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HANAE MORI, THE JAPANESE FASHION DESIGNER who paved a way to the top echelon of his industry, has died at the age of 96, the New York Times reports. During a career that began in the early 1950s with an atelier in the Shinjuku area of Tokyo and formally ended with a farewell show in Paris in 2004, Mori gained fame and big business for styles that mixed Japanese motifs with staples. Westerners. In 1977 she was accepted by the Trade Union Chamber of Haute Couturemaking her “the first Asian woman to join the Paris guild of the world’s best designers”. Robert D. McFadden write two years before, Bernardine Morris noted in a Times clothing review: “Works of art definitely are.”
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THE BEST JOBS. hallie ringle has been appointed chief curator of the Institute of Contemporary Art in the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, artforum reports. Ringle is currently curator of contemporary art at the Birmingham Museum of Art in Alabama and general conservator in MoMA PS1 In New York. artforum has the news that Lynette L. Allston has been chosen to be the next chairman of the board of directors of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond. Allston, who is the first Native American person to lead the board of directors of a major arts institution in the United States, also serves as Chief and Chairman Emeritus of the Tribal Council of the Nottoway Indian Tribe of Virginia.
the summary
INTERVIEWS WITH ARTISTS. theater doors i chatted with Dezeen about your serpentine pavilion in London, and Pipilotti’s Rista appeared in CNNtalking about his show on tai kwun in HK. “Light projecting from the pelvis is a common motif in Rist’s art,” she noted. She explained, “It’s where we saw the light when we came out of our mothers.”
Architect santiago calatrava he paints for three hours every morning in a studio in his residence, before heading to his architecture office in central Zurich. “I find a lot of beauty and inspiration in the natural world,” she said. Here’s an inside look at the spaces he calls home. [Architectural Digest]
New ZealandChina’s government said it is introducing a royalty program that will pay artists or their estates 5 percent when their work is resold. It is scheduled to come into force at the end of 2024. [Stuff]
the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation‘s Frankenthaler Climate Initiative has awarded $3 million in grants to nearly 50 institutions, including the Judd Foundation in Marfa, Texas, which is working to create a facility that is net zero carbon. [The Architect’s Newspaper]
Art that was once owned by Horst Rechelbachthe late founder of Aveda Institutewill be sold in reverence auctions in Saint Paul, Minnesota. The lots include work of Salvador Dali Y Charles Bugatti. [Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal]
the kicker
GALILEO, GALILEO, FIGARO, MAGNIFICENT. the University of Michigan Library recently came to a harrowing conclusion: a manuscript in his collection that he believed was written in 1610 by Galileo Galilei It’s fake, he New York Times reports. nick savagea forgery expert who teaches at the rare book school in the University of Virginia , first raised the possibility that it was not the genuine article, which a subsequent investigation confirmed. Still, there’s kind of a silver lining. As Acting Dean of the University of Michigan Libraries, Donna L Hayward, said: “The fake is really good. The discovery somehow makes this a more fascinating article.” [NYT]
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