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Marta Minujín, Esteban Cortazar, Cesar Reyes and Julio Reyes Copello Honored at El Museo del Barrio Gala
THE ART OF THE MATTER: Thursday’s El Museo del Barrio gala turned out to be a record-breaking occasion, generating $ 1.1 million for the museum.
Guests like Maria Eugenia Maury, Ágatha Ruiz de la Prada, Yolanda Santos, Monika McLennan and Eugenia Sucre ramped up the fashion at the 25th annual event at The Plaza. Conceptual and performance artist Marta Minujín was honored with the Excellence in the Arts award. In honor of her vibrant art, there were centerpieces of neon-colored geometric-shaped Styrofoam, and larger sculptural pieces lined the south side of the ballroom. In presenting the award, Tony Bechara spoke of how Minujín was “at the vanguard of the Sixties, engaging in the famous happenings along with the likes of [Richard] Rauschenberg, [Merce] Cunningham and [John] Cage. Marta collaborated with Warhol in The Factory and that generation. Her films and photography were at the cutting edge of that movement. Her performances and installations are evocative and genius and persist to today to baffle and delight.”
Her performance and conceptual art has been shown at the Guggenheim, the Museum of Modern Art and the Centre Georges Pompidou, among other places. “Marta has been prescient in understanding the nuances of the power of media before social
Danza Imposible (feat. Marta Sanchez, Roman Filiu, Jerome Sabbagh, Rick Rosato & Daniel Dor) – Marta Sanchez Quintet
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Marques’ Almeida’s Marta Marques and Paulo Almeida Win LVMH Prize
PARIS — Marques’ Almeida’s Marta Marques and Paulo Almeida won the second annual LVMH Prize, an international contest for young designers selected by some of the industry’s biggest creative figures.
The Portuguese designers receive a grant of 300,000 euros, or $ 333,300 at current exchange rates, plus a year of coaching from executives at LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton, the world’s largest luxury group and sponsor of the prize.
Actress Natalie Portman, the face of Miss Dior perfume, handed the statuette to Marques and Almeida during a ceremony at the Louis Vuitton Foundation, the new Frank Gehry-designed art museum on the leafy fringes of Paris currently showcasing a mother lode of Modern Art masterpieces.
Marques and Almeida beat out seven other finalists. They were: Arthur Arbesser, an Austrian women’s wear designer based in Milan; Craig Green, a British men’s wear specialist based in London; Faustine Steinmetz, a French women’s wear designer based in London; Simon Porte Jacquemus, a Frenchman based in Paris, where he presents his Jacquemus women’s collection; Virgil Abloh, an American designer based in Milan, where he does men’s and women’s fashions under the Off-White label; and Demna Gvasalia, a German designer who presents his Vetements women’s line in Paris.
A special jury prize went to Jacquemus. It comes