Kenny Scharf Shares His Life In Parties
The first day Kenny Scharf visited New York, in 1977, he found himself at Food, the fabled artist-run SoHo restaurant, when a commotion outside alerted him to the fact that …
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Jamel Shabazz’s Enduring Vision of Brooklyn Style
In 1980, at the age of 20, Jamel Shabazz returned to his native Brooklyn after serving in the Army. He started taking pictures of the world around him with his …
Dior’s Maria Grazia Chiuri Spotlights Women Making Waves in Mexico City
As a teen growing up in Rome, Maria Grazia Chiuri visited a Frida Kahlo exhibition that left an indelible impression. Looking beyond the surrealistic self-portraits on display, she became fixated …
Meet the Women Artists Pushing the Boundaries of Abstraction
You may have seen the photo before. It captures a group of 14 men and one woman clustered together in a sparse room, staring straight at the camera with scowls …
Inside Duran Lantink’s Surreal, Sustainable, and Seriously Fun World of Fashion
“Duran used to say to me, ‘If I see a flat roll of fabric, I freak out because I don’t know what to do with it!’ ” recalls the designer Kym …
For Esther Kim Varet and Joseph Varet, Home is Where the Art Is
Visiting the home of L.A. gallery owners Esther Kim Varet and Joseph Varet, in the historic neighborhood of Hancock Park, is surprising from the start—like sipping a drink that looks …
The Many Masked Faces of Gillian Wearing
We change with what we wear,” says the British artist Gillian Wearing, who has spent her career investigating the tension between how people present themselves and who they really are. …
Charles Gaines Interrogates the Nature of Meaning
Nestled into the industrial hub of Huntington Park, inside a former tile factory just south of Downtown Los Angeles, the 11,000-square-foot studio of Charles Gaines is a minimalist temple to …
Art Carnival Luna Luna Set to Reopen in Los Angeles
Over the past two years, a secretive team of art restorers has been hard at work excavating a trove of long-lost treasures: a theme park built entirely by artists, many …
Artist Kayode Ojo Wants You to Question Your Relationship to Fashion
Kayode Ojo has developed a shorthand for glamour. The artist deploys it to create sculptural portals into our desires using ready-made—and sometimes ready-to-wear—items. His fashion-flecked assemblages, which have included mirrored …