2 Evacuation Dresses (2006), by Yael Mer. (Image courtesy of the Katonah Museum of Art.)
- In Katonah, NY: Dress Codes: Clothing at Metaphor at the Katonah Museum of Art, through Oct. 4.
- In NYC: PRDream’s Summer Film Fest at the 103rd Street Community Garden, begins tonight at sunset, with a screening of the 1974 crime drama, La Venganza de Correa Cotto.
- In NYC: The Female Gaze: Women Look at Women at Cheim & Read, including Diane Arbus, Louise Bourgeois, Vanessa Beecroft and many others, through Sept. 19.
- In NYC: John Currin: Works on Paper — A Fifteen Year Survey of Women, at Andrea Rosen, through Aug. 21.
- In Washington, D.C.: William Eggleston, Democratic Camera, at the Corcoran Gallery, through Sept. 20. (There’s a wonderful audio slideshow at this link.)
- In Minneapolis: The Night Sky in the Age of Vermeer: The Astronomer in Context at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, through Jan. 10. (The Art Newspaper.)
- In Seattle: Holly Farrell at Garde Rail, through Aug. 29.
- In London: David Byrne: Playing the Building at Roundhouse, through Aug. 31.
- In Edinburgh: Eva Hesse: Studiowork at Fruitmarket Gallery, through Oct. 25.
Celso and C-Monster arrive at the opening of the Stephen Sprouse show at Deitch. (Photos by C-M.)
For anyone wanting to short circuit their eyesight on the visual wonders of ’80s excess, look no further than Stephen Sprouse: Rock on Mars at Deitch — a throwback to the days when everyone was having a good old time amid the crack vials and the dog poo in SoHo. This fashion retrospective, by the designer known for channeling Day-Glo and punk to a high-end crowd, is relentless. Crayola colors are stirred in with velvety textures, vaguely reminding me of the outfits donned by Locomía, a high-camp fan-dancing Spanish pop group from the early ’90s. (Yes, fan-dancing!)
The best part of the show, however, has nothing to do with the fashion. It’s an upstairs wall that has been covered, top to bottom, in the designer’s personal Polaroids. Expect to see the likes of Debbie Harry, Francesco Clemente and the rest of the ’80s Interview Magazine set mugging for the camera.
The show is up until Feb. 28.
Click on images to supersize. Polaroids after the jump.
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As the Bud Lite kicks in, this entrepreneurial young lady goes into full performance mode with Journey’s Don’t Stop Believing.
To psychologically prepare for my upcoming fellowship at USC, I attended this past weekend’s university tailgate festivities prior to watching the Trojans give the Oregon State Ducks a one-handed ass-whooping. There were countless parties all over campus (and in the campus parking lots), but I spent this particular tailgate drinking Bud in the company of a couple hundred future moguls at the business school’s well-stocked gathering. In addition to the copious supply of domestic beer, the party was a visual feast of maroon and gold in every polyester iteration you could imagine — and then some.
Herewith, a look at tailgate fashion…
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An upside down boutique in Milan by fashion designers Viktor & Rolf. (Image courtesy of Apartment Therapy.)
Wonderworks, an amusement center, in Orlando, Fla.
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Donna Karan in a shirt by A. Charles, earning a “Worst of the Week” nomination in this week’s Star Magazine.
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Mystique of the X-Men: Ladies, this is what happens when you don’t moisturize. You become a shape-shifting supervillain with perky tits and an attitude.
Badass photographer Sam Horine (who, coincidentally, has a coupla pix in this month’s L Magazine photo issue) was at the media preview for The Met’s new animated hero/sartorial extravaganza, Superheroes Fashion & Fantasy. (Can you say crowd-pleaser?) Sadly, he was unable to secure any multi-million-dollar images of TomKat, J.Lo or Plastic Woman (and if he did, I have a feeling he wouldn’t be giving them to C-Monster.net). He did manage, however, to slip us a few good pix of the show, which looks like a sci-fi-meets-fashion-meets-museum wet dream. Though there does seem to be one glaring curatorial omission. Two words: Edna Mode.
The show is up through September 1st, 2008. See Horine’s full set of photographs at villagevoice.com.
More money shots after the jump.
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