 10 designers from Parsons and two RISD designers. We want the audience to look at the clothes and say, “Wow I never knew you could do that with clothes.” There are some really wild things. The bigger names are less avant-garde in their designs, so it’s nice to have the students who can take risks in their designs and mix it with what you see in stores...
...They’re sort of low-budget, avant-garde films,” said Everett Briggs, a cyclist who attended the event for the first time last year...
...health reasons - "They got sick of me." He clicked in Detroit, though, with his first TV kids' show in 1953. Supported by puppeteer Clyde Adler and a crew that provided the laughter (Sales rarely worked before a live audience), he adapted the hip lunacy of TV's avant-comic Ernie Kovacs to his own sunny personality, frequently telling his viewers, "I love you and give ya a big kiss." They returned the affection. Lunch with Soupy Sales soon gained converts of all ages and went national in 1959. For a brief spell in the early '60s, he was a prime...
...contemporary artists from across the Middle East and Iran. In fact, "I refuse to work with artists that deal in exoticism" is the proud boast of the show's creator Daniela da Prato. Too often, she says, the market shapes nascent art movements to meet Western tastes (the Chinese avant-garde is a case in point). "Golden Gates," she says, features emerging artists that have "not yet been contaminated by the art market." (See Time.com/Travel for city guides, stories and advice...
...have always wanted to know and women to hide, this girl puts forth." Things got only worse after Stieglitz, who would become her lover and then her husband, exhibited his intimate nude photographs of her in 1921, pictures that marked her forever as the pinup girl of the avant-garde...