Critic’s Notebook: Fantasy, history, and the question of wearability
...for guests in a 200-some-odd-page manifesto that greeted us guests upon arrival to our seats). It was theater—mildly evocative of Oh, Mary! or the 1968...
The Shoptimist: An advertisement in influencer’s clothing
...proliferates to 308,000 followers on Instagram and 611,500 followers on TikTok. Her link-in-bio redirects users to a dark oatmeal-colored landing page where you can shop...
Iwan Baan’s ‘Rome — Las Vegas’ explores both cities from above and below
...The object is not a typical perfect-bound book. The paper is stacked, meaning images end up bisected and mixed up, running front-to-back. The cover and...
The Last Dinner Party rewrites the rules of pop
...Make-up Rebecca Wordingham at MA+ Talent using Armani Beauty. Manicure Abena Robinson at Agency 41. Digital Technician Giorgio Lattanzi. Photo Assistants Ed Bourmier, Hayleigh Longman,...
Fine Print: Thirty-three top reads of 2024
...was correct. Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake (Scribner, 2024) I asked Rachel Kushner if she’d write something for the magazine. She politely said she was too...
At ‘Montez Got Talent,’ karaoke is a competitive sport
...called ‘queer rap,’” they remark, quoting their own Wikipedia page after Emily Allan performs Eminem’s “8 Mile,” “you are the Joan Didion of rap.” These...
David Gray’s ‘Wait For It’ renders New York City as a playground of light and shadow
...where the link may not be obvious at first, can give both of them greater meaning. Or perhaps just magnify the humor or whimsy [of...
Larry Stanton: A love story
...can be a white page, a white stage, an empty gallery, or an empty apartment. It can be with paintings, photography, video, with performers or...
The cotton-candy lushness of Pucci’s Fun Fair
...random Wikipedia page. A line snaked through the maze of activity and printed bean bags for readings from a tarot reader who sat under palm...
Ballroom Marfa celebrates two decades of mystery and subversion
...Ballroom released an extensive anthology and archive called Ballroom Marfa: The First Twenty Years via Monacelli Press. The 320 page volume features stories from artists,...
Redefining intelligence through intuition
...to grab at—organic intelligence, or, as many call it, intuition? I can almost hear it rustle in disapproval. I resent this page. I resent its...
The Shoptimist: An unbearable uniformity of being
...perform somewhat autoerotic navel gazing disguised as exercise (Pilates) and nothing more. Look at Alo, a newish leggings-and-bras-in-“fun”-colors brand. The copy on their “About Us”...
Desiring literature with Nate Lippens and Kate Zambreno
...concept and the deadline (as I link, I think, my own recent and current work, including my own study of Guibert, to having a late-stage...
The Shoptimist: Put an end to the microtrend
...colors, much like the Bratz dolls. — I’ll end by taking a page from Washington Post fashion writer Rachel Tashjian, whose Milan Fashion Week column...
Fine Print: Did Michel Houellebecq steal Thomas Bernhard’s coat?
...for so-called signs of Bernhardian influence, such as one sentence on page six which runs for ten lines or another on page 101 which begins...
When post-irony renders real and fake indistinguishable, irreverence becomes a political weapon
...journalist Rachel Maddow in a 2019 MSNBC episode of The Rachel Maddow Show that focused on the messaging of the Trump administration. Post-ironic communications evade...
The lyric monuments of Barbara Chase-Riboud
...Ted Weiss Federal Building, and her more recent odes to Josephine Baker, which drape silk from winding armatures. She also works on the scale of...
Chloë Sevigny and Eileen Myles disrupt artistic expectations
...spend that kind of money. It’s a nightmare for publishers. They like Bonjour Tristesse, they like a 100-page book. And I do too, I love...
Multidisciplinary artist Mickalene Thomas transforms before the lens for her debut as the indomitable model Mickey!
...journey. I’ve loved collaborating with really fantastic costume designers who pay attention to the words that are on the page and bring their artistry to...
Cate Blanchett and Alfonso Cuarón vitalize narrative potential
...But if it can happen on set, you’re all on the same page. It invites a slightly different way of working, which I really warm...
Jake Gyllenhaal and Hans Ulrich Obrist put language into action
...the page, stage, screen, and beyond. Shirt, tie, and belt by Tom Ford. Trousers and boots by Saint Laurent by Anthony Vaccarello. Watch and ring...
Poet Precious Okoyomon and artist Olivia McKayla Ross are using time as a creative medium
...onto the page. Caribbean video artist, computer programmer, and archivist Olivia McKayla Ross is no stranger to the ecstatic. Alongside director Jazmin Jones, Ross works...
Fine Print: ‘The weirder and freakier the better’
...only books but the people and culture around them. Sophia: What is on the page is only part of the interesting things happening around books....
Jonathan Lethem’s ‘Cellophane Bricks’ collides art writing with narrative imagination
...literary exploits, including completing Donald Carpenter’s final, unfinished novel Fridays at Enrico’s and editing The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick, a massive compilation of the...
