Americans like to believe that they exist in a world of individualism — that the United States is a paragon of distinctiveness. The Whitney Biennial 2026 argues that this could not be further from the truth. Featuring the work of 56 artists, duos, and collectives — most of whom have never been included in…
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The Philadelphia Art Museum is excited about the shows that it is hosting this year. It also really wants to leave its messy divorce from Sasha Suda, its former leader, in the rearview mirror and focus on the stellar art for which it is known. This much was evident in a recent interview that Daniel H.…
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Almost four months after the opening of Philadelphia’s Calder Gardens to the general public, you can still observe the excitement and curiosity from patrons about the much-hyped artistic space (the institution prefers to not be called a museum). It lives up to the high praise that it has received. Philadelphians have been anticipating the…
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Jump To: Fashion + Technology Critiques of Fashion Cultural Questions Reviews Philadelphia Art, Culture, & Design Sustainability Fashion History + Theory We’re coming up on our fifth birthday here at Manic Metallic (on 1/1/2026), and to say that I am in awe is an understatement for a number of reasons. One of those reasons is that the odds are generally pretty low…
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Surrealism might have turned 100 last year, but the art movement’s impact is still being celebrated at the Philadelphia Art Museum. Part of a five-stop tour across the United States and Europe, Philadelphia is the only US city in which the Surrealist retrospective can be viewed. The first exhibition, shown at the Musées Royaux…
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Our latest guest on The Manic Metallic Podcast is Kanyinsola Onalaja, the founder and creative director of womenswear brand Onalaja. Kanyinsola’s designs are painstakingly embroidered and embellished, and I had to have her on the show as soon as I got a look at her work. Our talk was filled with priceless fashion and…
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This exhibit is “not a surrealist show, per se”. Scott Rothkopf, the Alice Pratt Brown Director of the Whitney Museum, was sure to hammer home this point in yesterday’s press preview of “Sixties Surreal”, the museum’s latest showing. The exhibit, surveying American art from 1958-1972, dispenses with the notion that American art was solely…
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Man Ray, the multidisciplinary artist whose name is closely associated with the Dada and Surrealist artistic movements, finally gets his due at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The show, which primarily focuses on Ray’s work from the 1910s and 1920s, is the first solo exhibition that the museum has dedicated exclusively…
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In a recent issue of The Manic Metallic Substack Newsletter, we discussed the concept of “faith without works is dead”. Let’s take the opportunity to dive deeper into that concept. Faith Without Works Is Dead For those unaware of the origin of this phrase, it is a biblical verse from James 2:26. I am…
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In the most recent episode of The Manic Metallic Podcast, I sat down with Fashion Talk’s Amarissa Imoukhuede to learn about her journey through the fashion industry and gain some insight into how she chooses to run the lively Substack publication. Along the way, she gave our audience a strategy that she uses to…
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Americans like to believe that they exist in a world of individualism — that the United States is a paragon of distinctiveness.…
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The Philadelphia Art Museum is excited about the shows that it is hosting this year. It also really wants to leave its…
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Almost four months after the opening of Philadelphia’s Calder Gardens to the general public, you can still observe the excitement and curiosity…
more >
Surrealism might have turned 100 last year, but the art movement’s impact is still being celebrated at the Philadelphia Art Museum. Part…
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This exhibit is “not a surrealist show, per se”. Scott Rothkopf, the Alice Pratt Brown Director of the Whitney Museum, was sure…
more >
In Episode 035 of The Manic Metallic Podcast, we discussed something that needed to be said about sustainability in fashion: we already…
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Just one scroll through social media these days and you’ll see fashion styles like ‘Barbiecore’ or ‘kidcore’ or that one that we…
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Manic Metallic was invited to attend the launch party on November 10, 2021 for FABSCRAP’s new Philadelphia location at the Bok Building…
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So far in our Sustainability Wing writings, we’ve put the spotlight on many organizations and certifications looking to make fashion a more…
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Allow us to clarify. There is no fashion sustainability certifications system, and that needs to change. After spending numerous hours completing research…
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Americans like to believe that they exist in a world of individualism — that the United States is a paragon of distinctiveness.…
more >
The Philadelphia Art Museum is excited about the shows that it is hosting this year. It also really wants to leave its…
more >
Almost four months after the opening of Philadelphia’s Calder Gardens to the general public, you can still observe the excitement and curiosity…
more >
Jump To: Fashion + Technology Critiques of Fashion Cultural Questions Reviews Philadelphia Art, Culture, & Design Sustainability Fashion History + Theory We’re coming up on our fifth birthday here at…
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Surrealism might have turned 100 last year, but the art movement’s impact is still being celebrated at the Philadelphia Art Museum. Part…
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