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Still recovering from her injury and building up strength in her legs, Wilson has become an active member of the squad, participating all she can and weaving herself into the team’s social fabric...
...traditional, objects to be set out on the floor and played with rather than fetishized on a pedestal underneath a glass box. But for some reason (liability? security?) the show’s curator, Kirsten Weiss, chose to display most of the sculptures in exactly this fashion. Several other fabric pieces related to “Head Body Limbs” are shown neatly folded and under glass; to do this to a piece that was explicitly meant to invite viewer interaction and thereby undercut traditional modes of displaying sculpture is the ultimate curatorial irony...
...perhaps I had mastered the technique of making myself appear more imposing than I really am by curling up into a fetal position and pulling the hood of my jacket over my head, thereby hiding my lanky frame and boyish face while I slept. Yet beneath the heavy green fabric of my Abercrombie sweatshirt, I must have exuded an aura of accessibility, for, despite my best efforts, I proved unable to shake my innocuous but unwanted interlocutors...
RICHARD AVEDON, WHO DIED LAST WEEK AT 81, USED THE CAMERA AS an all-terrain vehicle. The terrain he crossed was the human form, the social fabric and that permanent terra incognita, the human face. A man so stylish could never escape being dismissed as merely stylish, as though he weren't quite worthy of the name artist. Yes, his black-and-white portraits against a stark white background made the truth seem hip. All the same, you only had to stand before his unblinking portrait of President Dwight Eisenhower, a dwindling old warrior. If art is a word...
...boleros. Their inspirations, they said, were the surfer scene on Brazil's beaches and the watery blues of the Aegean Sea. They probably also owe something to textile trade shows like Paris' Premire Vision, which designers visit to get an early look at the trends in fabric prints and colors. And by the time the fashion flock hit Milan for the shows last week, aqua was everywhere: on woven-suede handbags at Bottega Veneta, on washed-linen Burberry trench coats. Even the floor at the kitschy rockabilly-themed D&G show was painted turquoise...