The Shoptimist: Myths, markets, and the business model of hype
...was released, Supreme’s myth bloomed within the downtown arts scene, creating a link between in-the-know artsy Soho chillers and underground skate culture where both informed...
Roving literary event Casual Encounterz prioritizes the pen over the persona
...laugh. But the series does blur lines—between what we see on the page and what we can expect to see in IRL cultural spaces. Casual...
Benjamin Fredrickson’s ‘Wedgies’ turn schoolyard antics into ass-up uncanniness
...Wedgies appears sexual but not precisely sexy. Colossal thighs and curved buttocks throughout the 90 pages bloat past the point of gym-ripped perfection and take...
Steven Cuffie’s relational image-making
...which had a Facebook page, and I reached out to them. Through that, someone who knew my dad contacted me and sent me this body...
Fine Print: Poetry by any means necessary
For his monthly column, Drew Zeiba traverses New York City in search of performances beyond the page...
Even undead, Joan Didion won’t back down
...founded the short-lived but influential magazine Grand Street, where Walter Hopps, Rachel Kushner, Hilton Als, and Deborah Triesman all worked at. Stein discovered Ottessa Moshfegh...
Funto Omojola’s cosmological reckonings
...and performed poetry, Omojola merges multiple languages and traces intergenerational linkages unfurling across Nigeria, Europe, and the US. Though featuring none of their own words...
The mother and the monster in Catalina Ouyang’s ‘Trick’
...sheer size. An intimidatingly massive black metal sculpture with a wide ring serving as the base shooting two arms that link the air. The machine...
Stacy Skolnik’s genre-bending ‘The Ginny Suite’ is an experiment in post-pandemic poetics
...by fictionalizing one’s self on the page. Stacy: It’s a playful way to poke fun at the discourse around autofiction. Maybe that has passed a...
Zegna Artistic Director Alessandro Sartori and actor Mads Mikkelsen imagine new narratives of creative responsibility
...their Oasi Zegna project, an initiative that has been in progress for 75 years. The 224-page tome celebrated the brand’s long heritage around Oasi Zegna,...
Hallucinating sense in the era of infinity-content
...“Chicago” as “Chicano,” Chicago being historically linked to gangsters and present-day drill music, the date suggesting some important historical event, the Michelangelo motif giving the...
Techno-futurists are selling an interplanetary paradise for the posthuman generation—they just forgot about the rest of us
...no coincidence, then, that its supporters are also among the key investors in life-extension and anti-aging initiatives, with Silicon Valley tech entrepreneurs like Amazon’s Jeff...
Kristen Wentrcek and Andrew Zebulon find inspiration at the DMV
...page or in physical space? Kristen: It’s a mix. I think you [Andrew] usually start with drawing. I usually start with the material. Although you...
Mara Mckevitt’s cult of persona
...going on. It developed, however, into the short film Val and the book Making Of (both completed in 2023). The slim 64-page autofiction text published...
Guerreiro do Divino Amor builds a Helvetian Olympus at the 60th Venice Biennale
...linked to decisions made in Switzerland.” Aesthetically, Guerreiro cites Brazilian carnival culture as a driving reference point (alongside video games). But he also clocks the...
The gospel of Schiaparelli according to Creative Director Daniel Roseberry and his mom, Fran
...give these public speeches, but then I’d cultivate my own world on the page. Mom letting me be a part of both things is definitive...
Second Life’s loyal users embrace its decaying software and no-fun imperfections
...2.0. Taking a page from Neal Stephenson’s sci-fi epic Snow Crash, in which users co-build a virtual world that runs seamlessly alongside the real thing,...
The sincere glamor of Candy Darling
...date a trans woman named Rachel Humphreys before tossing her aside, an all-too-common trend of the time.) He also wrote “Candy Says,” the sad tranny...
Jacques Vallée and Jeffrey J. Kripal challenge the limits of knowledge
On December 17, 2017, the front page of The New York Times read “Real UFOs? Pentagon Unit Tried to Know.” Its results: inconclusive. But this...
Erykah Badu and Michèle Lamy summon the spirit of the future
...we have this in common; we feel we are one link in the chain. Another thing we have in common is we feel like everywhere...
Fine Print: Like letting the world read your diary
...the page, the self, the future. Who, in the end, is the audience? If you’re a notable figure—writers and artists included—the audience may wind up...
In Jennifer Croft’s ‘The Extinction of Irena Rey,’ literature is alive—even dangerous
...work on the page as a kind of montage, they don’t usually contain narrative information themselves. They’re photos of signs, cooking, lichen, which aren’t necessarily...
Lucia De Vito’s contemporary take on Fabiana Filippi
...the nature of the Umbria region, which is known as the “green lung” of Italy. The company’s values are deeply linked with history, culture, and...
‘Copy Machine Manifestos: Artists Who Make Zines’ memorializes a forgotten archive
...of the experience, finding that one page corner or half-hidden image that speaks to you in a strange but somehow familiar language. Oddly missing from...
The singular vision of Otti Berger
...every page of Otti Berger: Weaving for Modernist Architecture, an ample volume of essays and images newly compiled by the German art book publisher Hatje...
