Author: Judith Benhamou Huet
The Underground Museum: a remarkable new museum in the middle of Los Angeles’ concrete jungle
The streets are completely empty. A few forsaken pedestrians pass at irregular intervals along the pavement. Here we are in Arlington Heights, the low-rent neighbourhood in Central Los Angeles. There’s nothing much to report aside from the slight reigning melancholy and the fact that all the windows are barricaded by grills. The thing is that […]
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Donald Fisher, Gap and the American dream. Flashback on a legendary collection
This is the story of a man who in 1969 opened a store selling jeans and ended up with a ready-to-wear empire spanning 3,100 outlets across the globe. It’s also the story of the simple son of a cabinet-maker from San Francisco who accumulated a collection of international contemporary art awash with Warhols, Richters, Calders […]
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