Police in the US capital on Thursday were investigating the discovery of a noose in an exhibit on racial segregation at the National Museum of African American History and Culture. The grim find on Wednesday of the looped rope — seen as a symbol of the lynchings of black men in the American South in … Read more
Twists, knots, curls and folds: the fantastical, boundary-pushing creations of legendary designer Rei Kawakubo explore the space where fashion ends and art begins. The Japanese designer, who founded the esteemed Comme des Garcons fashion house in 1969, is being honored at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art with an exhibition featuring half a century of … Read more
A group of naked men and women today slaughtered a sheep in a bizarre ritual at the former Nazi death camp, Auschwitz-Birkenau, in Poland. Fourteen people, aged between 20 and 27, chained themselves together in front of the camp’s infamous ‘Arbeit macht frei’ (‘Work makes you free’) sign, according to museum staff. The group also … Read more