What’s the pointe?

January 4, 2019

By Gudrun Willcocks

Frederick Wiseman, La Danse–Le Ballet de l'Opéra de Paris, 2009. Courtesy MoMA

'Ballet is a purely female thing; it is a woman, a garden of beautiful flowers and man is the gardener,’ the impresario George Balanchine reflected to Life Magazine in 1965. Ballet is an art form enmeshed with its history: steps drawn up in the court of Louis XIV remain today; blockbuster ballets like ‘The Nutcracker,’ ‘Swan Lake,’ and ‘Giselle’ were...

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The Dead Man in the Sea at Urca

December 10, 2018

By Clarice Lispector

Hiroshi Sugimoto. Tasman Sea, Ngarupupu. 1990. Courtesy Guggenheim Museum.

I'm going to tell a secret: my dress is lovely and I don't want to die. On Friday the dress...

Retail Therapy

November 20, 2018

By Sarah Bochicchio

And it is the most unsure customers that I remember best: Sarah, who was looking for her perfect denim jacket,...

Race To The Middle

On RuPaul and The Mainstreaming of Drag

October 29, 2018

The show simultaneously embraces capitalism and activism at once. Queens are both encouraged to build their own brands, while also...

Chinese Life And Fashions

September 12, 2018

By Eileen Chang

In modern hats and dresses the details always have a point – to bring out the color of the eyes,...

A Costume Of Herself

On the Frida Kahlo Tchotchke Industrial Complex

August 31, 2018

By Holly Connolly

Picasso has not yet been honoured with a retrospective on his personal aesthetic, nor has the one-time Comme des Garçons...

Mannequin

August 17, 2018

There were twelve mannequins at Jeanne Veron’s: six of them were lunching, the others still paraded, goddess-like, till their turn...