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CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund: Starter for Ten
PART I: THE COMPETITION It would be impossible to summarize all of the emotions the ten finalists for the CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund Award go through, because they go through many emotions, including...
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Dwight Ripley Exhibit at Esopus Space
If you want a taste of El Torcal de Antequera, the slightly lunar nature preserve in Andalusia, Spain, but want to spend only cab or subway fare getting there, then stop into the newly opened Esopus...
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Poetic Ending
Expand The year has been wrapping up very poetically, thank you very much. To review: A keynote reading series this past fall was the Irish Arts Center’s inaugural PoetryFest, an attempt to give new...
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Natalia Vodianova and Sean “Diddy” Combs: Brief Encounter
Trains are a key feature of Last Train to Paris, the new Sean “Diddy” Combs album, and as far as Diddy sees it, trains mean love. “Trains are very intense, very sensual,” he was saying recently while...
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Walk Boldly Into the Future: Burberry Streams Show Tomorrow Live In 3D
Before Avatar, there were, of course, scores of 3-D movies—It Came From Outer Space (1953) and Friday the 13th Part 3 (1982) are two that come immediately to mind. But tomorrow marks the first time in...
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Marina Abramovic’s Last Sit
If you were there for the final hours of the 700-hour-long Marina Abramovic performance piece at the Museum of Modern Art on Memorial Day, then you noticed it was more crowded than usual at the...
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National Design Awards 2010
Sharp trend spotters may have noticed that you can count on the First Lady to take a straightforward event like the National Design Awards—held at the White House last week—and redesign it as a...
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Truth or Dare: Catfish
Catfish is a number of different kinds of films in one: a documentary, a road movie, and, despite its being set in part in the E- as opposed to the actual world, a surprisingly visceral meditation on...
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Lauren Santo Domingo: Lady and the Trunk
One sign that fashion is recovering nicely, thank you very much, is that shoppers at the top—or, more precisely, at the very top—want to get more for not paying less. “Everything right now is about...
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Bright Lights, Bold Color
Close your eyes. What do you see? If you were at Raf Simons’s Jil Sander spring show in Milan then you may still see those supersize dresses with supersize color, still luxuriating on the back of your...
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Christopher Bailey: Tech Mate
Let us consider Christopher Bailey, the man at the helm of Burberry, a pioneer of all things digital in the fashion industry. But let’s begin not with the debut of his collection for spring 2011—a...
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Need It Now: Poetry In Motion at Poets House
Poets House, a library and exhibition space in New York, has turned out to be a perfect summer retreat, a beautiful spot on the river in Battery Park City, where visitors can go every Tuesday and...
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New York State of Mind: Alicia Keys Celebrates the Ten-Year Anniversary of...
Let’s do this backward, since it was a big week for Alicia Keys. This morning she was up and remembering last night’s sold-out Beacon Theatre show, a solo piano concert commemorating the ten-year...
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Singer St. Vincent Launches Her New Album with a Concert in the Temple of Dendur
Sure, it was raining out, but a strange thing happened when St. Vincent’s concert on the roof of the Metropolitan Museum of Art was cancelled and moved indoors: The alternate venue, the Temple of...
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Ireland’s “Other Voices” Holds Two-Day Salon in New York
Tonight and tomorrow in New York, it’s an inspiring smash-up as The Burgundy Stain Sessions, the critically successful and artisitcally inventive salon hosted by Thomas Bartlett (of the band Doveman),...
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Play On! An Exclusive Preview of Once on Broadway
Once keeps going. Begun as a film in 2006, the made-on-a-shoestring Dublin-based love story between an Irish busker and a Czech-born classical pianist was—after long ticket lines and an Oscar for Best...
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La La Anthony: She’s Got Game
Reality-TV star and NBA wife La La Anthony makes fame look as effortless as a layup. Reality, in its two most common forms—first, as the state of things as they exist in the world, and second, as...
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Full Spectrum: A Light and Landscape Exhibition at Storm King Art Center
For the regular visitor to Storm King Art Center, “Light and Landscape,” the latest show, sounds like a setup. Given its excruciatingly dramatic setting—in view of Storm King Mountain and along the...
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Wonder Women: Team USA’s Female Olympic Athletes
With divine grace and unmatched drive, these elite athletes are ready to swim, kick, tumble, and sprint their way to the summer Olympic games. ALEXANDRA RAISMAN | GYMNASTICSTo see her do a round-off...
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Usain Bolt and Joan Smalls: Cut to the Chase
7 View slideshow Model Joan Smalls trails the World’s fastest sprinter, Usain Bolt, as a documentary crew tracks his every stride. To hear him tell it, Usain Bolt wins the race at the beginning, long...
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