Week in Review: Most-talked-about stories in Art, Design Architecture and Fashion Style

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Art Review – Most-talked-about stories in Art, Design Architecture and Fashion Style, July 9-13, 2012:

Week in Review: Yayoi Kusama Fever, Zaha Hadid’s Superboat, and More

ART

—Yayoi Kusama fever swept New York. Check out our review of her Whitney Museum retrospective, coverage of the star-studded opening, and look at her polka-dotted Louis Vuitton collaboration.

Yayoi Kusama at Louis Vuitton, NYC

—Ben Davis reflected on the meaning of the sudden end of Artnet magazine and the time he spent working there.

—The buyer of the $119.9 million Edvard Munch “The Scream” pastel at a May 2 Sotheby’s sale was finally revealed to be American businessman Leon Black.

—An online catalogue of 2,500 hours of curator Hans Ulrich Obrist‘s recorded interviews with hundreds of cultural luminaries is set to debut July 29.

—Julia Halperin investigated why smaller dealers are choosing to leave Chelsea for cheaper rent and the Lower East Side.

ARCHITECTURE DESIGN 

—Zaha Hadid has been commissioned to build a Z boat for mega-dealer Kenny Schachter and the results are straight out of a Christopher Nolan movie. Holy smokes, Schachter!

A rendering of the Z Boat, designed by Zaha Hadid for art dealer Kenny Schachter

—Check out our slide show of the 10 most extreme works of LEGO art, from an M.C. Escher homage to a retelling of the Bible.

Sean Kenney’s LEGO animal sculptures / Courtesy Scott McLeod via Flickr

—McCarren Park Pool was revamped and reopened just in time for the dog days of Summer. Kelly Chan queries, can civic architecture take the heat?

—The Barbican Center opened an exhibtion devoted to international spy and apparently style icon James Bond. Check out our slideshow of 007 artifacts from big names like Giorgio Armani, Roberto Cavalli, Tom Ford, Hubert de Givenchy, and Miuccia Prada.

—Tech-savvy industrial designer Yves Béhar raised $1 million dollars on Kickstarter in just 8 hours for a new Android-based gaming system called Ouya.

FASHION  STYLE 

—Ladies in London are sick of paying upwards of $595 for Christian Louboutin heels and have taken matters into their own hands by mimicking the designer’s signature and painting the soles of their shoes red.

—Dolce Gabbana releases their first ever couture collection in a fashion show frenzy of chandeliers and enormous red capes.

—In celebration of her forthcoming appearance in the music video for George Michael‘s first single in eight years, we look back at Kate Moss‘s many music video appearances.

—Co-founders of New York-based Art Production Fund, Doreen Remen and Yvonne Force Villareal contribute their style picks to this week’s Tastemaker series slideshow.

—“Dallas” Costume Designer Rachel Sage Kunin talked cowboy boots and Ralph Lauren in an interview with Ann Binlot.

VIDEO

—Tom Chen documented the Yayoi Kusama madness surrounding a wax replica of the artist in Louis Vuitton’s 5th Ave store window and captured remarks by Whitney Director Adam Weinberg and curator David Kiehl at a  Museum press conference:

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