Le corset D&G porté par Madonna pour la première de Truth or Dare à NY en 1991 exposé à Paris.

"Histoire idéale de la mode contemporaine vol. 2 : 1990–2000"
Musée Des Arts Décoratifs - Paris
From November 25, 2010 to May 8, 2011.

Dolce & Gabbana Pieces Worn By Madonna and Gaga To Be Featured At Musée Des Arts Décoratifs
By Leah Chernikoff - 23/11/2010

Two iconic looks from Dolce & Gabbana will represent Italian fashion at the Musée des arts Décoratifs’ "Histoire idéale de la mode contemporaine vol. 2 : 1990–2000" exhibit, which opens in Paris on November 25 and runs through May 8.
The exhibit looks at fashion from the last ten years of the 20th century, beginning with looks from minimalist designers like Azzedine Alaïa, Yohji Yamamoto, Helmut Lang and Martin Margiela and ending with the more provocative and over-the-top designs of John Galliano and Vivienne Westwood.
The Italian design duo, who are currently in hot water on charges of tax evasion, provided two looks to represent Italian fashion at the exhibit–pieces that place them squarely in the more provocative camp. The first look is a corset embellished with multicolored stones and charms from Dolce & Gabbana’s Fall ’91/’92 collection, made famous by Madonna when she wore it to the ’91 premiere of Truth or Dare in NYC. The second piece is a corset armor dress from Spring ’07, worn famously by her Madgesty’s descendant, Lady Gaga.
Check out the looks below both on the runway and on the gals who made them famous.

Source: Fashionista.

Mode et Textile – Expositions – Prochainement
du 25 novembre 2010 au 8 mai 2011

L’exposition « Histoire idéale de la mode contemporaine » se poursuit avec le second volet consacré aux années 1990-2000. Cent cinquante modèles sélectionnés parmi les collections les plus emblématiques retranscrivent l’univers des créateurs qui ont contribué à ces mouvements de mode par leur démarche, leur recherche stylistique et par leur relation avec la profession ; mélange subtil et parfois violent d’artisanat et d’industrie. Répartis en plusieurs « écoles », belge, anglaise, urbaine et minimaliste, de la haute couture ou indépendante, chaque créateur dévoile sa passion et son savoir-faire. Qu’il ait cherché à rendre hommage à son prédécesseur ou qu’il ait intégré la position de chef de file d’un courant en devenir, le créateur s’affirme au travers de défilés à chaque saison plus travaillés.

Les Arts Décoratifs – Mode et textile
107 rue de Rivoli
75001 Paris
Tél. : 01 44 55 57 50
Métro : Palais-Royal, Pyramides ou Tuileries
Autobus : 21, 27, 39, 48, 68, 69, 72, 81, 95

Source: Les Arts Décoratifs - Site officiel.

Madonna at the 1991 premiere of "Truth or Dare" in NY.
Photo: Ron Galella/WireImage.


Lady Gaga


Corset armor dress


 

Gwyneth Paltrow en Madonna par Mary McCartney exposée au Royaume-Uni.

MARY MCCARTNEY AT NPG
Oct07
Posted by: Lindsey Walls

From Where I Stand: Photographs by Mary McCartney
October 4, 2010 – February 13, 2011
National Portrait Gallery, UK

This display celebrates the publication of McCartney’s first book, From Where I Stand, selected from her archive from the 1990s to the present. Born in London in 1969, McCartney’s interest in photography began when assisting her mother, Linda McCartney.
The display of 12 portraits will include portraits of well-known British figures from the worlds of art, film, fashion and music alongside portraits of McCartney’s family. Photographs of PJ Harvey and British film directors from the gallery’s collection will be on show besides portraits of Helen Mirren, Gwyneth Paltrow as Madonna, Sam Taylor-Wood and the Chapman Brothers, Tracey Emin as Frida Kahlo, Vivienne Westwood and Lily Cole amongst others. In an insight to Mary’s world, both public and private, intimate portraits of Stella and Linda McCartney will also be exhibited.
McCartney’s first solo exhibition in 2004 entitled Off Pointe – A Photographic Study of the Royal Ballet After Hours, documented the private world of the elite Corps de Ballet, and was first shown at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Further exhibitions include her first solo American exhibition Playing Dress Up at the Goss-Michael Foundation in Dallas, Texas in 2007, and British Style Observed at the Natural History Museum in 2008.
In 2009 McCartney received her first commission from the National Portrait Gallery, to take portrait studies of the nine selectors for the exhibition Gay Icons. These portraits are in the Gallery’s permanent Collection, in addition to McCartney’s portraits of Stella McCartney, Katherine Hamnett, Shirley Bassey and Twiggy.
Mary McCartney’s work will also be exhibited at Michael Hoppen Gallery, Chelsea from Oct. 22-Nov. 20, 2010.

