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THE YOUNG SCION FINDS HER VOICE PHOTOGRAPHED BY INEZ & VINOODH

STATE OF THE ART STERLING RUBY, ALEX PRAGER, CATHERINE OPIE, PIERO GOLIA AND ALEX ISRAEL SHARE THEIR FRAMES OF MIND

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96 SEEING IS BELIEVING Collectors Jane and Marc Nathanson open the doors to their Holmby Hills masterpiece.

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104 STAGE PRESENCE Next in line in her family’s creative dynasty, Asia Chow finds her own voice.

110 SIGHT LINES Riccardo Tisci, please meet Roy Lichtenstein. In the galleries of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the biggest names in art and fashion collide.

126 MY CALIFORNIA A melting pot of creativity, the Golden State is home to a wide array of talent—and just as many points of view. Here, six beloved artists pay homage to their muse.

132 THE IMAGINARIUM OF ELAD LASSRY Inside the Israeli artist’s West Hollywood studio, anything is possible.

SIGHT LINES, Lanvin dress, p.110.

The Pavilion for Japanese Art at LACMA.

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120 THE BIG CHILL At home in Los Feliz with Moby, where low-key living comes with thought-provoking scenery.

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SEEING IS BELIEVING Works by Frank Gehry, Frank Stella, Jeff Koons and Dan Flavin in the gallery of Jane and Marc Nathanson’s Holmby Hills home, p.96.

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Denim revival: the season’s

83 C TRAVEL

A celebration of California’s great

many incarnations. Sculptural

Sylvia Chivaratanond highlights

creators and collectors.

gems to wear to any gallery

her insider picks in Mexico City.

opening. Costume designer

20 C PEOPLE

Colleen Atwood steps off the

89 C CULTURE

Who’s who behind the scenes of C.

set. Sonia Rykiel’s California

Tech and art: understanding San

connection.

Francisco’s cultural evolution.

The original style maverick: Chloë

61 C BEAUTY

137 SHOPPING GUIDE

Sevigny. A Sotheby’s sale for

Dior’s fine lines. Neiman Marcus

MOCA. Bettina Korek shares her

Beverly Hills’ face-lift.

27 C WHAT’S HOT

and their VIP attendees. Plus, at

65 C DESIGN

home with artist, gallerist and

A studio visit with Topanga

collector Kelsey Lee Offield.

Canyon’s artist in residence, Liza Lou. Open house at the S.F.

40 REPORTS FROM THE SOCIAL FRONT

138 C CALIFORNIA Alex Israel can’t stop thinking

favorite new finds. All the top fairs

Decorator’s Showcase. Hollyhock’s big reveal.

about Paradise Cove.

ON OUR COVER ASIA CHOW photographed by Inez & Vinoodh in a Givenchy jacket, bodysuit and pendant necklace, and

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High-fashion groupies hit the

Corey Lee dishes out the recipes

desert in their festival finery for

and stories behind Benu. Perfect

Coachella’s dual weekend event.

picnic staples by Solstice Canyon.

Guide for more details, p.137. Styled by Rushka Bergman. HAIR Didier Malige at Art Partner using René Furterer. MAKEUP Dick Page at Jed Root for Shiseido. MANICURE Deborah Lippmann at The Magnet Agency

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hey say beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but I think the same can be said for art. Art is felt on a visceral level and is so intensely personal. What one person sees as game-changing, another finds confusing. It is subjective, it is singular,

but most crucially, it is an important part of our culture.

We can look at Renaissance art and be transported back to 15th-century Florence in

the blink of an eye. And decades from now (heck, even hundreds of years from now), I

am sure that when people look at the current works being created by the spectacular set

of artists that reside in California, they will speak of this as an equally influential period.

It’s a bold contention I realize, but one that is backed up by the likes of Ed Ruscha, John Baldessari and David Hockney, and continues to be supported by the newer artists of our time—Elad Lassry, Alex Israel and Alex Prager, to name a few. There are countless more, of course, rising from our ranks daily—energized by life on this great coast and the freedom to create.

In our issue devoted to art, we celebrate many of the established players along with a few new names of note. We go inside the homes of ubercollectors Jane and Marc

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Nathanson and music phenom Moby. We also highlight the investment pieces of Silicon Valley’s power players. We toast LACMA and its upcoming 50th anniversary with our fashion portfolio shot on location at the museum—proof that clothing is its own form of expression, but even more impactful when mixed to perfection with the visual arts.

There is also our cover story with the arresting Asia Chow (daughter of artists Eva and Michael Chow), who is finding her calling with music. A face of David Webb and Givenchy, she is the ideal model for spring’s ’70s aesthetic. Shot by two of the fashion world’s most influential photographers, Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin, she comes to life as our issue’s muse.

Speaking of inspiration, I say that the ultimate source is our own dear California.

It is the place that fuels these artists daily. It is the light, the lifestyle, the home to innovators and a community that fetes groundbreaking achievements. It is all of this and so much more. It is an

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WHO’S WHO BEHIND THE SCENES OF THIS MONTH’S ISSUE, PLUS THEIR FAVORITE CALIFORNIA PLACES

Inez & Vinoodh For this issues’s cover story, C looked no further than fashion-world visionaries Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin to lend their artistic vision to “Stage Presence” (p.104). The NYC-based, husband-and-wife duo have been working together for more than two decades, are regular contributors to Vogue Paris, W and V Magazine, and have shot campaigns for brands such as Saint Laurent, Givenchy and Chloé. Their contribution to the world of art is equally prolific, showcased in international exhibitions as well as in private collections. C SPOTS • Santa Monica • Palm Springs • San Francisco

Catherine Opie Esteemed artist Catherine Opie contributed to this month’s portfolio, “My California” (p.126) with a meditative photograph snapped in Yosemite. “I visited in the ’80s but haven’t been back [until recently]. It is completely iconic in terms of a California state of mind; it was preserved for all to ooh and aah at the awesomeness of nature,” reflects Opie. The Ohio native’s portrait and urban landscape images have been exhibited throughout Europe as well as Japan, and she is currently a professor of photography at UCLA. C SPOTS • Westridge hiking trail in Santa Monica

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Martha McCully “It’s such a thrill to write about a home filled with art. Seeing the Nathanson collection was like entering another world,” says writer Martha McCully, who interviewed Jane Nathanson at her Holmby Hills abode for “Seeing is Believing” (p.96). McCully’s previous posts include executive editor at InStyle and beauty director at Allure.

C SPOTS • Gjelina Take Away on Abbot Kinney for its cortado • The labyrinth at Serra Retreat in

Malibu • Big Sur’s coast

Derek Blasberg “Working on this story was one of those moments, which happen way too often nowadays, when I suddenly felt old. I remember Asia Chow when she was still in middle school; the sweet, soft-spoken, gorgeous little daughter of my friend Eva. She’s still sweet and gorgeous, but she has a lot more to say now,” says fashion writer, editor and author Derek Blasberg, who interviewed Asia Chow for “Stage Presence” (p.104).

C SPOTS • A morning on the Santa Monica steps • An afternoon at LACMA • The Tower Bar for a shrimp cocktail

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• Griffith Park Observatory • Three Rivers in the Sequoia National Forest

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WHO’S WHO BEHIND THE SCENES OF THIS MONTH’S ISSUE, PLUS THEIR FAVORITE CALIFORNIA PLACES

Rushka Bergman “Fashion is not something that only exists in our dresses. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, in the gallery, in the library, in the museum and in the cinema. It is all around us. It is the way we live, the way we think, the way we feel,” says stylist Rushka Bergman, who dressed Asia Chow for “Stage Presence” (p.104). The Vogue Italia contributing editor has previously worked with Michael Jackson and Madonna. C SPOTS • Mr Chow

• Death Valley • LACMA

Chad Pitman “I was so thrilled by the opportunity to spend the day shooting with such jaw-dropping works of art at LACMA for this project,” says New York-based

“I’m drawn to darker, more haunting beauty looks,” remarks Dior Beauty ambassador and illustrator Jamie Lee Reardin, who drew the pouty sketch featured in “Fresh Face” (p.61). The

Beach while traveling the world working on special projects for the brand. C SPOTS • Wayfarers Chapel

C SPOTS • A hike in the Angeles National Forest • Cinespia at the

Hollywood Forever Cemetery for a

Toronto native is currently living out her artistic dream in Hermosa

his high-concept style to this month’s fashion shoot, “Sight Lines” (p.110).

movie and a picnic • Every rose

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garden in California

in Rancho Palos Verdes • Brunch at Terranea Resort’s Catalina

Kitchen in Palos Verdes • Cortina’s Italian Market in Anaheim

Sylvia Chivaratanond “Mexico City is the one place I can picture myself living at any point of my life. It embodies all the elements of an enchanted city: futuristic and simple, chaotic and tranquil,” says curator Sylvia Chivaratanond of her trip to the city’s annual Zona Maco fair, documented in “Southern Exposure” (p.83). C SPOTS • Topanga Canyon • Lake Shrine Temple in Pacific Palisades • Madonna Inn in San Luis Obispo

Roger Davies “Everywhere we turned there was another piece of incredible art. We could have shot there for a week and only skimmed the surface of their collection,” says English-born photographer Roger Davies, who captured Jane and Marc Nathanson’s palatial masterwork in “Seeing is Believing” (p.96). C SPOTS • The Stand in Laguna Beach—the best juice in California

• Arcana Books on the Arts in Culver City • Franklin Canyon Park in Beverly Hills

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Renowned photography duo Inez & Vinoodh joined an all-star team including hairstylist Didier Malige, makeup artist Dick Page and nail guru Deborah Lippmann to shoot this month’s cover girl Asia Chow at Pier 59 Studios in New York (“Stage Presence,” p.104).

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If these walls could talk...

On the eve of LACMA’s 50th anniversary, C’s crew spent a day at the museum to capture the season’s graphic looks against works in the permanent collection (“Sight Lines,” p.110).

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LASSRY: CORAL VON ZUMWALT

STUDIO VISIT INSIDE ELAD LASSRY’S L.A. WORK SPACE—WHERE HIS REALITY-BENDING IMAGES COME TO LIFE (“THE IMAGINARIUM OF ELAD LASSRY,” P.132).

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A page from Chloë Sevigny’s devil-may-care fashion playbook

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s musician Kim Gordon states in the forward of Chloë Sevigny (Rizzoli, $35), “She dresses in subtext.” From ’90s prom photos in Darien, CT, to snaps from music festivals, ad campaigns and the Academy Awards, the book’s 200-plus pages offer a visual diary of Sevigny’s evolving style, and an overview of the many themes that dictate her aesthetic identity (films, music, L.A. and her native New York). Now 40, Sevigny, who stars in the Netflix thriller series “Bloodline,” continues to work on her collection for Opening Ceremony, dreaming up edgy street wear for the next generation of nonconformist tastemakers.

CHLOË SEVIGNY, RIZZOLI NEW YORK, 2015. SEE SHOPPING GUIDE FOR MORE DETAILS, P.137.

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The cover image of Chloë Sevigny’s new book features a portrait photographed by Wolfgang Tillmans in 1995.

