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Billy Connolly – Castle Fine Art

Billy Connolly has long been a household name through his artistry. Now, there are more additions to his story as a comedian, actor, best-selling author and more recently an artist. Castle Fine Art have worked with the artist who has designed the personalities of sculptures in a radiant celebration of personality types.

“Direction” is a non-such being, something that can be interpreted by ones understanding of the hierarchy of order in the production of the figures presented in these works.

“Two for the Road” is a celebration of the capsule of two people, a wee one and a bigger one, who draw upon the mentality of gig-performers on the road. A sketch complements this mantra and his bestselling book, the autobiography entitled Rambling Man: My Life on the Road. The man himself explores the telling of this tale.

Fragile Beauty – Collection of Sir Elton John and David Furnish

For the first time over 300 photographs will be exclusively on view at the V & A. The collection of Sir Elton John and David Furnish will showcase 140 photographers’ work. It will be the largest collection of photographs shown at the V & A until now.

This will be following The Tate Modern’s exhibition of The Radicle Eye with previous collections of the singer and his partner. The collection will unveil the work of Robert Mapplethorpe and Cindy Sherman to name a few: this is part of a creative gallery from the 1950s to date.

To feature there will be portraits of Marilyn Monroe, and Miles Davis, amongst many other artists of the time. There will also be a recollection of such extraordinary events including the 1980s AIDS activism.

Sir Elton John and David Furnish have said: “Since we first loaned a selection of Horst photographs to the V&A in 2014, our relationship with the museum has grown significantly. Fragile Beauty takes our collaboration to really exciting new heights, showcasing some of the most beloved photographers and iconic images from within our collection. Working alongside the V&A again has been a truly memorable experience, and we look forward to sharing this exhibition with the public.”

This exhibition will be on show from 18th May 2024 until 5th January 2025. Tickets can be purchased by visiting the V & A website. Fragile Beauty: Photographs from the Sir Elton John and David Furnish Collection – Exhibition at V&A South Kensington · V&A (vam.ac.uk)

Credits: Dakota Hair, 2004, by Ryan McGinley. © Ryan McGinley Studios and Simply Fragile, 2022 by Tyler Mitchell © Tyler Mitchell. Courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York.

Sotheby’s Handbags – from Chanel, Hermès, to Louis Vuitton

Handbags from Chanel to Hermès and Louis Vuitton can be purchased through a link. Vintage Chanel through to the renowned Birkin Bags are featured upon this platform.

Sotheby’s have been established since 1744 and is the world’s renowned hub for luxury and art. Sotheby’s is where you can find a platform between auction and online sales, in the modern technology era.

Having already sold Freddie Mercury’s lifetime memorable artifacts, this house has also highlighted further artifacts that are collectable in the chicest wardrobes.

Discover the highest of stylish marks that compliment the wardrobe with the most acceptable fashionable collections.

From the Carrie Bradshaw taste in style to the most up to date fashionista products Sotheby’s offers serve a look that this platform invites you to.

Follow Handbags Fashion Sotheby’s (sothebys.com) to receive your ultimate must have of this season’s fashion.

   

Picasso – Fontainebleau – MoMA

MoMA will be holding an exhibition rediscovering three months of Picasso’s career. Depicting this period in the town of Fontainebleau, through July and September 1921 the artist created line paintings, line drawings, etchings, and pastels from this small town in France. Some of these will be on display since the first time they left his studio.

Organised by Anne Umland she says: “Picasso’s decision to paint, virtually simultaneously, the startlingly different-looking Three Musicians and Three Women at the Spring (which are both in MoMA’s collection) in Fontainebleau during the summer of 1921 continues to disrupt expectations of artistic evolution and stylistic consistency.”

Fifty years have passed since Picasso’s death and this mark on his work highlights the importance of his being. The exhibition will be featuring the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s Three Musicians and MoMA’s Three Women at the Spring for the first time since 1921.

Cubist and classical, the display will be held at the museum until 17 February 2024.

