Daniel Arnold, New York’s best-loved street photographer, takes us on a beautiful journey into his ‘crazy brain’
...one was expecting you to be taking a photo. Even still, it’s pretty hidden. But it was that missing link moment where I could get...
Why do curators still equate the ‘queer experience’ with pain?
...it seemed, rested on the boxes I hadn’t checked. After visiting the 2019 Whitney Biennial, one image, a photograph by gender non-conforming artist Elle Pérez...
David Antonio Cruz, the artist giving LGTBQ victims of violence a place in art history
...rape, exploitation, and assault during their journey to the United States. “I call her the diva,” said Cruz. “I was really thinking about Whitney Houston...
Mark Leckey on ‘Fiorucci,’ folklore, and finding language for working-class stories
...North London, he’s trying to tease out the link between his forthcoming work and 1999’s Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore, Leckey’s ecstatic found footage opus spanning...
Pyer Moss becomes NYFW’s hottest ticket with its message of black liberation
...The Blood, the gospel choir that provided the show’s soulful soundtrack that included Donny Hathaway’s “Little Ghetto Boy,” Whitney Houston’s “Where Do Broken Hearts Go,”...
Gia Kuan, the PR powerhouse behind New York’s fashion renaissance
...who worked with Chanel, Armani, The Whitney, and more. “ I was really, really drawn to what she was doing,” said Kuan. “I actually had...
Nobody puts these bangers in the corner: ‘Dirty Dancing’ keeps on giving three decades later
...shot Whitney Houston’s “I Will Always Love You” to the highest echelons of sing-along fame, and Saturday Night Fever, the film that shot John Travolta...
5 tips for mitigating the honey bee crisis—and urban bee keeping is not the answer
...dinner off with a beef tallow candle flavored with urfa biber, garlic, and herbs that dinner guests could dip their bread into. Monroe wanted to...
Paradise Garage’s final nights: crying and dancing at the definitive rager of ’80s NYC
...by the hottest artists of the era, featuring everyone from Grace Jones to Whitney Houston, Sylvester to Divine, Klaus Nomi to New Order, Gwen Guthrie...
Tremaine Emory of No Vacancy Inn on the 5 books that ignited his love of art
...and navigating the pain that brings a lot of the times, such as the images in this book which link directly to my culture. These...
On the ground in Puerto Rico, with 4 artists on the frontline of revolution
...the 2019 Whitney Biennial. “There are so many reasons,” she continued. “It’s been an accumulation of long years of corruption and abuse, and above all,...
An artist infiltrates The Hamptons’ cult of wellness
...year’s Whitney Biennial. The film, Human Design even begins in Restoration Hardware. “I got obsessed with the African wood carving that I saw in there,”...
2019 in photojournalism: encapsulating the stories we can’t afford to forget
...year, the 62nd of the competition, esteemed judges including Whitney Johnson of National Geographic and Barbara Stauss of Mare Magazine surveyed nearly 80,000 photo submissions...
DeSe Escobar defines the future of going-out glam
...myself. Here, I can go from place to place and link up with whoever—as opposed to someplace that’s very quiet and pretty far out. Paige—You...
Open Mike Eagle subverts deadly stereotypes with caustic humor
...comes from, is observation. I feel like a lot of, specifically, stand-up comedy—I guess even sketch [comedy] too—comes from observation. That’s always been the link...
Finding beauty in the in-between at the Venice Biennale
...Nicole Eisenman, who seems unstoppable—she is also in the upcoming Whitney Biennial—makes sumptuous, addictive paintings and sculptures. There is also the queer, brilliant, borderline abstract...
Critics Parul Sehgal and Teju Cole on the changing authority of words
...ephemeral anymore. Somebody could tweet a link to it three years from now. Parul—There are these masters that have to be served. In terms of...
Kneeling at the altar of Virgen María’s sex-infused techno spiritualism
...is playing on the link between divinity, life, and procreation, or social media star who understands that sex sells. This polarization is evident in the...
As funding scandals shake the art world, two museums seek new alternatives
...“What’s happening right now, with Sackler, the Whitney board member linked to tear gas, and the Museum of Natural History abandoning the Brazilian American Chamber...
Lizzie Fitch and Ryan Trecartin’s B-horror version of America’s rural fantasy
...a curved chain-link fence, with Fitch’s voice playing over speakers in a sound piece. “They thought it would have been a reconstruction of their own...
Mumbai, Unstyled: everyday fashion in India’s City of Dreams
...link, rolling the windows down and letting the moist wind slap their faces, to get a few moments of calm until the city hits them...
The 14th Sharjah Biennial tells the stories ignored by popular culture
...across space and across time. -2019 Sharjah Biennial curators Zoe Butt, Omar Kholeif, and Claire Tancons For the 14th Sharjah Biennial, which runs through June...
Academic and author Marion Nestle believes that food can catalyze political movements
...many of the most challenging problems in society—health is only the most obvious. What we eat is linked to matters of poverty, inequality, race and...
Anne Imhof’s ‘Sex’ convulses with death and desire
...movement called ‘relational aesthetic,’ which sought to link art to human interaction and social context. Her work gives expression to human yearnings and the often...