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WHAT’S HOT LOS ANGELES

Westward Leaning

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Charm City

Joining the ranks of contemporary designers Apparatus, Bec Brittain and newly launched Videre Licet, New York’s Amma Studio has found a home on the West Coast at Twentieth.

7470 Beverly Blvd., L.A., 323-904-1200; twentieth.net.

CLOCKWISE FROM ABOVE Colorful row houses in the Western Addition. Sutro Baths ruins and The Cliff House in The Richmond. See San Francisco.

SAUSALITO

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Serena & Lily, the SausalitoWH (Turn) based decor brand beloved for

its punchy textiles and styledriven design, branches into apparel with a 37-piece capsule collection of essential chambray shirtdresses, oversized casual separates, and maritime-inspired pareos and cover-ups. $195-$325; serenaandlily.com.

Ruthie poncho, $195, and Katherine wide-leg pants, $295.

Ikat Study-IK1002, by L.A.-based artist Erin Morrison.

Group Show Saatchi Art, the California-based e-commerce spin-off of Saatchi’s London brick-and-mortar, is a virtual gallery stocked with more than 50,000 artists with prices ranging between $100 and $30,000. Rebecca Wilson, chief curator and art advisory director, shares her favorite West Coast talents to watch: photographers Ed Freeman and Brian Oldham, printmaker Erin Morrison, and painters Jess Black, Zin Lim and Chase Langford. saatchiart.com.

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PALM SPRINGS

It’s a Jungle Out There

Zoe Crosher’s LA-LIKE: Shangri-LA’d detail, detail 2015.

The penultimate chapter of The Manifest Destiny Billboard Project (a series of artist-created signs dotting Interstate 10 from Florida to California) features the work of co-curator Zoe Crosher in Palm Springs. Matthew Brannon’s final chapter hits L.A. in June. nomadicdivision.org.

WRITTEN BY KELSEY MCKINNON AND LINDSAY KINDELON. SEE SAN FRANCISCO: VICTORIA SMITH (CHRONICLE BOOKS, 2015).

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Raw cement and pink Himalayan salt drum, $4,500.

“I started coming to San Francisco in the foggy summers of the 1960s, not as a young adult experiencing the lovefests of Haight-Ashbury, but as a curious child and watchful observer. My dad, the traveler in the family, would wake us at the crack of dawn for our summer road trip up the 101 from Los Angeles to San Francisco in our little red VW Bug,” says photographer and blogger Victoria Smith (sfgirlbybay.com). Twenty years after moving north, her love letter to her adopted hometown, See San Francisco: Through the Lens of SFGirlbyBay (Chronicle Books, $20) is the ultimate insider’s tour, from Hunters Point to North Beach on a beautiful, blue-sky day.

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A’maree’s overlooking the Newport Harbor.

easy, breezy NEWPORT BEACH

This month, Donna Karan’s lifestyle concept Urban Zen unwinds in Newport Beach with a shop-in-shop featuring ready-to-wear and Balinese furnishings at designer boutique A’maree’s. Of the earth-toned, lightweight separates, Karan says, “You’re going to live in them.” urbanzen.com.

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Museum-Worthy Embossed leather sneakers with blue accents, $239. Gia Coppola in embossed white leather sneakers, $239.

Director Gia Coppola steps in front of the camera for a fresh collaboration between Rodarte and Italian sneaker brand Superga. Pasadena-bred sisters Kate and Laura Mulleavy lent their singular aesthetic to six styles featuring mesh overlays, baby-blue denim and embossed leather. $239-$259; superga-usa.com.

Thinking about making a big-ticket purchase to add to your personal collection? Next month, Sotheby’s will auction off approximately 35 donated works to benefit the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA).

Standouts include Mark Bradford’s sculptural Smear made from found objects in Los Angeles, and Ed Ruscha’s deadpan Goods and Services, bearing the artist’s trademark type-on-naturalistic landscape. Works will be on display at Gagosian Gallery in Beverly Hills preceding the New York sale. 456 N. Camden Dr., B.H., 310-271-9400; gagosian.com; moca.org.

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ABOVE FROM LEFT Barbara Kruger’s Untitled (Provenance), 2015. Ed Ruscha’s Goods and Services, 2014.

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On a Roll

As part of the debut issue of multiformat publication Frank L.A. (which aims to address citywide issues), 14 top local artists offer their take on an enduring symbol of homelessness, the shopping cart, to be auctioned this month at MAMA Gallery. Works will benefit the LAMP Community, a nonprofit on Downtown’s Skid Row. Says co-founder Cindy Troesh, “We have a deep sense of optimism and passion for this city [and] its future, and hope our efforts will inspire positive change in an artful manner.” frankcities.com.

FROM ABOVE LEFT Want, by Anna Sew Hoy. As the Wind Blew, the Cart Took Shape and We Disappeared,

by Cole Sternberg. Backpack, Gates, by Dwyer Kilcollin. 23 to Life, by Rocklen.

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Randall’s Island Park, NYC May 14-17

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Convention Center, Miami Beach Dec. 3-6

The Barker Hangar, Santa Monica Jan. 29-Feb. 1

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Grand Palais, Paris Oct. 22-25 Heidi Klum and Vito Schnabel

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Brad Pitt, Orlando Bloom

Julian Schnabel, Michael Chow

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Last Year’s News

Mnuchin Gallery sold John Chamberlain’s Miss Remember Ford (1964) for $3 million

Hans-Ulrich Obrist launched his new zine, Conversations in Mexico

The announcement of FIAC LA, which will debut in 2016

A screening of The Last Movie in tribute to Dennis Hopper

Public Fiction’s restaging of Al’s Grand Hotel (1971), where visitors could spend the night

Insider Hangout

Soho Beach House

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Printed Matter’s art book fair across town (Jan. 30-Feb. 1)

Silencio members’ club Chateau Marmont

Hotel Americano

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Christoph Wiesner, Florence Bourgeois Alex Couri, Tim Fleming

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CONVENTION CENTER AND SPIEGLER: COURTESY OF ART BASEL. SCHNABEL AND CHOW: ANDREW TOTH. MISS REMEMBER FORD: COURTESY OF MCH MESSE SCHWEIZ (BASEL) AG. SOHO: COURTESY OF SOHO MIAMI BEACH. BARKER HANGAR: GINA CLYNE. MOBY, COURI AND FLEMING: STEFANIE KEENAN/GETTY IMAGES. PRINTED MATTER: RUBEN DIAZ. GRAND PALAIS: MARC DOMAGE. KLUM AND SCHNABEL: BFA. FLAY: X. CARIOU. PARAMOUNT: JEFF MCLANE/PARIS PHOTO. PITT AND BLOOM: JASON KEMPIN/GETTY IMAGES. HOPPER: STILL FROM THE LAST MOVIE, 1971. COPYRIGHT THE HOPPER ART TRUST. CHATEAU MARMONT: NIKOLAS KOENIG. BOURGEOIS AND WIESNER: EREMIE BOUILLON. ISLAND PARK AND AL’S GRAND HOTEL: MARCO SCOZZARO/FRIEZE. KOREK AND JOFFE: BFA. AMERICANO: COURTESY OF HOTEL AMERICANO. SIDDALL: LINDA NYLIND/FRIEZE

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A fixture on L.A.’s sprawling culturescape, Bettina Korek is both a spectator and a participant. Her 9-year-old online/brick-and-mortar creative agency, ForYourArt, advises on where to go and what to see, and even produces its own pieces. Here, Korek shares what’s on her radar for spring, including ForYourArt’s limited-edition shades produced with artist Raymond Pettibon and Freeway Eyewear. foryourart.com.

1. Andrea Zittel’s nonprofit, High Desert Test Sites. 2. Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian Mirror Ball, 1973. 3. Barbara Kruger Untitled (Hello/Goodbye), 2014. Kruger was recently selected for the Getty Artists Program.

4. Raymond Pettibon L.A. Rays x Freeway Eyewear and ForYourArt sunglasses, $200.

5. Nose Peak (Onestar Press, $40) by John Baldessari. 6. Manolo Blahnik sandals, $695.

7. Otherwild

Goods & Services, 1932 Echo Park Ave., L.A. 8. Saint Laurent Spring/Summer 2015. 9. Bottega Veneta Resort 2015. 10. Cartier bracelet, $13,200. 11. How to Train Your Virgin (Badlands Unlimited, $12.95) by Wednesday Black. 12. Chanel clutch, $9,700.

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As evidenced by her art-filled retreat in the Hollywood Hills, Kelsey Lee Offield’s vast collection is equal parts personal and playful

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allerist, collector and artist Kelsey Lee Offield isn’t afraid to suffer for her art.

Never mind that she injured herself while moving an Eckart Hahn sculpture in her living room—in her words, a “too-Marie-Antoinette-not-to-get” creation comprising a wood stump and an ax. “The ax slipped, so I had to call my doctor and say, ‘I cut my arm with a rusty ax from Germany…do I need a tetanus shot?’ ” she recalls with pride. Even more telling is the fact that she knowingly risks life and limb on a nightly basis, sleeping beneath an approximately 100-pound Jonathan Yeo painting (a heart-shaped statement featuring an X-rated collage) in earthquake country. “If I die because a pornographic heart crushed my skull—well, it’s worth it,” she says.

“That is a good story.”

This fierce appreciation for craft runs in her blood: Offield, 32, grew up surrounded by plein air paintings amassed by her parents—she spent summers in Harbor Springs, MI, with her grandmother, a potter, and grandfather, a needlepoint artist (she is part of the Wrigley-Offield clan, known for the Chicago baseball stadium and the popular gum brand, as well as for their philanthropy and cultural patronage). Raised on Catalina Island and in Laguna Beach, she majored in art history at the University of Puget Sound and received her BFA at Seattle’s Cornish College of the Arts, later pursuing her master’s from the Sotheby’s Institute of Art, London. She returned to L.A. two-and-a-half >>

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sampling of Offield’s collection, including a crocheted sculpture, Anubis, by Portuguese artist Joana Vasconcelos, and 72, a carved rosewood table by Genevieve Chua.

Alastair Mackie’s sculpture Quipu.

<< years ago to open contemporary gallery Gusford (named for her English bulldog), which will inaugurate a new 6,000-square-foot space on La Brea south of Melrose Avenue this summer.

A trained sculptor, painter, photographer, welder and glassblower, Offield put her own practice on hold to focus on her artist roster, which includes emerging talents such as Singaporean artist Genevieve Chua, Moroccan lensman Hassan Hajjaj and local painter Michael Brunswick. They’re all on display in her home, a veritable temple to her holdings, with pieces by Walead Beshty, Christian Boltanski, Tara Donovan, Polly Morgan and her boyfriend, Cole Sternberg, also on view.

Offield shares her passion for treasure hunting as a member of MOCA’s Director’s Council, a panel of young collectors founded by Director Philippe Vergne and Joshua Roth who work with the museum’s curators and vote on an annual acquisition for the permanent collection. “I have strong opinions. At our last meeting I was like”—she pauses to adopt a conspiratorial whisper, as if talking to fellow committee members about the contenders under consideration—“don’t be fooled by the shiny object!”

It’s this desire to look past the façade to a deeper meaning that continually drives her.

