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A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS. Artist Daniel Arhama veteran of art and fashion collaborations, is launching his own fashion label, fashion business reports. named Items IV Lifethe company: a joint venture with brand accelerator morning— is launching its first line today with relative in Paris and online, and consists of unisex workwear. In other art and fashion news, Worship Stand out Louis Vuitton art director Nicholas Ghesquierethe interest of louis kahn‘s Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, Calif., and harper’s bazaar has a story about the late, great artist and designer Virgil Ablohwhose retrospective is about to open at the brooklyn museum.
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AUCTION ACTION. Russian journalist Dmitry Muratov auctioned off his Nobel Peace Prize a heritage auctions for $103.5 million; proceeds will go to help refugees from Ukraine, the Wall Street Journal reports. The winning bidder was not identified. The first comic to feature Wonder Womana all star comics 1941 edition, also just sold at Heritage, for $1.62 million, hypebeast notes And at a much lower price: a 1747 cookbook said to contain the earliest English curry recipes is being offered through London’s forum auctions with an estimate of $5,000, for news week.
the summary
Artist Thomas J Price I got the profile treatment from Ferren Gibson. Price will present two sculptures in London today that honor the Windrush generation: immigrants from the Caribbean between 1948 and 1971. [Financial Times]
Speaking of monuments in the UK, a bronze statue of Ian Wolter commemorating the Kindertransport— the evacuation of some 10,000 children, most of them Jewish, from Germany to the UK beginning in 1938 — will be announced in Harwich in September. [BBC News]
South African artist William Kentridge he said the UK should work to address its colonial-era monuments. “The question should be, ‘How do we deal with our ruined past?’ instead of defending it and saying it was nothing more than a heroic story,” she said. [The Art Newspaper]
Photographer Mary McCartney has been associated with Gagosian director george cohen to present a sample of McCartney’s work in La Coste Castle in Provence, France. “I hope that the viewer can see the image of a tree and feel the breeze, almost as if it is entering it,” said the artist. [AnOther]
To mark its 40th anniversary, the UK’s entrepreneurial music magazine the Cable has made its entire file free until the start of Monday in the British Isles. [The Wire via @alexmarshall81/Twitter]
CBC took a look at the work of two indigenous-run companies, Two Row Architect Y Smoke architecture. [CBC]
the kicker
DIFFERENCE AND REPETITION. If you haven’t read artist Takashi Murakamitest of New York Times “Great Ideas” series, which was broadcast a few days ago, click on it. We won’t spoil his whole thesis here, but Murakami describes two experiences, one with a jeff koons sculpture, the other with a premium coffee—and explains how his opinion of them changed with a little more insight. Here he is on his second sip of that cup of coffee: “I drank again. Then and there, my consciousness snapped and restructured itself. I’ve never had such delicious coffee, I remember thinking.” [NYT]
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