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Accompanying the dining room, tucked away Based on Jessica Pressler’s article “The Hustlers at Scores”, which ran in New York magazine in 2015, Hustlers in the lower level, is an underground speakeasy tells the true account of a group of Manhattan strippers who entertain and swindle millions from their Wall Street for intimate post-dinner nightcaps. The dimly lit clients in the wake of 2008’s financial crisis. The heist film is a modern-day Robin Hood tale led by a star-stud- 01/ hideaway is the perfect place to escape with friends ded cast, including Emmy-nominated Constance Wu and Jennifer Lopez, and featuring debut acting roles from music greats Lizzo and Cardi B. Along with Hustlers’s powerful female-fronted cast, women also feature prom- for a delicious handcrafted après-work cocktail. inently behind the camera, as the project is helmed by screenwriter and director Lorene Scafaria. 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To honour the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall uprising, the Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum FIU in Miami is hosting “Art after Stonewall, 1969–1989,” a major exhibi- Taking centre stage is the largest swimming tion composed of over 200 works by LGBTQ+ artists (and other artists who engaged pool of any resort in the French coastal town, with LGBTQ+ communities) during the monumental 20-year period of art-making surrounded by three clay-roofed houses that that began in 1969. Organized by the Columbus Museum of Art, the show was contain 34 spacious rooms and suites, each with curated by the artist and art historian Jonathan Weinberg, with Daniel Marcus and Drew Sawyer. The exhibition features seven sections: Coming Out, Sexual Outlaws, their own private garden and outdoor lounge. The Uses of the Erotic, Gender and Body, Things are Queer, AIDS and Activism, and Designed by Charles Zana, the rooms and We’re Here. Photographs, film clips, performance pieces, and more showcasing the suites are carefully decorated with bohemian impact of the LGBTQ+ civil rights movement on visual culture have been gathered accents, along with historical knick-knacks, such under one roof for the first time for the Miami presentation, and the spirited and informative exhibition will headline Miami Beach’s Art Basel in December. as vintage plates. Enjoy breakfast under the “Art after Stonewall, 1969–1989” is on view from September 14, 2019, to January 5, stone pines before a trip to the beach and bask in 2020, at the Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum FIU in Miami. the feeling of salt on tanned skin to capture the Mediterranean essence of the luxury hideaway. For bookings, visit loupinet.com. , 1971. Digital print 14 × 11 inches (35.5 × 27.9 cm). cm). inches Digital × 27.9 (35.5 × 11 print 14 , 1971. 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