Wednesday, January 20, 2021 was a historical day for America. The United States government inaugurated our 46th president, Joseph R. Biden, who garnered the most individual votes of any candidate in history, and left behind the voice of a leader who in four years spent more time dividing the nation than progressing it. Kamala Harris,…
Christopher Nolan’s Tenet was simply put, not the grand American “Return to the Movies” Hollywood was hoping for. With a staggering $200 million production budget, Nolan’s most expensive to date, the film has only made back a paltry $3.4 million in the states. Despite perfectly satisfactory reviews, Americans were just not motivated enough (or perhaps…
Touched by Frances Goodman (Art)Amalgamated - New York June 28 - August 4 Opening Reception Thursday, June 28 from 6-8pm (Art) Amalgamated is thrilled to present Frances Goodman's first solo show in New York, Touched. Recognized as one of South Africa's leading young artists, Goodman has become well known for her multi-media works that explore…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IdEhvuNxV8 On Thursday, May 17th, at the age of 63, five-time Grammy award winner Donna Summer, lovingly nicknamed "The Queen of Disco," passed away in her home in Key West, Florida after a long battle with lung cancer. Donna Summer was born LaDonna Adrian Gaines to a devout Christian household in Boston in 1948. Summer began singing as…
From May 18- June 22, 303 Gallery will be hosting their first exhibition with Richard Prince featuring new work he's done since 1991 called "14 Paintings." Richard Prince is an American painter and photographer who first rose to fame thanks to his "rephotographs," a series of photographs he took of other people's photographs including Garry…
Hysteria, the new film by director Tanya Wexler, fictionalizes the real life story of Dr. Joseph Mortimer Granville, a Victorian doctor who invented the first electric vibrator in the 1880s, which was later patented and sold in 1902 by the American company Hamilton Beach. The film examines how Dr. Granville's invention was used to cure…
The New York Photography Festival for 2012 was given a thematic guideline for the first time, exploring where art and photography intersect with social documentary, examining how the social element influences traditional image-making techniques. This is also the first year that the festival is open to everyone to submit their work. Juried work from the New…
VANESSA BRUNO - PARIS F/W 2012 FASHION SHOW Vanessa Bruno, known for her Parisian chic ensembles and recent American popularity, thanks to her first store in LA, presented a darker collection for Fall 2012 that showcased Bruno’s muse, a pixie-like girl with a hard, contemporary, city edge. The muted palette of bottle green and violet…
CORRIE NIELSEN - BACKSTAGE INTERVIEW Corrie Nielsen used her Fall 2012 show as an opportunity to explore her personal heritage. Nielsen drew from the Vestiarium Scoticum, a medieval encyclopedia of clothing designs and patterns, and the story of her great, great, great grandfather, John S. Burns, who moved from America to Scotland during the Revolutionary War,…
