Tuesday, October 07, 2008

iDetails/i Child Stars Revisited



Watch them tell all about life in--and out--of the spotlight in our exclusive video interviews.br /br /Stills: ABC/Photofest (11); Courtesy Everett Collection (6); 20thCentFox/Courtesy Everett Collection (2); Columbia Pictures/Courtesy Everett Collection (3); Fox Broadcasting/Photofest; ZUMA Press; Time Life Pictures/Getty Images (7); Warner Bros/Courtesy Everett Collection (2)

iGQ/i: The Jessica Alba Video



See iGQ/i's June cover girl in action in this sexy behind-the-scenes video from the shoot

Monday, October 06, 2008

iDetails/i Dress Like a New Gent



All the tricks you need to look utterly dapper in a suit.

Reggie Bush: brSecond to None



He leaps over linebackers in a single bound. He says no to alcohol. He gives generously to charity. And he knows how to wear a sweater

Sunday, October 05, 2008

On Display in Rome, the Sensuality of a Mysterious Master



“Correggio and the Antique” is a gathering of 25 paintings and more than 30 drawings by the important but lesser known Italian High Renaissance artist.



Saturday, October 04, 2008

Arts, Briefly: Conservationists Fault British Museum Plans



Heritage groups in London are upset over plans by the British Museum to build an exhibition center in the northwest part of the museum.



Behind-the-Scenes with GQ



Filmed at the shoot for GQ Design Group, Penn Badgley talks about being a gentleman and the benefits of wearing a great fragrance.

Friday, October 03, 2008

Bench of Memory at Slavery’s Gateway



Over the weekend, off the South Carolina coast, Toni Morrison, the Nobel laureate, and some 300 people held a memorial ceremony to dedicate her long-awaited “bench by the road.”



Last Chance: The Aluminum Can, Versatile and Ubiquitous



“You Can Go Your Own Way: The Can as Foil in Contemporary Art,” at the Renwick Gallery, offers a taut, almost relentlessly consistent gathering of recent art that uses aluminum cans.



Thursday, October 02, 2008

Visuals: The Artist at War



New art and design books reviewed.



Wednesday, October 01, 2008

Earth Markers



She’d worked in art history; now she was going to see the art.



The Curator



Food labels, bottle caps, envelope linings: if it was ephemeral detritus, William Davies King cherished and collected it.



Tuesday, September 30, 2008

Antiques: Old Fabrics and New Designs



Antiktex Ltd., a Manhattan company, is one of a handful of companies with large stocks of old fabrics.



Art Review: Artists Leap Into the Moment



“How Soon Is Now?” at the Bronx Museum of the Arts is almost nothing but symptoms reflecting almost nothing but failings.



Monday, September 29, 2008

Art Review | 'Pretty Ugly': Art Makes Such Weird Bedfellows



Everyone-into-the-pool gallery group shows like “Pretty Ugly” are a welcome distraction in a steamy New York midsummer.



Art Review: Inspired by Vikings and Volcanoes



Two exhibitions of Icelandic art are on view for another couple of weeks at Scandinavia House and the Luhring Augustine gallery.



Sunday, September 28, 2008

A 7,500-Square-Foot Ad for Chanel, With an Artistic Mission



A futuristic art pavilion, commissioned by Chanel and designed by London architect Zaha Hadid, will make a temporary appearance in Central Park this fall.



Saturday, September 27, 2008

Friday, September 26, 2008

In Ancient Alleys, Modern Comforts



Some of Beijing’s traditional courtyard homes are being refurbished with a mix of modern sensibility and respect for original detail.



In the Closet: July 23, 2008, Part 2



What can we say: There was just too much groundbreaking footage for a single video. In the second segment, Tyler and Josh run through a few highlights from our Fall 2008 Buyer's Guide.

Thursday, September 25, 2008

In the Closet: July 23, 2008



Is anyone really going to wear a pajama-themed suit? Do real men wear peds? Scott "The Sartorialist" Schuman joins Tyler and Josh for a recap of the burning issues of Spring 2009.

Architecture: Lost in the New Beijing: The Old Neighborhood



A construction boom tied to the Olympics is threatening two types of housing in China’s capital.



Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Abroad: Berliners Get a Crash Course in Glittery Celebrity Culture



Germany has long been funny about celebrity, which makes the show at the Helmut Newton Foundation a particularly fascinating and revealing exercise.



Art: Yeats Meets the Digital Age, Full of Passionate Intensity



A digital resurrection allows Yeats to stride again along the hinge of the 19th and 20th centuries.



Tuesday, September 23, 2008

Art: Leaves Speak; a Journalist Listens



Janet Malcolm, using camera more than pen, conveys her fascination with burdock.



Design Review | ‘Home Delivery’: Instant Houses, Then and Now



The Modern makes a convincing case that prefabricated housing was both a central theme of Modernist history and a dream that remains very much alive today.



Paul Byard, 68, Dies; Architect Renovated Landmarks



Mr. Byard, a land-use lawyer who returned to school in his late 30s to be an architect, became an important figure in the renovation of some of New York’s most prominent landmarks.



Monday, September 22, 2008

Art Review | 'Muraqqa': An Emperors’ Art: Small, Refined, Jewel Toned



A show at the Sackler Gallery in Washington showcases 82 rarely seen paintings, of the most elegant and refined variety, that were commissioned by Mughal emperors.



Vibrant Gateway Planned for Lincoln Center Campus



The architects Tod Williams and Billie Tsien hope to transform Harmony Atrium, now an underused pass-through, into a “front porch” for Lincoln Center.



Friday, September 19, 2008

Art Auctions on Cruise Ships Lead to Anger, Accusations and Lawsuits



Auctioning “fine art” on cruises, often to first-time bidders, has become big business — but some customers say they did not get what they bargained for.



Art: The Image Is Familiar; the Pitch Isn’t



Artists have appropriated images from advertising for decades. What happens when the tables are turned?



Thursday, September 18, 2008

GQ: Emma Stone



A sexy behind-the-scenes look at 'Superbad' actress Emma Stone.

Matter: Here Comes the Neighborhood



A housing project, Museum of Modern Art-style.



Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Architect Supports Changes to Times Tower



Renzo Piano said he supported plans by officials of The New York Times to alter the facade of the newspaper’s year-old building, which he designed, to prevent people from scaling the tower.



Art Review | 'Sand: Memory, Meaning and Metaphor': A Celebration of Sand, in Vast Quantities or One Grain at a Time



A baggy compendium of artworks at the Parrish Art Museum offers a chance to meditate on the many meanings of one of the world’s cheapest and most precious materials.



Antiques: When London and Paris Looked to the Nile for Inspiration



“Thomas Hope: Regency Designer,” a new exhibit at the Bard Graduate Center in Manhattan, has a few imaginative examples of Egyptian Revival furniture.



Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Art Review: Lustrous Visions, Cut From Stone



The Metropolitan Museum’s “Art of the Royal Court” offers the first in-depth survey of the arts and crafts of pietre dure, or works inlaid with finely cut semiprecious stones.



Suits and Disputes on an Art Deco Table



A long legal battle over an Art Deco table owned by Ronald O. Perelman is just now being settled and is awaiting the judge’s final disposition.



Monday, September 15, 2008

Energetic Rabbits, Melt-Proof Candies and Other Advertising Coups



The new exhibition on advertising at the Science, Industry and Business Library wants to give a twist to the “Mad Men” series.



Sunday, September 14, 2008

Michael Turner, 37, Creator of Superheroines, Is Dead



Mr. Turner was a popular comic-book artist who came to fame in the mid-1990s and was best known for creating two sexy female lead characters, Witchblade and Fathom.



Style: Sky Lark



When a family in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, needed more space, there was nowhere to go but up.



Saturday, September 13, 2008

Art Review | 'Radiance From the Rain Forest': Objects From a Long-Vanished Peru, Parading All Their Magnificent Plumage



This show supplements the Met’s rarely displayed holdings of featherwork with examples borrowed from public and private collections.



Art Review: A Panoramic Subject for Artists



The views from Boscobel are astonishing, but so are the views inside the historic home, which is displaying a selection of 19th-century American paintings.