Source: Goss Michael Foundation.

Mary McCartney
22.10.10 - 20.11.10
From Where I Stand

From Where I Stand reveals the very best work selected from Mary.
McCartney’s complete archive from the 1990s to date. This first solo exhibition of work at the gallery will coincide with the book launch of From Where I Stand produced by Thames & Hudson.
From portraits to photographs of the raw energy backstage and onstage at fashion shows, rock concerts, the theatre and ballet, as well as vignettes of the surreal and the curious, the exhibition always returns to the calm, private spaces of home and of family.
Mary McCartney – Paul and Linda McCartney’s daughter – started her career as a professional photographer in 1994. Her solo exhibitions, which have been shown internationally, include Off Pointe, Playing Dress Up and British Style Observed.

Other events:
National Portrait Gallery
Mary McCartney’s work : from where I stand  will also be on display in the Bookshop Gallery at the National Portrait Gallery from 4 October 2010 – 13 February 2011

Photo Voice
Mary McCartney is taking part in the Photo Voice Lecture series:
Mary McCartney: established photographer in the world of fashion, portrait and documentary
7.30pm Thursday 11th November

Source: Michael Hoppen Gallery.

Gwyneth Paltrow as Madonna by Mary McCartney, London, 2004.
Photo: Mary McCartney.

Madonna dans l'exposition 'Club 21: Remaking the Scene' à Londres.

Madonna, Basquiat and the New York 80s scene
guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 20 October 2010 15.33 BST

A former assistant to Jean-Michel Basquiat, Stephen Torton was able to capture the New York underground scene in the 80s. Featuring Madonna, Andy Warhol and Bianca Jagger, here are some of his best shots ...
These photographs appear at the free Club 21: Remaking the Scene exhibition in London until 23 October.

Source: The Guardian.

ABOUT THE PROJECT
CLUB 21 - Remaking the scene
curated by Oxana Maleeva, sound and performance curator Steve Piccolo

There is a great deal of interest today in fertile art scenes that flourished before the personal computing/Internet revolution. (Consider the recent shows 'Looking at Music' at MoMA, and the re-examination of The Picture Generation at the Met, both in NY last year).
These scenes usually gravitated around clubs, gathering places for artists, filmmakers, dealers, patrons, muses, players.
One of the most positive things about the New York scene in the 1980s, the scene in Perestroika-era Russia, the English and California punk scenes, just to name a few, was the mixture of art, music, cinema, performance, literature, often all being done by the same people or groups of people. The genealogy starts with the cabarets of Montmartre in the 1800s and seems to stop, in a way, with the spread of the Internet.
The Internet has made this kind of ongoing social contact obsolete... or has it? There is much nostalgia today for the lost scene, and a greater need than ever perhaps for locations of physical, face- to-face interaction and discussion among artists of different disciplines and levels, and between art and its audience.
Art museums, galleries and even big exhibitions (biennials, fairs) are certainly not filling the gap, in spite of attempts to “re-socialize” institutional settings.

But what could the art/club scene of the 21st century be like?
Artists of several generations reflect on this question, proposing new ideas.

Source: CLUB 21.

Madonna with Jean-Michel Basquiat

Madonna
Photos: Stephen Torton.

L'école de Madonna du Malawi dans l'exposition Architecture Aedes à Berlin.

Madonna's Raising Malawi Academy for Girls through studio MDA and Markus Dochantschi is present at the Architecture Forum Aedes exhibition in Berlin from August 12, 2010 to September 23, 2010.

