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Will Cotton’s Sweet Candy Dreams

November 2, 2011

Rizzoli releases the New York funhouse artist’s first book of monographs. We love Will Cotton’s joie de vivre, his big-arse nudes, his candy palate. We’ll be there to wish him well at the Partners & Spade book release party this … Read More

Clamdiggin'
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Imitating Life

October 19, 2011

Husband and wife team’s nature-branded art collective, Clamdiggin’–the darling of LA designers–gets LA exhibition. Clamdiggin’ is more than an artist’s moniker—its founders, artist Kevin Johnson and designer Alexandra Fisher, describe it as “15-year relationship with love and art.”  Founded in … Read More

ANDY WARHOL: Liz Installation view  Photo by Rob McKeever
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Whose Afraid of Liz Taylor? Not Andy Pants

October 5, 2011

Go-Go Gives Queen Elizabeth a Retrospective Send-Off. Through October 22nd, NYC’s Gagosian Gallery is giving Elizabeth Taylor her 1 millionth close-up. At least it’s the guy who got it right: Andy Warhol. The show, “Andy Warhol: Liz,” features Warhol’s silkscreen … Read More

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Byrne, Baby, Byrne!

September 21, 2011

That guy on the bicycle, don’t he never stop? King David blows up the Earth. Another reason to say frick-all, and do what the tourists do: Hit the Meat District’s wooly-awesome High Line, and discover its worldly pleasures. David Byrne … Read More

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Talk About Auto Erotic!

September 7, 2011

Thompson Beverly Hills debuts L.A.’s first Camilo Pardo Solo Art Show As then-chief designer of Ford Motor Company’s Living Legends Studio, pop artist Camilo Pardo led the creative evolution of the timeless GT40. In 2005, the iconic super car had its … Read More

Gainsbourg
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The Late Louche Composer Serge Gainsbourg Hits the Big Screen

August 25, 2011

The title of Joann Sfar’s Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life may have a drizzle of irony, but the bio-pic makes a case for why Brigitte Bardot’s old lover mattered. Early next month, the gorgeous film opens at indie theaters in New … Read More

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Helmut Lang’s Cave-Art Project

July 27, 2011

Forget Manhattan: The ‘big shows’ are in the Hamptons, come summer. This past Saturday evening, the art elite hit the upscale sticks to turn out for fashion designer Helmut Lang’s multi-media exhibition’s opening of “Make It Hard,” running through August … Read More

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If These Walls Could Talk…

July 12, 2011

Group show at David Zwirner creates helter-shelter Get outta’ the house and into this show. Through August 5th, New York’s David Zwirner is featuring “The House Without the Door” at its 525 & 533 West 19th Street gallery spaces. The … Read More

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The Cone Rider

June 29, 2011

Montreal hosts saucy (but serious–not!) Jean Paul Gaultier retrospective. Another reason to go to lovely and so-civilized Montreal this summer: The Montreal Museum of Art’s just-opened “The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier: From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk.” Pity … Read More

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Patron of the New

June 29, 2011

Isn’t it ironic? Pocketbooks made of sponge? It’s just one of the many extremely distinct items carried at TriBeCa, New York’s new Patron of the New boutique. Super chic, something new, we diggin.’ Check out their other stuff, and images … Read More

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New Orleans: The Real Naked City

June 29, 2011

Treme bringing you down? There’s a reason (it’s got the city all wrong) HBO’s post-Katrina Sunday night drama Tremecontinues to get more depressing and annoying with each episode. One wonders why, amid all its self-conscious insider-referencing and maudlin earnestness and … Read More

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The Summer Trinity

June 13, 2011

Screening our must-have picks of sunblock products Any Coppertone sun lotion or block immediately takes us back to our childhood. That nostalgia inducing, non-coconut-y smell? Somebody should bottle it as a perfume or cologne, and call it “Summer of ’42,” … Read More

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The Thigh Master

June 1, 2011

Sean Connery in the 1974 summer blockbuster that…wasn’t In the realm of cinema’s greatest “What Were They Thinking?” moments–such as Beatty and Hoffman as desert cut-ups in Ishtar–somehow Zardoz isn’t given its due. Directed by the great John Boorman (The … Read More

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Salty Dog01

June 1, 2011

The “see” creatures came out for the debut of Christopher Tennant’s nautically-challenging Aquatic Cases Last week at NoLita’s Haus Interior Designs boutique, “Official Filthy Rich Handbook” author Chris Tennant unveiled what a life spent admiring and collecting horseshoe crabs amounted … Read More

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The Other King of Cool

May 18, 2011

The late Alexander (the Great) McQueen, always late, is given the proper sendoff with the Met’s phantasmagoric showcase of his finest fashions, from high art to full-on crazy-time. Love it! Organized by the Met’s Costume Institute, the posthumous retrospective, “Alexander … Read More

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