The 2019 edition of the Guggenheim International Gala was held on November 13 and 14. Both evenings celebrated the 60th anniversary of the museum’s Frank Lloyd Wright-designed building and its recent inscription on the UNESCO World Heritage List. The evenings honored four individuals who have historic affiliations with the Guggenheim: Frank Gehry, the preeminent architect…
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The David Lynch Foundation is presenting the first "Festival of Disruption" on October 8th and 9th in Los Angeles, California at the Ace Hotel and Theater. This interactive experience will be curated by filmmaker and artist David Lynch who will be featured for his photography exhibit along with Chris Stein. The two day event will…
"I'm good enough. I'm smart enough. And doggone it, people like me." That self-help affirmation, from SNL's comedic character Stuart Smalley kept echoing through my head, as Jeff Koons addressed last week's opening night crowd of VIP journalists at his current exhibition the Guggenheim Bilbao. The mantra also seems to fit the Basque Country itself, a region that has…
The Prada Foundation opened a new museum May 9th in an abandoned, old distillery in Milan. With the original location in Venice, The Prada Foundation is known for setting up contemporary art exhibits in abandoned warehouses and disused churches. Dutch architect Rem Koolhas designed the 19,000 sq. meter campus of this new Milan location. The Prada…
This past weekend, on the evening of July 26th, 2014, The Byrd Hoffman Water Mill Foundation celebrated its 21st annual summer benefit–One Thousand Nights and One Night: Sleepless Nights of Sheherazade–at The Watermill Center. The event was a massive success with the Foundation raising a record setting $2.2 million dollars to support the Center's International Summer Arts Program and the year-round…
The sisters behind Rodarte, Kate and Laura Mulleavy, have undertaken their biggest project to date, designing costumes for the Los Angeles Philharmonic's production of Mozart's Don Giovanni led by Gustavo Dudamel and starring Mariusz Kwiecien. Although this is the designers' first opera, it's their second time designing for the stage, the first being, of course, the incredible…