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pop-on dental embellishments for celebrity clients, especially those in the music biz. It's not uncommon for grillz ornamented with diamonds and other candy-colored jewels to reach into the five, six, and seven figures, the latter reportedly for Katy Perry's over-the-top grill in her 2013 Dark Horse Egyptian-inspired music video; that extravagant mouth bling set a Guinness record as most valuable grill with its million- dollar price tag. A New Grillz Master LaMarsh follows in this tradition as its next-gen creator of fabulous grillz adornment, honing a personal vision that melds an organic wabi sabi aesthetic often unexpectedly paired with ornate Islamic iconography. This exhibition, dramatically installed in a darkened, chamber-like space at the Dallas Contemporary, underscores the theatricality of his creations. "Anticlastic" is accompanied by two film shorts: One pulls back the curtain on LaMarsh's intensive process of forging Seven Gates, while the other is a meditation on the World War II-era internment of Japanese Americans, told via family archives of Detroit-based Shigeto, an electronic musician, DJ, radio host, label co-founder, friend, and client. Read curatorial behind-the-scenes on the making of the exhibition at papercitymag.com. Masahiro LaMarsh: Anticlastic," through August 31 at the Dallas Contemporary, dallascontemporary.org. Erykah Badu wearing Badrool grill by Jules Kim of Bijules, 2018 Top: Quavo in diamond grillz by Johnny Dang & Co., 2018. From Ice Cold: A Hip-Hop Jewelry History by Vikki Tobak (Taschen, © 2022). Photo by Krista Schlueter. FROM ICE COLD: A HIP-HOP JEWELRY HISTORY BY VIKKI TOBAK (TASCHEN, © 2022). PHOTO COURTESY BIJULES FROM ICE COLD: A HIP-HOP JEWELRY HISTORY BY VIKKI TOBAK (TASCHEN, © 2022). PHOTO BY NADYA WASYLKO. Badrool grill designed for Erykah Badu by Jules Kim of Bijules 36