’Tis the season to pore over magnificence. Almost 80 multidisciplinary works from MoMA—a Lorna Simpson {photograph}, a Langston Hughes poem, a Mark Bradford portray, and extra—seem in Grace Wales Bonner: Dream within the Rhythm (MoMA, New York), a compendium the London-based designer has described as “an archive of soulful expression.” New York Metropolis Ballet: Choreography and Couture (Rizzoli) celebrates the seventy fifth anniversary of the corporate and the annual fall style gala, which has impressed such designer-choreographer collaborations as Anna Sui and Edwaard Liang, the late Virgil Abloh and Gianna Reisen, and Gareth Pugh and Matthew Neenan. In the meantime, Who Are You, Polly Maggoo? (Delpire & Co.) transforms William Klein’s 1966 cult traditional send-up of Paris high fashion right into a collectible coffee-table tome—a becoming celebration of the movie’s star, Brooklyn-born mannequin Dorothy McGowan, who handed away final yr. And for pure, unadulterated awards-season delight, look no additional than Vainness Honest: Oscar Evening Periods (Abrams) by our personal Mark Seliger, which captures a decade of visitors on Hollywood’s greatest evening out. The guide’s purpose sufficient to remain in.
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