Studio MDA at the Aedes
By Raising Malawi on 08.20.10

In a belated post, Raising Malawi would like to congratulate studio MDA — Markus and his entire staff — on receiving recognition for their work on the Raising Malawi Academy for Girls in an exhibit at the prestigious Architecture Forum Aedes in Berlin.
The exhibition, "Measure of Man — Measure of Architecture: New Responsibilities in Architecture and Urbanism," will be on display through September 23 and is an honor to everyone involved with this innovative project.

From Aedes announcement:
A defining characteristic of these architecture and urbanism projects is their intention to function as instigators of social, infrastructural or economic change, over and above functioning as an aesthetic object.
[...]

At their best, these projects do not import principles and typologies from elsewhere, but rather develop insightful solutions that are grounded as much in observation and knowledge of local situations as they are in the specialist training and professional expertise of their instigators.
These words embody the driving force and vision behind the Raising Malawi Academy for Girls. We congratulate studio MDA on this much-deserved honor.
To move construction of the Raising Malawi Academy for Girls forward, consider making a donation.

Source: Raising Malawi.

Measure of Man – Measure of Architecture
New Responsibility in Architecture and Urbanism

August 12 – September 23, 2010
Opening: Thursday, August 12, 2010, 6.30 p.m.

Aedes Am Pfefferberg, Christinenstraße 18-19, 10119 Berlin
Opening hours: Di-Fr 11 bis 18.30 Uhr, Sa-So 13 bis 17 Uhr

Recent years have witnessed a growing sense of responsibility among architects, urbanists, artists, activists and representatives from related disciplines worldwide, to use their specialist knowledge, skills and networks to improve ordinary daily life by tackling issues which otherwise often remain unaddressed- in urban, suburban and rural environments, mostly, though not explicitly, in developing countries or regions struggling with harsh natural environments.
A defining characteristic of these architecture and urbanism projects is their intention to function as instigators of social, infrastructural or economic change, over and above functioning as an aesthetic object.
Based on observing patterns and needs of indigenous life, these projects develop insightful solutions and new typologies for living, learning and working. They serve to generate local identity and through this increase social, educational and economic potential. At the same time they offer a local response to global challenges such as migration, poverty or energy sustainability.
The exhibition introduces a broad range of subject and projects from all over the world:
- A project in Spain promotes integration of migrant families and the maintenance of the architectural and cultural heritage by providing housing and work opportunities in rural areas suffering from depopulation.
- On the African continent a number of educational facilities are established: an architecture university in a former factory building in Ethiopia, a self-sufficient academy for girls in Malawi as well as pre-schools and social hubs in rural areas of Mozambique. These projects employ local workers and use traditional construction techniques and materials.
- Other projects include a sports and community centre Caracas, Venezuela; a reopened cinema in Jenin, Palestine; a housing programme for flood victims in India using durable bamboo structure.
- Offering help towards self-help is one of the main goals of the projects on show; architecture and urbanism have a key role in their implementation. The exhibition presents practical solutions for improving living conditions in Europe, Africa, Asia and other parts of the world and also reflects critically the benefits and limitations of the respective approaches and responsibilities of its protagonists – individuals, universities, professional bodies or non-government organisations.

The exhibition is connected with the ANCB (Aedes Network Campus Berlin) programmes Re-act Lab and Measure of Man-Measure of Architecture (a forthcoming pilot research project with European-based partners, curated by Klaudia Ruschkowski).

Participants/Projects:

Raising Malawi Academy for Girls, Malawi
studioMDA, Markus Dochantschi, New York/USA, Frankfurt/Germany

HIM_Habitat Initiative Mozambique, Mozambique
Ziegert | Roswag | Seiler Architekten Ingenieure, Eike Roswag, Berlin/Germany,

School handmade in Bangladesh, Bangladesh
Cooperation school handmade, Anna Heringer, Linz/Austria, Eike Roswag, Berlin/Germany,

Reconstruction and Rehabilitation of Kosi Flood Affected Regions, Bihar/India
Owner Driven Reconstruction Collaborative (ODRC), Hunnarshala Foundation, Sandeep Virmani, Bihar/India,

Transbordering. A tactical manual for São Paulo street life, São Paulo/Brazil
Marcos L. Rosa, Kristine Stiphany, Berlin/Germany, São Paulo/Brazil,

