The Zang Toi show opened with a caftan-clad goddess strutting to Arabic music at the exquisite Park Avenue Christian Church, sacredly evocative of the Blue Mosque in Istanbul. The production then quickly transitioned softly to Amanda Lear’s “Si tu savaus ma belle”, while reliving the transitory phases endured by the prominent luxury railway, the Orient […]
Robert Mango’s art lives in the space where the real and the imagined converge—a place of myth-making, dream-making, and surrealist logic. From his formative years in Chicago, he stood out at the School of the Art Institute, where he quickly became, as he puts it, “the darling of the teachers there” because he had “a […]
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 […]
