All posts tagged: VISUAL ARTS
Venice on the Charles at the Lovely Gardner Museum
Alert! The nasturtiums are on display at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum! For those in the know, this is akin to seeing the Bat signal in the night sky — it’s time to move quickly, there’s something important going down. At least, that was my experience during a weekend run up to Boston earlier this spring.
How to Create and Sell a Luxurious Object of Desire
When a luxury company sets out to create an object of desire – not an experience, but an actual item, like a piece of jewelry, a handbag, or a coat – how do they do it successfully? If there’s no new technology, no new performance enhancement, no functional reason for a new purchase, how does one create desire? Is there a formula? Or is it pure luck and serendipity?
What To Make of the New Art on the Roof at the Met?
There are strange doings up on the roof at the Met right now. You’ve been warned.