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WILD “WHAT I LOVE ABOUT THE KINGDOM SCHOOL IS THAT THEIR FOCUS IS ON TRADITIONAL ACTRESS BROO E SHIELDS CURATES A SPECIAL EXHIBITION TRAINING IN PAINTING, FOCUSED ON ANIMALS AND DRAWING, AND SCULPTURE, NATURE FOR THIS YEAR’S ART SOUTHAMPTON. SO THEY’RE ALL HIGHLY BY R. COURI HAY SKILLED ARTISTS”. Brooke Shields—actress, model, —BROOKE SHIELDS author, original jeans ingénue, and onetime nemesis—is expanding her repertoire to the visual arts. The Princeton grad has cocurated an exhibit for the New York Academy of Art titled “Call of the Wild.” Featuring more than 60 paintings and sculptures inspired by nature and the animal kingdom by alumni of the Academy (of which Shields is a board member), it will be shown at this year’s edition of the art fair Art Southampton, running from July 7 through 11. The theme seems apt, as the school’s MFA program has a long history of working with human mod- els as well as exotic animals brought in by handlers; the Academy also partners each year with the Westminster Kennel Club to run its art competition, with the winning work adorning the club’s annual post- card and official promotional poster. “What I love about the school is that their focus is on traditional training in painting, drawing, and sculpture, so they’re all highly skilled artists,” says Shields. “It’s like learning a language and mak- N ing sure that the fundamentals and Brooke Shields is ATIO no stranger to the C

DI grammar are instilled.” Hamptons, where she N has a home with her I SY Shields has another tie to the school, established in 1982: Among husband and their two daughters: “We the Academy’s founders was Andy just realized how Warhol, a friend of Shields begin- happy it made us and what a great respite ning when she was a teen model. it was from the “What I think Andy would be craziness of our lives proud of, probably even more îî in .” PHOTOGRAPHY BY NIGEL PARRY / CP

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so than just what the school Untitled, Loretta produces, is the supportive Mae Hirsch, circa 2016. left: nature of it,” she says. “It’s a Curators Brooke rigorous training course, but Shields and the support that the artists David Kratz, president of the have for one another—I think New York he would have loved that Academy of Art. because it’s very genuine. It’s not a cutthroat environment.” She Wrote–style series based On this particular afternoon, on the Flower Shop Mystery Shields is traveling to the books by Kate Collins, Shields Hamptons, where she and her plays a big-city lawyer who husband, , have moves back to her hometown RT) a home. “We just realized how to open a flower shop after the happy it made us and what a death of her husband. “It’s great respite it was from the lighthearted comedy,” says the craziness of our lives in New actress, who is also an execu- K ACADEMY OF ART (A

York City,” she says. They tive producer of the films. OR share the East End residence And in Daisy Winters, with their two daughters, Shields stars alongside a girl ages 10 and 13. “We have a who reminds her of herself dog now, and whenever I when she started in the busi- OFSY THE NEW Y

take the dog on the beach, it ness. “I love the idea that I OURTE is literally one of the most have this longevity,” she says, peaceful times that I have.” “because I do think in this The trip out East comes at industry there is something to a perfect time: Shields just be said for still being around. BFA.COM (KRATZ); C finished filming Daisy Winters I don’t know about relevancy in Georgia, which she per se, but I definitely am squeezed in between shooting stubborn enough to be in the several Dearly Depotted made- game still.” Art Southampton for-TV movies in Ontario for runs July 7–11 at 60 Millstone the Hallmark Channel. For Road, Bridgehampton;.

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