May 21, 2012
- Diesel fuel, tobacco, damp dirt and pine tree perfume from Portland, OR
Perfumer Heather Sielaff hand-blends idiosyncratic, mostly masculine scents for her label OLO Fragrance in her apartment in north Portland. "I'm not really girly," she admits, and her perfumes tend...
May 18, 2012
- Illustrations revisit the Roaring Twenties
by Joanna Prisco
For the last six months, New Yorkers have been hotly anticipating...
- Shark teeth and pheasant feathers in work by a UK artist
50-million-year-old shark teeth and thousands of turkey, pheasant and coque feathers are just a few of the materials comprising the work of UK artist...
- Masterpieces on iPhone
Even from a few feet away, you can see the bold strokes that Sao Paulo artist Roberto Lautert applies to his portraits of iconic art figures, but...
May 16, 2012
- Blast off with Tom Sachs' impressively detailed NASA-inspired mission
Most artists are obsessed—their fixation serving as a driving force for creative action...
- An impromptu conference aimed at reforming a war-torn nation
For many Somali refugees, the film Black Hawk Down serves as one of their only memories of the civil war that has ravaged their country for the last two decades. This Thursday, 17 May 2012, thousands of expats—along with the rest of the world—will see their nation again in a...
May 15, 2012
- Peeling back the layers for a portrait of human truth
by Katharina Galla
The portrait photographer Christian Witkin is best known for his advertising and editorial work for major publications like New York Times Magazine, Harpers Bazaar,...
May 14, 2012
- Artist Daniel Buren plants a forest of candy-colored sunshades for "Exentrique(s), travail in situ" at the Grand Palais
Following the installation by Anish Kapoor in 2011, ...
