Art + Culture Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg look to the future in Louvre Abu Dhabi sci-fi podcast Jun. 1, 2020 Louvre Abu Dhabi is inviting us to go thousands of years into the future thanks to an absorbing audio and visual experience created by the Soundwalk Collective group which is known for creating “sonic landscapes”. The piece, We Are Not Alone, begins with the museum architect Jean Nouvel who has recorded a message for future generations. “A narrator then places the audience within the tale’s futuristic world, inviting them to imagine the museum’s surroundings in a galaxy that has survived long after human extinction,” a statement says. »
Art + Culture 9 Lessons To Take From Renowned Interiors Photographer François Halard’s Provençal Home May. 27, 2020 Until now, the Provençal bolthole of photographer François Halard has been little more than a glorious footnote to his shots of private homes belonging to everyone from Yves Saint Laurent to Antony Gormley. »
Art + Culture Wes Lang Releases ‘For the Good Times’ Print Edition With Almine Rech May. 25, 2020 Renowned French dealer Almine Rech recently announced a print collaboration with contemporary American artist, Wes Lang. You may know Lang as the creative mastermind behind Kanye West’s YEEZUS graphics back in 2018, His work consists of unruly drawings, sculptures and paintings that often incorporate controversial imagery from American history including Native Americans, the confederate flag and more. »
Art + Culture As Long As You’re Stuck in Your Apartment, Give Yourself a Story to Live May. 21, 2020 Artist Peter McGough has always insisted on living as if he’s in another era. »
Art + Culture CXA Agency Releases Return to Work Guide for Safe & Responsible Shoot Production May. 15, 2020 ‘How’ is one of the fashion industries’ greatest questions of today. ‘How’ will we work together again? ‘How’ will shoots work? ‘How’ will we stay safe? These questions and more prompted Steven Pranica, President of Creative Exchange Agency, to put process to paper and develop answers to ‘how’ in CXA’s “UnPause – A Guide to Safe & Responsible Production.” »
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. »
Art + Culture Creative Exchange Agency Presents Online Viewing Room, “Existential Time” Apr. 29, 2020 Online viewing rooms have become the norm in the art world as of late, and now the Creative Exchange Agency presents its multi-artist offering, “Existential Time.” »
Art + Culture Steven Pranica | CEO/Founder, Creatuve 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 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 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. »
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. »
