Mario Testino Sells 400 Works To Benefit Peru's Museo Mate & Promote Peruvian Artists

Jackie Hoffmann, Iliana Lolas, Karen Miter, Naomi Campbell and Mario Testino at the MATE Museum

Master photographer Mario Testino, known for his glam shots of supermodels and fashion editorials for the world's leading magazines. Over the years, Testino has become a buyer of fine art, with 500 works from his collection going to auction this fall. The sale, slated for September 13-14 in London, will benefit the Museo Mate (Museo Mario Testino) in Lima, Peru, a nonprofit that aims to bring Peruvian artists to world attention. The sale is expected to raise in excess of $10 million.

Testino is a fan of beauty, talking about his first photography purchase in the 1980s, a picture of actor Vivien Leigh by the surrealist photographer Angus McBean. 

"Beauty today is considered a bit banal and a bit empty and a bit superficial. In the art world you probably can't mention that word, because it's not interesting or not deep enough. But I'm just always amazed by it," the BBC quotes the famous photographer. 

Prior to the Sotheby's sale, Testino will take over Sotheby's London galleries to curate an exhibition featuring a "series of talks by friends and collaborators from the worlds of fashion and photography. "

The collection represents artists of 45 nationalities, including Richard Prince and Cindy Sherman. The collection is particularly rich in Latin American art, with works by the Argentine artists Pablo Bronstein and Amalia Pica, the Colombian Oscar Murillo and, not surprisingly, Peruvian artists such as William Cordova.

Testino has accumulated more than 1000 works without ever selling a piece. The decision to sell almost half the collection has been 'hard'. 

"It's sad to part," he says. "I've never sold anything. I've been too attached to my collection."

But he says: "I have a mission."

"I'm selling because I have a unique opportunity to change something in the country I come from," he says.

Testino addes that he can't maintain the museum "with the money I have. I can't carry on worrying every month if I have the money or not".

He says "getting sponsors today is quite difficult" so he wants to create an endowment to ensure the centre has financial security in the future.

Smart Women Across America Are Asking: 'Where Is Ivanka When We Need Her?'

"The flaws in Ivanka Trump's feminism are, by now, well known, writes Sady Doyle for Elle.

The flaws in Ivanka Trump's feminism are, by now, well known. Any liberal woman under 35 could probably rattle off the list in her sleep: Her "parental leave" plan didn't provide enough parental leave. Her child care plan didn't actually cover the cost of child care. Her #WomenWhoWork campaign is an ad for dresses and handbags; her dresses and handbags are made at facilities that exploit female workers; her "feminist advocate" stance belies her role in an administration that actively seeks to strip funding and rights from women, and her choice to take a role in that administration (besides being a land mine for nepotism charges, the president is, y'know, her Dad) has enabled her to profit off the presidency.

The insults to Ivanka Trump are piling up in trailerloads. Sady Doyle's is one of countless, incredulous, scathing reviews of the pink frosted cupcakes baked from the wisdom of other people that America's First Daughter calls a book for working women. There is near-unanimous agreement that Ivanka Trump has a unique idea about the very word 'working'.  It's not the one that over 100 million of the rest of us relate to. 

One wonders if Ivanka isn't actually doing more damage than good with this book, even if the proceeds are going to charity. Personally, I thought Ivanka was smarter than the Stepford wife she projects in 'Women Who Work'.  Her prolific use of people's quotations, taking them out of context and giving them revised life through an Ivanka-envisioned hastag, implies a certain sympatico with her -- one that more often than not, doesn't exist at all. Ivanka Trump is smelling the roses in Hillary country, leaving many people not amused. 

When Ivanka takes Toni Morrison's 'Beloved' and its reflections on both freedom from physical slavery and a psychological prison living in the mind of its main character Sethe and applies it to the lives of well-off, working white women, our aggravation is beyond exasperation. She sounds like a heartless, clueless airhead -- or more like her father than we want to believe. 

As Gail Collins wrote in her New York Times column this weekend: 'Where's Ivanka When We Need Her?' This is our real world:

The reproductive rights war is always promoted publicly as a battle against abortion. But many religious conservatives hate birth control in general. Some just want to stop sex outside of marriage. Some don’t believe even married couples should use artificial methods like pills or condoms. Some believe that all fertilized eggs are humans and that many forms of contraception, from IUDs to morning-after pills, cause the equivalent of murder. It’s a theological principle that most Americans don’t accept. “Personhood” amendments giving the eggs constitutional rights have been defeated even in very conservative states.

Frankly, we don't care that Ivanka Trump didn't get her massages during the presidential campaign. The sky is falling on women's rights in this country, and this blond bombshell is redefining slavery for rich, white women with nannies. This is gross, frankly. Truly gross.

Reshma Saujani, founder and CEO of the nonprofit Girls Who Code tweeted at Ivanka Trump gelling her not to feature her story in 'Women Who Work' unless she is "going to stop being #complicit."

For a much more In-Depth look at Ivanka's new book, read AOC's: Hard Work Is All That Is Required, Says Ivanka Trump In A Book Drowning In Bad Reviews. 

Filmmaker Erika Lust Brings 'Hot Girls Wanted: Turned On' Pt 2 To Netflix

“Porn today is sex education,” says Erika Lust, a Barcelona-based erotic filmmaker in the first episode of Netflix’s new docuseries, 'Hot Girls Wanted: Turned On'. A spinoff of the 2015 documentary of the same name, this new show explores sex and relationships in the Internet age. 

The six-episode series was produced by Rashida Jones, Jill Bauer, and Ronna Gradus, the team behind the original film. At launch, the project followed a group of teenage girls entering the amateur porn business in Miami. In the new episodes, they expand their content focus from porn into all aspects of human sexuality online. Vogue explains: "One episode revolves around a cam girl and her intimate relationship with one of her customers, whom she’s never met in real life. One chapter explores the question of whether a woman can ever be empowered in the porn industry—the answer is murkier than you might believe. Another centers on a pair of female erotic filmmakers and their efforts to try and challenge the pervasive, and often aggressive, male gaze in pornography."

The producers of Hot Girls Wanted worked alongside researchers at Indiana University, in affiliation with the Kinsey Institute, to produce a first-of-its-kind study on the effects of porn use on relationships and socialization in teenagers and adults. The conclusions of their study -- which drive content throughout the episodes -- confirm that most young adults (even children) are getting most of their information from pornography. Almost 40% of teens have been exposed to porn by age 14. 

The series also explores the racism and classism that is fundamental to the porn industry -- then and now. The majority of young women participating are from poor, rural backgrounds with little hope of a future. Vogue interviews the creators of'Hot Girls Wanted: Turned On'.