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Deeply enmeshed with his hometown, Alex Israel (b. 1982) explores how popular media and Hollywood are central to the Los Angeles interpretation of the American Dream and the nuclear family. Created specifically for the Jewish Museum, the work reflects on the prominence of portraits of mothers throughout the museum collection.
Continue reading Modern Art Monday Presents: Self Portrait (Mom) By Alex Israel
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Unemployment (2016), another chapter of Josh Klein’s ongoing cycle, is a stark series of installations set in the 2030s or 2040s – a vision of a near-future in which automation has replaced the majority of administrative office jobs.
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While the streamlined curves of Gloria Cortina’s Black Hawk Console (2016) reference the design aesthetic of modern French opulence and glamour popular in the 20th century, Black Hawk serves as an homage to the perception of luxury in the Aztec empire.
Continue reading Eye On Design: Black Hawk Console By Gloria Cortina
 
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When Pantone teamed up with Instagram to promote their 2016 Color of the Year (which, in that year, was actually two colors: Rose Quartz and Serenity), they chose muralist WERC (@W3RC) to represent NYC with this depiction of a man wearing an Armadillo as a Helmet, or something like that. Read the full story behind this mural, and the global ad campaign of which it was a part, This Link.
Photographed at the Southwest Corner of 10th Avenue and 50th Street in Hell’s Kitchen NYC.
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Christian Siriano designed this dress for actress Leslie Jones to wear to a film premiere. Jones had tweeted that due to her physique, no fashion designer was willing to dress her for red carpet events. Siriano responded to her, saying he would be proud to design a dress for her.
Continue reading Eye On Design: Gown for Leslie Jones Designed By Christian Siriano
