Yves Saint Laurent: A life

Albertine 972 5th Avenue, New York

Join Laurence Benaïm for a discussion on her book, Yves Saint Laurent: A Biography, the first major English-language biography of the artist since his death in 2008, featuring exclusive interviews of those who knew him best. Yves Saint Laurent’s impact on fashion is legendary, yet he remains an enigmatic and compelling figure. Tracing the development of Saint Laurent’s visionary work through his…

Curating Fascism

Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò (NYU) 24 West 12th Street, New York City

Exhibiting Art in Collapsing Democracies A lecture by Raffaele Bedarida, Cooper Union The recent exhibition, Post Zang Tumb Tuum, organized in 2018 by Germano Celant at Fondazione Prada in Milan, elicited admiring reviews.  Only a handful of critics noted, however, that the exhibition performed a kind of cultural seduction reminiscent of the Fascist regime itself.  Post Zang Tumb Tuum is the third major…