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David Hockney’s “Going Up Garrowby Hill”
There are many ways to celebrate spring, but few contemporary artists have devoted more attention to the topic than David Hockney. The…
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Rashid Johnson’s Own “Poem for Deep Thinkers”
It’s an epic display of small ideas. But what gives the exhibition its coherence is Johnson’s consistent—if tonally varied—engagement with…
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Jack Whitten Went Hard in the Paint
He poured the paint in layers and combed through it with an Afro pick. Or he froze and shattered it, reassembling the shards into new…
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Kadir Nelson’s “Major Taylor, a Champion Who Led the Way”
For the cover of the June 2, 2025, issue, the artist Kadir Nelson features Marshall W. (Major) Taylor leading a parade of bicyclists from…
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Barry Blitt’s “Soft Landing”
For the cover of the May 26, 2025, issue, the artist Barry Blitt chose to depict President Donald J. Trump’s enthusiasm for any way that…
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How Cory Arcangel Recovered a Late Artist’s Digital Legacy
In 2002, the thirty-five-year-old, Luxembourg-born painter Michel Majerus was on a short flight from Berlin, where he lived, to his native…
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Christoph Niemann’s “Spotted in New York City”
For the cover of the May 12 & 19, 2025, special issue about New York—our second issue commemorating the magazine’s hundredth anniversary,…
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Requiem for a “Drunk Dad”
Jeff Bark’s elaborately composed scenes channel sundered American fantasies. They also function as personal folklore. Source link
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The Show Can’t Go On
Funding shifts at three of the largest philanthropic foundations have brought turbulence and uncertainty to the intricate New York support…
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M Is for Mortality: Lessons from Edward Gorey on His Hundredth Birthday
Gorey said, “I write about everyday life.” His work reminds us that death is a major fact of existence. Source link
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Makeup Artists Have Asked Me for This—Here's Every NYFW Beauty Look You'll Want to Save Down
As a beauty director, February is, hands down, my busiest month of the year. I spend what feels like every waking minute flitting between…
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Three Graffiti Artists Take Legal Action Against Vivienne Westwood and Farfetch
Three graffiti and street artists have filed a complaint against Vivienne Westwood and Farfetch for allegedly selling apparel imprinted…
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Digging Deep with Jilaine Jones
The guys over at 15 Orient have been hitting a lot of home runs lately. Pardon the sports idiom: if you think of the art world as a…
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The Art of the New Yorker Cover
Since 1925, each issue of The New Yorker has been published with its own singular work of art, presented without the headlines or…
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Rea Irvin’s “Eustace Tilley” at One Hundred
A hundred years ago, The New Yorker emerged from the Jazz Age dreams of two young journalists, Jane Grant and Harold Ross. Fresh from…
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If You’re Stuck for Expensive-Looking Manicure Inspiration, Follow These 11 Nail Artists Immediately
Is it just me, or are more people getting their nails done than ever before? As a society we seem to have become more fascinated than ever…
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My Life with Left-Handed Women
Christmas wouldn’t be Christmas without an exchange of gifts among my two grandmothers, mother, and aunt, featuring the trait they shared:…
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David Lynch’s (Possible) Realism
In his memoir, “Room to Dream,” from 2018, David Lynch recalled an idyllic time in his life. He was in his late twenties and had just…
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The Artist Exposing the Data We Leave Online
Before social networks became the de-facto place for logging mundane moments from our lives, Apple’s iPhone and iPod Touch incorporated a…
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How Giant Robot Captured Asian America
The first issue of the magazine Giant Robot I ever came across featured the Hong Kong actor Tony Leung Chiu-wai on the cover—this was…
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Frank Auerbach’s Raw Truths
The name of Frank Auerbach, the British artist who died on November 11th, at the age of ninety-three, is not especially well known in the…