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Elevated Expressions: Art, Fashion and Movement Rise Above Manhattan

Twenty-three stories above Manhattan, the city’s creative energy found a fitting altitude. On Monday, September 14, at the heart of New York Fashion Week, Elevated Expressions transformed a sprawling penthouse into an immersive celebration of art, fashion, music and performance: cultural elements beautifully fractalizing. Curated by Marina Dojchinov and Eddy Bogaert, the exhibition brought together […]

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Custo Barcelona’s “Unexpected” Collection glistens in the sun, NYFW26

Custo Barcelona showcased its Spring/Summer 2027 collection titled “Unexpected” atop the historic Rockefeller Center rooftop Friday morning September 6th. The first Spanish brand to host a New York Fashion Week show on the splendid historic landmark, Custo celebrates its 30th birthday this year. Translucent fabrics and revealing silhouettes were finished with metallic and refractive finishes. […]

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Why Real Writers DO NOT Use AI: Artificial Intelligence

Real writers—are the ones who derive great significance and purpose in writing– not for an end result. They write for a fractal of reasons existing in the process as a whole. Using AI for any process of writing removes the authenticity engraved in the step-by-step process that has for generations been conducted raw… amid the […]

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Shepard Fairey Brings the Spirit of Street Art to the Hamptons Fine Art Fair.

At this year’s Hamptons Fine Art Fair, booths transformed into a compelling exploration of street art’s enduring influence. Presenting a curated exhibition led by internationally acclaimed artist Shepard Fairey alongside New York legends Al Diaz and Chuck Connelly, personal values, economic trends, and artistic styles fractally coalesce. The Tribeca gallery One Art Space emerged as […]

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“Women of Water, Women of Earth”: An elemental debut

In a summer thick with spectacle, Natalie Karpushenko chooses reverence. “Women of water, Women of Earth”, her first U.S. solo exhibition, now on view at The Untitled Space through July 17, 2026, gathers a luminous body of raw, AI-untreated photographs that treat nature as living extensions of the women themselves. Albeit on volcanic terrain in […]

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Ice Protests Heated Up This Year, So Why is the Climate Cooler in Napa Valley?

Hispanic Heritage Month arrives this year against a backdrop of nationwide immigration enforcement that has swept through agricultural regions across the country. ICE arrests have spiked following new enforcement policies under the Trump administration. While raids have been reported in California’s Central Coast, Ventura County, the San Joaquin Valley, and Oregon’s Willamette Valley, the enforcement […]

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Wine Touring South America in NYC: Descorchados Tasting

Two weeks ago, we were blessed enough to travel to South America via wine palate. The largest exhibition of South American wines ever held in New York, it was organized by Patricio Tapia, founder of Descorchados, the ‘panoramic’ wine guide comparable to our “Wine Spectator” or Robert Parker; it is known for capturing the pulse of […]

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Turtledove’s Love: A poem for Gaza

From within an Avalanche of rubble….    Cactus spikes form, erecting defensive stubble    Where the dimples of a smile ought to reign, Gazans strain like the foreign Canary Pine trees dry out in Palestine. Brave men transform into solid sticks yearning to lift concrete Stones off beloveds’ bones … They cannot. Cage-like crosses of […]

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MLK’s Assassination Anniversary, way bigger than the JFK files!

APRIL 4, the anniversary of Martin Luther King’s assassination.
Everyone excited about JFK files finally coming to light & confirming what we all already knew, no real surprises about CIA inside job. BUT THE REAL SHOCKER WILL BE THE MLK FILES! It’s common knowledge that MLK, along with other Civil Rights leaders, were assassinated by our […]

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Opulence of the Orient Express: Designer Zang Toi at New York Fashion Week 2025

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 […]