Metro-Cable San Agustin, Caracas/Venezuela
Environmental Center and Music Factory, Favela Paraisópolis, Grotão, São Paulo/Brazil
Urban-Think Tank, Alfredo Brillembourg & Hubert Klumpner, Caracas/Venezuela, São Paulo/Brazil,

cinema jenin, Jenin/Palestine
CINEMA JENIN e.V., Marcus Vetter, Berlin/Germany, Tübingen/Germany and Cinema Jenin Association, Fakhri Hamad, Jenin/Palestine and Hucke Architektur, Aachen/Germany and Mara
Luebbert, Berlin/Germany

Natwalk 2.0.
remote-controlled, studio for space-encompassing artistic research, Anton Markus Pasing, Münster/Germany,

Prinzessinnengärten, Berlin/Germany
Nomadisch Grün (g)GmbH, Robert Shaw, Marco Clausen, Berlin/Germany,

Nuevos Senderos - new pathways for immigrant families, Provinces of Teruel, Soria and Guadalajara/Spain
CEPAIM Foundation, Madrid/Spain in cooperation with the Spanish Department of Employment and Immigration

Self-contained day labor station, San Francisco/USA
Public Architecture, John Peterson and Liz Ogbu, San Francisco/USA,

Bamburral: Permeable Foundations, São Paulo/Brazil
Kristin Stiphany and Brasil Arquitetura, São Paulo/Brazil

Dolmusch X-Press, Berlin/Germany
raumlaborberlin and Peanutz Architekten with HAU Berlin, Berlin/Germany

Speakers at the opening will be:
Dr. h.c. Kristin Feireiss, Aedes Berlin
Markus Dochantschi, studioMDA, New York
Friederike Meyer, Redakteurin Bauwelt, Berlin

Professor Jeffrey D. Sachs will write the introduction to the exhibtion. Jeffrey D. Sachs is the Director of The Earth Institute, Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development, and Professor of Health Policy and Management at Columbia University. He is also Special Advisor to United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. From 2002 to 2006, he was Director of the UN Millennium Project and Special Advisor to United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan on the Millennium Development Goals, the internationally agreed goals to reduce extreme poverty, disease, and hunger by the year 2015. Sachs is also President and Co-Founder of Millennium Promise Alliance, a nonprofit organization aimed at ending extreme global poverty

Visual materials related to the exhibition are available from Ulla Giesler at ug@aedes-arc.de.

Source: Architekturforum Aedes.

Une rétrospection à Basel rend hommage à l'artiste américain Basquiat.

by Hui Min Neo – Thu May 13, 2:42 am ET

BASEL, Switzerland (AFP) – American painter Jean-Michel Basquiat, who died in 1988 of a drug overdose at only 27, once admitted that he did not know how to characterise his phenomenally successful work.
"I never know how really to describe it except maybe -- I don't know, I don't know how to describe my work, cause it's not always the same thing," he said.
Indeed the onetime graffiti artist, who went on to collaborate with Andy Warhol, packed his works with a mish-mash of ideas ranging from music to contemporary culture to social commentary about racism and injustice.
To mark his 50th birthday, the biggest retrospective yet of Basquiat's work has opened at the Beyeler Foundation in the northern Swiss city of Basel with more than 100 pieces on show, before moving onto Paris.
Many of the works, drawn from both private and public collections around the world, display Basquiat's signature comic-like figures in bold colours.
"When you get into it, there's so much knowledge inside, a lot of contemporary inside," said the curator of the Basel show, Dieter Buchhart.
Born in Brooklyn in 1960, Basquiat defied his modest beginnings -- his father was a Haitian immigrant and his mother was from Puerto Rico -- to became part of the avant-garde New York scene of the 1980s, mixing with Warhol and other renowned artists of the day.
At one point he had a brief affair with then rising singer and actress Madonna.
His first passion was street graffiti, using walls in Brooklyn and Manhattan as his workspace, before Basquiat switched to painting at the age of 19. Friends quickly learned he was not one to spare blank surfaces, at times covering their furniture, even refrigerators, with his drawings.
Among his friends was the rapper Fab 5 Freddy. "He would just famously walk across his paintings which were on the floor. It was just you know, it was very cool," he said at a preview of the Basel show.
Basquiat, some of whose works have sold for millions of dollars, just "held the pencil very loosely. Just let it slide across the page," the rapper said.
The result was an eclectic collection of paintings and collages, some with slogans scrawled on pieces of paper pasted on the canvas and painted over. He drew heavily on references from contemporary culture with a distinctive childlike quality to many of his works.
One piece in the Basel show, for example, is a line drawing of Cassius Clay -- the former world heavyweight boxing champion better known as Mohammed Ali. Other works feature much-loved cartoon figures like Felix the Cat or Daffy Duck-like caricatures.
In one of his best known pieces in the retrospective, Basquiat portrayed a figure riding on a skeleton, a work now seen as foreshadowing the artist's early death from a drug overdose in New York.
"I start a picture and I finish it. I don't think about art while I work. I try to think about life," Basquiat once said.
The retrospective was organized in collaboration with the Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (the Modern Art Museum of the city of Paris). It runs in Basel until September 5, then will be on show at the Paris venue from October 15 to January 30, 2011.

