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<\/p>\nStone-cold sexy?<\/p>\n
Underwear on the floor is turning heads at the Frieze New York stand of the Iranian gallery Dastan. This fetching pair of pants\u2014the British term for undies\u2014is not a soiled item discarded by a fairgoer but an exquisite piece crafted from Carrara marble by the London-based artist Reza Aramesh. \u201cEach piece represents the last item of clothing taken off from a person before the prison uniform is given to them,\u201d says the artist on Instagram. The relevant detention centre is printed on the underside; this edition has the title Action 473 Lefortovo Prison 23 April Progression #226. Aramesh was on the stand during Wednesday\u2019s VIP preview, explaining that he showed 207 of the pants pieces at a church in Venice in 2024; he was interrupted by a fair visitor keen to point out that he\u2019d \u201cleft something behind\u201d on the fair floor. Charming.<\/p>\n
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Under wraps: the creators of the $150 works\u00a0are revealed only after purchase<\/p>\n
Secret Santa comes early to Tribeca<\/p>\n
A highlight of Frieze Week is the open-house event held by Susan and Michael Hort at their impressive Tribeca townhouse, where guests can sneak a peek at works by top artists such as Elizabeth Peyton and Micha\u00ebl Borremans. Works available in a special sale benefit the Rema Hort Mann Fund, with proceeds going towards an emerging-artist programme and the Peter Hort Quality of Life Cancer Grants. (Both Rema and Peter, the Horts\u2019 children, died from cancer.) A particularly popular element of the sale is the \u201cBuy What You Love\u201d section, which includes works on paper by artist friends for the fund. Everything is priced at $150, but \u201cyou won\u2019t know who created a work until\u00a0you buy it\u201d, according to a wall text. \u201cWe\u2019ve been running this for 30 years. It\u2019s fun!\u201d says Elysia Borowy, the executive director of the Rema Hort Mann Fund. \u201cPeople do try to game the system, which is fine.\u201d<\/p>\n
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From Angel to artist: Lucy Liu\u2019s show includes the languid portrait Make Haste Slowly (2026) Courtesy Alisan Fine Arts<\/p>\n
Art loves Lucy<\/p>\n
The actor Lucy Liu is making art-world waves again with a new show at Alisan Fine Arts on the Upper East Side (until 6 June). Hard Feelings includes paintings focused on \u201cmemory, family history and emotional reflection through a deeply personal body of work\u201d, a spokesperson says. Liu, meanwhile, says the works unmask and strip away \u201cthe instinct to reframe the past or make it more palatable\u201d. Known for films like Charlie\u2019s Angels, Liu is a successful artist\u2014or, as Pink News once put it: \u201cWhat most of the internet didn\u2019t know was that she creates erotic lesbian art.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stone-cold sexy? Underwear on the floor is turning heads at the Frieze New York stand of the Iranian…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":483704,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[267],"tags":[365,362,363,364,366,75543,18,117,210748,19,17,968],"class_list":["post-483703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-diary","tag-eire","tag-entertainment","tag-frieze-new-york-2026","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-new-york"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116570999707201439","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=483703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483703\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/483704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}