Perhaps no venue better represents Milan’s embrace of arte, moda, and produzione than the Fondazione Prada, the campus of exhibition spaces opened in a former gin mill in 2015 by the…
The biennial Performa’s opening-night gala for its tenth-anniversary edition happened to fall on All Saints’ Day, and so it’s appropriate that the chosen setting was a church. On Sunday, a…
A year ago, in a former bank in Brooklyn, RoseLee Goldberg hosted a postmodern fundraiser featuring a “special food performance” by artist Jennifer Rubell. The event was to celebrate the…
Exhibitions in Rome, New York, and Los Angeles celebrate the cinematic spoofs of Francesco Vezzoli
Having thoroughly scoured Miami three months ago and the Armory a year before that, I decided to forego the Big Top this time around, and focused instead on a couple of mini-fairs (Volta, The Independ…
For the first U.S. screening of his short films, Italian artist Francesco Vezzoli transformed the New Museum's Media Lounge into an old-fashioned movie theater, draped with red velvet curtains and dim…
Greed may be out of fashion these days, but it remains very much on the mind of Francesco Vezzoli. Demure and self-effacing, Vezzoli claims to live out of a suitcase in Milan, and would seem to be far…
More and more artists are directing feature films with large casts, big budgets, and elaborate story lines involving everything from intellectual werewolves to Polish cowboys.