“I don’t ever want things that are only pretty and make me happy,” she says. “I look for things that engage and challenge me—that remind me of the broader world we live in.” •

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the dining room, the photo grid Portraits by Offield (left) juxtaposes Hassan Hajjaj’s saturated Luxe.

Yu Xiaodong’s painting The Family, the first art piece Offield ever purchased. Gone with the Wind, a sculpture by Tommi Toija, hangs in the stairwell.

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SOCIAL FRONT Sizing up California’s glamorous scene one bash at a time. Edited by Phoebe Doheney

The connection between art and fashion was on grand display at Louis Vuitton’s “Series 2” exhibition, which explores the creative process behind the brand. Nicolas Ghesquière escorted Charlotte Gainsbourg and Catherine Deneuve down the red carpet and through the multimedia and multisensory installation.

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Hollywood is quickly becoming a two-industry town thanks to Tom Ford’s Fall runway show over Oscar weekend. Jay Z, Beyoncé and Naomi Campbell watched Karlie Kloss and Gigi and Bella Hadid walk the rose petal-covered catwalk.

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SAN FRANCISCO BALLET Artistic director and principal choreographer Helgi Tomasson kicked off his 30th season with the S.F. Ballet at the War Memorial Opera House with Défilé, a piece he choreographed to showcase each member of the 82-year-old company—including fan favorite Maria Kochetkova.

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Brian and Norah Weinstein, Kelly Sawyer Patricof and Jamie Patricof Kelly Sawyer Patricof and Norah Weinstein’s annual Baby2Baby Gala raised more than $1.7 million for low-income families at Culver City’s Book Bindery. Kate Hudson was honored with the Giving Tree Award before Chilli and T-Boz of TLC hit the stage.

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Bulgari and Save the Children kicked off Oscar week with a cocktail party at Wolfgang Puck’s Spago in Beverly Hills to toast the book launch of Stop. Think. Give.

(Rizzoli). Bulgari’s newly appointed ambassador, Adrien Brody, and girlfriend Lara Lieto joined Naomi Watts, Laura Dern and new mom Malin Akerman.

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Wes Anderson and Juman Maloof Gagosian Gallery’s opening reception for New York-based artist John Currin hummed with L.A.’s Maurice Marciano, VIP culture-seekers.

Lilly Tartikoff Karatz Leonardo DiCaprio and Wes Anderson chatted with the painter, his wife/muse Rachel Feinstein and their three children about Currin’s first L.A. solo exhibit in more than a decade.

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Charles Finch and Chanel hosted the seventh annual pre-Academy Awards dinner at Madeo with familiar faces (Julianne Moore, Jessica Chastain and Anjelica Huston) and some notable newcomers (Odeya Rush, Brie Larson and Riley Keough)—all clad in black-andwhite Chanel.

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backstage at the Etro runway show. Details of Emilio Pucci’s suede boots from spring 2015. Model Sasha Luss in a flared tangerine ensemble at Emilio Pucci. The landmark Coachella Ferris wheel.

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Best in Fest When it comes to Coachella, high fashion steals the show BY MELISSA MAGSAYSAY

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Model Rosie HuntingtonWhiteley in Christopher Kane for J Brand denim shorts.

Cailin Russo.

Friends Cara Delevingne and Karlie Kloss hit the shows.

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s anyone who’s ever donned a bespoke flower garland knows, the eclectic vibe of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, just 120 miles from Los Angeles in Indio, presents the perfect platform for showcasing one’s inner hippie, wild child or uninhibited fashion plate—and in some cases, all of the above.

This year’s lineup, featuring headliners AC/DC, Drake and Jack White, plus top-billed acts Alabama Shakes, Florence and the Machine, Interpol, Steely Dan and The Weeknd, promises diverse wardrobe inspiration. But the free-form sartorial parade that will occur has more to do with the concert’s coordinates than its live soundtrack.

Launched in 1999 on the heels of the less successful Woodstock festival that same year, Coachella seemed to absorb some of the free-spirited fashion choices associated with the original Woodstock—boho-inspired ensembles that evoke the vibe of the ’60s and ’70s—but with a decidedly abbreviated Southern California spin. Drawing a unique convergence of music-loving celebrities and city dwellers (some of whom never set foot inside the grounds, opting to party-hop among the surrounding poolside estates), the festival gave rise to a styleconscious groupie liberated by the desert environs; denoted by denim cutoffs, ankle boots, flowy peasant-style tops and dresses and statement sunglasses, a uniform remixed by A-list attendees spanning Kate Bosworth to Poppy Delevingne.

“Festival style has actually become its own look,” says stylist Anita Patrickson, who has dressed clients including Chanel Iman and Julianne Hough in years past. “It’s a trend unto itself. When done correctly, it’s a mixture between the ’70s, a little bohemian and rock ’n’ roll.” Savvy clothing brands ranging from Mulberry to Lacoste and H&M quickly picked up on the event’s plum tastemaker demographic and began planting their lines at the midcentury estates that pepper the area surrounding the polo fields, and staging events and weekend-long parties at hip locales like The Parker.

In step with the increasingly high-profile, retail industry-heavy nature of the happening, Coachella style has evolved slightly beyond its hippie-chic trappings (though, there is still plenty of that). Flatform sandals, overalls, Dr. Martens boots, military-inspired outerwear and lace tops are now mingling with those Summer of Love staples.

The pared-down uniform is perhaps a reaction to the overwrought and heavily accessorized look of the last decade; still, some things never change. Quieter favorites like backpacks, Birkenstocks, flare-leg jeans and well-loved T-shirts are bound to make a big entrance at this year’s installment, along with accents popular on fashion week runways: “I’m sure we will see a ton of fringe. That’s going to be everywhere,” promises Patrickson. “I think people are edging their Coachella looks up from the flowery, very crocheted vibe,” she adds. Watch closely: This unofficial start to summer style just might dictate what you’ll be wearing in the warmer months—when that perfect off-duty look comes into play. •

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Get the Look Whether you embrace boho, need the perfect pair of vintage Levi’s or plan on sporting a head-turning bikini, these Southern California shops are bound to have everything on your Coachella wish list.

In the Field Bohemian staples in a lifestyle setting.

Anine Bing Easy, modern pieces curated by the

treasures. 9909 Santa Monica Blvd., B.H., 323-5775250; ludwigboutique.com.

model-turned-designer. 8130 W. 3rd St., L.A., 323424-3165; aninebing.com.

Diani A European-style boutique with a wealth of covetable denim. 1324 State St., Ste. B, S.B., 805966-3114; dianiboutique.com.

Elyse Walker Personal stylist appointments available for coordinating of-the-moment festival trends. 15306 Antioch St., Pacific Palisades, 310-230-8882; elysewalker.com.

The Fine Art of Design High-end designer vintage pieces. Palms to Pines Shopping Center, 72740 El Paseo, Palm Desert, 760-565-7388.

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730 E. Ojai Ave., Ojai, 320-403-4292; inthefieldojai.com.

Ludwig Fine Vintage Hard-to-find vintage

Principessa Crochet tops and Native American turquoise jewelry. 1323 Abbot Kinney Blvd., Venice, 310-450-6696; principessavenice.com.

Tavin Boutique A selection of vintage finds from Isabel Marant to Yves Saint Laurent. 1543 Echo Park Ave., L.A., 213-482-5832; tavinboutique.com.

TenOverSix Up-and-coming and cutting-edge brands like 3.1 Phillip Lim and Commes des Garçons. 8425 Melrose Ave., L.A., 323-330-9355; shop.tenover6.com.

VMT From cuffs to caftans, Veronica M. Toub’s classic gypset designs. vmt-losangeles.com.

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When Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, then first lady of France, stepped out with the premier Roger Vivier Miss Viv’ bag in 2009, the accessory became a must for style-setters everywhere.

Now, the Miss Viv’ gets a revamp, taking inspiration from brand ambassador Inès de La Fressange’s frequent globe-trotting by adding a travelMiss Viv’ Mini inspired twist to a Santa Folk bag, $3,495. collection. Look for exclusive bags arriving at Roger Vivier flagships around the world, including the festive Santa Folk number, available only at South Coast Plaza. “California is the state of liberty, youth, sun, universities, movies and writers,” says de La Fressange of the myriad influences channeled in the boho design. South Coast Plaza, C.M., 714-435-0015; rogervivier.com.

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Worn by screen sirens Cate Blanchett and Emma Stone at the Academy Awards, Tiffany & Co.’s dazzling 2015 Tiffany Blue Book, The Art of the Sea fine-jewelry collection needs no introduction.

This year’s lineup (which showcases the brand’s most-coveted, rare and one-of-a-kind treasures) features showstoppers from a whopping platinum ball pendant laden with round diamonds to diamond cuffs adorned with South Sea or Tahitian cultured pearls. 210 N. Rodeo Dr., B.H., 310-273-8880; tiffany.com.

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Swimwear specialist Everything But Water fetes its 30th anniversary with a 30-piece capsule collection dreamt up by its top brands, including Mara Hoffman, Zimmermann and Lisa Marie Fernandez. Each Anniversary Collection designer has reinterpreted an iconic swim or resort look—from Bond Girl bikinis to Farrah Fawcett’s unforgettable red one-piece—all worthy of their own cinematic moments. 220 26th St., S.M., 424-280-7896; everythingbutwater.com.

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Nanette Lepore Pinup striped Stargazer top, $76, and Doll bottom, $64.

Audrey Hepburn in Two for the Road, 1967.

Spring runways were overflowing with dramatic platforms— we love Miu Miu’s take in colorful brocade.

317 N. Rodeo Dr., B.H., 310-247-2227; miumiu.com.

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Diamond Multi Layer ring, $995.

Upscale boutique chain Intermix makes its foray into fine jewelry with 19Fifth—a diamondencrusted collection of 14 delicate rose-gold pieces named after its NYC roots. Angular rings and ear cuffs take on branchlike organic shapes amid a modern mix of understated barred studs and slim drop earrings. $395-$1,898; intermixonline.com.

up with Coach to create an array of cutesy twisted characters to be featured on the brand’s bags, sweaters and jewelry. Coach, 327 N. Rodeo Dr., B.H., 310-247-1309; coach.com.

Emmanuel Hare Ray Handknit crew, $695, and Buster Le Fauve Tall Tatum tote, $695.

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Cartier is well-versed in the art of creating icons, from the top-selling Tank wristwatch to the instantly recognizable Love bracelet. This month, the French accessories house introduces new classics into the fold with Clé de Cartier, a revolutionary timepiece collection available in an assortment of sizes and shades of gold. Each piece houses an automatic movement and features a simplified and sleek rounded edge, topped with a sapphire-adorned crown. 250 Post St., S.F., 415-397-3180; cartier.us.

Clé de Cartier in 18-karat gold, $36,600.

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Fairy Tales

Oscar-winning costume designer Colleen Atwood has masterminded some of Hollywood’s most jawdropping wardrobes, including those featured in the films Alice in Wonderland and Into the Woods.

Last year, Atwood added handbag designer to her repertoire. This season’s new Mini Scala bags are inspired by Hollywood glamour of the 1940s.

