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Mint
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- Mint
India couture week: Rahul Mishra goes high on bling
Design house Rahul Mishra opened the 18th edition of Hyundai India Couture Week, in association with Reliance Brands and an initiative of Fashion Design Council of India (FDCI), on 23 July at Delhi's Taj Palace hotel. Called Becoming Love, the collection included some pieces that were showcased by the brand at the Paris Haute Couture Week last month including dresses inspired by Klimt's work. Majority of the collection presented on Wednesday, though, had more traditional bridalwear, with heavily embroidered lehnga-cholis, trench coat-like kurtas and tailored sherwanis. The entire collection was high on bling, unusual for a brand that has long focused on subtle shine. Here are some highlights from the show:
Wall Street Journal
20-06-2025
- Wall Street Journal
‘Artists' Journeys That Shaped Our World' Review: Going Places, Seeing Things
Seneca, that crabby Roman Stoic, once chided a disciple for believing travel could dispel his gloom: 'You ask why such flight does not help you? It is because you flee along with yourself.' The masters in Travis Elborough's jaunty 'Artists' Journeys That Shaped Our World' prove otherwise. In his tidy book, Mr. Elborough, a visiting lecturer at the University of Westminster, includes 30 artists whose reasons for traveling are as varied as their destinations. Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) orbited Mount Fuji's sacred summit for years, painting the peak and the people living beneath it from dozens of locales. In works such as 'Ushibori in Hitachi Province' (ca. 1830-33, above), the mountain looms over its subjects like a watchful god. Hokusai was so moved by the sights he witnessed in his travels that he changed his name to Gakyō Rōjin Manji: 'The Old Man Crazy to Paint.' Equally mad about painting was Gustav Klimt (1862-1918), whose nocturnal wanderings around Austria's Lake Attersee led locals to dub him the Waldschrat ('forest demon'). The destination inspired his most innovative landscapes, in which nature devours a castle, the Schloss Kammer. For the Flemish painter Alexander Keirincx (1600-52), British castles proved a muse after King Charles I commissioned him to paint the royal residences in Scotland and Yorkshire. Keirincx showed the countryside surrounding these stony manors bathed in a pastoral light—a vision that stoked the popular image of the British landscape as a mythic ideal and helped create the very British genre of house portraiture. This was the landscape, however, that David Hockney (1937-) sought to escape when he decamped for California in 1964, trading rainy Yorkshire for eternal summer in Los Angeles, where he would discover the motif of shimmering swimming pools that became his trademark. Isamu Noguchi (1904-88) made a globe-trotting odyssey in pursuit of the lover who'd dumped him. Did he win her back? No. But he did see the ancient sculpture of four continents, whose influence greatly enlivened his work. Berthe Morisot's (1841-95) travels brought happier romantic tidings: In Normandy, she cultivated her plein-air technique as well as a relationship with Eugène Manet. The two were engaged while painting side by side. They honeymooned on Britain's Isle of Wight, which Morisot declared 'the prettiest place for painting.' Mr. Elborough's book makes a breezy companion to any summer wanderings.
BBC News
16-06-2025
- Entertainment
- BBC News
The Documentary Podcast Amoako Boafo: Creating space to celebrate Blackness
The Ghanaian artist Amoako Boafo has attracted global fame for his bold and sensual portraits. He paints bodies and faces using his fingertips instead of a brush, capturing form through direct, tactile gestures. When he went to art school in Vienna, he was struck by the extent to which Black subjects had been overlooked in global art. Determined to change the status quo, he drew inspiration from early 20th Century Viennese artists like Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele and added his own techniques to invent a fresh new style of portraiture. Lucy Ash follows his preparations for a major new show at Gagosian in London. It involves a transformation of the gallery space into a full-scale recreation of a Ghanaian courtyard – just like the shared space in which he was raised. With the help of his collaborator, Glenn De Roché, an architect famous for community buildings and with an artist friend who produced a set of playing cards, especially for the event. This episode of The Documentary, comes to you from In the Studio, exploring the processes of the world's most creative people.
AsiaOne
04-05-2025
- General
- AsiaOne
Touring rare freehold conservation shophouses in Cairnhill (from $7m), Lifestyle News
We've run a few articles on conversation houses in Singapore, from Blair Road to Balestier and Mount Emily, so by now you may be thinking they're not that rare. They really are though: there are only around 7,200 conserved shophouses in Singapore. In the course of writing the articles, I spoke to several people who lived in shophouses about their challenges and they all mentioned similar issues: pests, termites, and often a lack of parking. Hence when I saw some Cairnhill shophouses had sheltered garage parking (as opposed to an open-air car porch), I thought they would be an interesting feature for today's walkabout. FYI: For those who appreciate conservation properties, but don't want to deal with the hassles of home ownership, the Klimt condo on Cairnhill Road has a conserved 1920 Anglo-Malay bungalow as its clubhouse. It's the 2.8 site located across the conservation shophouses on Cairnhill Road marked with a "C" on the plot. It's about a 10 to 15 minutes walk from the shophouses to Newton, which is the closest MRT station, depending on which end we start at. There's also a NTUC at Balmoral Plaza and a Cold Storage at Chancery (which are both a short walk from Newton.) However, the shophouses are really close to Orchard — and the walk is more pleasant — so that's probably where you'll go for your weekly shopping instead. It's five to 10 minutes walk from the shophouses to Paragon, which is the closest shopping centre to the shophouses. One thing to note is that due to the garages, these shophouses don't have the exact classic look that we associate with conservation shophouses. [[nid:716100]] This article was first published in Stackedhomes.
Buzz Feed
25-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Buzz Feed
19 Wholesome Posts I Found On The Internet This Week That Are So, So Needed Right Now
Hi, everyone! Here are some cute, happy, and wholesome posts to hopefully cheer you up a bit and remind you that no matter what, there's always cute stuff out there in the world to appreciate and love. Enjoy! 1. This cake that is quite possibly the most perfect birthday cake I've ever seen: 2. Getting to enjoy a gorrrrrgeous bouquet: 4. This adorable, perfect lamb cake: 5. This gorgeous Easter table setting: Twitter: @earlygirl__ 6. "It looks like if Klimt made an omelette": 9. The Japanese ambassador to the UK, who seriously loves his job: Twitter: @AmbJapanUK 11. This exchange that made me laugh: 12. This Snoopy and his mini Snoopies: 13. This adorable hedge, and the fact that for some reason it's a marked tourist spot: 16. Appreciating the world's beautiful sights: 17. This mom moment (although you should put that guy outside!): 19. And finally, this Victorian band playing in Paddington Station: Twitter: @HallieRubenhold
