Museums
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Sonia Delaunay at the Cooper Hewitt
We’ve waited long enough! The Cooper Hewitt National Museum is featuring the works of Sonia Delaunay now until June 19. This is the first major exhibit of Delaunay’s works in a national museum for over 40 odd years. Yes, it’s been a long time coming. Delaunay (1885-1979) was a Jewish-French artist whose design aesthetics dwell in strong colors and geometric shapes. Along with her husband Robert Delaunay and others, she co-founded the Orphism art movement.Through her paintings, drawings, painted ceramics, neon lights, sculptures, posters, textiles and costume designs, Ms. Delaunay merged art and everyday life. The beautiful textiles that she produced through her life proved her idea that color was “the skin of the world”.Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum2 East 91st Street, 5th AvenueNew York, NY 10128
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Sonia DelaunayNOTE: Please notify us directly, if you believe that certain images on this post are alleged to infringe upon the copyrights of others, according to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). Thank you.
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Savage Beauty
“I want to be the purveyor of a certain silhouette or a way of cutting, so that when I’m dead and gone people will know that the twenty-first century was started by Alexander McQueen.”The house of Alexander McQueen will be honored next week by The Costume Institute of The Met Museum and I can’t wait to be there to witness this spectacular event. One hundred designs will be on display and no doubt, they will all reflect Lee’s true essence – imaginative, dark, and romantic.Yesterday, I was at The Met, and picked up the book – Savage Beauty. Believe me, you don’t want to miss out on purchasing this one. I can’t remember the last time I was so enthralled by a fashion book. McQueen certainly improves upon acquaintance, and his legend lives on!Alexander McQueen
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty
May 4, 2011–July 31, 2011
Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Exhibition Hall, 2nd floor
Alexander McQueen at The Metropolitan Museum of ArtNOTE: Please notify us directly, if you believe that certain images on this post are alleged to infringe upon the copyrights of others, according to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). Thank you.