Friday, September 12, 2008

Art: Buddha’s Caves



On the lip of the Gobi Desert, sand and tourists threaten Mogaoku’s singular art.



Design Review | Buckminster Fuller: Fixing Earth One Dome at a Time



A timely new exhibition of works by Buckminster Fuller at the Whitney Museum is likely to stir waves of nostalgia for those who miss the architecture of the cold war.



Art Review: Storm-Tossed Visionary of Light



The oil and watercolor paintings in the Metropolitan Museum’s “J. M. W. Turner” swing between overblown and moving, inspired and mechanical.



Thursday, September 11, 2008

Along the Hudson, Searching for Old



For country-weekend antiquing, the mid-Hudson Valley offers excellent prices, great scenery and, in terms of merchandise, a little of almost everything.



Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Art Review: 3,344 People May Not Know Art but Know What They Like



The Brooklyn Museum’s “Click! A Crowd-Curated Exhibition” invites its viewers to consider whether the crowd is better than the individual at picking quality photography.



Art Review | 'Tapestry in the Baroque': King-Size Stories, Woven for the Ages



The Metropolitan Museum’s show of tapestry from the Baroque era is stupefying and awesome in its exacting detail.



Bottega Veneta, Spring 2009



Creative director Tomas Maier on why men should cover up and say no to nudity.

Tuesday, September 09, 2008

Dolce & Gabbana, Spring 2009



Stefano Gabbana discusses the duo's newly relaxed tailoring, inspired by pajama jackets and spending time with his dog.

Giorgio Armani, Spring 2009



Tim Blanks talks to the designer about his latest version of "classico con twist," and gets second opinions from noted fashion critics Adrien Brody and Terrell Owens.

Calvin Klein, Spring 2009



Creative director Italo Zucchelli explains his European approach to American sportswear, and what was up with all the gray-haired models on his runway.

Monday, September 08, 2008

City Room: Calatrava’s Roof to Remain Closed



The winglike rooftop of Santiago Calatrava’s World Trade Center Transportation Hub was to open and close. Now, with budget and timetable concerns, it will no longer be operable, though an opening will be retained.



Sunday, September 07, 2008

Abroad: Visiting the Heights and the Depths, With Goya as Guide



“Goya in Times of War” at the Prado in Madrid is most memorable for pictures less famous, some rarely or never seen — still lifes and portraits — many from obscure collections.



A Filmmaker Adds a Cinematic Scope to a Storied Painting



For one fleeting evening in Milan, Leonardo’s venerable “Last Supper” was a multimedia star.



Saturday, September 06, 2008

Renaissance Sculpture Damaged in Fall at Met



A relief by the Renaissance sculptor Andrea della Robbia came loose overnight from its perch and crashed to the stone floor below, seriously damaging it.



From Trash to Auction, Faster Than a Speeding ...Well, You Know



Original comic-book art once wiped up ink spills. Now it pulls in big bucks.



Friday, September 05, 2008

Charles Parkhurst, Who Tracked Down Looted Art, Dies at 95



Mr. Parkhurst was a museum director and one of the “monuments men,” an Allied Forces team that chased down leads in search of art stolen by the Nazis.



Museum Review: In a Collection of Memorabilia, Politics at Its Most Boisterous



An exuberant exhibition of campaign artifacts on display at the Museum of the City of New York is mostly gathered from the collection of Jordan M. Wright, who died last month.



Yes!!! Finally!!!



Amy favat stands in front of the first panels of her new house construction

Well, after two long years of patience and waiting we are finally seeing our new house become a reality!

It almost seems surreal. And despite the rain, the thunder and the lightning on the first official day of building - and the same forecast threatning our crew all week - we are now able to watch our beautiful timber frame home start to rise. And it is quite an amazing sight. We just can't stop grinning! My self portrait pretty much says it all. We are so psyched for this day to finally arrive!



Thursday, September 04, 2008

Ed Arno, Cartoonist of New Yorker Whimsy, Is Dead at 92



Mr. Arno created sketchy, casually rendered cartoons on topics domestic and cosmic that appeared regularly in The New Yorker for more than 30 years.