ART BASEL PARIS
Fabio Cherstich and Helen Marten Invite Us Into their Shared Hallucination
October 24, 2025
“It’s not something to understand, it’s more something that you inhabit,” opera director Fabio Cherstich said of his new performance work “30 Blizzards,” which just opened at Art Basel Paris in partnership with Miu Miu.
ICONS
Photographer Jerry Schatzberg Takes Us Inside His Archives
October 16, 2025
The photographer and filmmaker joined us to look back on his encounters with Mick Jagger, Diana Ross, Faye Dunaway, Jimi Hendrix, and more.
SMOKE BREAK
How Photographer Christopher Sherman Turns His Subjects Into Superstars
October 10, 2025
In this week’s installment of Smoke Break, we headed north to Toronto to join the photographer at the opening of his debut solo exhibition, “Your Shame Bores Me.”
CRUISING
Photographer Arthur Tress Takes Jordan Tannahill For a Walk Around the Ramble
October 9, 2025
In the 1960s, the Brooklyn-born photographer began documenting his visits to New York’s most famous cruising ground. A half-century later, his vibrant, watchful images are finally getting their due.
XXX
Matt Lambert Brings Wolfgang Tillmans Inside His Naughty Underworld
October 6, 2025
“I’m a captain and a conduit,” says the photographer, whose sixth book comes out this month. “I’m just creating a play space for all these energies to come together.”
IN CONVERSATION
When Mary Boone and Julian Schnabel Ran New York
October 3, 2025
Last month, to mark the opening of an all-star group show show at Lévy Gorvy Dayan, Mary Boone and Julian Schnabel recounted their halcyon days atop the 1980s New York City art world.
MADAME
Vaginal Davis Opens Up
September 26, 2025
Ahead of her MoMA PS1 retrospective, the self-described Blacktress, literary figurine, and spokesmodel tells Cynthia Carr how she’s taking on the world.
STUDIO VISIT
With His New Series of BDSM Paintings, Ricardo Fumanal Wants to Turn You On
September 26, 2025
At his home studio off the Canal Saint-Martin, we joined the Spanish painter to talk leather, masculinity, and his latest exhibition, “Theorem of Desire.”
STUDIO VISIT
For the Artist Gala Porras-Kim, Sculpture Is a Portal to the Afterlife
September 19, 2025
To mark the opening of her new show at Seoul’s Kukje Gallery, the 41-year-old artist joined the author R.O. Kwon to talk about death, divinity, and the afterlife.
OPENING
“I Grew Up in a Household of Death”: Raúl de Nieves Takes RF. Alvarez Inside His Grief Sanctuary
September 18, 2025
Before the opening of “In Light of Innocence,” a new exhibition by Raúl de Nieves at Pioneer Works, the artist got together with RF. Alvarez to talk about light, loss, and the human condition.
SMOKE BREAK
“Tradition With a Twist”: How Designer Robert Rufino Turns Storefronts Into Stages
September 18, 2025
In this week’s installment of Smoke Break, we joined the man famous for conceiving of the city’s most extravagant window displays to talk design, diamonds, and “Downton Abbey.”
ICON
“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.