A young man, about 20 years old, slouches against a telephone poll with the impression of boyish insouciance. His thumbs hang through the belt loops of his tight jean pockets balanced by a giant, armor-like image of Elvis. This incredibly cool looking juvenile delinquent is framed by the medieval architecture from some generic, old-world European [...]
Author Archives: Alaina Claire Feldman
Perspectives at Espace Culturel Louis Vuitton
July 10, 2010 – 12:31 pm
Since 1997, Marc Jacobs has been infusing the world’s largest luxury group, LVMH, with contemporary art via collaborative fashion collections with artists such as Richard Prince, Steven Sprouse and Takashi Murakami. Certainly the nexus of high-fashion and high-art is nothing new, and within Espace Culturel Louis Vuitton, the company’s fairly new gallery, the space is [...]
Chantal Akerman’s “Maniac Summer”
February 24, 2010 – 11:22 am
The point at which a filmmaker becomes a fine artist is based on cultural and institutional definitions of those two art forms, and on where there work is displayed in the first place. Chantal Akerman has shown the ability to tightrope between a black box and a white cube with her earlier films that challenged [...]
