V&A South Kensington, London
The Italian designer loved to shock and this dazzling show is like sashaying through a party in 1930s Paris with Schiap and her darling friends Cocteau and Dalí
Naked merma…
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21 days ago
‘Was that an earthquake?’ Italy’s great psycho-geographer tackles the Vesuvius-haunted Naples tourists seldom see ⊕⊕
His films about Rome’s ringroad and the islanders and refugees of Lampedusa have won awards. Now Gianfranco Rosi is completing his trilogy, capturing a Naples ‘that is not immediately there’
A uniform…
42 days ago
‘Cultural monstrosities!’ The thrilling visual legacy of punk and post-punk – in pictures ⊕⊕
From bold anti-Nazi posters to an acid-drenched take on Jean Cocteau, a new exhibition, curated by writer Philip Hoare, shows how influential the DIY designs of the 70s and 80s became
Continue readin…3 months ago
‘Lunch could last all day – and night’: inside Coco Chanel’s sun-kissed sanctum for art’s superstars ⊕
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The French fashion designer’s lavish Mediterranean villa was frequented by everyone from Dalí to Garbo to Stravinsky to Churchill. It has now been lovingly restored – with a thrillingly bolstered lib…
6 months ago
‘It really bores me’: Wayne McGregor on why he won’t spell out his striking dance creations ○
The choreographer has paired the tragedies of Oedipus Rex and Antigone in a monumental double bill, Jocasta’s Line, which refuses to spoon-feed audiences
When Stravinsky composed Oedipus Rex in 1927, …
7 months ago
Below the Clouds review – a ghostly yet luminous cinematic mosaic of Naples crowns a superb trio ○
Venice film festival
There is a real end-of-days quality to Gianfranco Rosi’s utterly distinctive documentary of war, violence, cynicism and the climate crisis in an uneasy city
Gianfranco Rosi has mad…
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