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Arts and Culture

SVA Students Collaborate with NASA for Earthrise Poster Exhibition

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Mingyi Gan BFAI llustration Class of 2025 NASA Poster
Mingyi Gan BFAI Illustration Class of 2025

The School of Visual Arts is reaching for the stars  with an inspiring new collaboration between its BFA Illustration and BFA Design students and NASA. The result? A stunning poster exhibition celebrating next spring’s highly anticipated Artemis II mission, which will send four astronauts on a journey around the Moon and pave the way for future human exploration of Mars.
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Design and Innovation

Pink Thing of The Day: Dress Made From Pink Barbie Shoes

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pink dress barbie shoes front view photo by gail worley
All Photos By Gail

The Museum of Arts and Design (MAD) in midtown Manhattan is currently hosting Barbie: A Cultural Icon, an exhibit celebrating the 65-year legacy of Barbie. I’m in the process of distilling my recent visit to the exhibit into a broader post, but in the meantime let’s look at something which did not quite make it into the exhibit proper: this fashionable Cocktail Dress created entire of tiny Pink Barbie Shoes, which is displayed prominently in the window of the museum’s high-end gift shop. Talk about a show-stopper. Continue reading Pink Thing of The Day: Dress Made From Pink Barbie Shoes →

Film and Television, Pop Culture

Pink Thing of The Day: Tracy Turnblad’s Roach Dress from Hairspray

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roach dress from hairspray photo by gail worley
All Photos By Gail

In 1988, film director John Waters created a new level of shock by making a family friendly, PG-rated movie. Set in 1962, two years before the Civil Rights Act, Hairspray centers on Tracy Turnblad (Ricki Lake), a self-identified “pleasantly plump” teenage girl, who attempts to racially integrate a teen dance show.

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Arts and Culture

Banksy in New York: Defaced Gathers His Greatest Hits Under One Roof

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banksy time out london cover photo by gail worley
March 2010 Cover of Time Out London Designed By Banksy (All Photos By Gail)

My first exposure to Banksy — the pseudonymous British street artist (some say consortium) whose irreverent works of socio-political satire have appeared in site-specific locations across the globe — was a visit to his October, 2008 immersive Village Pet Store and Charcoal Grill. Located in a Greenwich Village, NYC storefront and filled with surreal creations both familiar and exotic, the installation was designed to look like a typical pet store, but with a twist. While there was no actual Charcoal Grill serving food, rather than selling live animals, the store featured a variety of animatronic pets, including fish sticks swimming in a fish bowl, ‘chicken nugget’ baby chicks and a rabbit applying makeup before a mirrored vanity.

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Design and Innovation

Instagram Photo of The Week: Gail at the Louis Vuitton 200 Trunks Exhibit

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I spent a couple  of very fun and visually stimulating hours yesterday at the Louis Vuitton: 200 Trunks, 200 Visionaries exhibit, which is staged across three floors at the former location of Barneys on Madison Avenue and 61st Street. Admission is free and you can reserve your timed entry at This Link! This experience  is very highly recommended by me!

In case you’re curious, the trunk featured in this room, by photographer Francesca Sorrenti, is below.

louis vuitton trunk by francesca sorrenti photo by gail worley

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