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FASHION UNIVERSE Mark Handforth's Eclipse, 2003 MATERIAL CONNECTION Miami artist Mark Handforth literally twists the public objects present in daily life—lamp posts, pipes, road signs—into poetic, monumental art installations and sculptures. For his major upcoming exhibition at North Miami's Museum of Contemporary Art, "Mark Handforth: Rolling Stop," Handforth and director and chief curator Bonnie Clearwater created an imaginative, wonderland-like landscape in the museum's galleries with works like a towering thirty-by-eighteen-foot wishbone and a wall-length installation of fluorescent light. Handforth was the first local artist to have a solo show at MOCA in 1996, and to Clearwater, "working with Mark is like catching up with an old friend, filling in the twists and turns of his life and career."—Julia Cooke FENDI'S LIVE MUSIC SERIES, FENDI O', MADE ITS U.S. DEBUT THIS FALL WITH AN INTIMATE PERFORMACE BY LYKKE LI AT THE STANDARD'S BOOM BOOM ROOM. FENDI ROCKS WEARABLE ART We've probably all justified a jewelry splurge or two as wearble art, but a new show at New York's Museum of Art and Design turns its focus to some of the great contemporary artists who have actually produced sculptural works as jewelry. Picasso To Koons: The Artist As Jeweler includes pieces from Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Max Ernst, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Jeff Koons and Anish Kapoor, among others, including this necklace by Alexander Calder. Through January 8, 2012 TAG, YOU'RE IT STREET STYLE HAS BEEN INFLUENCING FASHION FOR YEARS, BUT HERMÈS IS TAKING THAT DYNAMIC A STEP FURTHER WITH ITS NEW GRAFF CARRE. IN ADDITION TO TAPPING THE GRAFFITI ARTIST KONGO TO DESIGN THE SCARF, HERMÈS IS SUPPORTING THE ARTIST'S KOSMO TOUR, WHICH INVITES YOUNG ARTISTS IN EIGHT DIFFERENT COUNTRIES TO CREATE MURALS, AND PERHAPS BECOME THE NEXT GREAT STREET ARTIST. 32 BAL HARBOUR