Anna Mikaela Ekstrand

2 weeks ago | cultbytes.com | Anna Mikaela Ekstrand

Knitting has had a resurgence; from yarn bombing, knitted graffiti where knotted and crocheted pieces are incorporated into public space to knitting at meetings or while on public transport, or the pink pussy hat which was launched at the 2017 Women’s March. Knitting has also become a feminist symbol. For design duo Barbara Bremer and Carolina Herrera, knitting and crafting have been part of their world since childhood.

3 weeks ago | cultbytes.com | Anna Mikaela Ekstrand

Nerding outArms, legs, torsos, and heads, connected and disconnected from each other, haphazardly on tables, populate Geumhyung Jeong’s Toys, Selected, a show of her DIY robots at Canal Projects’ main gallery. Activating the medical dummies and prosthetic limbs forged through her own devices in a one-hour performance, Toy Demo, Jeong shared her painstakingly slow timeline of achieving each movement. Then she, using a remote control, demo:d the movement she described.

1 month ago | whitehotmagazine.com | Anna Mikaela Ekstrand

By ANNA MIKAELA EKSTRAND May 24, 2025As I connect with Soo Young Choi over the phone, I hear a siren on her end, and one on my end—”where are you right now?” I cut her off mid-introduction. “In Midtown,” she responds. I tell her I am in the Lower East Side. We laugh, both having thought for a split second that we might be on the same block. Such is the power of our senses, having the potential to create a shared experience across geographic boundaries.

1 month ago | cultbytes.com | Anna Mikaela Ekstrand

The curators of the Costume Institute‘s blockbuster exhibition commissioned Norwegian artist Sissel Tolaas to add dimensionality to the garments on view from the archives in Sleeping Beauties by creating smell profiles that visitors could experience by leaning into the walls at designated places to get a whiff. Smelling a musty dress didn’t really transport me anywhere except an old closet or a dusty attic.

1 month ago | cultbytes.com | Anna Mikaela Ekstrand

Visiting the The Frick, the Gilded Age mansion that houses Henry Clay Frick’s art collection, is both an extravagant and educational experience. From a historical perspective, the collection offers telltale signs about the rise of the United States as a leading industrial nation at the turn of the previous century. Frick, aided by the French brother duo dealers Duveen, amassed an impressive collection and built the mansion intending to open it to the public after his and his wife’s passing.