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. […]
Swarovski celebrated the opening of its Time’s Square store last week at Hudson Mercantile. An architecturally exquisite production space set in Hudson Yards, ascending the old-fashioned industrial elevator was only the third exciting treat. The bedazzled makeshift hot dog stand, welcoming bags and late winter coats was the second, while having […]
Downward spiraling into the Covid-19 abyss, the human need for visual and figurative art magnifies. Lockdown may have stifled many artists’ desire to create, but it has intensified patrons’ hunger to appreciate and engage with the finer arts: Paintings, sculpture, photography, music, film, literature, design and cooking. Entrepreneur and curator Marina Dojchinov recognized this gap […]
