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At her height, Marimekko founder Armi Ratia was a fashion mogul who aimed for the design equivalent of Marshall McLuhan’s Global Village. Indeed, as the Textile Museum of Canada’s recent “Marimekko, With Love” exhibition attests, the legendary Finnish...
The Met Gala’s red carpet paraded the kind of "punk" to be expected from such an event: safe, sanitized, and a little boring. Guests may have flirted with the subculture’s safety pins and spikes, but they generally avoided the full-on Nancy Spungen ...
Artist’s Multiple (Choice) is a new ARTINFO Canada weekly series that spotlights Canadian artist’s limited edition multiples or art objects. First up: Sholem Krishtalka’s “Tarot Deck.”Reading tarot has long been a parlour game with your higher self. It’s an...
When sneakers hang as museum pieces, we’re forced to assess how such a democratic form of footwear became a status symbol in today’s culture. What was once solely an iconic representation of athleticism and street cred is increasingly a luxury-good — ...
Canadian indie label Arts & Crafts and Canadian designer Jeremy Laing have teamed up on an original line of limited edition unisex T-shirts celebrating the label’s 10th anniversary that will involve design collaborations between Arts & Crafts signed...
With the recent opening of his show at the Museum of Modern Art, New Yorkers finally have the chance to feast their eyes on the brightly painted sculptures and sculptural reliefs of coffee shop foods from Claes Oldenburg’s classic work “...
Late last week, the latest Internet meme emerged from China’s Weibo social networking website: photos of dogs wearing pantyhose. Literally. According to Kotaku, the original “Gou gou chuan siwa” (狗狗穿丝袜) meme sprang when bored Weibo users posted “...
NEW YORK — Amidst a busy late winter arts season that saw particularly strong exhibitions focused on postwar Japanese art — the Gutai retrospective at the Guggenheim, for instance, plus solo shows of individual Gutai artists like Takesada Matsutani at...
Within the many younger satellite fairs operating among this year’s Armory Week is one with a specific focus on Japan: New City Art Fair, an initiative aimed at showcasing Japanese contemporary art in select international cities. Returning to New York for its...
Concept Korea, a mini showcase highlighting fashion-forward South Korean designers, was held last week at the 2013 F/W Mercedes-Benz New York Fashion Week.A government-backed initiative to introduce visionary local labels, the event invited Choiboko, Cres. E...
