The “Marcel Duchamp” exhibition that showed earlier this year at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is back for round two — this time at the Philadelphia Museum of Art (PMA), which is, according to MoMA curator Ann Temkin, the “Duchamp capital of the world.” (She would know, as Temkin is the former Muriel…
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America tends to conveniently forget things that don’t align with its vision of American exceptionalism. Like the fact that it has played host to concentration camps in its past. In its latest exhibition, “Noguchi to Asawa: Designing Postwar America”, Barnes Foundation curator Cindy Kang asks attendees to remember this painful truth and to acknowledge…
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To explain the entirety of who André Leon Talley is could take centuries. If one were going to describe him in short form, you could call him a fashion industry tastemaker; that’s exactly what “The Gospel According To André” does. It did a wonderful job of displaying André’s taste and persona in all of…
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Camp is an indefinable fashion concept. The 2019 Met Costume Institute spring exhibition sought to define it somewhat, which is no small task. Enter Susan Sontag. As a writer, she took on the herculean task of doing this in 1964; her work “Notes On ‘Camp'” was used in part as the basis for this…
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