For its 25th anniversary, the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft explores the legacy of silver.
Marking its 25th anniversary, the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft turns to one of humanity’s most consequential materials for its latest exhibition. “A Material Inheritance” (on view now through January 30, 2027) uses silver as both subject and lens, tracing how the metal has shaped systems of knowledge, currency, memory, and cultural exchange across centuries. The exhibition brings together artists including Moussa Albaka, Shane R. Hendren, Edward Lane McCartney, Jaydan Moore, Leah Ying Lin, and Anjali Srinivasan, whose work spans traditional metalsmithing and jewelry alongside experimental glass, ceramic, and kinetic media. Instead of treating silver as a precious commodity, the show positions it as a material bound in histories of extraction, trade, migration, and devotion, yet endlessly reinterpreted through artistic practice.
Bob Mackie, legendary costume designer for Cher and Carol Burnett, dies at 87.
Bob Mackie, the Emmy- and Tony-winning fashion and costume designer whose larger-than-life creations defined decades of American entertainment, has died at 87. A statement on his social media accounts confirmed his passing, noting that he “lived his 87 years to the fullest, fulfilling his dream of being a Fashion and Costume Designer.” Mackie’s career began in 1961 as a sketch artist for designers including Edith Head, before his work for Mitzi Gaynor’s Las Vegas revue caught the attention of Carol Burnett, who hired him to design her show’s wardrobe for its entire 11-year run. He became equally synonymous with Cher, crafting her television and concert looks and earning Emmys for her 1999 and 2003 concert specials. Over five decades, he amassed nine Emmys, three Oscar nominations, and a spot in the Television Academy Hall of Fame.
Rimowa partners with Faber-Castell on a dream kit for creatives.
Rimowa’s latest collaboration leans into its long history of supporting artists, this time partnering with 260-year-old German pencil maker Faber-Castell on a fully loaded Artist Case. Housed in Rimowa’s signature grooved aluminum shell, the case is stocked with grooved 2B graphite pencils, a complete set of 120 Polychromos colored pencils, and platinum-plated sharpener and eraser tools made exclusively for the collaboration. The partnership builds on Rimowa’s growing footprint in the art world, following collaborations like its artist-sticker series with Museum Ludwig and its annual design prize supporting emerging creative talent.
In its third year, Hong Kong Fashion Fest draws global buyers and couture debuts.
Now in its third edition, Hong Kong Fashion Fest continued to strengthen the city’s standing on the international fashion calendar, positioning itself ahead of the “Big Four” weeks to capture global attention early. This year’s event, themed “Rhythm of the Heart,” spanned eight flagship programs and, for the first time, included Centrestage, a trade show that drew more than 12,000 buyers from 93 countries. The week’s creative energy centered on two competing but complementary instincts: bold experimentation and deliberate slow-fashion craftsmanship. Underlying much of the week was a renewed nostalgia for Hong Kong’s manufacturing legacy, with local designers and retailers noting a modest but real shift toward craftsmanship-driven shopping.
Renaissance scholar Vincent Delieuvin is confirmed to lead the Louvre’s painting department.
The Louvre has named Vincent Delieuvin director of its Department of Paintings, promoting a curator who has spent nearly two decades building a track record centered on Renaissance scholarship. A specialist in 16th-century Italian painting and Leonardo da Vinci, Delieuvin joined the museum in 2006 and organized exhibitions on Raphael, Titian, Tintoretto, and Veronese before cocurating the Louvre’s 2019 Leonardo retrospective, which marked the 500th anniversary of the artist’s death and drew a record 1.1 million visitors after more than a decade of preparation. Before arriving at the Louvre, Delieuvin worked at the National Museum of the Château de Compiègne, where he oversaw the historic apartments.
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