Designed by Astrid Tonnellier and shot by Pascale Granel — largely in black and white but occasionally slipping into rich, jewel - toned color — the world of Wild Boys is lusciously unreal, its artifice reminiscent of those Maddin films that most resemble fantasy tableaux
in department store windows at Christmas.
From the tree and ice skating at Rockefeller Plaza to the Rockettes» Radio City Christmas Spectacular show, the New York City Ballet's The Nutcracker and Broadway shows, endless holiday shops and
cheerful department store windows, New York is the quintessential holiday experience.
With over 300 objects — from rare drawings and photographs to vintage advertisements, artist books and
recreated department store window displays — many on public display for the first time, Adman provides a comprehensive look at Warhol's first decade in New York.
Two Southerners in New York City, they became friends in the early 1950s and, in fact, once paid their bills
designing department store windows together under the name «Matson - Jones.»
He also did public art projects, including a show in Saint Peters Church, was commissioned to do an advertisement campaign for Absolut Vodka, and made art
in department store windows, including Saks Fifth Avenue.
Living in a culture in which one's level of consumption increases but ceases to delight, we take our little ones to
the department store windows or to the toy shop in hopes of remembering what it was like to be delighted by something new.
Knocking - off the fashions seen in
the department store windows became my Grandmother's motivation to keep her independence.
Department store window - dressing!
Conrad Bakker promises bargain - basement prices outside the gallery, where B. Altman once had
its department store windows.
This attitude is evident in Schauspieler, from a series of life - size mannequins that «appear indistinguishable from those in
department store windows,» but are «disrupted by lines of spray paint on their bodies, tape wrapped around their mouths, and other interferences.»
So, the mannequins from her Schauspieler series appear indistinguishable from those in
department store windows, yet their beauty is disrupted by lines of spray paint on their bodies, tape wrapped around their mouths, and other interferences.
Department store window displays, like the ones the Doppelgänger desparately examines, are a product of the flâneur's prevalence in the post-industrial citiy.
Despite what
the department store windows are telling us, summer is not over.
That painting was done as a prop for
a department store window — it's not signed.