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. »
Style + Design Iris van Herpen Imagines a Fashion Future in Which Clothes Are Only Made on Demand May. 20, 2020 Van Herpen has always been at the vanguard of fashion and technology, while maintaining her focus on the beauty of the human body and its movement—she is, after all, a trained dancer. Here, she shares her thoughts on shows, production, and the ultimate ideal of circularity: technology that brings us closer to nature and its cycles. »
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.” »
Style + Design Creation in Destruction: An Interview with Someone Who Smashes Cosmetics for a Living May. 13, 2020 If matter is neither created nor destroyed, explain to me the existence of Creator, Destroyer, and all-around Womancrush Marissa Gimeno, whose job it is to smash, smudge, puff, drip, and swish beauty products into the gorgeous images you see in editorial and advertising. »
Photography + Film Still Life With Fly Swatter, or Hourglass, or Lemons May. 13, 2020 Five housebound photographers used everyday items to create images that speak to both their inner lives and the world beyond their walls. »
Style + Design “There is so much in fashion that is unexplored” says Iris van Herpen in Dezeen’s exclusive video series May. 7, 2020 In the first of three exclusive video interviews with Dezeen for Virtual Design Festival, fashion designer Iris van Herpen explains how her training as a ballet dancer led her to pioneer the use of new technologies and materials in haute couture. »
Style + Design Closet Tour with GQ’s Jim Moore Apr. 30, 2020 The legendary editor walks us through his wardrobe and discusses his decades-long career in fashion. »
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. »
The Alchemist: How Iris Van Herpen Has Redefined Couture Craftsmanship With Modern Technologies Apr. 10, 2020 Dutch designer Iris van Herpen uses the latest technology to create poetic collections inspired by everything from the depths of the ocean to the solar system »
