In 1960s British cinema, an archetype developed of the frumpy or middle-aged woman who, brought to a dead stop by her boring or chaotic life, decided to change things with neither grace nor guile. In a series of...

After an ostensibly precocious debut November 3 from Lie Sang Bong and Sebastian Gunawan that set the bar almost impossibly high, expectations for the rest of the week at the Jakarta Fashion Week 2013 were...

In the pantheon of fashion week coverage, New York, London, Milan and Paris may get the majority of the headlines, but those cities sometimes feel tired after a certain point. Part of the soul of fashion is adventure...

Ever since Karl Lagerfeld hosted his legendary Soirée Moratoire Noire party specifying “tragique exigée absolument noire” (“totally black tragic dress required”) in 1977, to say the goth aesthetic has...

The statistics are sobering.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), cancer is the second most common cause of death in the United States. Almost everyone either has had or knows...

For as long as the Parisian native Elene Usdin can remember, she’s been an artist. But while such a proclamation might be expected of someone who resides in the city of love, creativity and inspiration, or at the very...

Nikki Douthwaite is obsessed. No, not like Tony Shalhoub’s famously germaphobic detective in the TV series Monk, but really obsessed.

The obsession — dots. Hundreds, thousands, hundreds of thousands of...

From Ocean Park, California to Arlington Cemetery, Virginia, dreams come in many forms. Between wakefulness and slumber, the artist can find inspiration for his or her next creation. For West Coast abstract painter...

Ever since 9/11, the American public’s fascination with the possibility of a post-apocalyptic, doomsday scenario in our country has manifested itself time and time again in our artistic output (think Cormac...

What happens when you take an opera, and throw everything conventional about it out of the window? Get rid of the plot. Trade soaring music and lyrics for soothing repetition. Tell the audience that, due to a lack of...