Word: exhibitionisms
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Visitors to London's British Museum this summer may feel they've stepped into some sort of parallel world. Mango and banyan trees are growing in front of the building's imposing gray columns, while lotus flowers bob in a pond under drizzling London rain. The foreign flora - provided by...
Designs by the label Allerleirauh, founded in 1986 by Katharina Reinwald and Angelika Kroker, and the work of fashion photographers such as Sven Marquart and Sybille Bergemann reflected the atmosphere of decline. Clothes by Allerleirauh used mainly dark colors and lots of leather - a material that was hard to come...
In 1980s East Germany, there was a group of independent fashion designers, photographers, models and stylists who refused to play along with the socialist regime's excessive egalitarianism. They called themselves "the Mob" and, rejecting the notion that you had to live in the free Western world to make something...
"G.D.R. fashion was supposed to be of practical value, plain, ornamentless, modern, straight," says Henryk Gericke, one of the curators of the exhibition. "It was supposed to reflect the ideal image of the confident East German working woman." But when members of the Mob were wielding the scissors, they took...
Despite the boom in construction that took place before the global recession, there are few towers in Dubai that offer space or facilities for artists. It was precisely for this reason Sheika Lateefa al-Maktoum, daughter of the late ruler of Dubai, Sheik Maktoum bin Rashid al-Maktoum, founded Tashkeel...