..А в ЦУМе давали современное искусство (в рамках 4-й Биеннале). Выставка с малочисленными эскспонатами по моим ощущеням проиграла оформлению ЦУМа, главной темой которого стала Камасутра в исполнении роботов, имидж которых был заимствован из клипа Бьорк. Прохожие тихо офигевали ))
Beginning May 4th, the Metropolitan Museum in New York will commemorate
the remarkable fashion career of Alexander McQueen with the exhibition Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty.
It will highlight his significant contribution to the world of fashion
from his postgraduate collection in 1992 to his final runway
presentation after his death in February 2010. 100 pieces of work will
be displayed.
To allow the pieces to move, McQueen's clothes were photographed for
the exhibition by Sølve Sundsbø on live models which were then
digitally altered to look like mannequins.
The curator of this event, Andrew Bolton shares his thoughts on the
late McQueen. “Alexander McQueen was best known for his astonishing and
extravagant runway presentations, which were given dramatic scenarios
and narrative structures that suggested avant-garde installation and
performance art. His fashions were an outlet for his emotions an
expression of the deepest, often darkest, aspects of his imagination.
He was a true romantic in the Byronic sense of the word — he channeled
the sublime.”
An East German guard tosses a ball back to a West
German child in 1962. Within years, East German guards would become
notoriously less friendly, once infamously leaving at least one
would-be escapee to bleed to death in plain sight in the Wall's
sinister No Man's Land after they'd shot him. At least 125 people were
shot to death trying to escape over or though the Berlin Wall; several
thousand more were successful.