When she graduated from Hollywood High in 1961, Carrie White did her hair in a gum pink beehive. In her memoirs, she had learned that “my life would work better if I could fix my hair.” After attending beauty school, she became famous for straightening other people’s hair. And soon she had the heads of …
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Now, of course, the entire nation faces problems of police brutality against Black people; the exclusion of people of color from the museum canon; and the lack of representation of Black and brown in Hollywood. But those who have followed Weems throughout his 40-year practice through photography, video, installation, music and text say the artist …
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I have to tell you, after a long rehearsal in five-inch heels and a photo shoot posing side-by-side and half-back on a corner banquette, the woman who made the cosmopolitan drink the most famous drink is Candace Bushnell. From pre-Y2K New York, he slid into a chair in the Carlyle Hotel’s gallery and ordered a …
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As Carrie Bradshaw herself says, “I wonder what the new Carrie necklace will be?” For those who don’t remember, or are very young, the original series that ran from 1998 to 2004, Carrie, played by Sarah Jessica Parker, wore a gold necklace that showed her name in a flowing script. In one episode, when he …