Brioniās La Donna explores new ground
Brioni, under the direction of creative director Norman Stumpfl, presented its latest vision for womenswear on Wednesday in Milan. A project that first began as...
Experimental pop duo NEW YORKās ārapstar*ā maintains an artful anonymity
Fate threw artists Coumba Samba and Gretchen Lawrence together as the roommates (and eventual best friends) who would come to form experimental music duo NEW...
Darryl Bell brought his Midwestern barbecue heritage to Robert Glasperās The Black Radio Experience music festival
...free as a kind of bar snack. For chef and proud Kansas City-raised Darryl Bell, burnt ends are not only a bit of barbecue history,...
Mark Armijo McKnight’s āDecreationā undoes the self
...as they deploy the erotic as a site to ask questions about embodiment, time, art history, and image making itself. For Decreation, an ongoing body...
The Shoptimist Speaks: Mati Hays of House of Iconica
Mati Hays is the lead designer, creative director, and whatever other jargon applies for House of Iconica, her independent fashion label built around my favorite...
Inside Pete Rockās musical dictionary
...work with? Pete: How it started with Common was through a friend of mine named Kareem who was playing some of my beats for him....
Poet Precious Okoyomon and artist Olivia McKayla Ross are using time as a creative medium
...shows at London’s ICA and Zurich’s LUMA Foundation, Okoyomon worked on a wide range of projects about community, such as culinary art project Spiral Theory...
Fine Print: āThe weirder and freakier the betterā
...slew of high-fashion labels have hopped on the books bandwagon (Miu Miu, Chanel, and Comme des Garçons, to name just three). Over on Instagram and...
Enrique Garcia exposes the serpentine mechanics of contemporary life
...common in the region, immigrant workers building The Line report abusive and inhumane working conditions. This ungodly project betrays the simplicity of its name through...
Audrey Nuna rediscovers freedom on the stage
...Comic Sans / Overused for that paper by the gram,” she slant-rhymes in “Comic Sans.” In “damn Right” Nuna muses, “Guess I’m supposed to be...
Function is unifying NYCās queer nightlife scene, one fĆŖte at a time
...wanted more freedom by going back into business for myself, which I had done most of my life. I said to myself, ‘When Andrew goes...
Jonathan Lethemās āCellophane Bricksā 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...
Sophie Kempās reading list for electric and hilarious prose
...of the felt and, well, Reality. For Kemp, the openness of language is just an example of the social awkwardness of womanhood, a fact that’s...
Lily Burgess and Lauren Massieās āA Vehement Flameā is a photographic manifestation of loveās unpredictability
...here in the city and my dad and my stepmom are just very free-willed and we don’t hold much back. They gave me a lot...
The Watermill Centerās annual summer benefit fused dance and artistic experimentation
On the evening of July 27, interdisciplinary laboratory for the arts and humanities The Watermill Center hosted its annual summer benefit. “I’ll tell you a...
The Shoptimist: Myths, markets, and the business model of hype
...Short Stories. But the overall gonzo shopping experience was not unique to Wang. The box-truck with limited stock and limited locations was merely the latest...
āDEATHWORKā is Kamixloās ode to the angels of noise
Kamixlo’s latest album DEATHWORK begins with the canonical sounds of the afterlife: delicate angel whispers, heavenly bell chimes, and layers of swelling, utopian reverberations. This...
Roving literary event Casual Encounterz prioritizes the pen over the persona
...Tulathimutte reads a short story from forthcoming collection Rejection—a version that he remarks had been considered “too dirty” for The Paris Review. Whitney Mallett, founding...
The end of cloud computing
...at the turn of a tap, the cloud creates a sense of computing power as a virtually unlimited resource.” Rather than comprehending or even witnessing...
Joshua Serafinās āVOIDā mines the elemental, ancestral, and transmigratory experience of their ancestry
...the shaman and tribe chieftain Datu Arayan and his community. He is this amazing, clairvoyant human being, who is also queer. Before I left the...
Benjamin Fredricksonās āWedgiesā turn schoolyard antics into ass-up uncanniness
Document joins the New York-based artist for a sweaty rooftop shoot ahead of the release of his latest photo book...
Italian-made footwear by Scarosso meets American prep by Brooks Brothers in Florence
...classic details from both the heritage clothier and the upstart Milanese label. Moritz Offeney founded Scarosso in 2010 to capitalize on Italy’s heritage of fine...
Best in show: Couture Week Fall 2024
...found the answer,” he wrote, “through creating this collection, and it is to accept that one day everything ends—and that’s okay.” Correct. We’re all going...
For five decades, Mira Schor has blended concept and image
...people perceive as the latest thing or the newest thing or something that’s really dealing with the present. That’s arguable, but I think that’s the...
Wedding veils, pan flutes, and the perfect day for a picnic
...have to cast the spell. Posterity, we can now say, has vindicated Weir, the McElroys, all of them. Picnic at Hanging Rock is untouchable, commonly...