Source: AFP.

A painting titled "Eye and Eggs" by Jean-Michel Basquiat is pictured in Basel. The Beyeler Foundation opened a large retrospective to mark the fiftieth birthday of the American painter and draftsman. Originating from the New York underground, the artist became world famous for his his expressive paintings by the age of twenty.
Photo: AFP/Fabrice Coffrini.

Exposition 'Simply Madonna' à Enex100 en Australie du 13 avril au 10 mai 2010.

Exhibition
Simply Madonna exhibit
April 13 - May 10
She's the material girl and it's a material world, celebrate Madonna at Enex100.
WA Today – Breaking News from Perth & Western Australia

Simply Madonna exhibit
ASHLEE CRABBE
April 4, 2010 - 5:13PM

Madonna's wardrobe will be on display this month in the exhibition Simply Madonna.
The material girl has changed her look more than many have had cooked dinners. From Gaultier cone bras to the ball gown from her Oscar winning role in Evita, the span of her career is represented in these outfits.
These museum-quality pieces will be on display at Enex100 from April 13 to May 10.
Source: watoday.com.au.

Source: Brisbane Times.

Madonna has had a lot of fashion hits and misses throughout her career, many of which will be on display at Enex100.
Photos: Getty Images.

Exposition 'Simply Madonna' à Chadstone en Australie, Mars-Avril 2010.

Chadstone To Host Madonna Couture
Local News, By Travis de Jonk, 16th March, 2010

Madonna is one of the most famous pop, fashion and cultural icons, captivating and provoking audiences all over the world for the past three decades. Her style, attitude and music has inspired and dictated fashion trends internationally. Now Chadstone Shopping Center in Victoria is to host an Australian first as part of L’Oreal Melbourne Fashion Week; An exhibition featuring the best and most fabulous costumes from popstar Madonna’s extraordinary thirty year career.
The exhibition, called ‘Simply Madonna’ includes a curated selection of couture from the largest private collection of her costumes, accessories and artifacts. Presented in a style that is in keeping with the Material Girl’s trademark audacious theatricality, the exhibition will include original Madonna couture from her 80’s punk-ish beginnings, to her Evita period and more recently, the costumes featured in her Re-Invention Tour.
Highlights of the exhibition include her Marylin styled pink dress from Material Girl, the black tassel bustier from Open Your Heart, her infamous gold Gaultier cone bra and her Silver Mesh Wrap & Rhinestone Belt from the Re-Invention tour.
Simply Madonna will run from March 16 to April 4 at Chadstone Shopping Center as part of L’Oreal Melbourne Fashion Festival.

Source: Same Same.

Madonna à l'exposition de Tom Munro de Portraits de Célébrités à LA le 6 mars.

