Sunday, August 27, 2006

Unease about the flesh


"These days our identities hang by a thread, which may be why the pull of fashion on our imaginations is stronger than ever," says Daphne Merkin. She looks at fall clothes and sees "the present state of high anxiety concerning our corporal selves." Also in the NY Times Style magazine is Catherine Keener, one of my favorite actresses.

Business Week tackles the male shopper, and how Madison Ave has turned on the metrosexual.

Opening at MoMA on August 30 is Out of Time: A Contemporary View, with works by Martin Creed, Rineke Dijkstra, Cai Guo-Qiang, Mona Hatoum, Luc Tuymans, Bill Viola, and others.

Above: Martin Creed, Two protrusions from a wall, 2001

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