Lisa Wong Macabasco

1 week ago | vogue.com | Lisa Wong Macabasco

When I arrived in England years ago for my studies, I was fairly shocked at my new classmates’ drinking. That’s not just because most American undergraduates are legally prohibited from purchasing alcohol until their final year (though the underage find plenty of ways to get drunk too); in Britain I observed a rampant societal blessing to get pissed—from the one-pound-pint specials at the pub to ladies-drink-free nights—that goes much further than in the US.

2 weeks ago | vogue.com | Lisa Wong Macabasco |Huy Luong

A rice cooker isn’t typically found in a bridal suite. But for Christine Cheng, it ended up being something of a necessity. On the eve of her mid-March wedding weekend downtown, the Manhattan antique and vintage jewelry dealer arranged herself a hair-combing ceremony—a traditional Chinese ritual related to growth, harmony, and blessings often held on the eve of a wedding and during major life transitions.

3 weeks ago | vogue.com | Lisa Wong Macabasco

Sister Midnight is a Mumbai-set black comedy following Uma (Radhika Apte), a headstrong woman fresh from the sticks who’s chafing at her arranged marriage to a distant man. As she grapples with isolation and circumscribed domesticity, Uma’s frustrations manifest in ways both macabre and surreal (not to mention darkly funny), including sucking blood and galavanting with a gaggle of stop-motion goats.

3 weeks ago | vogue.com | Lisa Wong Macabasco

The first moments of Desert of Namibia, the second feature from Japanese writer-director Yôko Yamanaka, instantly declare a new entrant to the canon of indelible mercurial female protagonists. Twenty-one-year-old Kana (played by 24-year-old Yuumi Kawai) ambles loosely down a Tokyo sidewalk, mouth ajar, swinging her bag wide at her sides, surveying the bustle around her, seemingly content. It’s intriguing because it’s so unusual.

1 month ago | vogue.com | Lisa Wong Macabasco

As the city prepares for the art world to descend around a burst of art fairs next month, New York is abloom with new gallery and museum shows. Here are six under-the-radar highlights from the many presentations on view right now—as well as three shows we’re looking forward to. Lotus Kang, “Already,” at 52 WalkerCourtesy 52 Walker, New York“Already” (through June 7) is the absorbing first solo presentation at 52 Walker of Canadian-born, New York–based artist Lotus L. Kang.