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The pictures of yorgos Lanthimos

Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos always photographs in his film bands, capturing actors in the middle, mags, lighting equipment or lonely props. This month, the director will present his first photo exhibition at the Los Angeles Webber Gallery, drawing from two recently published books with Void and Mack who chronicled Poor things AND Types of kindness. Images include Emma Stone’s long and black hair proximity to group of Poor thingsreligious figurines and a wild drained pool. Insect

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The darkest eggs of Easter

Praline eggs, pastes of Charlotte Strawberry and Flans Vanilla Caramel are some of the treatments available in the Hôtel de Crillon of Paris this Easter. The collection is cooked by the chef of pastas Matthieu Carlin, who is known for his elegant chocolate creations. Are your delivered anywhere in Paris or suburbs, or enjoy in place in Pâisserie Butterfly. Rosanna Dodds

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Multi -layer paintings of Sarah Sze

Sarah Sze paintings, installations and sculptures often investigate the experience of receiving digital information and the idea that, as the images once said, replaced objects “. Her latest exhibition, opening up at Gagosian Hong Kong (her first show in Asia) continues this line of investigation with a new series of paintings and sculptures asking how we make sense from the pictures. It layers oil, acrylic, color tape, torn paper printed with images and paint to make large, collagery paintings that at first threaten to defeat, but rapidly become deep nipples. Back Simons

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Raise a toast with Pharrell

Musician and Louis Vuitton Men’s Creative Director Pharrell has joined Winery Moet & Chandon French to produce a series of special editions designed specifically for birthday marks. The results are appropriately festive. Bottles of Brutal Impérial Have Been Redesigned with Gold, Red, Or Midnight Blue Fail and A Monogram of Pharrell’s Name (£ 50), Magnums Come with Adorned with Bows by Parisian Embroiders Atelier Baqué Molinié (from £ 540) and a Pearly-Wite Jeerobamoam Features Design by artist astrid de chailé and a jewelet bow that can be be repurposed as a broboch (£ 25,000). Bs

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Radical work from a trio of New York artists

American painter Marcia Marcus was at the core of New York’s art scene of the 60s and 1970s: she attended Warhol’s factory, hanging with Willem de Kooning and exhibited at Whitney Museum. It was this social environment that Marcus, now 97, caught in her paintings. Now, a new exhibition at Lévy Gorvy Dayan in New York, brings Marcus’s work along with the paintings of other artists Alice Neel and Sylvia Sleigh, who worked in the city at the same time. In a painting, Marcus describes feminist writer Jill Johnston, known for her radical writings on lesbism, in a red player hat. A group portrait from Sleigh, meanwhile, captured the first collaborative gallery of all women in New York. Be

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Tea time with lily vanilli

This spring, London -based cake manufacturer Lily Vanilli is bringing her miraculous creations to the Foter Four Season Hotel on the London Tower Bridge. Expect a colorful afternoon tea menu featuring her butter cakes, the rich Tiramisu, Anchovy and Olive Gildas Tartat (for some nice holidays), and Espresso Martinis based on the clock arrives at the Rotunda Bar and Lounge Hotel. Instant

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Victoria Beckham tries her hand in make-up brush

“I like to see a brush that looks just as good as it performs,” ​​says Victoria Beckham, so for her debut collection of make-up brush, she has chosen sculptural gloves, curved from nut wood. The nine models include a dual defined and eye line brush and an elegant fan brush created for its signature bronze technique, finished with a hand submerged blonde. Each reflects its view of make-up as “everything about creativity, expression and, most importantly, accuracy”. Be

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Postcard from Japanese Design History

Published from 1928 to 1930 by a collective of Japanese stylists, Full trade artist Consisted of 24 volumes filled with geometric posters, pamphlets and patterns for neon signs and store screens. Visuals were the result of a period of great cultural exchange: Japanese aesthetics involved Europe during the 19th -century Japanese mania, feeding on new Art Deco and Art Nouveau styles. These were then, as Gennifer Weisenfeld wrote in a re-publication of the 2024 book, “Reabsorbed enthusiastically” from the 20th century Japan. A selection of these wonderful graphic models is now compiled in a group of 40 postcards. Advertisements that contain stylized mermaids and elephants that tighten the toothpaste offer a brief appearance in the origin of Japan’s contemporary visual culture. Postcards from design history. Marion Willingham

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The debut monograph of painter Sam McKinniss gives the famous culture a new glow

American figurative painter Sam McKinniss receives images from popular culture and reinterprets them in lush, saturated oil paintings, filled with a strange sensitivity. He painted Lil Nas X in his cowboy rose suit, Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman in Stanley Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut and a self-portrait in the style of a J Crew. But, as his debut monograph from Rizzoli points out, he is much more than a painter of pop culture, and is equally drawn to topics from the natural world: cows, flowers, which he paints in the style of the 19th century French painter Henry Fantin-Latour, and swans. In an interview with the writer and curator Jarrett Earnest, McKinniss summarizes his unpleasant relationships with his work: “I want to paint to terrify me a little and light me as I am becoming an extremely refined something image.” Their

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Café Deco appears in NYC

Café Deco, the food of Bloomsbury dear to her egg mayonnaise and the list of natural wines, goes to Brooklyn for a two-day Margot neighborhood restaurant this month. The menu will be dictated by the products available by the Union Square Market day, but “given that it is April, it will surely have asparagus and most likely Raven”, assures the owner and chief of chef Anna Tobia. Instant

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A fashion photographer turns her mother’s lenses

It was the birth of her second child who inspired Paris -based fashion photographer Priscillia Saada to turn her lenses into new mothers. “I wanted to challenge the traditional image of motherhood, which is often portrayed in a romantic but exhausted way,” she says. During the year, she photographed 40 mothers as they carried their children around, focusing on the landslides that followed (the buttons left naked, the legs exposed as they kneeling to the right children). “I wanted to show mothers who are dynamic, sexy, full of energy, humor and always in motion.” Bs