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DATE 12/3/2025

Flamboyant poses and melodramatic airs in 'Cecil Beaton's Fashionable World'

DATE 11/30/2025

Artbook at Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles Bookstore presents Kelli Anderson and Claire L. Evans launching 'Alphabet in Motion'

DATE 11/27/2025

Indigenous presence in 'Wendy Red Star: Her Dreams Are True'

DATE 11/24/2025

Holiday Gift Guide 2025: Artful Crowd-Pleasers

DATE 11/22/2025

From 'Bottle Rocket' to 'The Phoenician Scheme' — the archives of Wes Anderson

DATE 11/20/2025

The testimonial art of Reverend Joyce McDonald

DATE 11/18/2025

A profound document of art, love and friendship in ‘Paul Thek and Peter Hujar: Stay away from nothing’

DATE 11/17/2025

The Strand presents Kelli Anderson + Giorgia Lupi launching 'Alphabet in Motion'

DATE 11/15/2025

Holiday Gift Guide 2025: Stuff that Stocking

DATE 11/15/2025

Artbook at MoMA PS1 presents Cory Arcangel, Eivind Røssaak and Alexander R. Galloway launching 'The Cory Arcangel Hack'

DATE 11/14/2025

Columbia GSAPP presents 'The Library is Open 23: Archigram Facsimile' with Beatriz Colomina Thomas Evans, Amelyn Ng, David Grahame Shane, Bernard Tschumi & Bart-Jan Polman

DATE 11/13/2025

Holiday Gift Guide 2025: For the Photo Fanatic

DATE 11/13/2025

Pop-up pleasure in Kelli Anderson's astonishing 'Alphabet in Motion'


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Flamboyant poses and melodramatic airs in 'Cecil Beaton's Fashionable World'

DATE 12/3/2025

Flamboyant poses and melodramatic airs in 'Cecil Beaton's Fashionable World'

Cecil Beaton’s “The Second Age of Beauty is Glamour,” shot for the February 1946 issue of British Vogue, is reproduced from Holiday Gift Staff Pick Cecil Beaton’s Fashionable World—published to accompany the exhibition on view through January 2026 at the National Portrait Gallery, London. A beautifully produced monograph featuring portraits, magazine editorials, fashion photography, war reportage and illustrations by Britain’s celebrated renaissance man about town, this oversized volume features a lovely Swiss binding, more than 250 color and black-and-white reproductions and a wealth of pithy Beaton quotations that contextualize the images. “My pictures became more and more rococo and surrealist,” he wrote in the third volume of his diary, The Happy Years, published in 1972. “Society women as well as mannequins were photographed in the most flamboyant poses, in ecstatic or mystical states, sometimes with the melodramatic air of a Lady Macbeth caught up in a cocoon of tulle…”

Indigenous presence in 'Wendy Red Star: Her Dreams Are True'

DATE 11/27/2025

Indigenous presence in 'Wendy Red Star: Her Dreams Are True'

“The Last Thanks” (2006) is reproduced from Wendy Red Star: Her Dreams Are True, published to accompany the exhibition on view now at The Trout Gallery at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. “Red Star’s living body disrupts the settler-colonial gaze by refusing both disappearance and static representation,” Darren Edward Lone Fight writes; “instead, she occupies the ceremonial center with deliberate presence, her traditional regalia not a costume but a declaration of cultural continuity. … By placing herself at the center, alive, solemn and unflinching, she reclaims the visual field, an act of sovereignty that insists upon the living continuity of Indigenous presence, even in a space overrun by the plastic monuments of settler mythmaking.”

From 'Bottle Rocket' to 'The Phoenician Scheme' — the archives of Wes Anderson

DATE 11/22/2025

From 'Bottle Rocket' to 'The Phoenician Scheme' — the archives of Wes Anderson

Wes Anderson: The Archives—the first major museum retrospective of the iconic American filmmaker’s output—is on view now at The Design Museum in London, and we are thrilled to distribute the catalog, a new release this week. Drawn from Anderson’s personal archive, amassed over thirty years of groundbreaking films known for their inimitable aesthetic and sense of humor, this exhibition contains everything from props, sets and costumes to notebooks, drawings, Polaroids and paintings. Featuring contributions from more than a dozen of Anderson’s collaborators, including Scarlett Johansson, Tilda Swinton, Roman Coppola and Jason Schwartzman, it is the first book to be produced in close partnership with Anderson. Pictured here, Steve Zissou’s Adidas shoes and red hat from The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004); photographs by James Hamilton of Anderson, Anjelica Huston and Owen Wilson on the set of The Royal Tenenbaums (2001); and Anderson’s notebooks from Moonrise Kingdom (2012) and The French Dispatch (2021).