Tribeca Festival 2026 is already being lauded for its films fueled by musicians, star power, and nostalgia, but some of the more compelling films that audiences should keep an eye out for lie not in those quarters. Viewers should consider turning their eyes toward the international film slate, particularly during a time where America…
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For those familiar with the art world and its various happenings, the European Fine Art Fair (TEFAF) stands for high design, high class, and high wealth. The mood is set when you walk through the doors of the storied Park Avenue Armory on New York’s Upper East Side: the exquisite florals, the champagne, 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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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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Frieze New York’s 2025 edition wrapped up on Sunday, and it cannot be emphasized enough just how important that the fair was to the New York art world at a time of such social and global upheaval. Approximately 25,000 Frieze visitors visited over 65 galleries from across the world. While one of the reasons…
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Art has been essential to the heart of what Manic Metallic is since its inception. We are a fashion media company that creates from the standpoint of fashion being an art, discipline, and societal force for change. Fashion that draws from the energy of art drives who we are and who we want to…
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