New York’s “21 Questions” is back with an eye on creative New Yorkers. Qualeasha Wood is a textile artist who explores Black identity and cyberculture, often through woven selfies. She’s a 2021–22 resident artist at the Studio Museum in Harlem. The Met acquired her weaving The [Black] Madonna/Whore Complex in […]
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Carleton Varney, Interior Designer Known as Mr. Color, Dies at 85
Carleton Varney, the ebullient interior designer whose enthusiastic use of color in motels, castles, palaces and the habitats of film and theater royalty — and one particular president — attained him the nickname Mr. Shade, died on July 14 in Palm Seashore, Fla. He was 85. His son Sebastian verified […]
New documentary ‘Let Me Be Me’ tells story of boy with autism who grew up to be fashion designer
July is Incapacity Satisfaction Thirty day period, and that helps make it a great time to launch a documentary about a boy with autism from the Philadelphia area who grew up to turn out to be a vogue designer. “Permit Me Be Me” tells the tale of a mom and […]
Stephen Sprouse Show in Indianapolis Gives a New York Darling His Due Back Home
INDIANAPOLIS — Music by the Rolling Stones blared from speakers at the Ritz nightclub on East 11th Street in Manhattan as adult males and females walked facet by facet down the runway. Much more than 1,500 viewers customers, a sheen of sweat glistening off their necks in the tightly packed […]
Nigerian colors, memories inspire textile artist
BUT Initial, Coffee Ordinarily, Rodriguez’s day starts early as she prepares to get her youngest little one to faculty. She can make espresso and drops her son off, then zips downtown and gets to her studio all over 8:30. Rodriguez strategies the studio like she would any get the job […]
Customizing textiles to design formfitting face masks
Graphic courtesy of MIT and Lavendar Tessmer Researchers at MIT have developed an energetic fiber and process that utilizes heat to activate face masks and conform to an individual’s face. The COVID-19 pandemic has emphasized the importance of confront masks that correctly seal close to the nose and mouth. Even […]