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Announcement Announcement 10 articles, 2016-02-12 06:00 1 Accessory of the Day: New York Fashion Week, Fall 2016 For fall, Creatures of the Wind designers Shane Gabier and Christopher Peters collaborated with jeweler Pamela Love. 2016-02-12 05:41:52 923Bytes wwd.com 2 Primark to Open Six Stores in U. S. in 2016 The retailer is eyeing mainly suburban locations after opening on downtown Boston. 2016-02-12 05:31:52 2KB wwd.com 3 ecdm architectes completes new city hall for bezons ecdm architectes has completed the new city hall of bezons, a commune in the suburbs of northwestern paris. 2016-02-12 04:04:38 2KB www.designboom.com 4 “Agitprop!” at the Brooklyn Museum: Waves of Dissent, Legacies of Change The Brooklyn Museum's Agitprop! (through Aug. 7) explores the many ways that artists directly address issues of public concern. Opening last December, works will be added to Agitprop! twice in its nine-month run, once in February and again in April, to reflect how multiple generations of artists have tackled the same concerns over time. 2 10KB www.artinamericamagazine.com 5 Camille Henrot Entering French-born Camille Henrot's first solo show at Metro Pictures, I recalled a vivid early memory: my first time hearing an answering machine. I stood in the kitchen in the late '80s, clutching our outdated avocado-colored rotary phone, while my mother dialed my grandparents. Instead of answering my chipper greeting, the canned voice on the line recited the leave-a-message-at-the-beep spiel. It's not them! What's happening? I shrieked, my mother confused until she grabbed the receiver and laughed. 2 4KB www.artinamericamagazine.com 6 Art in America The Chinese-American artist Martin Wong (1945-1999) celebrated both his cultural heritage and New York's gritty Lower East Side in paintings rife with firemen, convicts, pop icons, graffitied walls and ASL hand signs. 2 15KB www.artinamericamagazine.com 7 Evelyn Statsinger Scattered throughout art history are unconventional talents who don’t fit easily into standard narratives and categories, and thus don’t receive the recognition that they deserve. One such outlier is 88-year-old Chicago artist Evelyn Statsinger, who has had some taste of national attention during her long, still-active career but should be much better known. 2 4KB www.artinamericamagazine.com 8 Review: ‘Fitoor’ Enlists Dickens to Tell a Hindi Love Story Based on “Great Expectations,” the film, directed by Abhishek Kapoor, is more Bollywood than Charles Dickens. 2016-02-11 00:00:00 2KB www.nytimes.com 9 An Adam Pendleton Exhibition Will Open in New Orleans The city’s Contemporary Arts Center is devoting all three floors of its galleries to the show, “Adam Pendleton: Becoming Imperceptible.” 2016-02-11 00:00:00 6KB www.nytimes.com 10 Elizabeth Dee Gallery to Leave Chelsea for Two-Story Harlem Space An installation view of works by Julia Wachtel from her 2015 show at Elizabeth Dee's Chelsea location.COURTESY ELIZABETH DEE Chelsea's Elizabeth Dee Gallery 2016-02-12 03:31:48 1KB www.artnews.com Articles 10 articles, 2016-02-12 06:00 1 Accessory of the Day: New York Fashion Week, Fall 2016 With a show entitled “Knife,” Creatures of the Wind designers Shane Gabier and Christopher Peters had modernism on their minds — especially related to even the most ordinary items. Here, they collaborated with jeweler Pamela Love on this torque-style choker with a blade pendant. 2016-02-12 05:41:52 Roxanne Robinson 2 Primark to Open Six Stores in U. S. in 2016 It’s been roughly six months since Primark opened its first U. S. store in Boston’s Downtown Crossing, but the retailer has plans for an aggressive Northeast rollout that includes opening its first stores in Staten Island and Freehold, N. J. Although the Boston flagship is in the historic, former Filene’s building, Primark has indicated it will pursue dense suburban locations for expansion, rather than downtown spots. The company will open six stores this year, including two more in Massachusetts (Burlington and South Shore Plaza malls), in Danbury, Conn., and Willow Grove, Pa. In 2017, it will open in American Dream, the megamall under construction in East Rutherford, N. J., said Jose Luis Martinez de Larramendi, president of Primark’s U. S. Corp. The firm operates a U. S. distribution center in Pennsylvania. Martinez de Larramendi, who has run the fast-fashion giant’s businesses in Spain and Portugal, was in Boston Tuesday at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design to award two fashion scholarships. Liz LaCava, one of the winners, will intern at Primark’s Dublin headquarters this summer. The retailer has struck a yearlong partnership with the college, which included designing windows for the Downtown Crossing store opening, and a portfolio challenge that asked students to come up with fast-fashion interpretations of runway, street and celebrity trends. Throughout the semester, Primark’s team in Dublin gave regular critiques via video conference, said Sondra Grace, chair of MassArt’s fashion design department. This story first appeared in the February 12, 2016 issue of WWD. Subscribe Today. Primark has similar partnerships with fashion schools in Ireland, Spain and Germany. 