Virtuoso Life - September/October 2008 - (Page 26) LUXE REPORT Boxed in: Steep canyon walls surround Telluride on three sides. Four square: Goat cheese bites at XIV. TASTEMAKER HOLLYWOOD STORY After 20 years opening restaurants in San Francisco, Las Vegas, and elsewhere, celebrity chef Michael Mina returns to Los Angeles, where he got his start at the Hotel Bel-Air. His new LA outpost, XIV, opens in October in a blocklong Sunset Boulevard building with interiors by famed designer Philippe Starck. Diners order petite plates such as lobster and sweet corn crepes and crispy sweetbreads with chickpeas, which arrive at the table preportioned for mess-free grazing. 8117 Sunset Boulevard ESCAPE ARTIST In the Bag Roomy enough to carry a weekend wardrobe, chic enough to tote around town, the new Icarus Weekender from Leonello Borghi is the latest status bag from the Italian designer who formerly worked with Prada and Armani. The voluminous, unisex bag comes in four ostrich leather shades: black, brown, gray, and white. $3,995 at Barneys New York, www.barneys.com Dolled up: Kara Walker hits Fort Worth. PAPER WORK Cut It Out Subverting the genteel eighteenth-century art of cut-paper silhouettes, artist Kara Walker tackles the subject of pre-Civil War slavery in tableaus that have won her, among other laurels, a “genius” award from the MacArthur Foundation. Now the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth stages Kara Walker: My Complement, My Enemy, My Oppressor, My Love, the first full-scale retrospective of the artist’s work, through October 19. In addition to her signature silhouette installations, the exhibit will screen Walker’s recent works in film animation. www.themodern.org (MUSEUM) KARA WALKER/SIKKEMA JENKINS & CO., NEW YORK 26 V I RT U O S O L I F E http://www.barneys.com http://www.themodern.org
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