A’maree’s, 2241 West Coast Hwy., N.B., 949-642-4423; amarees.com.

Mini Scala bag, $1,800. Rapunzel sketch from Into the Woods.

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JIMMY CHOO espadrilles, $375, and bag, $975, Jimmy Choo, B.H.

GUESS heels, $110, guess.com.

MICHAEL KORS bag, $4,500, Michael Kors, B.H.

CHANEL bag, $3,300, Chanel, S.F.

LOUIS VUITTON boots, $1,350, Louis Vuitton, B.H.

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JENNIFER FISHER Triple XL Hollow Stud cuff, $1,895, Barneys New York, B.H.

CHANEL ring, $625, Chanel, B.H.

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Sculptural jewels get edgy with pyramid stones, graphic shapes and offset pearls

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EDDIE BORGO Two Finger Composition ring, $400, neimanmarcus.com.

KENDALL CONRAD ring, $200, Kendall Conrad, Venice.

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Julie de Libran finds her perfect match at the house of Sonia Rykiel

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f there’s anyone who understands the art of French charm, it’s Sonia Rykiel’s new head designer Julie de Libran—both in her personal style choices and her professional pedigree, thanks to roles at Paris’ most prestigious fashion houses, including her recent stint as Louis Vuitton’s studio director of womenswear. Now, the closely watched talent is making her mark at Sonia Rykiel, elevating the ready-to-wear brand to a new level of cult status among Francophiles.

“She inhabits Left-Bank cool,” explains Sasha Sarokin, buying manager for Net-a-Porter, which snapped up de Libran’s first spring collection for the label that dates back to the 1960s as a go-to for flirty knitwear and casual-yet-elevated basics. “She is classic Parisian chic, by way of California.”

Born in the South of France and raised outside San Diego, a young de Libran returned to her European roots to study design in Milan and Paris before making a name at the likes of Versace and Prada. With her Spring/ Summer 2015 collection debut for Sonia Rykiel last fall, de Libran not only channeled the brand’s inherent free-spiritedness, but added her own twist to its feminine silhouettes and signature stripes. “This was an excellent start—fun, light and playful while still keeping a respect UK, while for the Rykiel fashion household,” raved Vogue UK WWD noted, “After Julie de Libran’s first show for Sonia Rykiel, all indications are toward the elusive alchemy that can propel a storied brand in a new, dynamic direction.”

At Paris Fashion Week this spring, de Libran’s followup effort held even more promise, turning heads with nostalgic ’70s touches ranging from velvet rompers to swingy fur coats.

With the growing influx of French fashion labels like Sandro, Maje and A.P.C. on the West Coast (and Isabel Marant just announced the opening of a San Francisco boutique), there’s never been a more opportune time to get to know de Libran’s new staples in the form of fringe-embellished pencil skirts and denim jumpsuits.

Sarokin, too, has already compiled her own wish list of pieces for the season. “I love the tweed blazer in ivory with bold stripes,” she says. “It is the perfect balance between a statement piece and timeless classic.” soniarykiel.com. •

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Designer Julie de Libran backstage after the show alongside a starry cast of models including Miranda Kerr and Georgia May Jagger.

Runway looks from the Spring/ Summer 2015 collection.

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hen Dior Beauty’s Senior VP Dianne Vavra first discovered artist Jamie Lee Reardin’s Tim Burton-esque fashion and beauty drawings on Instagram, it was love at first scrawl.

After commissioning the Hermosa Beach-based illustrator for a handful of projects (including sketching celebrities at its annual Operation Smile luncheon last year), the brand invited her to come on board as a beauty ambassador in 2014. “I was completely caught off guard as I heard ‘Paris! St. Regis! Dior suite!’ fly out of Dianne’s Dior Rouge 999-colored lips,” remembers Reardin, 30, who has worked with the likes of Moda Operandi and The Zoe Report. Beyond creating sketches for Dior Addict’s summer 2014 launch (her pieces can take anywhere from five minutes to 35 hours). She has also been spotted drawing runway looks backstage at Dior shows including, most recently, Paris Fashion Week. “I feel you can evoke strong emotions through an intense gaze,” says Reardin, who is not just paying lip service—she is herself, a devotee of the cat-eye. dior.com; jamieleereardin.com. •

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Look 7 from Dior’s Spring/Summer 2015 show in Paris.

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Spa Montage Laguna Beach has launched its Elements of Wellness program to help guests get in tip-top shape for spring. Customize your own package by selecting a combination of spa and beauty services spanning a Deluxe Caviar facial to a Purifying Clay body wrap, fitness activities (surf training, pilates), mind-body offerings (meditation, Vinyasa yoga) and healthy cuisine (one-day cleanse, cooking lessons). From $995/night; 30801 S. Coast Hwy., L.B., 949-715-6010; montagelagunabeach.com.

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Opposites Attract L.A. fashion designer and boutique owner Chay Wike teams up with Downtown aromatherapist Persephenie this month to launch two fragrances: Mimosa Flower—a sheer veil of mimosa with notes of suede, Indian bakul, sandalwood and French honey meant for day, and Black Safa, a spicy composition of rose, clove, resin and heliotrope, grounded in earthy notes of oud and Costus root for evening. chayonline.com.

Brushes, $42/each. Foundation, $48. Divine Duo, $46.

Founder Cheryl Yannotti Foland in her Sausalito office.

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After moving its cosmetics department from the ground floor to the lower level, Neiman Marcus unveils a modern emporium housing exclusive brands like Amorepacific, Orlane and Omorovicza accompanied by cult lines including Atelier Cologne’s Collection Métal and Artis’ Fluenta brushes. Don’t leave without scooping up a new signature scent from the Avery Perfume Gallery. 9700 Wilshire Blvd., B.H., 310-550-5900; neimanmarcus.com neimanmarcus.com.

Black Safa and Mimosa Flower, $115/50 ml.

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When industry veteran Cheryl Yannotti Foland couldn’t find chemical-free makeup that performed to her standards, she took matters into her own hands and launched Lilah B. The Italian-made bronzers, foundations, and lip-and-cheek duos in electric hues are all formulated with luxurious, sulfate- and paraben-free ingredients like aloe and agar to soothe the skin. $42-$48; lilahbeauty.com.

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DESIGN BELOW FROM LEFT An array of Liza Lou’s glassbead supplies. Lou’s studio was designed by her husband, Mick Haggerty, and modeled after Freud’s office. Lou at work on a drawing.

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hate to even say the word,” confesses Liza Lou, taking a cross-legged seat on an earthy floor cushion in her midcentury-meets-Zen Topanga Canyon studio.

“Beads. It carries this kitsch connotation—instantly you think of something tacky.” The source of Lou’s lexical turnoff is also her medium of choice: For 25 years, she’s been synonymous with the material, both embracing and upending its low-art connotations.

It began with her debut magnum opus, Kitchen, 1991-1996, a five-years-in-the-making, 168-square-foot, room-size sculpture featuring mundane domestic items (cabinets, a table and chairs and a sink full of dishes) made over into dazzling pop art forms that took some 30 million beads to complete. The piece launched her onto the art world radar, was snapped up by Eileen and Peter Norton, and later acquired by The Whitney.

Since then, Lou’s themes have moved beyond Americana and suburban dystopias to encapsulate everything from crime and punishment—Cell, 2004-2006, was inspired by San Quentin’s death row—to landscape: for example, the floor-bound, three-dimensional grid Color Field, 2011-2013, which she will remix and expand to 60 feet long for a November exhibition at the Neuberger Museum of Art in Purchase, NY. (She also recently branched out into drawing.)

Though she grew up in the suburbs of Southern California, for the past 10 years Lou and her husband, graphic designer Mick Haggerty, lived in South Africa, where she collaborated with Zulu female artisans. The bond they formed has had a lasting effect: “I realized I was bringing my will to the work—which doesn’t sound so bad,” she reflects. “But I thought, maybe I should listen more and say less.”

The project has continued since she returned to California last August: A shimmering woven gold canvas representative of her current organic aesthetic hangs in her workshop and is the result of months of transatlantic group work. This latest style will be highlighted in her solo show at the Wichita Art Museum in May. “Everything is the human hand and touch. So you’ll see these streaks and marks and variation,” she says appreciatively. “It’s not about having an idea anymore, it’s about being awake to beauty when it occurs.” lizalou.com. •

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CLOCKWISE FROM ABOVE Lou’s pen supply. In her living room, Lou relaxes in a chair she brought back from Ethiopia. A guitar sits in close proximity to Lou’s easel.

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The 2015 San Francisco Decorator Showcase features room-by-room designs by 27 top local talents including Will Wick, Candace Barnes and Alison Davin of Jute inside a 1916 Elizabethan manor. Among the many highlights, Davin’s Salon de Thé, a Parisianinspired tea parlor, is fashioned with a custom-built wood-and-metal bar. “It’s a where-you-want-to-escape-from-theFROM LEFT Alison Dav in of Jute. A line dinner-party type of place,” Davin says. drawing of Davin’s tea parl or.

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MODERN MARVELS At the annual Los Angeles Modernism Show & Sale, more than 40 exhibitors will display goods from European posters to vintage brass-and-glass bar carts and design tomes. Two highlights: a one-of-a-kind 1970s Studio sofa by Peter Danko and a teak flip-top desk by Danish designer Jens Quistgaard. April 24-26; 3Labs, 8461 Warner Dr., Culver City, 708-366-2710; lamodernism.com.

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The London-based design duo behind Irving & Morrison, Carolina Irving and Penny Morrison, bring their wares to California with a new line of Moroccan ceramic lamps and pleated hand-printed shades, artfully crafted from one-off and remnant ikat, batik and floral fabrics. Jasper Showroom, 8525 Melrose Ave., W.H., 310-315-3028; michaelsmithinc.com.

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A new cookbook by chef Corey Lee of Benu brings his Michelin-starred cooking down to earth BY SARA DESERAN

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o get an idea of who 38-year-old chef Corey Lee is, open his handsome new Benu cookbook (Phaidon, $60) and thumb (for now) past the introduction written by chef Thomas Keller. Instead start with the one by Momofuku chef David Chang. It’s a reverential homage from one young hotshot Korean chef to another: “People have mislabeled [Lee’s] food with a number of descriptors— French, Chinese, Korean, French-Chinese, French-Korean, modernist, classical—but the simple fact is that his cooking is his own…Rarely do you come across a super-talented person who is matched with a superior work ethic. When you do, you get a supernova.” >>

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Beggar’s purse of treasures from the oak.

Buan, Korea.

Corey Lee on the ferry between Kowloon and Hong Kong.

<< Named after Lee’s celebrated, threeMichelin-starred San Francisco restaurant, Benu is exacting in its straight-from-the-tastingmenu recipes—complicated and sophisticated dishes such as lobster roe xiao long bao and Okhotsk sea cucumber stuffed with shrimp.

Though it might be more inspirational than practical, the stories that precede each recipe are honest and engaging. “It ended up being more personal than I’d planned,” says Lee, who actually wrote every eloquent word.

(Most chefs hire a co-author.)

