At the Rencontres d’Arles, the exhibition Ghana! Dreaming Independence, 1957–1976 traces the way a newly independent country shaped its identity through images. Its curator, photography historian Damarice Amao, speaks to CITY about a long-term research project spanning official archives, photobooks, banknotes and…
Leave a CommentCategory: Culture
There is a moment when a tag stops being vandalism and starts becoming history, not because it has changed, but because the city around it has. This summer, Paris becomes the latest stop for Beyond the Streets, the international exhibition that, after…
Leave a Comment
In Marseille, the Mucem is dedicating an exhibition to one of the most singular figures in French fashion. More than a retrospective, “Mossi Traoré, la mode aussi” explores a universe shaped as much by haute couture as by popular cultures, urban arts…
Leave a Comment
In a city where noise can drown out nuance, Jazzhole has long been a refuge, a portal into the sonic, intellectual, and spiritual depths of the Black world. Founded by Kunle Tejuoso in the early 1990s, the iconic Lagos bookstore and record…
Leave a Comment
At the Musée Maillol this summer, a major retrospective revisits the dazzling world of Gianni Versace, designer, provocateur and architect of fashion’s most glamorous decade. Before fashion became content, before designers turned into global celebrities, there was Gianni Versace. The Italian designer…
Leave a Comment
The most intimate fashion sale of the decade reveals not just garments, but the mind of one of fashion’s greatest revolutionaries. Fashion loves the word archive. The industry uses it constantly: archival pieces, archival references, archival collections. Entire careers now seem built…
Comments closed
She didn’t arrive on stage by accident. but by necessity. In the glow of Delhi’s nightlife, Hash Brownie learned how to turn vulnerability into spectacle, fear into confidence, and glamour into a presence. Hash Brownie’s journey as a professional drag queen is…
Leave a Comment
A script from Annie Hall, rare fashion pieces, photographs, furniture and private objects: the Bonhams sale reveals Diane Keaton not as a Hollywood icon, but as a meticulous editor of atmospheres. There are actresses whose style belongs to cinema, and then there…
Leave a Comment
In Venice, this spring, beauty refuses to behave. In a palace still intact, before its restoration, suspended between past and disappearance, the Fondazione Dries Van Noten opens its doors. The setting: Palazzo Pisani Moretta, resting on the Grand Canal. The gesture: a…
Leave a Comment