Down and out on the Lower East Side
Inspired by a whole host of counterculture gods — ranging from Alejandro Jodorowsky to Terry Southern — the New York theater troupe, The Amoralists, puts on shows it describes as “an honest expression...
View ArticleAdvertising or soft-core porn?
Have you seen the new Steven Klein ad shots featuring Eva Mendes and Jamie Dornan that were released today? Calvin Klein seems to be pushing the advertising envelope once again. You barely notice the...
View ArticleVampires and sports stars going global for Calvin
Last week, YSL sent a racy new video promo/ad film by fashion photographer Bruce Weber into cyberspace (New York magazine labeled it NSFW because of the nudity). Now comes word that fashion’s long-time...
View Article‘All-American’: the wide-ranging eye of Bruce Weber
A magazine in the form of a book, or a book with the spirit of a magazine? It’s hard to define what the photographer and filmmaker Bruce Weber has been doing since 2001 in the series of volumes he...
View Article‘Sticky Fingers’: king of the baby boomers
Joe Hagan makes a good case for Jann Wenner as the William Randolph Hearst of our time in his compulsively readable biography “Sticky Fingers” (Alfred A. Knopf). Wenner created Rolling Stone in the...
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