Born in Seoul, Lee moved to the States at age 6, and started working in the kitchen of New York’s Blue Ribbon Sushi at 17; by age 23, he was behind the stoves at Keller’s famed The French Laundry, where he remained for the next nine years until opening Benu in 2009 and his more casual concept, Monsieur Benjamin, last year.

The pages not only chart Lee’s career trajectory, but also offer insights into

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everything from his departure from The French Laundry to his anxieties about his fledgling restaurant (which were assuaged by celebrated Copenhagen chef René Redzepi, who had suffered similarly when opening his world-famous Noma). Lee even tells a story of being a kid and throwing out his mother’s smelly kimchi: “[My] sisters…scolded me for my insulting gesture, not only against our mother, but to the Korean culture, of which kimchi is its national dish.” The fermented vegetable plate, made with pork belly and oysters, is now one of Lee’s signature dishes.

The book includes photographer Eric Wolfinger’s gorgeous pictures of the two places that anchor Lee’s culinary inspiration: San Francisco and Korea, where Lee’s parents still live. “We went there to capture images that will hopefully convey the spirit of a culture and how it’s reflected in Benu,” Lee says. It’s safe to say that he’s done just that. 22 Hawthorne St., S.F., 415-685-4860; benusf.com.

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When it comes to running a successful wine bar, Dustin Lancaster and Matthew Kaner, the team behind Los Feliz institution Bar Covell, know a thing or two. Now the duo have teamed up with pal Dave Gibbs to bring their love of the grape to the Valley with Augustine, a wine bar boasting a serious list of both rare and vintage wines and more approachable bottles, paired with an equally diverse menu. Located in a former radio repair shop (as evidenced by the vintage radio collection on display), the kitchy-cool space is now a destination for more than 75 wines by the glass, best enjoyed at a spot along the 35-foot marble bar, or in one of the cozy booths. 13456 Ventura Blvd., Sherman Oaks, 818-990-0938; augustinewinebar.com.

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The daily wine offerings displayed on the chalkboard menu at Augustine.

Root vegetable caesar salad with carrot, golden beet, parsnip, horseradish dressing and fried capers.

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CHEF AKASHA RICHMOND SHARES HER GO-TO INGREDIENTS Since opening her namesake restaurant in Culver City in 2008, Akasha Richmond’s sustainable cuisine has changed the face of local dining. This spring, the neighborhood’s culinary revival continues with Sāmbār (9531 Culver Blvd.) Richmond’s highly anticipated next act, serving Indian-inspired dishes in the former Ford’s Filling Station space. Here’s what you’ll find on Richmond’s shopping list right now. FAT UNCLE ALMONDS You can get these wine country-grown almonds at local farmers’ markets all over town. Besides plain and flavored almonds, they have almond butter, marzipan and flour. fatunclefarms.com. FLYING DISC RANCH DATES Martha Stewart and Alain Ducasse both sing praises for these dates grown in Thermal. They are all delicious, but I especially like the Dayri variety for salads. flyingdiscranch .com. ROAN MILLS FLOUR This flour from nearby Hollister is about as local as it gets for us. They sell at the Wednesday Santa Monica Farmers’ Market and the Sunday Hollywood Farmers’ Market. I can’t resist their fresh baked breads and focaccia. roanmills.com. GLOBAL GARDENS OLIVE OIL This is an olive oil producer and farmstand in Los Olivos, and right now their organically grown Mission Manzanilla Blend called Olio Nuovo EVOO, Los Alamos, is my favorite. They have a great selection of other oils and vinegars, and are a must-stop when visiting the Santa Ynez Valley. globalgardensonline.com.

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S.F.-based husband-andwife team Zoé Capdevila and Bertrand Corp tap into their Gallic roots with Bon Appétit boxes, packed with hand-picked goodies from across the pond, including lavenderinfused olive oil and authentic macarons. From $75; bonappetitbox.com.

The Café Gourmand box is filled with delectables like vanilla wafers and marshmallows covered in milk chocolate.

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Part restaurant, part gourmet market, two new spots boast an abundance of culinary offerings. In West Hollywood, Stir Market (7475 Beverly Blvd., L.A., 323-879-8283; stirmarket.com) reinterprets the classic European food hall experience with stations serving everything from rotisserie chicken to charcuterie and cheese, alongside a line of in-house products. Meanwhile Noe Valley’s cheery Bom Dia Market (1598 Sanchez St., S.F., 415-801-5519; bomdiamarket.com) turns out Mediterranean-influenced small plates and takeaway fare, while stocking a selection of produce and wines from area purveyors, sustainably sourced goods like soap and honey, and fresh blooms.

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S.F.’s Bom Dia Market carries locally grown flowers and produce.

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Blueberry blintzes, one of the many recipes found in the new tome Dinner With Jackson Pollock: Recipes, Art & Nature.

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Jackson Pollock’s creativity wasn’t confined to the canvas; the prolific artist’s imagination played out in the kitchen, too. Dinner With Jackson Pollock: Recipes, Art & Nature (Assouline, $50), by Robyn Lea, features a preface by the artist’s niece, Francesca Pollock, and more than 50 recipes gleaned from notes taken

by Pollock, his mother, Stella, and wife, Lee Krasner.

In addition to shining a spotlight on the dishes prepared with ingredients Krasner and Pollock grew in their Long Island garden (such as Jackson’s Prize-Winning Apple Pie and Stella’s Potato Pancakes), the book also contains family photos and shots of the couple’s home, paired with stories collected from the artist’s family and friends.

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essie Litow and Rachael Sheridan want you to know that, when it comes to food, they are not dogmatic. “We’re both free thinkers and really love the natural lifestyle,” says Litow. And nowhere is that more evident than in their newly launched line Solstice Canyon, a trio of flavor- and nutrient-dense almond butters.

The pair first knew they were onto something in 2013, when Litow, a freelance publicist at the time, started whipping up almond butter for herself and a few friends with her new Vitamix. “Within a month or so, people were bringing back their jars for me to refill and offering to buy almonds to make more,” she says.

Over lunch, Litow pitched the idea of launching a company to Sheridan, who she befriended in 2006 while she was doing PR for the Divine Pasta Company, where Sheridan was a gourmet buyer. Thanks to the duo’s existing working relationship, they were able to hit the ground running as a team; in less than a year, all three flavors (including the original stone-ground version, Aztec chocolate, and cardamom and clove) have made their way onto shelves around the country, including Huckleberry Bakery & Café in Los Angeles and Jenni Kayne’s lifestyle boutiques in Brentwood and Montecito, not to mention inside the baskets of California home grocery delivery services such as Good Eggs and Summerland.

According to Litow, the secret to their crave-worthy butters lies in FROM TOP Rachael the ingredients: unpasteurized almonds, and a potent combo of Sheridan and Jessie raw and organic additions including coconut, which lends the mixture its smooth, creamy Litow. Solstice Canyon’s stone-ground almond texture. But it’s not just what’s on the inside that counts: “As much as we wanted to have butter ($16 each). the healthiest and most delicious product, we also wanted it to be the most beautiful,” says Sheridan (who is married to chef Jeremy Fox of Santa Monica’s Rustic Canyon). Together, the duo met with six local designers before whittling down the products’ final flowery label.

In addition to this year’s launch of a Nutella-esque take on almond butter, Litow and Sheridan hope to expand into a lifestyle brand down the line, with offerings ranging from beauty products to candles. In Sheridan’s words: “things that we look for, and want to buy.” solsticecanyon.com.

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Curator Sylvia Chivaratanond jets to Mexico City for its famed art fair and reports back

Design impresario and French expat Emmanuel Picault opened the three-room La Valise Hotel in a 1920 townhouse in the city’s Roma neighborhood.

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ylvia Chivaratanond, the Suzanne Deal Booth Adjunct Curator of American Art for the Centre Pompidou Foundation, and her husband, MOCA Director Philippe Vergne, relocated to L.A. from New York City with their 3-year-old son, Indra, a year ago, but have yet to let the dust settle—maintaining a steady diet of high-profile cultural excursions at home and abroad. During February’s Zona Maco, Latin America’s premier art fair, Chivaratanond, along with the rest of the art world, descended upon Mexico City. More than 120 international galleries turn out for the industry happening, transforming the already buzzing global center (with 21 million residents) into a hotbed of openings, performances, extravagant dinners and dance parties. Here, the insider shares some new discoveries and trusted favorites:

STAY A new boutique hotel situated in a 1920 townhouse, La Valise (lavalisecom.mx) has only three rooms (one apartment per floor), each gorgeously furnished and designed with curated art by owner Emmanuel Picault. He also opened Chic by Accident, one of the most interesting interior stores in Mexico. • Designed by Luis Barragán, Camino Real (caminoreal.com) has retained its funkiness, which is part of its charm. The bright colors of the hotel found throughout the lobby and pool areas are quintessentially Mexican.

• In a 1928 Art Nouveau building, Condesa (condesadf.com) has rooftop nightlife like no other. This hip hotel is also in a great location and features interiors by India Mahdavi.

• Fairly new, Downtown Mexico (downtownmexico.com) feels fresh and contemporary and has a wonderful restaurant. DINE I went to a glamorous, power dinner hosted

by Kurimanzutto gallery (Mexico City) and David Zwirner Gallery (New York) at Contramar (contramar.com.mx), the legendary seafood restaurant normally only open for lunch. The occasion drew more than 100 international guests including curators from London, Paris, New York and all the top collectors in the Southern hemisphere.

• MeroToro (merotoro.mx), the sister restaurant to Contramar, is open for dinner and serves phenomenal seafood in more complex dishes. • Pujol (pujol.com.mx) has been voted one of the top restaurants in all of Mexico. I was invited to an exclusive dinner there hosted by Victoria Miro gallery (London). After the 10-course meal, I was even more convinced that it deserves its three Michelin stars—thanks to incredible food including mole and toasted ants, their speciality. • Rosetta (rosetta.rest) is a nouveau Mexican cuisine restaurant set in a quaint, old house, and serves up the tastiest bread in town.

SEE The Zona Maco (zonamaco.com) fair was full of lovely surprises such as work by the young Colombian conceptual artist Mateo López at the booth of Casas Riegner Gallery (Bogotá), the American painter Laura Owens at the 356 S. Mission Road booth (Los Angeles), and fascinating historical work by the Venezuelan Eugenio Espinosa at Blackston gallery (New York City). • Go-to galleries include OMR (galeriaomr.com), Kurimanzutto (kurimanzutto.com), Labor (labor.org.mx), Proyectos Monclova (proyectosmonclova.com) and House of Gaga (houseofgaga.com). •

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Metropolitan Cathedral Zócalo.

Downtown Mexico hotel’s rooftop pool and bar, and the restaurant which features a vertical garden. Chef Enrique Olvera of Pujol. House of Gaga gallery.

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MEXICO CITY: BILL PERRY. KURIMANZUTTO: ESTUDIO MICHEL ZABÉ. CHIVARATANOND: KEVIN KENDRICK. DOWNTOWN HOTEL, POOL: UNDINE PRÖHL; INTERIOR: JAIME NAVARRO. OLVERA: ADAM GOLDBERG. HOUSE OF GAGA: VÍCTOR DEL MORAL

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As the cultural landscape of San Francisco evolves, tech’s rising stars decode the art world

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ne blustery February evening in San Francisco, Jessica Silverman opened her Tenderloin gallery doors to introduce art lovers to Hayal Ponzanti’s serif- and statistics-based paintings and sculptures. While well-heeled art patrons in black swished in and out of the high-windowed gallery and admired the Turkish artist, a few blocks away, engineers and their ilk were exiting the headquarters of Twitter, Square and Zendesk.

