AUTHOR
How Andrew Durbin Reignited Peter Hujar and Paul Thek’s Troubled Romance
April 15, 2026
The author traces the magnetic, messy love story in his new book, “The Wonderful World that Almost Was.”
DOLLS
Richie Shazam Builds a Mythology of the Self in Austin
April 10, 2026
Richie Shazam’s debut exhibition “I Was Never Meant to Survive This,” turns dolls, debris, and self-portraiture into a meditation on identity and becoming.
SMOKE BREAK
How Mackenzie Thomas’s Tweets Made a Sold-Out Theater Cry
April 8, 2026
For this week’s Smoke Break, we lit up with the internet personality to talk performance art, viral tweets, baby bangs, and leaving it all out on the dance floor.
SHOCK VALUE
Black Teeth, Butt-Prints, and Bouffants: Revisiting Kembra Pfahler’s Electrifying Art
March 27, 2026
The artist’s new eponymous Rizzoli book is a celebration of four decades of transgression.
SPACE
Inside Lauren Halsey’s Black-Fantastical Sculpture Park
March 26, 2026
“While I have the keys, I want to do the most,” the artist tells Kamasi Washington about her plans for “sister dreamer.”
ON VIEW
How the Julia Stoschek Foundation Resurrected Los Angeles’ Forgotten Theater
March 26, 2026
For the Julia Stoschek Foundation’s U.S. debut of “What a Wonderful World” at the Variety Arts Theatre, we posed a single burning question to participating artists.
CLICK
Photographer Torbjørn Rødland is Returning to His Perverted Roots
March 17, 2026
The Norwegian artist tells Lily McMenamy about his new show at David Kordansky, Enneagram types, and the unsettling logic of his images.
ON VIEW
Sable Elyse Smith and Jeremy O. Harris on Horror, Hope, and Clockwork
March 12, 2026
“A driving interest of mine is an embodied experience first,” the New York-based artist said of her new show, “Clockwork” at The Contemporary Austin.
QUESTIONNAIRE
Painter Nicholas Campbell on Rejection, Fads and Rupturing Landscapes
March 11, 2026
Before his solo exhibition “Paradise,” opened at Amanita, Nicholas Campbell fielded some questions on dreams, rejection and success from his girlfriend, Bella Newman.
SMOKE BREAK
Photographer Miranda Barnes Explains What It Takes to Be a Detroit Debutante
March 10, 2026
We joined the artist at The Rizzoli Bookstore to talk spectacle, Sofia Coppola, and her debut monograph, Social Season.
DANCER
Benjamin Millepied’s Next Act? An Utterly Modern, Explicitly Queer Romeo & Juliet
February 25, 2026
As the dancer and choreographer prepares for his hotly anticipated return to New York, he called his friend Anne Imhof to talk romance, remakes, and rebellion.
PERFORMANCE
Milk, Razors, Scissors: Martine Gutierrez on Her Paris Photo Meltdown
February 25, 2026
Over eggs, the artist, actress, and photographer tells Mel Ottenberg about her most subversive work yet.
IN CONVERSATION
Kid Cudi Is Artmaxxing. KAWS Has Some Questions.
February 18, 2026
“Music is so tweaked,” the Grammy-winning rapper tells Brian Donnelly, better known as KAWS. “But a painting is just me making contact with that canvas.”
ARCHIVES
Marilyn, Björk, and Liza, Through the Lens of Douglas Kirkland
February 4, 2026
“Seductive, intriguing, and slightly dangerous” is how Françoise Kirkland, wife of the late photographer, describes a new book featuring his images of Hollywood icons from Marilyn Monroe to Grace Jones.
ART
Drake Carr Draws a Very Versace Campaign
February 3, 2026
For Chapter 2 of Versace Embodied, the brand commissioned a large-scale work by the New York artist.
COLLECTORS
“In Couture, Nothing Is Too Expensive For Me”: Inside Mouna Ayoub’s Dior Auction
January 29, 2026
“Couture will always be the center of my life,” says the French socialite, who’s auctioning off some of her most precious Dior pieces in Paris this weekend.
SMOKE BREAK
“Famously Naked, Publicly Shameless”: Inside the Whitney Art Party With Martine Gutierrez
January 28, 2026
In this week’s installment of Smoke Break, we stepped aside with the co-chair of the Whitney’s annual Art Party to talk setting spray, performance art, and the power of friendship.
STUDIO VISIT
“Are You Afraid of Death?”: Sterling Ruby, in Conversation With Karla Welch
January 28, 2026
As he prepared to open his new exhibition at Sprüth Magers, the 54-year-old artist called his old friend Karla Welch to talk fashion, forensics, and Formula 1, among other things.
ARCHIVES
“White Music Is In Incredible Decline”: David Bowie, by Glenn O’Brien
January 26, 2026
On the 50th anniversary of David Bowie’s 10th studio album, “Station to Station,” we went into the archives to revisit his Interview spread, by Glenn O’Brien and Herb Ritts.
DEBUT
Artists Jennie Jieun Lee and Matt Dillon on Doubt, Discipline, and Diaspora
January 23, 2026
Ahead of her museum debut at the Aldrich, the South Korean artist and ceramicist talked to her friend and collector Matt Dillion about discipline, doubt, and origin stories.