Gordon Parks Foundation’s 20th anniversary show opens in New York.
Jack Shainman Gallery will exhibit Gordon Parks’ “Voices in the Mirror” September 18 through November 6, marking the 20th anniversary of the Gordon Parks Foundation. Named for Parks’ 1990 memoir, the exhibition features 65 works spanning his career with Life magazine from the 1950s through the 1970s, alongside reflections from Ava DuVernay, Thelma Golden, Deborah Willis, Anderson Cooper, and Isabella Rossellini, among others. The show revisits Parks’ intimate portraits of figures including Muhammad Ali, Malcolm X, Gloria Vanderbilt, and Black Panther Party leaders Eldridge and Kathleen Cleaver, tracing how fashion and dress functioned throughout his work as markers of dignity, protection, and social nuance. Highlights include his 1966 images of Ali in Miami and London, his 1942 “American Gothic” portrait of Ella Watson, and large-scale color prints from his 1956 “Department Store” and 1963 “Untitled” series documenting life in the American South.
Sofia Coppola returns to Versailles for a Marie Antoinette anniversary exhibition.
Director Sofia Coppola has partnered with the Château de Versailles on an exhibition marking the 20th anniversary of her 2006 film Marie Antoinette, staged inside the palace itself. Housed across two floors of the Petit Trianon, the show features props, costumes, and behind-the-scenes materials, including Milena Canonero’s Oscar-winning costumes displayed on mannequins modeled after stars Kirsten Dunst and Jason Schwartzman. The anniversary coincides with Coppola’s documentary “Making Marie Antoinette,” edited from 80 hours of behind-the-scenes footage shot by her late mother, Eleanor Coppola, and set for release by Mubi on November 9.
MOCA LA names Jonathan Abbot its new director and CEO.
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles has named Jonathan Abbott as its new director and CEO, effective immediately. Abbott arrives from public media company GBH, where he spent 15 years as director, succeeding interim director Ann Goldstein, who stepped in after Johanna Burton departed to lead the Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania. At GBH, Abbott led a $215 million fundraising campaign and oversaw the organization’s growth from roughly $225 million to $1 billion in assets, while spearheading its digital transformation and expanding access to journalism, education, and cultural programming. He previously served as senior VP of development and corporate relations at PBS and held senior roles at KQED in San Francisco, where he helped shape the strategy behind the country’s first all-news public radio NPR station.
Diamond house Jessica McCormack opens on Place Vendôme.
Diamond jewelry brand Jessica McCormack will open a store at 16 Place Vendôme in early 2027, marking its first stand-alone location in continental Europe and fifth store worldwide. The opening places the brand alongside heritage jewelry houses including Boucheron, Van Cleef & Arpels, Cartier, and Chaumet, many of which have occupied the historic square since the late 19th century. The boutique will follow the brand’s signature design approach, styled like a private townhouse filled with art, antiques, and bespoke wallpapers. The Paris opening continues an aggressive international rollout: the brand opened its first U.S. flagship on Madison Avenue last year, followed by a second U.S. store at South Coast Plaza in California last month, with a Rodeo Drive flagship planned for later in 2027. Jessica McCormack also operates two London locations and a concession at Harrods.
The Getty Museum adds a long-lost Velázquez portrait to its collection.
The J. Paul Getty Museum has acquired Portrait of the Count-Duke of Olivares, a rediscovered 17th-century painting by Diego Velázquez, marking the artist’s first work to enter the Getty’s collection and the first Velázquez painting on the West Coast. The portrait will go on view this fall in the Museum’s East Pavilion. The bust-length portrait depicts Gaspar de Guzmán y Pimentel, the powerful Spanish prime minister known as the Count-Duke of Olivares, and was likely painted as a diplomatic gift to Cardinal Francesco Barberini in 1626. Long known only through an engraving by Paulus Pontius after Peter Paul Rubens’ design, the original was believed lost until it surfaced in a private Italian collection and was identified by Salvador Salort-Pons, director of the Detroit Institute of Arts, while researching an exhibition on Olivares’ portraiture. Following its Getty debut, the painting will travel to the Detroit Institute of Arts for “Velázquez & Olivares: Early Years at Court,” running from January 24 through July 25, 2027.
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