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JULY | PAGE 6 | 2014 "Summer School": We love this title for Liliana Bloch Gallery's smartly curated roundup of 10 talents who lend global dialogue to the diatribe around our educational system. Tim Best's unforgettable photo of an executive serves up a new-century take on Death of a Salesman, while lenswoman Leigh Merrill (a newcomer to Bloch's stable) brings her special take on vernacular architecture and streetscapes to freshly minted works, and Kathy Lovas' Life Is Just a Bowl of Cherries installation piles books and household goods on a worn side table (July 19 – September 6). A Jazzy Show: Also recommended is the Amon Carter Museum of American Art's retrospective for under-known and rarely shown Jazz Age modernist Archibald Motley (through September 7). You can almost hear the blues notes played. Catherine D. Anspon Art Notes Contemporary Canvas: Linarejos Moreno BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE TEXAS CONTEMPORARY ART FAIR Tim Best's Capability Maturity (from the series "Business Man,") at Liliana Bloch Gallery A snarl of tangled sheets, used condoms and soiled underwear might not sound like items destined for a top- shelf art collection, but think again. One of the absolutely defining artworks of the YBA movement comes to the block as Christie's London hammers down a new home for Tracey Emin's provocative, shocking and still ground-breaking My Bed, a sculptural installation that distills the artist's own disturbing narrative. The 1998 work, which places front and center Emin's actual unmade bed and its surrounding detritus — culled from a dark period in her life — transforms the personal into a cathartic piece of art that speaks to the universal human condition while alluding to feminist issues. Shortlisted for the Turner Prize when it was first exhibited, it not only created uproar but forever redefined the concept of contemporary art. Mega collector Charles Saatchi is parting with the bed to benefit his Saatchi Gallery Foundation. Auction Tuesday, July 1, at Christie's London; estimate $1.3 to $2 million. Catherine D. Anspon Make Your Bed: YBA on the Block Tracey Emin's My Bed, 1998, at Christie's London W e caught up with one of the nominees for the Texas Contemporary Award this summer in Spain: Linarejos Moreno, who will be featured in a monographic presentation in Inman Gallery's booth during the Texas Contemporary Art Fair, year four, in September. She will continue the gallery's tradition of highlighting an intimate, tightly curated solo exhibition within the context of Inman's larger booth offerings. Currently exhibiting in Madrid's prestigious PhotoEspaña, which focuses for the first time in 20 years on Spanish photography, Moreno's work dialogues with the photography festival's Jardin Botanico, a pavilion dating back to 1785. Her Madrid project typifies the sensitive conceptual melding that characterizes Moreno's art- making — an exploration that traverses centuries and materials, interweaving the personal with the global, investigating history and society. Aesthetically, her creations are an elegiac take on the notion of ruins — not coincidentally, the subject of her Fulbright research fellowship during her recent time at Rice University. Moreno provided a Fair preview in our exclusive email interview: "I will show the Tejiendo los Restos del Naufragio II (Weaving The Remains of The Shipwreck II). In it, I take a graphic document found in my father's factory, scan and print on a very big handcrafted burlap. This scientific image acts as a backdrop for some other heavy industrial iron elements in conversation with personal and delicate (maybe sexually connoted) drawings and objects. The ensemble of the installation appears as a kind of double archeological process, the one linked to the remains of the factory and the other one linked with childhood and the unconscious." Interjecting a sense of ritual into photography, video, printmaking, installation and sculpture, Moreno's fascinating yet ever-shifting practice "has sought to speak about the fragility of the human being when faced with economical machinery and time … about the danger of the reification, the transformation of the persons into things, characteristic of the capitalist society. [But] it is time to talk from another perspective. Now I am more interested in nature than in the industrial world, even if the concept of mechanism is always present." COURTESY THE ARTIST AND INMAN GALLERY COURTESY THE ARTIST AND INMAN GALLERY Linarejos Moreno's Weaving the Remains of the ShipWreck ll (in studio), 2009/2014, at Inman Gallery Linarejos Moreno September 4 – 7, 2014 H O U S T O N txcontemporary.com Nasiba Adilova in Dallas before a trip to Turks & Caicos Ferragamo LOVES … ADILOVA When packing for summer, these are my getaway essentials. Nasiba Adilova M y most important tip for summer: Keep your skin safe from the sun. I carry ColoreScience powder sunscreen in my bag every day. It goes on easy, isn't sticky and is water resistant. $61, at Renée Rouleau Skin Care Spa. Currently, my favorite sunglasses are The Row round sunnies in brown. $445, at Neiman Marcus. I've been a devotee of the simple Prada sandal for years and own them in every color. They are comfortable, chic and go with any outfit. $410, at Neiman I am a big fan of Loro Piana Panama hats ($775, at Loro Piana). I also just discovered a fantastic new hand-painted Panama hat line called Ibo Maraca ($264, at aesthet. com). Ibo Maraca Loro Piana Prada ColoreScience M y three favorite summer totes are Salvatore Ferragamo's white wicker tote ($2,700, at Salvatore Ferragamo); my Balenciaga raffia tote in blue and beige ($1,065, at Balenciaga); and the Hermès silk city series bag ($1,800 small, $2,100 large, at Hermès). Marysia offers a variety of well- fitting swimsuits and protective tees to keep away harmful rays. $258, at marysiaswim.com. Athena Procopiou Hermès M y current obsession is the Athena Procopiou fringed cover-up, which can be worn over a bikini, linen pants, jeans or a dress. $640, at athenaprocopiou.com. A silk Hermès scarf tied over your hair, around your hat or neck adds color to a simple white dress or sailor stripes for a wonderful summer look. $330 to $1,675, at Hermès. Michael Kors This Michael Kors platform is a great summer heel. $750, at Michael Kors. 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