On the top floor of Pier 59 it was pretty much impossible not to feature in somebody else’s selfie. There were strident leopard-print fashionistas strutting and restrutting dramatic entrances into the Oxford Fashion Studio’s waiting room (always recorded by a trustworthy friend); leopard-print solo flyers touched up their foundation in phone reflections, occasionally pausing to […]
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 […]
A heart-wrenching historical narrative film, “All That’s Left of You” (2025) is exactly what the world needs Today. Written and produced by renowned Palestinian-American Cherien Dabis, it epitomizes what requires addressing more than ever: Stories told through film (and not just journalism) captivate a varying intensity of what it is to be human. Revisiting stolen […]
