Claire Marie Healy

3 days ago | dazeddigital.com | Claire Marie Healy

12 Images This article was originally published on May 14, 2015How does fashion shape adolescence? Every month, Claire Healy deconstructs the ways that style culture has contributed to the idea of the teenager in new series Extreme Adolescents. The current state of fashion is backlit by the sunshiny side of the 1970s; in The Virgin Suicides, Sofia Coppola’s darkened impression is part hazy nostalgia, part dazzling lens flare.

1 month ago | dazeddigital.com | Claire Marie Healy

9 Images On an especially rainy few days in March, the great and good of the art world descended on ARCOmadrid, the Spanish capital’s annual contemporary art fair. Bringing together over a thousand artists and over 200 galleries from 36 countries, the event is nothing short of enormous.

Nov 12, 2024 | artreview.com | Claire Marie Healy

The popular appeal of the photographer’s intimate portraits of the upper classes reveals the seductive fallacies of wealthAmerican photographer Tina Barney is known for her portraits of the rarefied world she grew up in. But in Family Ties, Barney’s first European retrospective at the Jeu de Paume in Paris, the clearest articulation of her stated intentions isn’t a photograph at all.

Nov 11, 2024 | dazeddigital.com | Claire Marie Healy

16 Images Turin’s Artissima feels different from other contemporary art fairs in almost every other respect. While it features hundreds of open-topped booths, an even greater number of chic gallerists exhibit their work within the gargantuan convention center. Moreover, a strain of experimentation running throughout the art selections felt especially evident at this year’s edition.

Oct 9, 2024 | dazeddigital.com | Claire Marie Healy

We revisit how the singer’s subversive take on womanhood made her the uncompromising icon she is today9 Images This article was originally published in April 2016True musical icons are multisensory, rearing their heads not just sonically but visually, in dazzling technicolour or with a raw, washed-out grittiness. In the spirit of David Bowie before her, the gods who made PJ Harvey gave us a woman who can do both. What’s more, my first encounter with the enigmatic singer hit my eyes, not my ears.