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“Only the gentle are ever really strong.” 

― James Dean

“The Keeper” at the New Museum Pays Homage to Objects and Obsessions

23 JULY 2016       VOGUE       JULIA FELSENTHAL

NEW YORK, NY (Vogue) -- In this age of ghoulish hoarder reality shows and the canonization of Marie Kondo, an era in which we’ve made a virtue of minimalism and simplicity, of culling for culling’s sake, of organizing and curating (by which we really just mean paring down), “The Keeper,” the sprawling just-opened exhibition at New York City’s New Museum goes very much against the grain (though, it should be noted, very much with the grain of Vogue’s own Lynn Yaeger.

“This exhibition is about individuals who have carried out unreasonable acts of iconophilia,” curator Massimiliano Gioni said earlier this week at a press preview of the exhibition, which assembles projects and personal collections from artists and non-artists alike. It’s a show about “hoarding, counting, ordering,” he explained, one that explores what it means to hold on versus to lose. 

His words took shape as I wandered through the four floors of exhibits, which together comprise tens of thousands of objects accumulated and created by dozens of individuals for whom holding on was very much a priority. 

And that’s among the only things these iconoclastic keepers share in common. To highlight just a few examples: there’s the Swiss photographer Mario Del Curto’s black and white photographs of Richard Greaves’s salvaged junk assemblages, teepees and birdhouses, shotgun shacks and carcosa-like shrines that recall the work of Noah Purifoy, though Greaves built his—meticulously, the wall text assures—not in the warmth of the southern Californian desert, but in the harsh climes of southeastern Quebec; the 19th-century American Civil War vet and whittler Levi Fisher Ames’s miniature sculptures of animals, some realistic, some comically absurd, some utterly fantastical, which he toured around the Midwest for decades in a circus-like tent show; the early-20th-century Catholic priest and pomologist Korbinian Aigner’s painting studies of the apple and pear varietals he spent his life cultivating, even while imprisoned at the Dachau concentration camp; the portraits of Ye Jinglu, a Chinese man who went annually to a studio to be photographed for more than six decades; and Vermont photographer Wilson Bentley’s early-20th-century photographs of magnified snowflakes, a project that gave rise to the aphorism, “no two snowflakes are alike.” Read More

The Best Fashion Instagrams of the Week: Kendall Jenner Dresses Down for T Time!

23 JULY 2016       VOGUE       MARJON CARLOS

eaHistorically teatime has demanded white gloves and a much more buttoned-up dress code, but as Kendall Jenner spread out over an antique couch this week in a satin blush robe for a good ol’ “T” session, it would seem the supermodel was taking a more relaxed approach. Gossiping it up on the phone, Jenner kicked up her legs in delight while she kept herself hydrated. Bella Hadid was off sipping on something a little stronger with singer Jesse Jo Stark. Peering over their martini glasses, the two vacationing besties sported matching cat-eye sunglasses—a glamorous choice to deflect the tropical sun. Speaking of statement eyewear, Pharrell slipped his pearl-encrusted Chanel shades on while sunning it up on the beach this week. They weren’t the only summertime accessory he chose for the outing, though. Catching some rays in a sweatshirt and baseball hat, the producer was putting his own cool remix on beachwear.

Gucci’s Alessandro Michele literally blended into his surroundings, the designer perfectly complementing his monogrammed slippers with an embroidered rug, while Fig & Viper’s Alisa Ueno coordinated with a swarm of Pokémon. Read More

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