In San Francisco, art, commerce, technology, the antiestablishment, new money and old are all colliding as the city undergoes a massive cultural

shift. Parts of downtown are being leveled and rebuilt skyhigh to create the Salesforce Tower (the soon-to-be tallest building in San Francisco), and hot startups are setting down their stakes just south of Market.

The city is filled with traffic and decamped young people from Harvard and MIT, and, of course, new Stanford grads who immediately move 35 miles north. Where art fits into this new equation is still being defined. “There’s a lot of contentiousness between art and tech and the city because of the sensibility that tech is taking over,” says Michelle Mansour, executive director of Root >>

Work by Hayal Ponzanti surrounds Jessica Silverman in her gallery.

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>> Division, a San Francisco nonprofit that subsidizes studio space for artists, and offers adult classes and after-school programs. “But tech people are problem solvers, and artists are problem solvers—we actually operate in a similar circle.”

Silverman has sold to many more tech collectors in the past year-and-a-half since moving her gallery near the reviving Mid-Market area, which also counts Spotify and Yammer in the general vicinity. She is considered a go-to for

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“Historically, I would sell to S.F. collectors at art fairs in another city,” she says.

She’d see interior designers such as Douglas Durkin and Steven Volpe come in to purchase art, but rarely the actual collectors.

That’s changing: At Art Basel Miami, Instagram cofounders Mike Krieger and Kevin Systrom led a panel on Instagram and art, and were seen shopping the stalls— rumor has it one bought a Turrell; One Kings Lane co-founder Alison Pincus was spotted at the Marian Goodman booth; and young technologists from the likes of Facebook and Pinterest roamed the various venues.

Many established people in tech have already been collecting blue-chip art for quite some time. Jeff Bezos was among the guests at the John Currin dinner with Larry Gagosian in February; Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang’s calligraphy collection has been displayed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, CEO Marissa Mayer keeps Jeff Koons balloon dogs in her kitchen; entrepreneur Trevor Traina’s encyclopedic photography collection includes pieces by Diane Arbus, Weegee and Gursky; and Pamela and Richard Kramlich have a video art collection—think Matthew Barney and Steve McQueen— so encompassing and famous it appeals to people outside the traditional art sphere (word on the street is that Kanye West stopped by for a tour).

As the newcomers dip their toes in the market, they are making unconventional choices: “For

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Hering co-founded Lookout right out of college with two friends from USC. BELOW LEFT Sean Raspet’s Hydrocarbon Reformulations attract the kind of collectors “who go home and think about a piece before they buy,” says Silverman.

those in the international art scene and recently showed for the first time in the main fair at Art Basel Miami. According to her and others, young tech entrepreneurs do collect, but they do it the same way they build companies: by looking for maximum impact and making unique, thoughtful, trailblazing choices.

“A lot of them are coming into money very quickly and are buying these houses where they are confronted with a lot of white walls,” notes Silverman. Many are also notoriously shy and private, classic introverts.

ABOVE FLOW #9, 2014, by Carrie Ann Plank. Collector Adam O’Donnell calls her work “data dense.” BELOW RIGHT O’Donnell at home in front of a vintage Muni bus scroll.

me, the tech community is very interested in visual experimentation,” says Silverman. “They inquire about the conceptually rigorous and sometimes less trendy—they don’t always want the major artists that everyone else wants.”

Los Angeles-based Sean Raspet and Canadian artist Ian Wallace are two such targets. At Raspet’s last show at Société in Berlin, the selftaught scientist-cum-artist reformulated Coca-Cola’s soft drink formula into its chemical mirror image, and tried to remake Coke and Pepsi without the color.

Equally intellectual, Wallace’s work juxtaposes painting and photography and is highly conceptual. “Tech collectors are not looking at art as a form of social climbing and very much not into ‘flipping,’ ” Silverman adds, “which is why San Francisco is poised as one of the best collecting communities in the world.”

Certainly, some tech collectors who spoke off the record approach art as an investment, and enjoy the Wild West aspect of the market, which careens to the same supernatural extremes as the tech industry.

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HERING: GABRIELA HASBUN. FLOW #1: DON FELTON, ALMAC CAMERA. HYDROCARBON REFORMULATION: COURTESY OF THE ARTIST AND JESSICA SILVERMAN GALLERY. O’DONNELL: AMBER WOLF

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Still others take a more authentic approach. John Hering, 31, co-founder of the mobile security company Lookout, explains his attraction to art philosophically: “Technology is supposed to be a tool for us to do things, but we are becoming more and more a tool for technology. Now art and radical expression become introspection for us—people who are not expressing themselves. As these concepts compound, art plays a critical role in maintaining our humanity.”

Hering, who grew up with relatives who were artists and a mother who is a designer, collects street art and modern exclusively, citing his youth in large cities as one of his motivators. He’s decorated his homes with works by well-known artists such as Banksy alongside emerging artists Conor Harrington and Marina Molares.

He plans to donate his collection to charity.

Adam O’Donnell, 36, founded his own company and now works at Cisco as a principal engineer, and has a similarly noneconomic approach to collecting. On weekends, he trawls open studios in Hunters Point (a former Superfund site) or Point Reyes, looking for local work that makes him “feel something.” He prefers to buy at auctions, deeming fairs overpriced and too much about the money. One of his favorite artists, Carrie Ann Plank, relies on data for “infographic-y” results.

A beloved piece by Miró in O’Donnell’s house evokes the concept of surveillance, which makes him think of his hacker days. Deciding that collecting personally wasn’t enough, O’Donnell’s latest step was to join the board of Root Division because he wants arts to be accessible to everyone.

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t the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, “Gravity and Grace: Monumental Works by El Anatsui” sheds light on the Golden State’s growing commitment to international art with metal and wood topographical pieces by the Ghanaian sculptor (through June 28). The GAP’s founders, Doris and Donald Fisher, share their collection of contemporary treasures for “American Icons: Masterworks from SFMOMA and the Fisher Collection” at the Grand Palais in Paris (April 8-June 22). Meanwhile, LACMA’s 50th Anniversary spring gala festivities (April 18) include an exhibition of birthday gifts for the museum from major collectors: Jane and Marc Nathanson (p.96) have donated pieces by Lichtenstein, Rosenquist and Warhol, among others, for “50 for 50: Gifts on the Occasion of LACMA’s 50th Anniversary” (April 26).

At UCLA, Matthew Barney and Jonathan Bepler’s film River of Fundament debuts on the West Coast, reimagining Norman Mailer’s novel Ancient Evenings, with performances by Paul Giamatti and Maggie Gyllenhaal (April 25). If you miss the flick, the corresponding exhibition of sculptures, photographs and vitrines inspired by the film hits MOCA later this year (Sept.

13-January 2016). Startup Art Fair, in San Francisco, takes a disruptive approach to the art fair, giving unrepresented artists a chance to show their stuff (May 1-3). “Portraits and Other Likenesses From SFMOMA” at the Museum of the African Diaspora emphasizes the museum’s increasing international scope as it showcases figurative art influenced by Africa, the U.S., Europe and beyond (May 8-Oct. 11). At the Orange County Museum of Art, multimedia show >>

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A production image for “Scorched Earth” by Mark Bradford. The new Broad Museum. Andy Warhol’s Liz #6 will be on view in Paris. Corita Kent’s silkscreen print harness the sun, 1967, on view at Pasadena Museum of Art this summer.

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FROM TOP A still from River of Fundament, by Matthew Barney and Jonathan Bepler.

Andrea Zittel with Aggregated Stacks, 2011. Lisa Anne Auerbach’s photograph of a visit to a carpet store in Kabul at the base of the historic Gardens of Babur.

<< “Alien She” chronicles the punk feminist Riot Grrrl movement’s impact on current innovators (through May 24).

Back in L.A., MOCA’s Annual Gala honors Los Angeles’ beloved John Baldessari this year (May 30). The Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento brings together nearly 80 paintings by Monterey County classicist David Ligare (June 7-Sept. 20). At the Hammer, travel further afield with the The Afghan Carpet Project, a partnership between the nonprofit AfghanMade and six female artists, who journeyed to Kabul and Bamian in 2014 and worked with local female weavers to produce carpets from their designs (June 13-Sept. 20). While you’re there: Everyone is talking about the upcoming “Mark Bradford: Scorched Earth” exhibition, replete with new paintings inspired by the 1992 L.A. riots and a multimedia rework of comments by Eddie Murphy from his ’83 concert film Delirious (June 20-Sept.

27). At the Pasadena Museum of Art, “Someday Is Now: The Art of Corita Kent” (June 14-Nov. 1) displays printmaking work from a Sister of the Immaculate Heart of Mary—a nun whose ’60s popinspired prints interweave revelation and revolution. The local sculptor and founding director of the Watts Towers Art Center who passed in 2004, Noah Purifoy, gets a moment in the sun at BCAM with the monograph exhibition “Junk Dada” (June 7-Feb. 28). Textile artist and cofounder of the very hip High Desert Test Sites, Andrea Zittel, collaborates with the Palm Springs Art Museum for “Eye on Design,” a collection that layers textiles with white boxes to question the role of decorative objets (through July 12). As the year fades into fall, art lovers will find the scene amping up: LACMA’s major Frank Gehry retrospective (Sept. 13-March 20); the big opening—finally—of The Broad museum (Sept.

20) with Broad’s killer postwar and contemporary collection as the first show; The de Young’s 10th anniversary of its new building coupled with “Breguet: Art and Innovation in Watchmaking” (Sept. 19-Jan. 10); ArtSpan opens up emerging and established artists’ studios at S.F.’s Hunters Point Shipyard and Islais Creek Studios for collectors willing to pound the pavement (Oct. 17-Nov. 8); The Hammer Gala and the LACMA Art + Film Gala. It’s going to be a whirlwind. •

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BELOW FROM LEFT A Breguet subscription watch from 1798. The company was responsible for developing the first wristwatch, tourbillon and guilloché dials.

David Ligare’s Penelope, 1980, on view at the Crocker Museum in Sacramento.

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By Martha McCully Photographed by Roger Davies

The Nathansons’ living room embraces a neutral black-and-white palette as a backdrop for their contemporary collection.

“Art is like children, I don’t have favorites,” says Jane Nathanson. “But if the house was burning down, I would grab the Warhol Double Elvis.”

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Jane Nathanson is co-chairing LACMA’s April gala and has campaigned to have gifts promised to the museum for its 50th birthday this year. She and her husband Marc have promised George Segal’s Laundromat (above right) among others. BELOW The dining room, where the Nathansons entertain frequently, houses Picasso’s Tête d’Homme, Damien Hirst’s Blue on Blue and Roy Lichtenstein’s Woman with Peanuts. Jeff Koons’ Puppy sits on the table. OPPOSITE Alexander Calder’s Untitled (stabile/painted sheet metal).

