On Model Mayhem, everyday people become the author of their own fantasy
...those characters––the most important thing being their membership number. That’s the key link. First, I approached them by email. It’s tough because they don’t let...
Photographer Suleika Mueller shoots architect Nevine Nasser in her Islamic heart creation
...came about during my doctorate, which explored the connection between sacred space and spiritual experience through practice. It was very timely! Through my research, I...
Eileen Myles chronicles a people’s history of East River Park
...on the internet) by the ’90s for sure. New York became more like everyplace else. But the marble’s still here. I don’t mean that the...
Searching for queer sanctuary in Porto
...before my arrival. I pored over the links that appeared when I’d type questions into my search engine like, “Where are the queer people in...
‘Spiderhead’ shows us what cinema gets wrong about the prison of the mind
...sexual activity, as you’d imagine. That’s played for laughs to some degree. But the script also links it to prison rape, a connection that highlights...
Ashton Sanders and Kimberly Drew on the inextricable link between art and chaos
...movement. We would study Linklater [voice progressions] and these different techniques. We would start our day doing yoga—sometimes just to be in our bodies. So...
The risks and rewards of sex tapes—according to the experts, and everyday people who make them
...on by?’ In my experience, and in the research I’ve consumed, there isn’t usually a causal link between what we like and why we like...
QAnon is calling the Will Smith Slap a deep state conspiracy
...purpose. Max Blumenthal, a decidedly pro-Putin journalist, managed to find a link between the Oscars scandal and the war in Ukraine, beyond the question of...
Welcome to the world of Nick Metropolis Collectibles
...over the world.” After 33 years of resiliency and faith in the collectible business, Nick’s livelihood is once again being threatened. This time it’s by...
Legacy Russell’s latest curation is a love letter to the quilters of Gee’s Bend, Alabama
...only road out was paved. “Isolation has always been the place’s curse,” wrote Michael Kimmelman in the New York Times, once the show had traveled...
Towa Bird is entering the mainstream
...expression? Towa: I feel like they’re quite separate. Fashion is another mode of self expression—but perhaps they do link more than I think. My style...
Eric N. Mack reconsiders the dimensions of visual art
...Halter (2019) was created as an installation for Desert X, a biennial staged in the Coachella Valley. Halter was a sewn collage, made with a...
Margaret Qualley and Miranda July are embracing the power of pretend
...that I had kind of made the link that she was your child. Left: Jacket by Chanel RE22. Harness from Church Street Surplus. Right: Top...
Mickalene Thomas remixes tropes from art history to reveal everyday Black women as icons
...Thomas: It was probably around 1996. I moved to New York in February of ’95 to go to Pratt, and I saw your [Black Male]...
Jacolby Satterwhite is using the past to create art about the future
...flesh-and-blood reality. Painstakingly rendered and dense with creative detail, Satterwhite’s genre-bending work has been widely celebrated and featured in prestigious art world institutions, including the...
Issey Miyake explores the natural world for Spring/Summer 2022
...its resort patterns; SWIMMING HUE has rich, solid tones, and lighthearted anemone hats. The LINK RINGS series is perhaps the most quintessentially Issey—totally hand-pleated dresses...
Michelle Zauner and Jiayang Fan on becoming their mothers’ artworks
...a link to a culture they had limited access to growing up in majority-white contexts, but also a Proustian connection to a rich emotional world...
Sarah Lewis brings her Vision & Justice project to Frieze New York
...exited Penn Station after being released on bail. A 2012 photograph of Braxton McKinney and Lavon Thomas by Bey hangs in Bey’s current exhibition at...
Frankie Alduino captures the longtime residents of Westbeth Artists’ Housing
...a 1999 Grammy. Now, it’s at the edge of one of New York’s most expensive neighborhoods; The new Whitney Museum is just two blocks away,...
Ray Moon does R&B on her own terms
...the intrigue of its title. Moon’s work is already varied. It ranges in influence from rap, to soul, to R&B, to house. She grew up...
Artist Sam Moyer creates a personal narrative in abstraction
...collections of the Whitney Museum of Art, The Morgan Library, and Fondation Louis Vuitton. Moyer chose to name the sculptures Doors for Doris, after the...
Finally, a Polaroid camera for going out
...Polaroid is partnering with a group of creators pushing artistic boundaries with the campaign “Go Create.” London-based musician Arlo Parks and Lizzo’s creative director Quinn...
Justine Kurland’s ‘SCUMB Manifesto’ creates a vision of female artistic legacy
...was asked to speak about Andy Warhol for The Whitney during his exhibition. Valerie Solanas was my way of accessing that exhibition. Avery: You have...
Fraser T. Smith provides the Midas touch to London’s grime scene heavyweights
...garage—that’s where [Kano and I] really clicked. I used to DJ garage in my Craig David days, so that was our common link. And I...
