Gisele Bündchen. Kate Winslet. Christy Turlington. Looking at Gilles Bensimon's photographs, there is a clear theme present amongst his subjects: beauty. But the French photographer proclaims: "I have no favorite." At the opening of his new exhibition, Elles by Gilles Bensimon, on display ... More

Nicola Vassell left Jamaica in 1996, but Jamaica never really left her. "You can't truly cut the cord that connects you to a place like Jamaica," says Vassell, a model-turned-gallerist. As a high schooler in Kingston, she'd been "discovered" by a model scout during a trip to the movies; by ... More

Nicola Vassell left Jamaica in 1996, but Jamaica never really left her. "You can't truly cut the cord that connects you to a place like Jamaica," says Vassell, a model-turned-gallerist. As a high schooler in Kingston, she'd been "discovered" by a model scout during a trip to the movies; by ... More

Last fall, Jenny Holzer, the celebrated New York conceptual artist, flew down to the Dallas area to put the finishing touches on her recently completed commission. Like some of her earliest video works, this ambitious new piece hinged on a series of provocative maxims—"Lack of charisma can be fatal" or ... More

It was the winter of 1975, in Paris. I wandered into the Galerie Proscenium, where there were 30 or 40 pieces on the walls. The simplicity of this piece spoke to me. And the extraordinary resemblance [to Serge Diaghilev]. There's something ... More

For some, the ability to view many of the world’s most famed Impressionists under one roof would be enough. But the pièce de résistance of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s new exhibit, Impressionism, Fashion and Modernity, is the 14 dresses accompanying the paintings.  A portrait of Madame Louis Joachim Gaudibert by Claude Monet from ... More

For some, the ability to view many of the world’s most famed Impressionists under one roof would be enough. But the pièce de résistance of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s new exhibit, Impressionism, Fashion and Modernity, is the 14 dresses accompanying the paintings.  A portrait of Madame Louis Joachim Gaudibert by Claude Monet from ... More

Designer and muse. The inexplicable, limitless bond between creator and flesh-and-bone inspiration is important to most designers, but few express their appreciation with the same grandeur – and innovation – as Karl Lagerfeld.  In a new Saint Moritz, Switzerland exhibit at Galerie Gmurzynska, Lagerfeld pays homage to three ... More

Designer and muse. The inexplicable, limitless bond between creator and flesh-and-bone inspiration is important to most designers, but few express their appreciation with the same grandeur – and innovation – as Karl Lagerfeld.  In a new Saint Moritz, Switzerland exhibit at Galerie Gmurzynska, Lagerfeld pays homage to three ... More

Last year, art lovers got more than an eyeful of Glenn Ligon’s work when he was the subject of Glenn Ligon: America, a sprawling mid-career retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art. The exhibit displayed the work that the New Yorker is best known for—works on ... More