A special exhibition by Comme des Garçons shown at Independent this year is the subject of a feature in The New York Times. Journalist Tim F. Schneider writes about Comme des Garçons’ groundbreaking “objects for the body” that blur lines between fashion and art, and about the boundary-pushing presentation of these designs as a sculptural installation.
A cast of strange figures engaged in inscrutable narratives populates the canvases of New York painter Jason Fox. Derived in part from art historical and pop cultural sources, but even more from the unplumbed depths of the artist’s mind, the characters seem dreamlike. Yet, as music and art writer John Chiaverina discovered, they also comment, wryly and distantly, on the state of the world today.