Powerful, yes—but can Americans relate, will they want to give a care when we have our own problems, what does Grenfell have to do with us? Was it even covered in the American media at the time? Although nowhere near as much as it was in London’s news outlets, over the years there have been … Read more
Abad’s signature format was trapunto, a style of large-scale quilt. Despite the playfulness of their textures and coloring, Abad’s versions often tackled dense, complicated intersectionalities, from her identity as an immigrant Ivatan woman in the Western world to the social and political tensions of the authoritarian Marcos regime in the Philippines. “What Pacita was doing, … Read more
The pioneering visual artist Faith Ringgold, whose body of work spanned paintings, sculptures, performance art, and widely celebrated story quilts, died this week at 93. Throughout her career, Ringgold was known not only for her creative output, but also her commitment to Black liberation, feminism, the Art Workers Coalition (the group that eventually convinced MoMA … Read more
Vogue: Did the paintings themselves figure into your research for the role? Eden Espinosa: The [composition] of them—finding that hard and soft, because she has that, too, in my mind. Trying to manage two things at once—the masculine and the feminine, the drive and the want for peace—is so much a part of everything that … Read more
Next up are two selections from Mikki Ferrill’s decade-long documentation of The Garage, an improvised music club that popped up in a Chicago parking garage every Sunday afternoon, when it was cleared of cars and filled with dancers. Created at a moment in US urban history that saw the vicious destruction of Black communities, with … Read more
In the early 1970s, the artist Audrey Flack traveled to the Basílica de la Macarena in Seville, Spain, to see a carved-wood statue called Macarena Esperanza, a polychrome depiction of a weeping Virgin Mary adorned with jewels, crystal tears, and false eyelashes. Flack is Jewish, but she was no less overcome by the Macarena’s sorrowful … Read more
After the 2023 Tony Awards proved that an unscripted award show, while definitely unideal, can actually kind of work if the host is charismatic enough (and a professional dancer), we’re already setting our sights on the 2024 ceremony. What historic wins, joyful musical numbers, and shocking upsets will this year’s Tonys bring? We won’t know … Read more
Richard Serra, the artist who reinvented the world’s conception of large-scale sculpture, died from pneumonia at his home in Long Island, New York, on Tuesday. Much has been written about the ways in which Serra, who was 85, transformed the landscape of the art world (and, in many cases, physical landscapes, from Spain to California … Read more
And then there are the still lives—oh, those still lives! With their witty, jarring, and wholly original arrangements of the organic and the inanimate, they are as masterly and timeless as anything from 17th-century Holland. (They were also fertile ground for a ton of great stories, some of which are documented by legendary Vogue editor … Read more
As London slowly emerges from winter, a bevy of stars—from Hollywood stalwarts to theater veterans and emerging talents—are lining up to storm the West End stage. They’re set to reimagine Shakespearean classics; delight audiences with showstopping musical numbers, both new and familiar; make us weep with their takes on Arthur Miller and Eugene O’Neill; and … Read more
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