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MADRID // Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza opens its first fashion show--and the first major retrospective of Hubert de Givenchy. Curated by the designer himself, it includes frocks created for Audrey Hepburn, his muse, Jackie Kennedy and the Duchess of Windsor. Oct. 22-Jan. 18; museothyssen.org

NEW YORK // Paul Kasmin inaugurates his new gallery on 10th Avenue with a show of intricate calligraphic "New Work" by Elliott Puckette. Her linear abstractions are based on wire maquettes and evoke musical lines as well as the curvature of the human body. Until Nov. 8; paulkasmingallery.com

LONDON // The British Museum is marking the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall by looking at the complexities of German history, assembling a 200-item exhibition that goes from Dürer's fanciful rhinoceros to the Volkswagen Beetle. Until Jan. 25; britishmuseum.org

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