Eliza Douglas paints her existential issues
December 8, 2017
The 33-year-old artist’s large-scale oil paintings include depictions of disembodied hands and feet, monsters, and haunted young men.
C. Spencer Yeh’s long, strange trip
December 8, 2017
The filmmaker and musician turned the exhilarating strangeness of foreign travel into an 8-hour-long tour de force.
The secret history of emo music
December 5, 2017
The genre that wears its heart on its sleeve has long been misunderstood and even maligned. A new book attempts to change that.
Five young photographers who are reinventing Polaroid
November 16, 2017
Ryan McGinley is showcasing a series of imagery shot by five up and coming photographers.
Young Paris takes over the Whitney Art Party
November 15, 2017
Admirers and art world superstars celebrated the downtown museum’s Independent Study Program.
Ross Simonini’s debut novel stars an Oprah-like guru
November 10, 2017
The Book of Formation chronicles the rise and fall of a new movement.
The British-Zimbabwean R&B singer with luck on his side
November 10, 2017
A perfect storm of events led to Kwaye, a 23-year-old singer-songwriter, signing to an indie label to champion his vibrant sound.
A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie is the rising rap star New York needs
October 23, 2017
Fresh off the release of his chart-topping album The Bigger Artist, we caught up with the exciting Bronx-born talent about where his career is going next.
Intimate images of Joan Didion through the years
October 20, 2017
Through personal images plucked from director Griffin Dunne’s family album, a new light is shone on the life of his aunt, legendary writer Joan Didion.
Joni Mitchell is telling her side now in a new biography
October 11, 2017
The singer-songwriter has been given the definitive biography treatment by author David Yaffe.
The Florida Project captures the fleeting promise of happiness
October 4, 2017
The latest from Sean Baker—the breakout director of 2015’s iPhone-shot sleeper hit Tangerine—is a sickly sweet look at life under the shadow of Disneyworld’s Magic Mountain.
How two young actors brought Christopher Robin to life
October 3, 2017
Alex Lawther and Will Tilston are the breakout stars of this month’s stirring A.A. Milne biopic, Goodbye Christopher Robin.
Does George Saunders deserve his spot on the Man Booker shortlist?
September 13, 2017
Is this the Leonardo-DiCaprio-gets-an-Oscar moment of George Saunders’s career?
Artist Andres Serrano gives us a tour of his bizarre religious memorabilia
August 21, 2017
Ahead of “Torture”, at New York’s Jack Shainman Gallery, the controversial artist behind “Piss Christ” opens up his doors
Downtown Boys
August 10, 2017
Punk’s not muerto.
Artists at Work: Barbara Hammer
August 9, 2017
The radical queer filmmaker looks back on a boundary-breaking, 50-year career.
The cabaret star giving Martha Stewart a run for her money
August 7, 2017
Ryan Raftery tells the true story of the lifestyle mogul’s life through song, dance and one hell of a wig
Gayle Rankin on Method and Madness
July 12, 2017
The Scottish-born, Julliard-educated actress embraces the challenge of Hamlet‘s doomed ingénue.
The Hallucinogenic Worlds of Ana Lily Amirpour
June 26, 2017
Writer-director Ana Lily Amirpour thinks the world is inherently a bad place, but that its inhabitants are strong.
Abe Koogler
June 21, 2017
In Fulfillment Center, 32-year-old playwright Abe Koogler refines his tender, true-to-life style.