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“I Would Hate to Be Young Right Now”: Sally Mann Looks Back on Her Life in Pictures
September 16, 2025
“I’m a romantic, but hard-nosed,” said the photographer, who’s authored a new memoir about her art and life. “Photographically, I think of myself as kind of a hard-nosed pictorialist.”
OPENING
Tabitha Arnold’s Punch Needle Tapestries Are Not For Scabs
September 11, 2025
To mark the opening of her new show at Field Projects, “Gospel of the Working Class,” the artist and textile maker joined us to talk scabs, automation, and the plight of the American labor movement.
STUDIO VISIT
How Artist Mark Leckey Found God in the Glitches
September 10, 2025
“A.I. is a regurgitation machine,” said the 61-year-old artist ahead of his largest survey to date, opening this week at the Julia Stoschek Foundation. “It can’t actually invent anything, really.”
SMOKE BREAK
“Sit On My Big Lamp”: A Nine-Minute Spliff With Designer Rich Aybar
September 8, 2025
Last Thursday, we hit up Tiwa gallery for the opening of the rubber sculptor’s sexiest show yet.
DESIGNER
“We Are Naked People”: Designer Pol Agustí, in Conversation With Kimberly Drew
September 4, 2025
Just before the opening of his new show with AGO Projects, the Mexico-based designer joined curator and critic Kimberly Drew to talk memory, mastery, and mischief.
STUDIO VISIT
Emma Kohlmann Tells Maggie Rogers Why She’ll Never Take Her Art Too Seriously
September 4, 2025
To mark the opening of “Moon Minds,” her new show at Silke Lindner, the 27-year-old painter joined the singer-songwriter to trade notes on creative blocks and the pleasures of collecting.
STUDIO VISIT
Sasha Gordon Tells Lucy Liu Why She Paints the Things That Scare Her
September 3, 2025
Ahead of her exhibition “Haze,” opening next week at David Zwirner, the 27-year-old painter joined the “Charlie’s Angels” icon to talk TikTok, tokenization, and putting her fears on the canvas.
PUNKS
“Nobody Has Politically Correct Fantasies”: Jane Dickson, in Conversation With Marilyn Minter
August 27, 2025
The 73-year-old artist’s latest exhibition draws from five decades of rumination on fleeting thrills and neon-lit pleasures. To mark the occasion, she took a walk down memory lane with longtime friend Marilyn Minter.
EXCERPT
No One Saw David Bowie Like the Photographer Denis O’Regan
August 12, 2025
In an exclusive excerpt from his new book, “David Bowie,” the English photographer Denis O’Regan reflects on his earliest encounters with The Thin White Duke.
IN CONVERSATION
Jeffrey Gibson Tells Michèle Lamy How Rave Culture and Porn Collectors Inspire Him
August 6, 2025
“Art has given me an opportunity to lean into things that don’t seem practical,” the 53-year-old painter and sculptor tells Michèle Lamy. “They don’t have to be linear, they don’t have to make sense.”
SEARCH HISTORY
How Julian Glander Got New York’s Funniest Comedians to Join His Animated Film
August 6, 2025
In this week’s installment of Search History, the Pittsburgh-born animator joined us in DMs to talk about his new film “Boys Go to Jupiter,” featuring the voices of Cole Escola, Janeane Garofalo, and Julio Torres.
IN CONVERSATION
“Should We Talk About Death?”: P. Staff and Jamieson Webster Take Aspen Art Week
August 5, 2025
In an exclusive conversation hosted by the Aspen Art Museum at its 2025 AIR festival, the artist and psychoanalyst went deep on dreams, nightmares, and last words.
VR
“I Built a Box That Has Sex With the Floor”: Jordan Wolfson, by Matthew Barney
July 23, 2025
Artist Jordan Wolfson rang up Matthew Barney for our Summer issue to talk sculpture, slapstick, and the vast indifference of the universe.
ICON
“Sinéad Belonged to No One”: An Exclusive Excerpt From Nothing Compares to You
July 21, 2025
Sinéad O’Connor, writes Rayne Fisher-Quann, “serves as a reminder to me to me that certain kinds of women have been carving their lives into inconvenient shapes for as long as anyone can remember.”
OPENING
“She’s a Real 20th Century Figure”: Thelma Golden on the ICA’s Mavis Pusey Retrospective
July 18, 2025
Thelma Golden and Hallie Ringle take us through the adventurous life of the artist, who died and 2019 and is now the subject of a career-spanning survey at the ICA Philadelphia.
OPENING
“City Life Shouldn’t Be Owned”: Photographer Joseph Cochran II Wants a New York for the People
July 14, 2025
At the opening of “Public Work,” his solo show at Swivel Gallery, the photographer talked to us about gentrification, bureaucracy, and documenting the inner workings of city life.
IN CONVERSATION
Cecilia Vicuña and Giuliana Furci on Mushrooms, Brain Rot, and the End of the World
July 11, 2025
“There are lots of studies devoted to what A.I. is doing to the human brain,” the poet and artist told the mycologist Giuliana Furci. “It’s actually rotting the brain.”
TELL-ALL
After Living in the Shadow Of Her Artist Ex-Husband, Anna Condo Is Coming Clean
July 9, 2025
After the opening of her exhibition at SuperRare’s offline gallery, the artist and ex-wife of George Condo went on the record for the first time about her life as a muse, among other pursuits.
CREATOR
Star Amerasu and Elliot Page on Wishes, Warhol, and Queer Liberation
June 24, 2025
“It’s about using my anger to motivate me to help other people,” the multi-hyphenate tells her friend and collaborator. “I think our trans-cestors were very much like that.”
SMOKE BREAK
“Nudity Is Just Normal”: Stripping Down With Photographer Marie Tomanova
June 17, 2025
“I grew up in a family where nudity is just normal and nothing weird,” said the photographer at the launch of “Kate, For You,” her new photo book. “It’s kind of a Czech thing.”