As a kid, I religiously peeled the skins off grapes first. A bitter foil to the soft fleshened interior to follow, I bit them brief and swallowed whole as a sort of drum roll. That stark of a distinction between the skin and its grape body hadn’t existed again until this day… several decades later. […]
A precious gemstone mined ubiquitously for its soothing clarity and rich history, emeralds reveal truths, induce clarity, rest the eyes, and evoke jungles. Encountering the Coomi X Muzo collection at Baccarat Hotel last week activated a long felt curiosity into the royalty of greenness. Individual masterpieces encompassing the vast range of emerald origins—jungles, lush fields […]
One is absolutely mesmerized by the multiple dimensions of color, shape and tactility of Reid Stowe’s masterpieces upon entering the Chelsea gallery space. On view through the end of the month, Reid Stowe is said to tread the border of the psychotic and the transcendental. Leaping into the mysterious unknown with his mixed media techniques, […]
