CENTRAL PARK SUMMERSTAGE

Posted on 2009-05-11

Celebrating its twentieth anniversary, City Parks Foundation is pleased to announce the 2009 season schedule of its flagship free performing arts festival, Central Park SummerStage. Internationally acclaimed for presenting world-renowned and emerging talent from around the globe and New York City’s own backyard, the Central Park SummerStage season promises to be as electrifying as ever with a calendar chock-full of culturally diverse programs in multiple disciplines including music, dance, word, film, and comedy.

www.summerstage.org

  

EXIT LOVES TABEA

Posted on 2009-05-11

www.marilyn-ny.com

  

ALIFE VERSUS KRINK SKATEBOARDS

Posted on 2009-05-11

Medicom Toy has teamed up with Star Wars to drop a Bearbrick Pack featuring Darth Vader and a Stormtrooper. Both Darth Vader and Stormtropper Bearbricks come in 100%, and are expected to be released late 2009 just in time for Christmas wish lists.

www.alifenyc.com

  

EPOS 257’S PAINTBALL

Posted on 2009-05-04

We love EPOS 257’s paintball splattered billboards in Prague.

Because Street Art is ephemeral. And because the artist is always risking arrest. Every piece of street art is to us – “a gesture expressing an opinion” Say Epos 257 “Shooting into the white surface of vacant billboards with a paintball gun – blank canvasses in an urban environment, a gesture expressing an opinion and at the same time abstract painting in a urban environment.

  

THE NEW WHITECHAPEL ART GALLERY

Posted on 2009-05-04

The Whitechapel Gallery has now completed an ambitious £13 million expansion, the greatest event in its 100-year history. Following the former Whitechapel Library’s move to new facility, the Whitechapel Gallery acquired the building to restore it and keep it open as a free art gallery all year round.

The Whitechapel Gallery
77-82 Whitechapel High Street
London
E1 7QX
UK

www.whitechapelgallery.org

  

MODEL AS MUSE

Posted on 2009-05-04

Exploring the reciprocal relationship between high fashion and evolving ideals of beauty, The Model as Muse: Embodying Fashion focuses on iconic models of the twentieth century and their roles in projecting, and sometimes inspiring, the fashion of their respective eras. The exhibition, organized by historical period from 1947 to 1997, will feature haute couture and ready-to-wear masterworks accompanied by fashion photography and video footage of models who epitomized their epochs.

This exhibition runs until the 11th of July, 2009

The Metropolitan Museum Of Art
1000 Fifth Avenue at 82nd Street
New York
10028-0198
USA