RANKIN: UNFASHIONABLE
The first thing you notice leafing through the new monograph of Rankin, the fashion photographer who co-founded Dazed & Confused with Jefferson Hack, and then went on to found Hunger magazine, is how uneven his work is.
Andy Warhol at the Whitney Museum
My relationship to Warhol’s art has been full of tension. I used to hate it – the obviousness of it, the surface, the refusal to say something serious.
GIVE GOOD GIFT 2018
We know we are serious about what we write, but this is our annual non-serious post.
StyleZeitgeist Guide to Moscow
If you haven’t been to Moscow, the simple advice is get on the plane and go (you’ll need a visa).
Egon Schiele and Jean-Michel Basquiat at the Foundation Louis Vuitton
When Foundation Louis Vuitton opened several years ago in Paris, it joined a slew of those manufactured by the newly minted patrons of the arts who have made such incredible amounts of money that they could build not private collections but entire museums; people like the fashion designer Miuccia Prada (Fondazione Prada in Milan) and the real-estate moguls like Eli Broad (the Broad in Los Angeles).
Caravaggio at Musée Jacquemart-André
It’s one of those things you find out about and your jaw drops to the floor.
Techno: As Told by Jeff P. Elstone II
Photographer Jeff P. Elstone II has set out on a new project that seeks to capture the many facets of touring life, ranging from traveling, to performing, to meetings, to sleeping, with some of techno’s most renown artists today.
Bacon / Giacometti
This has been another marquee year for the European titans of mid-century art.
Chaim Soutine: Flesh
I generally try to see every exhibition of Chaim Soutine’s paintings that can I manage to get to and of those that I can’t I try to track down the catalogue.
Chiharu Shiota: Under the Skin
I don’t remember the first time I encountered the work of Chiharu Shiota, but I remember being immediately drawn to it.