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...with some Parisian notables, was François-Henri Pinault, the affable CEO of PPR (formerly Pinault-Printemps Redoute), which owns Bottega Veneta and other high-end brands such as Gucci. At the center table, surrounded by furniture dealers and a smattering of old friends, sat Tomas Maier, 49, the German-born creative director of Bottega Veneta and the designer largely responsible for ushering in a profitable countertrend of subtlety and refinement to the overblown, logo-besotted luxury market. The mood he had created for the dinner jibed seamlessly with the mood he has established at the brand: understated...
...Judah Friedlander, Todd Barry, and Azhar Usman. Sanders Theatre. 8 p.m. $25 general admission, $10 students. (CNC)X with Juliana Hatfield. Started in 1977, this punk band is one of the most important influences on the alternative rock scene. Avalon. 7 p.m. Tickets available through Ticketmaster. $20. (JDMC)Cage. German-born, Middletown, NY-raised rapper Cage will promote his new Def Jux release “Hell’s Winter†at the Middle East Downstairs. The MC, who spent time in a mental institution prior to his rap career, will be assisted by a slew of rappers...
...Aleph Sanctury (1963-71) by German-born Mati Klarwein, painted panels crawling with multicolored figures form a small room that glows like stained glass. Richard Lindner, a genuine product of '20s Germany whose style influenced the animated Beatles film Yellow Submarine (1968), is represented by one oil painting of a striped-jerseyed rock star with a guitar against a sunburst (Rock-Rock...
...without drugs?try the effect of the many videos and light shows, like Brits Mark Boyle and Joan Hills' Beyond Image and Son of Beyond Image (1969). With a soundtrack by British progressive rockers Soft Machine, it features projections of colored oil floating on water. Or how about German-born Gustav Metzger's Liquid Crystal Projections (1965/2005), a chill-out room with moving images of colored blobs flung onto the walls?why not turn up, drop in and tune out? tel: (49-69) 2998820; www.schirn-kunsthalle.de
...Nouveau squiggles, Pre-Raphaelite paintings, Victorian advertisements and early Hollywood movies. Thanks to the invention of DayGlo in the late '40s, artists turned this ragbag into something hallucinatory. This was the art that teenagers peeled off hoardings to hang in their bedrooms. In New Aleph Sanctury (1963-71) by German-born Mati Klarwein, painted panels crawling with multicolored figures form a small room that glows like stained glass. Richard Lindner, a genuine product of '20s Germany whose style influenced the animated Beatles film Yellow Submarine (1968), is represented by one oil painting of a striped-jerseyed rock star with...