Best in show: Menās Spring/Summer 2025 and Womenās Resort Fashion WeekāParis
...why the empowering thing is kind of like—it has superpowers!” Inspired by superheroes, Johansson’s latest presentation was an elevated embodiment of the youthful nostalgia that...
Is a socialite just a scammer who succeeded?
...with the fictional socialite at the heart of von Reinhold’s novel and all of her historical counterparts who inspired her character. Harron Walker: How did...
In āQueendom,ā authenticity is resistance
...has labeled her as. Marvin’s conservative community and family fail to accept her form of self expression, and she’s met with homophobic vitriol and violence....
Fine Print: Poetry by any means necessary
...explained to me that she and Hooker did not compose the poem, rather “the poem emerges in the moment, composed as it is spoken out...
Best in show: Menās Spring/Summer 2025 and Womenās Resort Fashion WeekāMilan
...grass greens and more classic rich navy blues. These exaggerated proportions complemented color-blocked lug-sole sneakers that combined colors like printer-ink cyan and blood red and...
Even undead, Joan Didion wonāt back down
...the single greatest influence on my writing, and for that reason, I prohibit myself from opening your books. Whenever I do, I come out sounding...
The Shoptimist: It aināt the same now
...of its value. Her obvious yearning is commodity fetishism, or the spurious idea that a commodity has intrinsic value, rather than value resulting from the...
Ben Werther asks if LARPing is the new readymade
...meaning. I added my own spin, thinking about the relation between speaking and singing; speaking being this objective communication, while the song is communication, it...
In the experimental play ā4,000 Dollars,ā the streets of New York City are a fiscal fight club
...next to you on the subway, just another man or woman who you might have to pay. Mary-Louise’s inner monologues manifest in complex outer dialogue...
Lilly Wachowskiās manifesto on New Mythologies
...so long—all the blurry and fragmented, hidden pieces—were out in the open. It allowed me to see my complete self in my work more clearly...
Bela Borsodiās āBirth Life Deathā invents new dynamics for inanimate objects
...inanimate objects have affects their own. In one photo, a fork labeled “SISYPHUS” balanced on an inclined wooden plank pushes a round root vegetable labeled...
Seeing the unseen in the work of Vivian Maier
...Anne Morin, Laurent Claquin. The event was the latest from Kering’s Women In Motion initiative—the fashion group’s program to “raise awareness of the underrepresentation of...
Dominic Leong knows aesthetics are politics
...architecture is an aesthetic medium that has the power to give presence to different communities.” Drew: Does this thinking about the body or bodies come...
Drew Ducoteās āRednecks with Paychecksā showcases the torque of Texas’s underground motorist community
...latest in a series of photographic investigations Ducote has made into the hidden cultures of his native Texas: one examining the refinery towns of Texas’s...
The mother and the monster in Catalina Ouyangās āTrickā
Currently on view at Lyles and King, the sculptor’s latest show references everything from fox spirits to early 17th-century bridles in an installation as ethereal...
SĆ³nar by Day, according to curators AntĆ²nia Folguera and Ikram Bouloum
...image: It’s high noon the day of Esplendor Geométrico’s headlining show, and all the music heads, engineers, and artists alike come together at Centre de...
Announcing Yadim, Document Journalās Beauty Director
...start? Yadim: I come from a Mexican family where the women put a lot of effort into their appearance. My grandma, bless her soul, till...
Searching for tenderness with Kelela
...towards them. I’m dancing to communicate with them. I’m having really memorable connected moments with my friends. “I’m looking for a tenderness. A ‘comfort-with.’” Left:...
Stacy Skolnikās genre-bending āThe Ginny Suiteā is an experiment in post-pandemic poetics
...narrator—and this remove or dissociation is a governing principle for the illness and for the text. A lucid yet mysterious reflection on our moment and...
Zegna Artistic Director Alessandro Sartori and actor Mads Mikkelsen imagine new narratives of creative responsibility
...about the brand is about the roots and coming home and where you find inspiration. And I wanted to ask what your version of the...
Hallucinating sense in the era of infinity-content
...which compress and unpack information using digital abstraction, computation, and/or simulation. In media theory, humans are distinguished from other living beings by the ability to...
Fine Print: In the labyrinth of the no
...explores in Bartleby & Co. Vila-Matas’s novel—published in 2000 in Spanish and translated to English in 2004—ostensibly comprises a diary that is also a compendium...
New Red Order blends satire and sincerity to deconstruct empire
...interventions, New Red Order created videos and installations that showcased real-life examples of people who voluntarily returned their land, or money derived from it, to...
Elisabetta Zangrandi creates her own art-historical canon
...Italian artist Elisabetta Zangrandi’s Musée Imaginaire, a series of portraits that address communal labor, struggle, and creativity as reflected by generations of women artists before...
