Nature-jeweler and artist Kira Koktysh created a new series of hand-sculptured pendants, or talismans, for Katya Leonovich’s S/S 2020 Menswear collection this New York Fashion Week. Fix and Fax marks Katya’s shift to menswear from couture womenswear. Kira too, had limited experience creating fashion for men; having merely created pearl cuff links, she was pleased and […]
“Contrasts of Spring” vernissage at Caelum Gallery Thursday night was a perfect entry into spring. Presented by the International Art Alliance, and curated by Tatyana Borodina, select paintings, designs, photographs and jewelry by 14 notable artists triggered the opening of this season’s fractal-flowers. Albeit textiles, gemstones, feathers, architecture, paintings and more—various branches of creativity focalized around […]
Pioneer Works, the thought-provoking art gallery in western Red Hook, Brooklyn debuted two exhibitions on February 22. One was interactive and intriguing but perhap too ambitious, and the other was an interesting hodge-podge. My 16 year old daughter and I first checked out “En El Monte”, created by three artists and involving a set of […]
