Boris Bidjan Saberi: Human Scale

Fashion, Features/Op-Ed

“I am at a stage in my profession where I have expertise, like a tailor or a mechanic. I know something,” Boris Bidjan Saberi, the German fashion designer, said during a preview of his collection on a recent morning in June. It was a rare interview that, as someone who prefers to let his work speak for itself, Saberi agreed to. He paused a beat, “I mean, in the end, I don’t know anything,” laughter all around. “I love to work and get better and make things different. My whole life I have worked with my hands.”

Sarah Moon / On The Edge

Fashion

It’s been about 12 years since we last had the pleasure of spending time in person with Sarah Moon in New York City and back then it was also on the occasion of a solo show at the Howard Greenberg Gallery in midtown Manhattan. On entering the gallery one weekday afternoon where Moon’s self-curated show,…

Ruth Asawa

Culture

A collective and hearty thank you ought to go out to the team at David Zwirner responsible for conceiving and executing the installation of Ruth Asawa’s hanging wire sculptures at West 20th Street.

Katsu Naito: Day Trip

Culture

In Volume 5 of our print magazine, we profiled New York City photographer Katsu Naito and his 2011 photobook, Westside Rendezvous, which is comprised of several Meatpacking District streetscapes but mostly portraits of transgender prostitutes that plied their trade there in the afternoons of the late 80s and early 90s.

Tomoharu Murakami

Culture

Taka Ishii Gallery New York is tucked neatly away on the third floor of an Upper East Side townhouse. The elevator opens directly into the spare gallery entry where, currently, you will be confronted by a two-foot oil and acrylic monochrome on paper that looks to be made of molten lead. The work is by 78-year old Japanese painter, Tomoharu Murakami, and it is one of ten works comprising what seems to be his second solo presentation to date in New York.