Japanese ceramicist and RCA grad Ikuko Iwamoto takes a Buddhist approach to her medium, and her flexible thinking leads to pieces that are both sculptural and functional. These meticulously hand-dotted, slip-cast porcelain jugs—designed for “a bizarre tea ceremony”—feature a bewildering but beautiful tactility.
“Racing changes the perception,” says Brian Gush, Bentley’s Director of Motorsport. The Bentley GT3-R is the latest evolution of the brand’s suave and still-alluring Continental GT—and the fastest Bentley ever made. It hauls ass in the most gentlemanly manner, politely even. Though it receives the expected luxury fittings, it takes most of its style cues—both styling and performance—from the automaker’s successful GT3 race car. Limited …
Down a dark set of stairs, just off the NYC Museum of Sex‘s main lobby, a new temporary exhibition from Peruvian artist and puppet-maker Ety Fefer transports guests into otherworldliness. “Los Grumildos” succinctly blends inspiration from Lima’s old world red light district and the mythic imagination of Fefer. Her handmade automaton puppets oscillate and gyrate, in a perverse manner, as each figure represents something both …
