Art + Culture A DAZZLING WEB BY STUDIO DRIFT SERVES AS A METAPHOR FOR CONNECTION Mar. 27, 2020 While their kinetic set piece is stuck in New York, its opera is now online »
Art + Culture STEVEN PRANICA | CEO/FOUNDER, CREATIVE EXCHANGE AGENCY Mar. 20, 2020 While the term “Renaissance Man” is often casually splashed around, in the case of the CEO/Founder of Creative Exchange Agency, Steven Pranica, the definition of “a person with many talents or areas of knowledge,” is actually quite fitting. »
Art + Culture INSIDE THE BOUTIQUE AGENCY THAT’S CHANGING THE FACE OF THE INDUSTRY Mar. 20, 2020 It is fitting that Creative Exchange Agency, the powerhouse artist management, production, and creative content firm, should be located in a sleek Chelsea high-rise penthouse towering above the center of the international art world. With the kind of floor-to-ceiling windows that would give weaker stomachs vertigo, the office of the agency’s founder and principal, Steven Pranica, has commanding views of Manhattan’s cultural, financial, and commercial sectors. »
Art + Culture HOW TO RUN A SUCCESSFUL FASHION CREATIVE REPRESENTATION FIRM Mar. 20, 2020 In December a story about a former high-powered fashion agent and print magazine photography director sent shockwaves through New York’s creative and editorial community – especially those whose careers have taken a nose-dive since digital came into the picture. »
Style + Design Vincent Leroy distorts Iris van Herpen’s ‘Hypnosis’ collection through a magnifying lens Mar. 19, 2020 Bringing the worlds of art and fashion together in beautiful collision, french artist Vincent Leroy has teamed up with Iris van Herpen for an immersive and surreal photoshoot in Paris. »
Style + Design “Couture is actually a really strong platform for developing new techniques” says Iris van Herpen Mar. 3, 2020 Fashion designer Iris van Herpen explains how experimentation in haute couture can drive innovation in the fashion industry in this exclusive video interview filmed by Dezeen. »
Art + Culture Reginald Sylvester II’s Improvisational Paintings & “Stampings” on Display at James Fuentes Gallery Mar. 12, 2020 This month, James Fuentes Gallery is presenting new works by American artist Reginald Sylvester II. The solo exhibition demonstrates Sylvester’s departure from figurative paintings to abstract works, revealing his desire to dismantle and rebuild. »
Art + Culture How I Learned to Really Study a City Feb. 28, 2020 Landscape designer Lily Kwong travels the globe to learn about our urban spaces—and how we can change them for the better. »
Art + Culture Kehinde Wiley: The Yellow Wallpaper Review Feb. 27, 2020 The works here are based on a short story from the nineteenth century by Charlotte Perkins Gilman about a woman diagnosed with hysteria and driven mad by the yellow wallpaper in the room she’s locked in. »
Style + Design Daphne Guinness: David LaChapelle, Elton John, Bowie tributes and being a pop star in your fifties Feb. 18, 2020 Not content with being a front-row fashion icon and wealthy heiress, Daphne Guinness – 52-year-old mother of 3 – has ambitions to be a pop diva. It helps to know cult photographer David LaChapelle – and be willing to do anything (literally) for the sake of the video. Will Hodgkinson goes on set »
Art + Culture Two Napoleons in Brooklyn, One in Timberlands Feb. 13, 2020 The Brooklyn Museum has hung Jacques-Louis David’s “Bonaparte Crossing the Alps” alongside an adaptation by Kehinde Wiley. It’s a face-off between two visions of the political power of art. »
Art + Culture HOW TO RUN A SUCCESSFUL FASHION CREATIVE REPRESENTATION FIRM Feb. 7, 2020 The Impression sat down with two leading creative representation agencies – Steven Pranica of CXA and Massimiliano di Battista of M&A Creative and to hear what shifts in their business have taken place to ensure viability in the next decade. »
Art + Culture studio drift’s ‘EGO’ is a handwoven object capable of changing shape and state Jan. 28, 2020 studio drift presents ‘EGO’, a large-scale moving block, handwoven from 16 kilometers (10 miles) of reflective japanese fluorocarbon. »
Art + Culture CREATIVE PRODUCER POLINA ZAKH DOESN’T DESIGN FOR INSTAGRAMMABLE MOMENTS Jan. 24, 2020 On Sila Sveta and Giving Drake’s Scorpion Tour a Dose of Rave Culture »
Art + Culture Sila Sveta’s Jumbotron Takeover for The Times Square EDITION Jan. 24, 2020 The public-facing video projects, projected on Jumotron billboards on the corner of 47th Street and Broadway, meet pedestrians with captivating videos that pay homage to the late Alexander McQueen’s 1999 fashion show. »
