August 1, 2017

With iPhone and Stickers, a Doodling Artist Who Dreams Big

“The eraser is a godsend,” said Jon Burgerman, pointing an iPhone in the direction of a compact, raggedy-haired dog outside a Blue Bottle Coffee shop in […]
July 26, 2017

Digital Artist Yung Jake Scores With Emoji Portraits

They flow ceaselessly through the text panels on our smartphones, these ubiquitous ideograms used to convey facts or feelings or perhaps nothing at all. They have […]
May 4, 2017

Art Review: The Met’s Rei Kawakubo Show, Dressed for Defiance

In the 1980s in the New York art world and other cultural spheres, black was the new black, and the designer most responsible for this state […]
April 28, 2017

The Sunny Escapism of the Photographer Gray Malin

“Honey, doesn’t this look just like a Gray Malin photograph?” The photographer Gray Malin says he heard an American woman loudly exclaim this to her husband […]
April 11, 2017

Jeff Koons’s New Line

“They touch on the metaphysical: the right here right now and its connection to the past and the future. They’re about shine, the basics of philosophy, […]
April 11, 2017

A New Line From Jeff Koons

“They touch on the metaphysical: the right here right now and its connection to the past and the future. They’re about shine, the basics of philosophy, […]
March 30, 2017

Gems Plus 500 Hours Equal a Unique Watch

PARIS — In 2013, Christian Selmoni of Vacheron Constantin was in the midst of doing what is part of an artistic director’s job at a watchmaking […]
March 16, 2017

In Conversation: Jonathan Anderson & Anthea Hamilton

“This is the most unbelievably comfortable seat,” says the Irish fashion designer Jonathan Anderson as he nestles into a Modernist Danish chair at the Hepworth Wakefield […]
December 20, 2016

On the Runway: The Many Meanings of the Pantsuit

On the Runway By VALERIYA SAFRONOVA Question: When is a pantsuit not just a pantsuit? Answer: When it is a piece of political performance art. At […]
November 12, 2016

Bidding to Own a Piece of David Bowie

LONDON — Waiters held trays of Champagne-filled glasses on the landing. Enormous photographs of David Bowie stared or smiled out from the walls. The soundtrack from […]