Harry Nuriev and Crosby Studios have long occupied a particular position in contemporary design. Their work spans architecture, fashion, hospitality, and cultural programming, each project marked by a distinct visual language and conceptual rigor. Earlier, DSCENE sat down with Nuriev for an in-depth interview that explored the studio’s evolution and vision. Now, the Paris and […]
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The 82nd Whitney Biennial opened in March with the kind of institutional confidence that comes from eighty-two years of doing this. Spread across floors 1, 5, 6, and 8 of the Gansevoort Street building, it gathers fifty-six artists, duos, and collectives under a loose curatorial framework that resists easy summary. Co-organized by Whitney curators Marcela […]
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There are product launches, and then there are moments. What Dom Pérignon staged at a private venue in New York on the evening of June 11 fell firmly into the second category. A champagne house with a near-mythic reputation for restraint and precision chose this night to do something it rarely does: open the curtain […]
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New York does not appear in Christopher Russell’s answers as a badge, it reads as a condition, a daily atmosphere, a kind of permission. He is quick to correct the record, “I’m from New England, I don’t think of myself as a New Yorker,” and then just as quickly admits the deeper truth. He cannot […]
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Spring in New York makes dining feel less planned and more instinctive. A long lunch, a quick matcha stop, an early dinner, or a cocktail after work can turn into the reason to cross town. This season, the city offers plenty of places that fit that mood, from Italian tables and Indian cooking to Brazilian […]
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In Brooklyn today, KidSuper staged a very New York kind of pre-tournament ritual: a send-off for Christian Pulisic that treated football less like a televised product and more like a street-level culture, built in real time with the city around it. Titled “KidSuper x Christian Pulisic: The Send-Off Experience” the Monday x Memorial Day afternoon […]
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Romer Hell’s Kitchen sits at 851 8th Avenue, between 51st and 52nd Street, placing guests close to Broadway while keeping them slightly removed from the rush of Times Square. That position defines the hotel’s character. It gives travelers access to Midtown without fully surrendering to its pace, offering a West Side address shaped by theaters, […]
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Louis Vuitton Cruise 2027 begins with a city that resists a single definition. For Nicolas Ghesquière, New York becomes the point of departure for a collection built around duality, movement, and cultural exchange. Titled Metropolitan Life, the season looks at the city through its contrasts, uptown and downtown, past and future, polish and disruption. Paris […]
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Andrew Kwon’s Bridal Couture 2027 collection, Arabesque, arrived with a kind of quiet insistence, not on fantasy, but on discipline. Shown at St. Bartholomew’s Church on Park Avenue, the presentation leaned into restraint rather than spectacle, which in 2026 feels less like an aesthetic choice and more like a statement of values. In a season […]
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New York has no shortage of museums that announce themselves loudly. What is rarer, and increasingly valuable, is a museum that can pull off something subtler: make you look at the everyday with fresh suspicion, then send you back into the city feeling newly alert. That is the particular strength of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design […]
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The New Museum is back in downtown New York, and the city is treating it like a return, not simply a reopening. On our recent visit, the building was full, not with the dutiful hush of a cultural obligation, but with the kind of crowd that arrives ready to spend time, to argue with what […]
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With The New Disorder, DSCENE turns its focus to a culture that performs stability while operating in fragments. Systems promise clarity yet produce repetition. Identity circulates as image before it settles into meaning. This issue approaches disorder as a structure we inhabit daily, one shaped by visibility, construction, and the discipline of self-presentation. The new […]
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The creative universe of Sébastien Léon exists in a state of perpetual ambiguity. The French-born, New York–based artist has built a practice that refuses categorization, spanning sculpture, collectible furniture, blown glass, sound, and immersive environments, yet maintains an unmistakable through-line: the subversion of material truth. His objects trick the eye, defy gravity, and invite viewers…