Two local sculptors are being honored by The Smithsonian Craft Show as the recipients of that organization’s first-ever Visionary Award. Wendell Castle and Albert Paley will receive the award at a dinner in Washington, D.C. on April 9th, and they will also give a talk there on April 10th.

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The history and the art of Kawakubo's brand

Rei Kawakubo, the enigmatic head of innovative Japanese fashion house Comme des Garçons, has a special vision which extends beyond clothing to furniture, architecture, and graphic design, always defying conventional thinking. i-D examines Rei’s complex and conceptual world, digging through the magazines archive and re-visiting interviews which explore how the fashion house continues to challenge the Western ideals of body shape and garment construction. Breaking the conventional rules, Kawakubo continues to push boundaries, perfectly marrying fashion with art in the most unexpected of ways

Rochester Contemporary 6x6 2014

June 7 - July 13, 2014

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Deborah Turbeville: Bohemian Image Maker

Deborah Lou Turbeville, American fashion photographer died last October, 2013. She is credited with adding a darker, almost Gothic more brooding element to fashion photography beginning in the early 1970s.

Fashion photography was notoriously done in well-lit spaces, Turbeville wanted to create images that were edgier that with a sensuality and strangeness, glamour and decay. She created her own worlds inhabited by pale, haunted eyed models many times photographed in derelict buildings. In 2009, Women's Wear Daily wrote that Tuberville transformed "fashion photography into avant-garde art, — a distinction all the more striking in that she was almost completely self-taught.

The worlds Turbeville created are many times de rigueur in fashion photography today. She was the only woman and the only American in the triumvirate of Helmut Newton, Guy Bourdin and herself who changed fashion photography from safe to one that shocked the viewer. It wasn't just about the clothes anymore, Turbeville created her own dark fairy tales where the model and the clothes all became part of the Turbeville world. 

Books with Turbeville's photographs

Bryan Nash Gill

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Fashion: Rei Kawakubo

The history and the art of Kawakubo's brandRei Kawakubo, the enigmatic head of innovative Japanese fashion house Comme des Garçons, has a special vision which extends beyond clothing to furniture, architecture, and graphic design, always defying conventional thinking. i-D examines Rei’s complex and conceptual world, digging through the magazines archive and re-visiting interviews which explore how the fashion house continues to challenge the Western ideals of body shape and garment construction. Breaking the conventional rules, Kawakubo continues to push boundaries, perfectly marrying fashion with art in the most unexpected of ways.

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Learn the Art of Japanese Braiding Also Known as Kumihimo

In January 2014 you will be able to learn the art of Japanese braiding or Kumihimo here in the Art Division. Art Librarian Melissa will teach this to you. Keep checking our Facebook page at the end of December for info. Here is a video where you can watch her create these braids.