2016-02-12 05:31:52 Katherine Bowers 3 ecdm architectes completes new city hall for bezons ecdm arranges city hall in paris suburb around four-storey atrium all images by benoit fougeirol ecdm architectes has completed the new city hall of bezons, a commune in the suburbs of northwestern paris. set back from the adjacent avenue, the building’s most noticeable external feature is a dramatic cantilever, which creates a sheltered public space below. this architectural statement serves as a bold introduction to visitors arriving from the nearby river seine. the building forms part of the region’s ongoing regeneration, which will eventually include a host of new businesses and residential properties. the internal program is arranged around a central atrium that extends upwards, from the ground floor to the ceiling. staircases and pathways traverse this void, connecting the offices on different levels. vegetation is found at the lowermost storey with planted trees and other greenery. from below, the pathways display their red underside, providing a vibrant splash of color against the more restrained materiality of the concrete and glass walls. circulation routes connect the various offices on different levels vegetation is found at the lowermost storey with planted trees and other greenery from below, the pathways display their red underside, providing a vibrant splash of color the building will form an important part of the region’s ongoing regeneration the new city hall was completed in late 2015 2016-02-12 04:04:38 Philip Stevens I Designboom 4 “Agitprop!” at the Brooklyn Museum: Waves of Dissent, Legacies of Change Otabenga Jones & Associates: The People's Plate Mural , 2015, acrylic on wall, 96 by 36 feet. © Otabenga Jones & Associates. Photo Lawndale Art Center. Advertisement The Brooklyn Museum's "Agitprop! " (through Aug. 7) explores the many ways that artists directly address issues of public concern. A term originated in Soviet Russia, "agitprop" is an amalgamation of the words "agitation" and "propaganda"—the desired effect of the medium's politically charged messages. Opening last December, works will be added to "Agitprop! " twice in its nine-month run, once in February and again in April, to reflect how multiple generations of artists have tackled the same concerns over time. Organized by the museum's Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, "Agitprop! " presents work by approximately 50 artists and collaborative groups in total that tackle reproductive rights, mass incarceration, war and imperialism, racial justice, economic equity, and issues of representation and visibility. Graphics and film clips from 1930s Russia and Mexico, as well as photographs, drawings and prints documenting the actions of the NAACP, WPA and women suffragettes in the United States, offer historical counterpoints to a selection of works by international artists over the past 30 years, a period roughly corresponding to third-wave feminism. Artists in each "wave" of the exhibition choose their "successors"—the artists whose works will join the show in the following iterations. The first round comprises 20 participants. Dyke Action Machine! (DAM!), Otabenga Jones and Associates, and Coco Fusco, for example, carry on the legacies of LGTBI activism, black radicalism and post-colonialism, respectively, and will pass these torches to a new set of artists in the following versions of the exhibition. In the first wave of "Agitprop," two posters by Dyke Action Machine! (DAM!) duo Carrie Moyer and Sue Schaffner are wheat-pasted directly on the walls of the museum; they were originally presented in the streets of New York and San Francisco. Aligned with the AIDS and LGBTI activism of groups like ACT UP and Queer Nation, DAM! updated advertisements with lesbian content as a form of culture jamming. In response to Calvin Klein's advertisements from 1992 that featured then vocally homophobic Mark Wahlberg (who publicly apologized for his bigotry in 2014) in the brand's underwear, DAM! recast the ad with lesbians to advocate for dyke visibility. Later in the '90s, the collective addressed issues of gay assimilation into mainstream society through marriage and military service with the campaign Lesbian Americans: Don't Sell Out (1998), featuring images of lesbians against the backdrop of the American flag, positioning them as the embodiment of the American revolutionary spirit. DAM! chose LJ Roberts as the inheritor of their legacy for the second iteration of "Agitprop!," opening Feb. 17. "We're living in a time where there's a huge premium put on ambiguity, because it's market-friendly.
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