“The mouth of the sculpted figure opens in precise time with that of the Turkish performer Sertab Erener, singing a song of love and loss on a giant screen. This multimedia face-off, with a digital projection creating the sculpture’s moving lips, is symbolic of a 21st-century fashion exhibit and of the complexity of thought...

Since I missed most of the early spring shopping, the first order of business when I landed in NYC was to hit the stores. I arrived at my Brooklyn home from JFK at 1am and was out the door by 11am on the most glorious spring day to make the rounds of the New...