Pacifico Silano’s ‘I wish I never Saw the Sunshine’ collages queer identity from the tattered folds of gay erotica
...this collection from this former curator from the Whitney who passed away. I found out about it because my therapist said, ‘Hey I have a...
Betty Images’s books for burgeoning leftists
...still have the URL but Rowling’s antics have definitely soured the mood. Real life is much more compelling right now. @bettyimagesIndustrialization =/= civilization #Marxist #leftist...
Bladee and Mechatok push the boundaries of pop with “Good Luck”
...the livestream a few hours before the launch of Good Luck, as I wanted to make sure I got the registration right. What I see...
Dior brings the tarot deck to life in an atmospheric film by Matteo Garrone
...qualities of a bygone era: devoré velvet, gold laminated gauze, exquisite embroidery, and indulgent textures that speak to couture’s enduring link to tradition and old...
Kim Jones taps Peter Doig for his latest art-inspired collection for Dior Men
...and tradition. “Christian Dior himself described the ceremonial entry of his models for each new look,” states the house in a press release. “[Ceremonial garb...
Lauren Wasser, the girl with the golden legs, is waging war on Big Tampon
...link between Rely and the surge in toxic shock syndrome cases (between 1978 and 1980 the CDC reported 1,600 cases). “Pat Kehm died because Procter...
Blueprints for a better world: proposals and manifestos
...sequences all of which will frame and encase the bioreactor and AquaPulse system. The first prototype is now scheduled to premiere at the Gwangju Biennial...
American Artist and Legacy Russell are hacking the cultural mainframe for a nonbinary future
...July 2020, they digitally Looted the Whitney, replacing the images of art on the museum’s website with photographs of plywood in reference to the boarded-up...
Thurston Moore on his new album, the old New York, and always resisting the mainstream
...book editor Eva Prinz. Moore joins Document to discuss the link between space and creativity, how COVID is changing the music industry, and the process...
Grand River plays with limitations and freedom in her expansive ambient sound
Music can color a season, and vice versa. Aimée Portioli’s new album as Grand River, ‘Blink A Few Times To Clear Your Eyes’, was meant...
Meet American Artist, the artist who ‘looted’ the Whitney
...about. Alex: You ‘looted’ the Whitney. Can you explain how that happened? You replaced all of the art on the Whitney’s home page with photographs...
Can’t find your favorite song on Spotify? Check the podcast section
...third-party “aggregator partners” to do so. Adding a podcast to the service is as simple as linking an RSS feed, via the podcast’s host platform,...
Is lab-grown the new grass-fed? A glimpse into the ethical future of meat
...Australia burn, it gets really hard not to draw a link between my food choices and larger climate processes. They’re literally burning the Amazon to...
Fashion from Isolation: 5 designers create looks using only household items
...the only window for communication with others. Our minds link with the world through these visible or invisible nets, while in reality, the wires build...
Dennis Rodman was Black boy joy before it was acceptable
...He wore a Cuban link chain and two pendants around his neck, two large silver earrings on the left and another one on the right,...
Buck Angel and Rachel Mason select 7 radically queer books for Pride
...section. Her work has been featured at the Detroit Museum of Contemporary Art, The Whitney, and LACMA. Decades later the two would meet at Outfest...
How do we memorialize America’s gun violence epidemic if we can’t yet see its end?
...to build a national memorial to victims of gun violence in the United States. The Gun Violence Memorial Project was unveiled at the Chicago Architecture...
Montez Press Radio brings us the best (and weirdest) of the downtown arts and culture scene
...with—like a bunch of your smartest friends hanging out and talking shop.” The Literature and Art of AIDS “The summer we started Montez Press Radio...
At 80-years-old, Harlem photographer Shawn Walker finally gets his due
...Whitney Museum of American Art, the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, and the Cincinnati Art Museum after the COVID-19 crisis passes. The exhibition...
Focus beats, dance theater, very good films: Polina Zakh’s online culture guide
...annoyed when people say that they are bored during Q—seriously? I think it means that they are boring, not that they are bored, lol. Here...
Art From Isolation: 11 Illustrators visualize our new dystopian reality
...from other people, but also from history and the material artifacts that link us to a continuum of human civilization that we will probably lose...
Onyx Collective’s love letter to New York’s ever-changing landscape
...band together. “I’m thankful for today,” Williamson says. “But this is heartbreaking, really, because we can’t go places, we can’t link up with each other.”...
Senior Dog Gathering Room is a 24/7 lesson in lounging like it’s an extreme sport
...talked about his quarantine time with the New York Times. Cop a cult Greek wine Not a digital event, but here’s a digital link to...
Yannis Davy Guibinga exposes the imperialist roots of photography in Africa
...use of color to underscore the significance of its meaning in events and rituals. By combining color with hair, make-up, costume, models, and locales, Guibinga...
‘How we react in these times is everything’: designers are halting collections to make medical supplies
...her efforts, but she shared her experience over email. “Bunny sent me a link for @masks4medicine, and I called Hillary right away,” she told me....
