Thirty works by Jean-Michel Basquiat are currently on display in a selling exhibition at Sotheby’s New York until June 9. The carefully curated grouping explores the key themes Basquiat grappled with during his career and the variety of media he used to express them. The exhibition opens at a pivotal moment of appreciation for both the artist’s career and market with major museum exhibitions and gallery shows presented and record prices achieved in recent years. See Basquiat.Sothebys.com for additional information.

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Earlier this week the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art welcomed members of the press inside the new Punk: Chaos To Couture exhibition for a preview of what is on show. Images released alongside the preview show carefully styled looks placed amidst a glamorously edgy interior space.

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The PRADA New York Epicenter at 575 Broadway in Manhattan was transformed last night for the opening of a special exhibition of selected costumes designed by Miuccia Prada and costume designer Catherine Martin for Baz Luhrmann’s upcoming film adaptation of The Great Gatsby.  The exhibition opening coincides with the world première of Luhrmann’s film on this evening at Lincoln Center’s Avery Fisher Hall.

The exhibition titled Catherine Martin and Miuccia Prada Dress Gatsby includes women’s gowns, dresses, hats, shoes and jewelry as well as sketches, production stills, backstage footage and film trailers.  Mannequins displaying looks for each character, video content drawn from the film, behind-the-scenes footage, and, exclusive to the New York Epicenter, a two hundred foot mural depicting a montage drawn from the spectacular party scenes showing Jay Gatsby’s Long Island mansion complete the exhibition. Curated by New York studio 2×4, the exhibition is designed to change for each iteration and reflect the unique characteristics of each location.

The exhibit will be on display May 1 – 12, 2013 at the PRADA New York Epicenter.  The exhibition will then travel and appear at the Prada Tokyo Epicenter store from June 14 – 30 and the IFC Mall in Shanghai mid-July. Continue reading to view full images of the event.

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The opening of the 2013 Costume Institute exhibition is just days away! If you haven’t read all about it already . . .

The Met’s spring 2013 Costume Institute exhibition, PUNK: Chaos to Couture, will examine punk’s impact on high fashion from the movement’s birth in the early 1970s through its continuing influence today. Featuring approximately one hundred designs for men and women, the exhibition will include original punk garments and recent, directional fashion to illustrate how haute couture and ready-to-wear borrow punk’s visual symbols.

Focusing on the relationship between the punk concept of “do-it-yourself” and the couture concept of “made-to-measure,” the seven galleries will be organized around the materials, techniques, and embellishments associated with the anti-establishment style. Themes will include New York and London, which will tell punk’s origin story as a tale of two cities, followed by Clothes for Heroes and four manifestations of the D.I.Y. aesthetic—Hardware, Bricolage, Graffiti and Agitprop, and Destroy.

Presented as an immersive multimedia, multisensory experience, the clothes will be animated with period music videos and soundscaping audio techniques. See MetMuseum.org for additional information.

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CHANEL is launching an exhibition in Paris dedicated to the history and influence of the brand’s most iconic fragrance Chanel No.5, which first launched in 1921. Titled No.5 Culture Chanel the exhibition will be held at the Palais de Tokyo and use artworks, photographs and objects from the Chanel archives in order to show how the fragrance is linked to key cultural movements such as Cubism and Surrealism. Pieces by the likes of Picasso and Man Ray are expected to be shown. The exhibition will take place from May 5 until June 5, 2013.

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This retrospective is based on twenty-two of Soutine’s paintings from the Musée de l’Orangerie. These were brought together by art dealer Paul Guillaume who, on discovering in 1922 these “portraits in which reason and madness struggle and find a balance”, brought recognition to an artist whose Expressionist intensity and palette of heightened colours was unique in the Paris of the inter-war years.

We need to take a new look at this thoroughly original painter, who is difficult to comprehend and little understood in France, and go beyond the image of the tormented genius that has managed to overshadow his extraordinarily intense and unorthodox work, and look at his influence on artists at the end of the 20th century. The exhibition will bring together those works by Soutine that passed through the hands of Paul Guillaume, and will include works by other artists. It is laid out both chronologically and thematically, reflecting Soutine’s practice of painting in series. See www.Musee-Orsay.com for more information.

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Matisse: In Search of True Painting—An Exploration of Matisse’s Painting Process— opens tomorrow at Metropolitan Museum in New York.

Henri Matisse (1869–1954) was one of the most acclaimed artists working in France during the first half of the twentieth century. The critic Clement Greenberg, writing in The Nation in 1949, called him a “self-assured master who can no more help painting well than breathing.” Unbeknownst to many, painting had rarely come easily to Matisse. Throughout his career, he questioned, repainted, and reevaluated his work. He used his completed canvases as tools, repeating compositions in order to compare effects, gauge his progress, and, as he put it, “push further and deeper into true painting.” While this manner of working with pairs, trios, and series is certainly not unique to Matisse, his need to progress methodically from one painting to the next is striking. Matisse: In Search of True Painting will present this particular aspect of Matisse’s painting process by showcasing forty-nine vibrantly colored canvases. For Matisse, the process of creation was not simply a means to an end but a dimension of his art that was as important as the finished canvas.

Read more about the exhibition and opening times here on MetMuseum.org.

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Scottish actress Tilda Swinton has been selected to star in a new performance piece at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris. Titled ‘The Impossible Wardrobe’ Swinton displays pieces from the archives of Galleria, the Parisian fashion museum set to re-open later this year. Swinton doesn’t actually model the pieces as to protect the garments from damage. Instead she wears a simple white robe and beige heels and takes to the catwalk 56 times with objects like Chanel jackets on hangers, a board pinned with Schiaparelli gloves, and dress by the likes of  Madame Grès and Paco Rabanne. Read the full scoop on NYTimes.com.

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Chanel’s The Little Black Jacket photo exhibition, which opened in New York last month with a fete at the Swiss Institute, has traveled to luxury goods mecca Hong Kong. The exhibition will take place at the Space, 210 Hollywood Road, from July 7th to July 16th.

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This September Parisian fashion brand Chloé will celebrate sixty years with it’s first fashion exhibition to be staged at Le Palais de Tokyo. The exhibit will feature pieces and photographs from the Chloé archives by nine of the brand’s most significant designers such as founder Gaby Aghion, Karl Lagerfeld and Clare Wright Keller. Also included will also include never-before-published drawings and photography dating back to the 1950s. “Though Chloé. Attitudes coincides with the 60th anniversary of Chloé, this is a forward-looking show that maps the continuities running through the entire history of the Maison,” says Judith Clark, the exhibit’s curator.

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