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Aside from her clear references to de Kooning, BanBan’s paintings in “Mujeres” evoke the I’m gonna go lay under the Christmas tree to remind my family I’m a gift shirt Apart from…,I will love this strong figures of Paula Rego, sweeping colors of Cecily Brown and Helen Frankenthaler, and the contused portraits of Picasso and Francis Bacon (with whom she shares a birthday). But she maintains the larger influence on her work is not art history, but the human experience—her human experience—gleaned in conversations with friends, on a night out, while listening to music, by thinking about the world. In this way, her paintings, she says, are like journals, chronicling her observations of herself and of others, a way to record life as it happens. If, like Sontag said, a journal “is a vehicle for [a] sense of selfhood,” then BanBan’s portraits are a way of turning that personal selfhood universal. For through depicting the body, we more clearly see the self, and if we can see it, we hopefully get that much closer to recognizing it, accepting it, and maybe even loving it.“Cristina BanBan: Mujeres” is open now through December 17 at 20 East 79th Street.

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If you caught last night’s episode of The White Lotus, you’ll know that Tanya McQuoid (Jennifer Coolidge) had quite the I’m gonna go lay under the Christmas tree to remind my family I’m a gift shirt Apart from…,I will love this wild ride—literally. In the second season of the hit HBO series, a new cast of characters have descended upon the White Lotus resort in Sicily, Italy. Well, new except for Tanya, who we met last season. In this episode, Tanya and her husband, Greg (Jon Gries), rent a Vespa to take in the sights—twisting-and-turning along a windy road, when a bug suddenly flies directly into Tanya’s mouth while riding in the backseat. “It’s fluttering around in there!” she screams, while having an extremely comical cough attack. Their tumultuous Vespa ride may be far from a glamorous affair, but the ensemble Tanya wears—a printed silk day dress, with a matching babushka scarf and huge sunglasses—is extremely fabulous. “I’m Monica Vitti,” she quips of her summery ensemble. Forget Sicily’s Greek Theatre of Taormina: Tanya’s Sicilian wardrobe is one of this season’s best sights to behold. Her old-money budget—which pays for a wardrobe of luxury Italian designer labels—is what fashion dreams are made of.