Credits: Pablo Picasso. Three Musicians. Fontainebleau, summer 1921. Oil on canvas, 80 1/2 × 74 1/8″ (204.5 × 188.3 cm). The Philadelphia Museum of Art. A. E. Gallatin Collection, 1952. © 2023 Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Mash Gallery Fashion

Haleh Mashian is the founder of the successful Mash Gallery in West Hollywood, Los Angeles. She is a true artist having over 400 artists’ work shown in her gallery. She is also a painter, fashion designer and music composer in her own right.

Her fashion line, which retails from $50 to $700 has been created via an app on her phone. As she uses her phone daily, she decided to embark a project by taking inspiration from her day-to-day life, taking, and updating her design on her phone, by using her finger to draw her collections.

Her favourite pieces in her collection are the bomber jacket lines, as these are unisex and can be worn by anyone between the ages of twenty to seventy.

The collection is available to buy from the gallery website and for press information, or questions please contact Freya Olsen.com

Le Roch Hotel & Spa – Paris

Located by the Garnier Opera and Tuileries Gardens, Le Roch takes you away into a sublime spot in Paris.

With a menu created by renowned chef Serge Jouanin, the restaurant provides a tranquil setting to relax. But don’t stop there, there are so many settings to take advantage of in this prominent boutique hotel. There is a bar, a sun terrace, a library, an indoor pool and a Maison Codage spa with a specialised treatment list.

The interior design of the hotel has been created by Sarah Poniatowski-Lavoine. She has created a sense of respite within these romantic settings. A resident of the Saint-Honore, Sarah resides in neighbouring spaces and understands the ideology of Parisian chic. In her design of this five star space, she uses colours and materials to create a backdrop like being inside a Parisian apartment, a home away from home.

Equipped with a private steam room, the five suites offer a place to relax, some with a giant dressing room comfortably styled as a shrine. Thirty two more bedrooms are present in the hotel, in which guests can find their peace in this wonderful part of Paris.

More information on this exclusive retreat can be found by visiting www.leroch-hotel.com

MOMA PS1 – Rirkrit Tiravanija

On view from October 12, 2023 to March 4, 2024 is one of the largest featured exhibitions of Thai artist Rirkrit Tiravanija. ‘A lot of People’ includes over 100 works in installation, drawings, sculpture, and demonstrations of vocal works.

From the transgressional periods of his career, Tiravanija has made an impact using people as the background for his relevance. Works tell a tale of unconventional thinking and, in that, he draws on the relationships of study throughout his work.

The exhibition brings together works from the 1980s and 1990s to tell a tale of a migrant in a “Western-centric artworld”.  MOMA PS1 writes “These site-specific stagings acknowledge the distinct times and contexts in which these works were originally enacted, creating an experience in which audiences can observe, as well as take part in, the happenings with critical distance. As demonstrations, these works propose new models for narrating and understanding contemporary art history”.

Rirkrit Tiravanija: A LOT OF PEOPLE is organized by Ruba Katrib, Curator and Director of Curatorial Affairs, MOMA PS1, and Yasmil Raymond, Rector, Städelschule and Director of Portikus, Frankfurt, with Jody Graf and Kari Rittenbach, Assistant Curators, MoMA PS1.

Credits: Rirkrit Tiravanija. untitled 2017 (fear eats the soul) (white flag). 2017. Courtesy Creative Time. Photo: Guillaume Ziccarelli

Installation view, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Tomorrow is the Question, Remai Modern, Saskatoon, 2019. Courtesy Remai Modern. Photo: Blaine Campbell

MASH GALLERY – Impermanence, Silence, Beauty & More…

Schedule your calendar for an evening of aesthetics, October 14th. Located in the design district of West Hollywood, owner and artist Haleh Mashian of the Mash Gallery extends an invitation to an exhibition celebrating impermanence, silence, beauty and more…

Seven artists offer a whimsical approach to modernity and expression in their creations. Ramona Stelzer, David Kupferman, Haleh Mashian, Andy Harwood, Bonita Helmer, Jill Daniels, Anthony Liggins, whisper their mantra out of fully fledged ideologies, brought to their audience in beauty.