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W “WHAT TO SEE WHAT NOT TO SEE” is written in blue neon on the side of Marc and Jane Nathanson’s white Spanish house in Holmby Hills. Not a question, not quite a statement, it’s an installation by Maurizio Nannucci; an electrifying sign of what’s inside. The thing is, you’ll want to see it all.

You’ll want to see the Lloyd Wright house with its architectural garden featuring boxwood globes and a giant metal Calder sculpture; you’ll want to be greeted by Frank Stella, Roy Lichtenstein and Jeff Koons in the foyer, view Jasper Johns’ Target and Andy Warhol’s Brillo Boxes and Campbell’s Soup Can in the sunroom, enjoy the James Rosenquist Portrait of the Scull Family in the upstairs gallery, and see Damien Hirst’s epic Blue on Blue circular painting of butterflies adjacent to a Picasso portrait, which hangs among a Basquiat, a Rauschenberg and another Lichtenstein in the dining room. And of course there’s the Matisse from Jane Nathanson’s parents’ collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist works, hung quietly over the fireplace in the library. That’s just upstairs. The art gallery is actually on the floor below.

The Nathansons are devoted not only to their impeccable collection of contemporary and pop art, but also to displaying it in a home where it more than just complements the decor, it is the decor. In fact, it’s impossible to separate the house from its holdings. “I feel art creates space wherever it is,” says Jane Nathanson, “It married the house. The marriage of contemporary art and 1920s design makes the architecture and the art stand out.”

The Nathanson residence was built in 1927 as the show house for the Holmby Hills area. “Everyone lived in Hancock Park then,” says Jane. “Beverly Hills was considered the country.” As a real estate broker in the 1980s (she’s now a practicing psychotherapist), Jane was showing the house, complete with orange and green carpeting, to clients “who just couldn’t imagine what it could be.” She and her husband, then a cable-TV executive, decided to buy it and restore its architectural integrity, returning the moldings and fireplaces, along with the ceiling height, to their origins.

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FROM TOP Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat’s GE Tobacco Section and Jeff Koons’ Seal Walrus (Trashcans). Upon arriving at the Nathanson house, the Maurizio Nannucci blue neon installation is a wry foreshadowing of what awaits visitors inside.

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“Most people think these portraits of me are by Warhol,” says Jane Nathanson, “but they’re by a friend, Joanne Hertz.” Also in the sunroom are Warhol’s Campbell’s Soup Can and Brillo Boxes and Jasper Johns’ Target. OPPOSITE Roy Lichtenstein’s Interior with Three Hanging Lamps.

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NEXT IN LINE IN HER FAMILY’S CREATIVE DYNASTY, ASIA CHOW FINDS HER OWN VOICE

By Derek Blasberg Photographed by Inez & Vinoodh THE CONCEPT OF ART CAN SEEP INTO OUR LIVES in a variety of ways. Some of us studied it in school, some of us visited galleries with our parents as kids and some of us took weekend painting classes just to look at nude models.

(I’ll leave it to you to guess which of those camps I fall into.)

But for Asia Chow, the 20-year-old daughter of restaurateur and painter Michael Chow (of Mr Chow fame) and painter-turned-fashion-designer-turned-LACMA-fundraising powerhouse Eva Chow, art is hereditary. In fact, it’s quite literally the official family currency: Before she was born, in the 1980s, her father accepted artwork from the likes of Warhol and Basquiat as payment for dinner. “My parents took me to the opera and museums and gallery openings quite a bit,” she says. “Growing up with two parents who are painters created an environment that shaped my outlook on many things. It definitely taught me at a young age to understand the value of creativity.” That value manifests itself in her arresting modeling work for luxury brands spanning Givenchy to David Webb, and a burgeoning musical career—which happens to come with a built-in audience. (Two years ago, at an impromptu after-party for the star-studded LACMA gala her mother chaired, Eva propped Asia in front of the packed crowd and asked her to play the piano.) I spoke to the full-time student, currently in her junior year at Columbia University and majoring in English, about how art in all its forms has influenced her life.

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Derek Blasberg: As you know, this is the art issue, which I imagine is something you can relate to. Both your father and your mother have been such big patrons of the arts since even before you were born.

What’s your first memory of art?

Asia Chow: I don’t know if I can think of one memory as being the earliest, but I think very fondly of my room in the house that I grew up in when I was a small child. I can remember it from when I was maybe 4 or 5, and what was most significant about it was the 1,000 roses and butterflies and the clouds and sky that my mom painted on the walls.

The way I’m describing it, it sounds kind of cheesy. But the way she painted it, it didn’t look like the walls of a child’s room: It looked like it could have belonged in a painting.

DB: Your mother mentioned to me once that she liked to paint, but I never knew that before.

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“I’M IN A PLACE OF EXPERIMENTATION RIGHT NOW; IN HIGH SCHOOL I WAS SUCH AN AVID ROCK LISTENER, AND IN THE PAST THREE YEARS, MY MUSIC APPRECIATION HAS EXPANDED TO SO MUCH MORE THAN THAT.”

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ince opening its doors on Wilshire Boulevard in 1965, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) has been at the epicenter of Southern California’s cultural offerings. More than 120,000 pieces make up the collection of this 20-acre campus in the heart of L.A., with a focus on Asian art, Latin American art, and Islamic art, and works by everyone from California’s own light-and-space artist James Turrell to European masters like Pablo Picasso and Paul Cézanne. On April 18, LACMA fetes its 50th anniversary with its annual gala, which will offer partygoers a sneak peak at “50 for 50: Gifts on the Occasion of LACMA’s 50th Anniversary” (open to the public April 26-Sept. 7), an exhibit showcasing works by artists ranging from Andy Warhol to François Boucher, all gifted to the collection to mark the museum’s milestone year.

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The Big Chill AT HOME IN LOS FELIZ WITH MOBY, WHERE LOW-KEY LIVING COMES WITH THOUGHT-PROVOKING SCENERY

By Degen Pener Photographed by Joe Fletcher Produced by Stephanie Steinman

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A vignette featuring vintage globes and Hollywood Limousine, a print by Stanley Donwood purchased at Shepard Fairey’s gallery. OPPOSITE The artist sits beneath lone, a work he shot in the pool at his former residence. “My ex-girlfriend Julie Mintz was kind enough to be the model,” he says.

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FTER SELLING more than 15 million records in the late ’90s and early 2000s, singer/songwriter Moby had acquired four properties back East, including an enormous home in upstate New York and a quintuplex in Manhattan, as well as a retreat in the Dominican Republic. “As I started to have a little success I felt like, ‘Oh, I need to have this crazy gigantic stuff.’ And none of it really made me happy,” he says. “I’m not complaining. There’s nothing worse than someone complaining about affluence.

But there was never a realistic, empirically supported assessment of stuff in terms of how it contributed to quality of life.” The 49-year-old admits, “I was overcompensating. Just overcompensating. I grew up really poor on welfare and food stamps.”

When he moved to Los Angeles five years ago, the musician—and for many years now also an acclaimed visual artist—went big as well. In 2010, he bought the famed Wolf’s Lair estate in Beachwood Canyon, spending two years restoring the 88-year-old castle-like residence. But at times, he says, he felt like “Orson Welles in the end of Citizen Kane, shuffling around this large property by myself. It was the most wonderful place to have parties. But, day to day, it just didn’t make sense being one person in a place that had about 10 or 11 bedrooms.”

So when he sold Wolf’s Lair last year for some $12 million, Moby bought a new four-bedroom house in Los Feliz with other priorities in mind, namely “nature, friends and convenience.” Not only are trees in abundance nearby, but his social circle is too. “Seventy-five percent of my friends live east of here.” He hikes six days a week in the park, where he’ll often eat at The Trails Cafe, and takes 20-minute strolls to Franklin Village to grab a smoothie at Real Raw Live juice bar (he’s been a vegan for 27 years), and peruse Counterpoint Records & Books. “Functionally I live in the country,” he says.

In keeping with his move toward simplification, Moby has sparsely decorated the 1920s Tudor house, most notably in the spacious living room.

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Meditation cushions dot the dark wood floors. “I’m a cliche: I live in Los Angeles, I’m a vegan, I meditate. Seems like a more benign cliche than others,” Moby comments.

His print first, featuring a tall black metal box in the Angeles National Forest, takes pride of place on the mantle. “I’m sure it’s a C 00 harbinger of the apocalypse,” he says.

FROM LEFT In the office, an Eames chair complements black-and-white drawings by artists Sheryo and The Yok. In the washroom, an array of vintage prints sets the tone.

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Cali fornia A MELTING POT OF CREATIVITY, THE GOLDEN STATE IS HOME TO A WIDE ARRAY OF TALENT—AND JUST AS MANY POINTS OF VIEW. HERE, SIX ACCLAIMED ARTISTS PAY HOMAGE TO THEIR MUSE Alex Prager’s Burbank, a child’s-eye view of suburbia rendered in technicolor hues (p.131), is inspired by what the L.A.-based artist sums up as her home’s “perfect blend of reality and fiction.”

You could say the same of the portfolio that follows, which in addition to Prager’s surreal work, includes selections by Gagosian-repped conceptual artist Piero Golia, painter Jonas Wood and his wife, ceramicist Shio Kusaka, among others, each responding to the same challenge: Show us your California. The visual answers we received are nuanced pieces by virtuosos straddling a wide range of media— each interpreting their environs through an intimate lense: from photo luminary Catherine Opie’s prismatic vision of Yosemite’s Bridalveil Fall (opposite), an image that unifies her yen for naturalistic subjects with the sociopolitical meaning of the rainbow (“Being a newly married queer woman, I couldn’t resist the personal nature [of the symbol],” she says), to Sterling Ruby’s Transient Bed of John, a seemingly mundane tableau of sandbags intended to contain a pool of tar, which Ruby encountered the very day he moved to town. “This photo is a reminder of the roiling geological forces just beneath the surface,” he says. “I see so many of the ideas within my artwork contained [here]; it was as if California

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Untitled (Sea Lion), 2015.

OPPOSITE Daily life in the artist’s laboratory.

Lassry’s dogs Jessica and Carter take in the slow, methodical congress of ideas and materials.

PICTURE THIS: YOU ARE LOOKING at a photograph of two dolphins, their shiny snouts and slippery smiles protruding from the surface of the water. The visual is unremarkable, except for the fact that three colorful sections of surgical tubing protrude through the image and the glass of the frame.

What’s the deal? Is this a hacked artwork—an intentionally damaged piece? A surrealist SeaWorld snapshot? Or is it a wall sculpture; an elegant arrangement of color, texture and value that happens to reference Flipper? The man behind the phenomenon is 37-year-old Los Angeles-based Israeli artist Elad Lassry. And it is the question that comes into the viewer’s mind—the uncertainty of what one is actually perceiving—that interests him.

Lassry moved to Los Angeles directly from Tel Aviv, where he was born and raised, at the age of 20 in 1998. Asked if there was any one thing that led him down the creative path, he says, “It was actually by way of elimination—nothing else made as much sense. At some point in high school I started realizing that it was a stronger passion of mine than everything else I was studying. And I searched for inspiration or direction within art as opposed to having encountered it.”

