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Osman Nemli reflects upon the recent passing of the artist Christo, along with his wife Jeanne-Claude — hailing them to be “couturiers of the city.” Nemli considers the political import of this dynamic duos works and the implications of their work for fashioning a future.
While we are used to seeing ancient pieces, on which time has left its marks in the form of fractures, faded paint or missing parts, we mostly assume that we are seeing the piece in its finished form, as the artist intended to present it. Meeting an unfinished piece, however, is a completely different experience.
Painter Alex Katz is so closely attuned to the fashion scene, specifically to the New York fashion scene, that it could be said that he has at times created or at least anticipated major shifts in it. Even his "sweet, unassuming" paintings have a predictive quality to them. Indeed, Katz and fashion form a kind of symbiosis.
