Janelle Zara

2 months ago | artsy.net | Janelle Zara

In the mysterious and fragmented world of clothing production, “It’s really difficult to track where something is made, how it’s produced, and under which conditions,” said the Amsterdam-based artist Hendrickje Schimmel. Operating under the name Tenant of Culture, she essentially runs the production process in reverse, taking secondhand garments nearing the end of their life cycles and summarily “unmaking” them.

Mar 17, 2025 | plastermagazine.com | Harriet Lloyd-Smith |Janelle Zara

12 min read Janelle Zara shares her notes from a wild ride through Frieze Los Angeles 2024. “I came, I saw, I covered.

Mar 11, 2025 | wmagazine.com | Janelle Zara

On the night that Luc Brinker lost his Malibu home, the fashion and modeling agent had seen the smoke of the Palisades Fire coming over the mountains. He made sure his nine-year-old son and the nanny safely evacuated, then gathered a few practical items, among them clean underwear, two pairs of Céline jeans, three pairs of cowboy boots (including a pair of Luccheses in python) and four Hanes white Ts. He loaded it all into his car alongside his two dogs and a few cherished works of art.

Mar 10, 2025 | plastermagazine.com | Izzy Bilkus |Janelle Zara

13 min read Both Los Angeles and the world are undergoing major changes. Janelle Zara reports from a reflective yet optimistic Frieze Week and asks: is the traditional fair model taking its dying breaths?

Mar 5, 2025 | culturedmag.com | Janelle Zara

Portrait of Adrienne Edwards by Bryan Derballa. Image courtesy of Adrienne Edwards. I met Adrienne Edwards, the Whitney Museum’s associate director of curatorial programs, last fall in Paris, where we went to see a performance of the late Alvin Ailey’s Revelations. A seminal work in the history of modern dance, it sees the legendary choreographer chart the course of Black history in America, and when we arrived at the Palais des Congrès, the venue’s 3,700-seat amphitheater was already packed.