His exploration led him to CalArts, the avant-garde art school created by Walt Disney. Lassry’s transition to the suburbs of Valencia from the hubbub of Tel Aviv was not an easy one—he took leave of the school on more than one occasion before completing his undergraduate degree—but he was able to absorb the effects of a number of local legends, including John Baldessari and Mike Kelley. He went on to receive his MFA from the University of Southern California. It was there, studying with Sharon Lockhart and Frances Stark, that he honed his approach.

To the uninitiated, Lassry’s subjects have a generic, off-the-shelf feeling: They are the loneliest sort of stock photos of animals and people, food and furniture. The emotional distance of these normally approachable characters, along with the artist’s experimental embrace of materials, aligns him with conceptual artists like Jeff Koons or Haim Steinbach, as well as modernists of the Dada and Surrealist era such as Marcel Duchamp or Meret Oppenheim. Represented in Los Angeles by David Kordansky Gallery and in New York by 303 Gallery, Lassry has shown in galleries and museums around the world, from Hong Kong to Toronto, Milan to Houston. His multimedia work Collie (Roof), Pink Chair sold at auction in the spring of 2014 for $62,500—placing him in a league with contemporaries such as Cindy Sherman and Jeff Wall, as well as icons of the Ansel Adams variety.

So it comes as a bit of a surprise that a talent of his caliber does not operate in a palatial industrial warehouse workspace, the sort that typifies the classical studio tradition. A visit to his Hollywood studio brings you face to face not with a hive of assistants, but with his elderly Chihuahua, Tuna, who putters around the workshop, and two large Standard Poodles, Jessica and Carter, busily patrolling the backyard. The environs are part domestic, part laboratory, with test subjects—photographs with stainless-steel balls and leaflike enameled-metal discs embedded in them—mounted to the wall of a spare entry viewing room.

It is here that one can witness his multistage process firsthand: In some multimedia works, Lassry begins by making traditional gelatin silver prints from others’ photographs, or “negatives that are discarded from assignments.” He then creates a mold and pours acrylic glass halfway into it. The photograph and objects are placed onto the surface and pigments are introduced into the creation, softening and diffusing the obtuse relationship between the image and the collaged elements before it is sealed with another layer to form the acrylic block. In a way, the artist is asking us to learn how to see again: “A big interest of mine is the difference between presentation and representation. No matter how much we engage in the technology, there is a sort of mystery and horror around the picture, and something that is impossible to curb,” he says. “Perhaps it is the accuracy that is so overwhelming to the human mind—that a photograph is the only representation that is so much like what you saw.

However, it is so much unlike it too. And that is a very tricky space.”

This month the artist has a solo show at Massimo De Carlo in Milan, and come September, at the David Kordansky Gallery.

In the year ahead he will also appear in group shows at museums and galleries in Amsterdam, Berlin, Fort Lauderdale, London, New York and Portugal. But rather than narrow his view, Lassry’s prolific pace has only fueled his curiosity about the potential of his medium. Currently he is pushing the physical boundaries of his work further with the additions of furniture and dance performance to his practice—and, like Adams or John Ford before him, taking the pioneering spirit of revolutionizing photographic images to an entirely new frontier. “We talk about painting and we talk about photography,” he says. “But for me there is a desire to return to the experience of looking.” •

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“These are philanthropic intellectuals,” Silverman explains. Many are in a position to contribute to the museums of the future.

“It’s about building strong relationships: with the art, the artists, the galleries and museums. Many have good guidance with advisers that allows them to set the groundwork for long-term collecting.”

And O’Donnell thinks that the number of people with technical backgrounds who become collectors will only keep growing.

“I think that through a math and science background, you have an appreciation for aesthetics,” he says. “And people yearn for art in a way. Look at how many people buy Apple products.”

After all, Steve Jobs was the one who declared technology alone was “never enough.” Only when paired with the arts and humanities does it “sing.” •

Besides that, I’ve been listening to quite a

the institution. “It’s my big passion now,”

bit of jazz.

she says. “I really feel it’s becoming the

DB: I’ve always been very jealous of

city center. Museums are like churches or

people who are musically inclined. When

temples: Anyone can go and have a Zen

I was in school, I played the trumpet and

experience or an exciting experience

I was terrible! But maybe that’s why I

or any kind of experience you want. You

can appreciate music in a different

don’t have to look a certain way or believe

way, because I don’t understand it as well.

in anything.”

AC: That’s definitely a valid point. In

The Nathansons have announced the

more recent years, I’ve started to listen to

promise of eight works to LACMA, many

music in a different way. Sometimes I

of which will be part of the exhibit (open

catch myself listening a lot more actively

to the public April 26), including Warhol’s

than before. I think it’s probably because

Two Marilyns, Rosenquist’s Portrait of the

I’ve started to take writing more seriously

Scull Family, George Segal’s Laundromat

and like to analyze other people’s music to

and Lichtenstein’s Interior With Three

see what’s going on.

Hanging Lamps.

DB: That’s a much different experience

“I really believe the best place for a

than mine. To quote Taylor Swift, I’m

piece of art to be is in a museum where

just looking for a “sick beat.”

future generations can enjoy it,” Jane says,

AC: Ha! The first thing that attracts me to

echoing the message of a piece in her

anything is that it has to be emotionally

upstairs gallery by Barbara Kruger: The

compelling.

Future Belongs to Those Who Can See It. •

DB: How do you find inspiration for your music?

AC: Sometimes I just find inspiration

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randomly and then will try to write

gardens with dirt from Aaron Spelling’s

Runover

something. A lot of the time, though, writing

DB: Which pieces from your parents’

done. It’s practicing, just like you would do

construction project down the block. A

collection stand out for you the most?

with anything else. I’ve also been trying to

second renovation a decade ago created the

AC: The portraits of them at home––my dad

rethink the way I approach songwriting, so

downstairs gallery. The result is a Mediter-

by Jean-Michel Basquiat and my mom by

instead of starting with just a melody,

ranean-style exterior with a minimalist,

Julian Schnabel—are both such beautiful

or harmony, or lyrics, I think of it more

monochromatic interior that doubles as a

pieces; I just feel a connection to them.

experimentally. I’ve been thinking more in

showcase for their extensive, and change-

DB: I know one way that you practice

terms of how recording—which requires

able, holdings. (When they bought the

your own art is music. What instru-

an entirely different set of techniques—

residence, a friend told them it was included

ments do you play and when did you

informs writing. I might approach a new

in a book of great homes in L.A. Nathanson

start playing?

program, or think of new sounds that I like

tracked

and

AC: I started playing guitar in high

aesthetically, and start with that.

Bastardized

school, but what I most love is singing.

DB: Is there a song that you think sums

Lately, I’ve been more focused on singing,

you up?

writing and recording.

AC: I will say that I’d aspire for my

sharing art, which is why Jane, who

DB: How would you classify your

daily theme song to be “These Boots Are

co-founded MOCA and is currently on the

sound?

Made for Walkin’” by the Supremes. I love

board of LACMA, is co-chairing the

AC: It’s difficult to say what genre it is.

the way Diana Ross delivers it, and just

museum’s sold-out April 18 gala along with

I’m in a place of experimentation right

conveys this feminine confidence, which

fellow LACMA trustees Ann Colgin and

now; in high school I was such an avid

I think every woman should have.

Lynda Resnick. She and Resnick are also

rock listener, and in the past three years,

DB: How does fashion influence you?

chairing the campaign to encourage

my music appreciation has expanded to

AC: Fashion is an everyday way people

promised gifts of art to commemorate

so much more than that. Many of the

can express themselves—just by what they

LACMA’s 50th anniversary—because, in

musicians that I admire today draw from

chose to wear—so it can be an everyday

Jane’s rhetorical words: “What do you give

so many different influences, and don’t

micro-influence for me, and when I look at

a museum for its birthday?” At the gala, the

really stick to just one genre, so that’s what

a great editorial, it’s a grander, more

resulting exhibit, “50 for 50: Gifts on the

I aspire to do too.

fantastical kind of inspiration.

Occasion of LACMA’s 50th Anniversary,”

DB: What are you listening to now?

DB: What do you miss most about L.A.?

will be revealed.

AC: Right now, I’m all about Glenn Gould.

AC: Listening to music in the car. •

down

discovered

it

the was

publication titled

Houses in Los Angeles.)

The Nathansons are also devoted to

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is more like a ritual. I tell myself I have to get something done today and I try to get it

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shot of a giant black metal box set mysteriously

fit into the broader range of his aesthetic. “I

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want the art I try to make to be ambiguous. I

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want it to synaptically not be easily compart-

in the middle of the woods. Elsewhere, the rooms

mentalized,” he says. “So some of it is off-

are

midcentury

putting, then winsome, funny, disconcerting,

arrangements, many of the pieces acquired at

scary, hopefully all at the same time. I think

vintage shops around Hollywood and Echo Park.

everything that I make visually should have

decorated

with

simple

The one thing that approaches clutter is his

a question mark attached to it.” •

art collection—some of the pieces by him, many of them the work of friends, including Gary Baseman, Shepard Fairey, David Lynch and Mark Ryden (“I couldn’t afford a real Mark Ryden painting, but he and I are friends so I got the print”). There are even black-and-white silk screens of cartoonish people and animals by none other than Bono. “My criteria for art is that it can’t be too expensive,” Moby says. One obsession right now is the output of New York-

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He’s also adding another title to his resume: restaurateur. By early summer, Moby plans to open an all-organic vegan restaurant on Rowena Avenue in nearby Silverlake. Called Little Pine (“I like pine trees”), the restaurant will boast Anne Thornton (host of Food Network’s “Dessert First” and formerly of New York’s Waverly Inn) as chef and general manager. “It’s a vegan restaurant but we don’t want to make anyone feel guilty about their choices. We just want vegan to be almost like a category similar to Thai or Italian.”

Meanwhile, making art remains a constant in his life. Last fall, he had his latest of many photo exhibits, a show of his series “The Innocents” at New York’s Emmanuel Fremin Gallery.

The shot of the forest in his living room and another large-scale photo above a couch near the kitchen, lone—of a woman in a swimming pool wearing a gorilla mask, looking at once smiling and forbidding—are from the exhibition, which imagined a “cult of innocence” that came into being after an apocalypse. The pieces

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ALEX ISRAEL’S SELF PORTRAIT (PARADISE COVE), 2014 On a June-gloom morning in Malibu, Los Angeles-based artist Alex Israel photographed the Paradise Cove pier, capturing an image that became the source material for this painted selfportrait. Known for its celebrity-stocked mobile home park and the casual beachfront restaurant where diners can eat fried calamari while wiggling their toes in the sand, Paradise Cove has long been one of the neighborhood’s hidden gems—and was also the spot where The Beach Boys shot the iconic cover for their 1962 debut album, Surfin’ Safari. But for Israel, the locale has a more spiritual tenor. “Paradise Cove is obviously a fantastic place, but even more than that, it’s a dream of a place. It’s like a nirvana, or a magical beachfront Eden, tucked away beneath PCH,” he says.

“That’s why I decided to paint it in my head, in my mind, as both a landscape and an idea.”

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