Ramona Stelzer finds the transformation of flowers in her work by the creation of lifecycles. David Kupferman the son of two artists has grown with art as his philosophy, capturing a fusion of Eastern and Western art, he explores the light in inner and outer landscapes. Haleh Mashian, blends reality with an insightful guide into the imagination, with colour, texture and a play between positive and negative space. Andy Harwood, an Australian painter with fifteen years of exhibitions behind him layers his paintings with translations of geometrics and non-representational form. Bonita Helmer, makes a relevance between science and art and tools with ideologies of our universe in her paintings through physics, astronomy and existence. Jill Daniels,  an Alaskan artist, has exhibited worldwide and has been a feature in publications across the globe. Daniels is a two time Emmy winning Art Director and works for an array of prosperous studios. Anthony Liggins, a widely acclaimed artist has his work in over 700 public and private collections. He says that his paintings reflect a spiritual journey of the enlightened mind and bind people together through appreciation of the language that his art is grounded in.

To become a part of this masterfully curated exhibition follow this link to RSVP between 6 & 9 PM on October 14th https://www.eventbrite.com/e/impermanence-silence-beauty-more-tickets-709863891007?aff=oddtdtcreator

Francesca Liberatore – Runway SS 2024

As one of the first collections showing at Milan Fashion Week, Francesca Liberatore presents an entirely leather collection. Manipulated by different techniques the fabric is made from sustainable and reused fabrics, born into a style that becomes a collection for spring summer 2024.

The designer has focused on the productivity of creation in her collection and has mentored seven talented students from Brera Academy of Fine Arts during the course of the design.

The collection will continue to show in the Palazzo Diamanti Museum in Ferrara and will follow onto Macao in China and then New York City.

Jenkins Johnson Gallery – Evolving Visions

Jenkins Johnson Gallery is presenting a trio of thought-provoking artists in Evolving Visions. Ben Aronson, Scott Fraser, and Julian Opie fuse their visions of the world through contemporary landscapes, still life, and portraiture.

Ben Aronson’s realism is in his work as he creates city landscapes that depict everything from drizzly sidewalks to glimmering window screens on cars. His colour palette and brush technique skills leave a quality that can be confused with photography. Aronson, a member of the National Academy, has been represented by Jenkins Johnson since 2001 and his awards include National Academy of Arts and Letters in 2006, the Pleissner Memorial Award for Painting at the National Academy of Design in 1992.

Scott Fraser is one of America’s leading modern realist still life painters who has had his work featured in major exhibitions including at Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York; the De Young Museum in San Francisco; the Denver Art Museum; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; and the Philbrook Museum of Art in Tulsa.

Julian Opie is one of the UK’s finest artists who uses his skill to illustrate, sketch, paint or incorporate graphics through computer software. His work is shown in The Tate Gallery, London, and the Museum of Modern Art. His work has been radically sold in the past through means such as catalogues and he is a sole representative of Western Art.

Images are courtesy of the artist and Jenkins Johnson Gallery.  Gallery Hours: Tuesday – Saturday, 11am- 6pm.

Rosewood Bermuda – Biodegradable Hat

Rosewood Bermuda have partnered with a former editor of Elle Décor and Town and Country, Sarah Bray-West, designing a biodegradable sun hat: with 20 percent of the proceeds going to plant an indigenous tree, the Juniper Tree.

The Juniper Initiative is named after the Bermuda native trees’ namesake and this nature was largely decimated during the island’s colonial period, to aid the formation of ships and early houses.

Rosewood runs this project in correlation with Bermuda National Trust, to restore an environmental stewardship program that restores heritage sites and museums across the island.

For every $200 spent a tree will be donated to this project. The hat that is part of a commitment to stop non-essential waste is available if you visit https://sarahbraybermuda.com/products/vintage-juniper-ribbon-benefitting-bermuda-national-trust

Seoul Box Unboxing

Seoulbox have defined how to get to know more about Korean culture. The legendary company started by Suji Sohn and Raj Sathi is what you can portray as a real-life experience, boxed in a cultural case. The collection gives you over 18 treats along with a magazine and K-Pop and K-Beauty take homes. Shipped directly from Korea this magnitude of goodies gives a perfect insight into what a Korean loves. Three types of box are available including the Signature box, which changes monthly, The V box with the same but designed for Halal and Vegetarian consumers and Life Box, sharing Korean merchandise. Get to know the site and enlist on this Korean experience.