Madonna Makes Party Scene With New Younger Guy
Today 10:07 AM PST by Cristina Gibson
 
Madonna has been making the Oscar party rounds, but one thing's been missing: her younger man Jesus Luz!
On Thursday, she was spotted getting super friendly with Zachary Quinto during Grey Goose's party at Soho House. "They were very fast friends and very interested in what one another had to say," an eyewitness tells me.
And just last night, she hit Moet & Chandon's fête for photographer Tom Munro's latest book with a new younger man by her side.
Whoever the new guy is, he certainly seemed to be putting Madge in a good mood...
"She was dancing playfully in the VIP area," a source tells me. "She was sitting very close to her mystery man."
The Material Cougar only stayed for about 10 minutes, but Hollywood Life has some video of her quickie appearance.
Also rolling solo at the same soiree was Justin Timberlake. The singer came around 8 p.m., sans Jessica Biel. Unlike Madge, JT stayed for more than an hour, sipping champagne and chatting with the photographer.
He also opted out of going into the VIP section and refused the umbrella coverage offered for partygoers getting their cars in the rain.
Maybe he's more down to earth than we thought?

Source: E! Online.

March 7th, 2010
EXCLUSIVE VIDEO! Madonna’s PDA With New Younger Man — Not Jesus!

Can you believe Madonna took a new boy toy to a major Hollywood event?
We couldn’t believe our eyes when we saw Madonna arrive at Tom Munro’s Exhibition of Celebrity Portraits March Private Preview, hosted by Moët & Chandon, around 10 p.m. on March 6 with a new man on her arm! That’s right, Jesus Luz was nowhere to be seen. Madonna and her new guy looked really sweet together, talking closely the whole time. At one point, Madonna even grinded her hips and sat in his lap. A private dance from Madonna? We definitely see a connection there!
According to reports, Madonna has been taking The City’s Adam Senn out to a bunch of pre-Oscar parties this week. Was Adam her mystery date to Tom Munro’s exhibit, too?

Madonna
Photo: Courtesy Berliner Phototography.








From left to right:
Nathan Rissman, Madonna and Steven Klein.


Nathan Rissman and Madonna.


Zachary Quinto
Photos: Jun Sato/Getty Images; Jeffrey Mayer/Getty Images.

Equipe originale de "A League of Their Own" de Madonna au musée canadien.

23 jan. 2010

A Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum display shows a uniform worn by the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League from 1943 to 1954. The movie starring Tom Hanks, Geena Davis and Madonna, was based on the GPBL.

Source: The London Free Press.

Inductees, Museum
Name: Canadian-Born AAGPBL Players

With so many men serving in the war, Chicago Cubs owner, Philip Wrigley, feared baseball would be forgotten in the early ’40s. So to maintain interest in the sport, the legendary executive dispatched scouts across North America to find the best female players to compete in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL). Enticed with salaries ranging from $55 to $150 per week, the initial group of women would form four teams – the Rockford Peaches, Racine Belles, Kenosha Comets and South Bend Blue Sox – for the league’s inaugural campaign.
During the circuit’s 11-year run (1943 to 1954), the women were coached on and off-the field. Charm school was part of their Spring Training program. The women donned one-piece, short-skirted uniforms with knee socks, baseball shoes and caps during their grueling schedule. Initially playing with a softball, the women eventually employed a regulation baseball, with overhand pitching permitted starting in 1948. In that same year, the league’s popularity peaked, boasting 10 teams and drawing over a million fans.
With 64 women – or more than 10 per cent of the participants – hailing from north of the border, Canada was well-represented in the AAGPBL. Toronto native, Glady “Terrie” Davis was the league’s first batting champion and a significant number of Canadians were all-stars throughout the league’s tenure. Interest in the circuit was re-ignited with the success of “A League of Their Own,” a 1992 movie about the circuit that starred Madonna, Tom Hanks and Geena Davis. Davis’ character was rumoured to be based on Regina, Sask., native, Mary Baker, an all-star catcher with the South Bend Blue Sox from 1943 to 1949.

Source: Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum.

La cire de Madonna a eu une restauration à Madame Tussauds à Hong Kong.

Madonna has wax makeover
Friday, December 18, 2009 » 11:41am

Madame Tussauds in Hong Kong has transformed their statue of the Madonna.
The sculpture has been fitted out with a new figure hugging costume, which is directly from Madonna's 2009 'Sticky and Sweet' concert tour.
Madame Tussauds is hoping the new waxwork will lure in the crowds over the Christmas holiday season.

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Madame Tussauds in Hong Kong has transformed their statue of the Madonna.

Source: BigPond News.