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| | | IMAGE GALLERY DATE 5/6/2026 Now it can be told: The true story of the Society for Indecency to Naked Animals“WHAT TO DO IF YOU SEE A NAKED ANIMAL: 1. Provide temporary covering for the animal using an overcoat, shawl or blanket. 2. If no immediate covering is available, lead animal gently to nearest shed or areas hidden from public view. 3. Report the location, complete description of animal and any identifying marks by telephone to your nearest SINA headquarters. REMEMBER: ‘Decency today means Morality tomorrow.’”
Featured image is reproduced from Inside SINA
The Society for Indecency to Naked Animals, editor Andrew Lampert’s wild new scrapbook exposé of a years-long media hoax led by Alan and Jeanne Abel with actor Buck Henry. Collecting original documents, news reports, correspondence, photos and texts by the perpetrators, Alan and Jeanne Abel, this mind-boggling album tells the preposterous true story of the mediagenically successful, yet entirely fake moralist campaign to clothe all animals taller than four inches and longer than six.
 DATE 5/3/2026 Craftsmanship, creativity, change: 'Fashioning Chinese Women' captures twentieth-century fluxDespite considerable cultural significance, the period of dynamic transformation from dynastic to republican rule in Chinese fashion has long been overlooked by Western art museums. New release Fashioning Chinese Women: Empire to Modernity—published to accompany the eponymous LACMA exhibition opening in June—seeks to demystify and redefine the patrimony of transnational Chinese communities through a material exploration of the attire of a “society in flux.” The garments from this corpus come via a 2020 donation from Berkeley-based artist Chere Lai Mah, whose familial collection of twentieth-century Chinese women’s clothing reflects the changing social mores and increased influence of Western culture during the transition from late Qing dynasty up to the Cultural Revolution. Evolving at an unprecedented speed, fashion during this period, particularly women’s clothing, became a barometer of social norms, and was central to passionate debates regarding the female body and women’s roles—both highly contested issues related to a new Chinese modernity and national identity. Consumer illustrations, such as the February 1935 cover of Liangyou (The Young Companion) magazine, shown here, depict young women sporting this new style while engaging in modern activities, such as riding bicycles or playing tennis. These images evince a fresh sense of physical autonomy and vividly express the emerging feminist sentiment that advocated for the liberation of women from their traditional domestic roles. DATE 5/1/2026 'Mathew Wong: Interiors' — radiating the light of dreams“Vertigo” (2019) is reproduced from new release Matthew Wong: Interiors, published on the occasion of an exhibition of the same name, opening next week at Palazzo Tiepolo Passi to coincide with the 2026 Venice Biennale. “Many of Wong’s interiors mark time,” Nancy Spector writes in the catalog, published by The Matthew Wong Foundation. “Apparently, he painted furiously, on occasion making up to three works per day, so there could conceivably be morning, afternoon and evening canvases. Like the Impressionists—another central source for his practice—the artist was keenly aware of the changing effects of light throughout the day and how that could impact the optical effects of color. But his paintings were created indoors, a product of the imagination. The light described is thus an inner light, the kind that radiates in one’s dreams.”
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