For Romy and Charlotte Wells, joy and grief are inextricable
...you deeply respect and admire? Romy Madley Croft: [Laughs] Yeah, what if I was secretly horrible? When I got sent the link to watch Aftersun,...
The superstructure behind Yiyun Li’s fiction
...linking and unlinking—a repeated thesis, antithesis, synthesis. As characters speak, consensus forms and is broken; ideas are rebuffed, solidified, re-wrought. Each story, each pair, each...
Reckoning with the compound
...his depictions of New York City—which were recently revived in a thoughtful yet dull exhibition at the Whitney—the Cape Cod paintings show collections of barns...
Motherhood at the end of the world
...It creates this really direct link between Antarctica and us. Alex: You’re very generous in handing over narrative shape to your protagonists—they almost narrate the...
For Donatien Grau, all roads lead to LA
...Koons to Raymond Pettibon, Whitney McVeigh to Huang Yong Ping, the show was a meditation on what might emerge from “the ultimate Platonic experience”—contemplation. Behind...
The modern German fairytales of Christian Petzold
...German and deeply entangled in the wider images and cultural mythologies of Europe and America—albeit those which have entered into a new Millennial phase of...
‘Ed Templeton: Wires Crossed’ immortalizes DIY skate culture’s heyday
Aperture’s Ed Templeton: Wires Crossed speaks eloquently about loss and joy and oblivion, the stature and swagger of youth, and its link to the 40-mile...
Inside Document, Feeld, Ludovic de Saint Sernin, and Mia Khalifa’s Pride party
...Edgerson, David Vivirido, Wali Deutsch, newly-appointed Curator of Photography for the Whitney Drew Sawyer, Charles Renfro, Daniel Gortler, Aziz Osko, Ignacio Muñoz, Jack Powers, Silvia...
‘Paris Memories’ probes the act of recollection, through its ties to community and death
...or ecstasy. The film also follows in a French tradition of psychological cinema, in which the perte de mémoire is linked to some spectral violence...
ANOHNI and Johanna Constantine invoke art from apocalypse
...like a slow burn toward a certain kind of ending. But it also foreshadowed a recurring Blacklips image—a microphone and a cigarette. At the opening...
‘What Is Psychedelic’ details Aura Rosenberg’s appetite for impulse
...completed a couple of semesters at the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program. There, I was introduced to Clement Greenberg’s idea that Modernist painting was about...
With ‘Cyberfeminism Index,’ Mindy Seu snapshots a mutating movement
...I could respond to, and the form manifested from that. I’ve always loved collecting digital things, like links and artifacts, that I could then sort...
Tommy Pico and Carmen Maria Machado investigate horror as a reflection of the American psyche
For Document’s Winter/Resort 2023 issue, the writers delve deep into our collective subconscious to reveal the inextricable link between desire and fear...
A Spider and its Web: Designer Suchi Reddy on the inextricable link between humans and their environments
When Indian-American designer Suchi Reddy first got her start, the late Zaha Hadid was the only starchitect who was female and a person of color....
‘The Colors of Sies Marjan’ pays homage to the brand’s bold legacy
...those colors somewhere—but you’ve never seen them in such an elevated context, so you can’t really link it consciously. It’s only afterwards, when I say...
Nicolas Cage and John Carpenter are cinema’s most studious eccentrics
...one of the few times, really, where the video image and the audio image link up perfectly. John: You’re very kind. “I think you’re the...
Ariel Goldberg reveals the invisible history of queer community
...beyond the visual, where experiences of affirmation, recognition, and connection formed legacies that shape our present and future.” In their presentation for the 2022 FotoFocus...
Inside the sixth FotoFocus biennial, as told by an art world outsider
...to the grounds of Ohio, she asked if I was flying back home or to school. When I told her I was actually heading to...
Ian Strange casts the suburban home in a new light
...I find it reminiscent of the Stranger Things intro. His latest work Penumbra elicits the same sentiment, but without the music. Commissioned by Kevin Moore...
For artist Keegan Monaghan, empathy needs no context
...implicates the audience.” It’s the Evanston-born, Brooklyn-based artist’s third show with James Fuentes, having previously exhibited at Parker Gallery, the Whitney Biennial, and Simone Subal....
Whitney’s pain is our pleasure
...rapper. “When people come over and like Whitney, I love it, but don’t come to me asking if I’m Logic. This is me putting everyone...
Amazon is reading palms at Whole Foods
...the process. Tech policy analyst Frederike Kaltheuner suggests that this is the next logical step in “filling the gaps” of the Amazon empire: “There is...
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...