Photographer Alec Soth spent a year being a stranger in people’s homes
...pictures were going to be in the Whitney Biennial. I was a nobody…something does change if it ends up being that picture on the wall....
Science proves banning violent music is total BS
...Just over a week ago, Dick was forced to acknowledge a link between violent crime and the reduced number of police officers in the force...
Kunle Martins and Jack Pierson invite you to their ‘Pee Party’
...of Jack at the Whitney. He had a party, and the second one is a photo I took of him on one of our first...
The burnout epidemic is real—and a four-day week is the answer
...paper on the rise of perfectionism among millennials, and found a strong correlation between striving for impossible standards and burnout. “There’s definitely a link between...
Tabitha Soren sees America’s collective anxiety in our fingerprint-stained screens
...you decide to include the full source URLs and Dropbox links for each image? Tabitha—As somebody who takes images and doesn’t really like people to...
Filmmaker Jonas Mekas Skypes with Hans Ulrich Obrist about the rise of the .net generation
...forms of poetry appearing on the internet, and you’ve always had a very big link to poetry. Czesław Miłosz whom I was friends with gave...
The Asian designers of London transforming the meaning of culture
...that we use to link to the world of dreams. Ki’ami—Culture obviously informs everything in everyday life, even when we don’t notice certain aspects of...
Raúl de Nieves creates a magical carousel with Bulgari and Art Production Fund
...idea of fantasy. De Nieves made waves at the 2017 Whitney Biennial with sculptures coated in beads that sat in front of stained glass windows,...
Lawrence Ferlinghetti on the old San Francisco, his new novel, and his first 100 years
...was. You link it to old age. Is there something about the cycle of life and death that brought you back to very early years?...
Jenny Holzer’s powerful AIDS Day performance reminds us to keep fighting
...Whitney, Times Square, and Harlem. Left: Portrait of Jenny Holzer. “I’m working on #LightTheFight because the fight against AIDS continues,” said Holzer in a statement...
Eckhaus Latta’s first permanent New York store is a blank slate
...first permanent New York store in the same building. The new space, contrary to the brand’s pop-up shop/gallery exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American...
Artist Larry Bell tells architect Frank Gehry about his addiction to beginnings
Artist Larry Bell is in the middle of an overdue career resurgence. Following his 2017 Whitney Biennial installation, which occupied the museum’s entire fifth-floor terrace,...
Has the internet broken the marketplace of ideas? Rethinking free speech in the Digital Age
...Brandeis famously wrote in his concurring opinion in the 1927 Supreme Court case Whitney v. California, “the remedy to be applied to [falsehood and fallacies]...
Amy Winehouse and the dead celebrity hologram industry
...the U.S, there are now two big hologram companies: Hologram USA and Pulse Evolution. Hologram USA was planning a Whitney Houston hologram tour in 2016,...
After 7 taxi driver suicides, New York waives $20 million in fees
...cabs $2,200 in biennial fees, inspection charges, and a $10 medallion renewal, according to the Associated Press. city councilman is also looking to find ways...
New York sees Andy Warhol’s “Shadows” for the first time since 1998
...1978-1979 Shadows series are hanging in the ground level space at Calvin Klein’s headquarters through December 15 as a pre-cursor to the mammoth upcoming exhibition...
Straight outta Sochi: Culture minster claims rap is a Russian invention
Ever since Jay-Z has released a book of his lyrics, the link between rap and poetry has been well lamented in the cultural psyche; last...
Sterling Ruby’s Basin Theology
...same body of work that is on view now at the Whitney Museum of American Art as part of Michelle Grabner’s portion of the museum’s...
New York’s unreciprocated love for Benedetta Barzini
...a mark. I also had a very strong link to my brother Gian Giacomo Feltrinelli [the pioneeristic European publisher who was deeply involved in the...
Odysseus as a woman: Setting sail in search of Hermès’s Spring/Summer 2019 muse
...and grace to the activity of wearing clothes,” he explained of the ceramic pieces he created for the collection. “I wanted to referentially link the...
Why didn’t we learn from Anita Hill? Like the scandal 30 years ago, professor accuses Supreme Court nominee Kavanaugh of sexual assault
...of sexual assault should be brought into account when someone is in the running to become one the country’s foremost mortal arbitrators. Fox News’s Brit...
Meet New Pandemics, the modeling agency that’s looking to bring queer visibility to the forefront
...him on her knees, armed with camera, while images from the 1980s that included Jean-Paul Goude’s iconic Island Life album cover of Grace Jones, voguers...
Telfar’s ‘post-identity’ aesthetic emerges on an East River helipad
...Spring/Summer 2019 show, where guests squeezed in between two chain link fences that were set up into a rectangle. As musicians emerged before a structure...
Eckhaus Latta brings its inner circle to Bushwick for Spring/Summer 2019
...earned a LVMH nomination and became the first fashion brand to have an exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art in over 20 years....
Global warming causes insects to eat more crops
...Merrill of the University of Vermont, co-author of the study. “That’s not good for crops.” The link between insects’ appetites and decreasing crop levels are...
