Art dolls by Dina Ladina

I was in Portugal for a week, traveling with my 'made in Brazil' friends and in one of my gallery hunting afternoons in Porto, I had the chance of meeting the girls from Aguas Furtadas (lovely by the way!). They had such great collection of work by young talented Portuguese designers and artists that no need to say that my friends L, P and J had to push me literally out of the gallery.

Some of the most fabulous art dolls they had were the hand made ones by Dina Ladina. I uploaded some photos of her work below that I kindly borrowed from her personal crafts blog, but you can find more images in her Flickr photostream, where she has lots of pics of her beautiful work.

Enjoy it :-)

Porto

The streets of Porto...

Photos by Vane

Gisele Bündchen: The charmed life of the mega-model

Our 'querissíma' super top-model Gisele receives a dedicated feature in the British daily The Independent. The article is all superlatives, but well, what isn't in the mega-model's life?

For the original article, click here.

First selling exhibition of work by Cecil Beaton in over 25 years

The british gallery Chris Beetles, in collaboration with Sotheby's, announces an exhibition of photographer, painter, illustrator, writer and Oscar-winning designer of sets and costumes Cecil Beaton (1904 - 1980).

Beaton the photographer cultivated a genius for staging compelling scenes. An extensive list of movie stars, artists and members of the Royal Family were portraited by him, amongst them Buster Keaton, Marlene Dietrich, Pablo Picasso, Edith Sitwell, Truman Capotte, Audrey Hepburn and Marilyn Monroe.

The show in London combines 64 vintage and modern prints, the latter produced from original negatives drawn from Sotheby’s unique archive.

Accompanying the exhibition will be a 92 page, fully illustrated catalogue containing a foreword by Mario Testino. It is available from the gallery at 10 pounds.

Cecil Beaton selling exhibition
Beetles Gallery, London
22 April to 16 May 2009
www.chrisbeetles.com

Marilyn Monroe, New York, 1956