Photography + Film Intimate Polaroids of Joaquin Phoenix, Awkwafina, and More at W’s Best Performances 2020 Party Jan. 6, 2020 This year's edition brought out cover stars like Joaquin Phoenix, Chris Evans, and Laura Dern. But there was also a special guest: the legendary photographer Maripol, who captured attendees with her signature Polaroid lens-work throughout the night. »
Photography + Film The 19 Best Photo Books of 2019 Jan. 3, 2020 This year proved to be dense with releases, but we’ve managed to find the best 19 coffee table books of 2019, all of them bound to become timeless fixtures. »
Art + Culture Who Was the Most Influential Artist of the Decade? We Surveyed Dozens of Art-World Experts to Find Out Jan. 3, 2020 As the turbulent and event-filled 2010s come to an end, we asked more than 100 artists, curators, gallerists, and other art-world figures to tell us their picks of the most influential art and art-makers of the decade. »
Art + Culture Jacques-Louis David Meets Kehinde Wiley Jan. 3, 2020 The works by David and Wiley reveal how race, masculinity, power, and representation layer onto portraiture and shape the writing of history. »
Style + Design This new film highlights the influence of music on Iris Van Herpen’s work Dec. 17, 2019 The Dutch fashion innovator and sound artist Salvador Breed discuss their creative relationship and curating a line-up at Le Guess Who? festival in an intimate new short »
Art + Culture Kehinde Wiley on Richmond monuments: ‘The answer to negative speech is positive speech’ Dec. 12, 2019 A monument of a young African-American man has found its permanent Virginia home near the Confederate statue it was modeled after. »
Art + Culture Naomi Campbell Fetes Launch of A Magazine Curated by Pierpaolo Piccioli Dec. 5, 2019 The creative director of Valentino takes up a camera for the first time to document his collaborators for the biannual fashion magazine. »
Art + Culture Swizz Beatz and Kehinde Wiley Are Inspiring Tomorrow’s Artists Nov. 21, 2019 The two artists join forces for a Creative Minds Talk during Art Basel Miami Beach in support of Black Rock, the artist-in-residency program launched by Wiley in Senegal. »
Style + Design Mr & Mrs Italy, Nick Wooster Collaborate on Unisex Capsule Nov. 19, 2019 This is the latest collaboration introduced by the brand, which unveiled a store in Tokyo and a Parisian pop-up shop. »
Art + Culture Maripol and Kelly Cutrone on Andy Warhol’s ’15 Minutes’ Prediction Nov. 19, 2019 "Artists see the future," says Maripol, the polaroid photographer famous for capturing '80s New York club culture. "The good ones," she clarifies, seated next to PR icon Kelly Cutrone at Polaroid's Soho Pop-Up Lab where they're talking about Maripol's work and legacy. »
Art + Culture Maripol, godmother of instant photography, on the serendipitous magic of Polaroids Nov. 19, 2019 Late nights at the Mudd Club, stolen motorcycles, and evading indecent exposure charges—the artist on the gritty glamour of late ’70s New York and being a perennial nonconformist. »
Art + Culture The Yellow Wallpaper is an exhibition of new portraits by American artist Kehinde Wiley Nov. 19, 2019 The Yellow Wallpaper is an exhibition of new portraits by American artist Kehinde Wiley (b.1977, Los Angeles) opening at The William Morris Gallery in February 2020. This will be the first solo exhibition of new work shown by Wiley at a public institution in the UK and also the first to feature exclusively female portraits. »
Art + Culture Kehinde Wiley and Jeremy O. Harris’s Meeting of the Minds Nov. 19, 2019 The Yale alums have made provocative incursions into Times Square, where Wiley’s take on Civil War iconography chimes with Harris’s “Slave Play.” »
Art + Culture Swizz Beatz & Kehinde Wiley To Lead Creative Minds Talks Conversation During Art Basel Miami Beach Nov. 19, 2019 Taking place at Miami’s New World Center during Art Basel Miami Beach, the conversation will surely be one of its most memorable and compelling, bringing together two industry leaders to discuss important topics on a national and even on a global scale. »
Style + Design From a Sewing Needle to a Laser Cutter, a New Approach to Fashion Nov. 15, 2019 Iris van Herpen combines technology and handicraft to redefine dress. And most of it can go in the washing machine. »
