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68 ART + DECORATION I f I were choosing a group to be marooned with, this might just be the one. The Authentics (out now from Clarkson Potter, $60) is photographer Melanie Acevedo and Dara Caponigro's new book depicting their tribe of forward-thinking, fashion-loving, decorative devotees, photographed in their exuberant homes. "It's not the easy path to be authentic," says fashion designer Jonathan Hartig, "and I think it takes a tremendous amount of courage." Acevedo (whose clients include Casa Vogue, World of Interiors, Elle) and Caponigro (creative director of Schumacher and former editor in chief of Veranda and founding editor of Domino) visit with Kelly Wearstler (L.A.), Ashley and Katalina Hicks (London), Hutton Wilkinson (Tony Duquette Inc., L.A.), Michael Bastian (fashion designer, NYC), Anne-Marie Midy (designer, Casamidy, San Miguel), Nicky Haslam (designer, London), Jonathan Hartig (Libertine), and more fascinating people. An AUTHENTICALLY Great Read I n recent years, Pop sculpture has become a subject of scholarly study and reappraisal, and now a new generation of artists is mining that field. Three of them are in the stables of Houston galleries, all supersized in time for holiday art gifting. Marc Sijan's security guard from Art of the World Gallery is startlingly convincing. Sijan's life-size sculptures, with realistic flesh and features, as well as spot- on garb, are like having another family (or staff) member in your casa. At McClain Gallery, Jonathan Seliger incorporates luxury brands into his lustrous shopping- bag sculptures that evoke the experience of going on a spree at Bulgari, Tiffany & Co., Prada, Valentino, or Chanel. In fact, the fashion house Chanel has a Seliger in its corporate collection. The artist is well represented in museums, too, including the Whitney and MoMA, as well as the Panza Collection in Lugano, Switzerland. Finally, French sculptor Christian Renonciat utilizes pale white ayous wood to render nuanced depictions in three dimensions of the simplest objects from everyday life. An unadorned envelope or scrap of cardboard acquires dignity and understated beauty in the artist's contemplative trompe l'oeil wall sculptures at Gremillion & Co. Fine Art, Inc. Marc Sijan, from $50,000, at Art of the World Gallery; Jonathan Seliger, from $12,000, at McClain Gallery; Christian Renonciat, from $4,000, at Gremillion & Co. Fine Art, Inc. Catherine D. Anspon COURTESY THE ARTIST AND MCCLAIN GALLERY COURTESY THE ARTIST AND ART OF THE WORLD GALLERY Marc Sijan's Standing Guard (SS) — Folded Arts, 2017, at Art of the World Gallery Dara Caponigro Melanie Acevedo Kelly Wearstler Jonathan Seliger's ongoing ode to luxury shopping, at McClain Gallery REALLY BIG POP ART