Meet the Artists Pushing Ecological Art Forward
No matter how high the thermometer climbs in L.A., Ron Finley never fills his backyard swimming pool with water. The fashion designer turned artist and urban gardener—he’s famous for an …
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Bárbara Sánchez-Kane Transforms Fashion into Avant-Garde Art
The Mexican artist Bárbara Sánchez-Kane started out as a fashion designer—albeit a highly unconventional one. Her gender-bending collections, shown at New York, Los Angeles, and Mexico City fashion weeks over …
Manuela Wirth on Transforming Hauser & Wirth Into So Much More Than a Gallery
Hauser & Wirth, the gallery that you and your husband, Iwan Wirth, jointly run, is a global juggernaut. You grew up in the Swiss countryside. Did you inherit a passion …
Eye-Opening Stats on Trends, Sales & A.I.’s Impact
Introducing W’s newest column, “By the Numbers,” in which we look at a given field—from art and fashion to music and movies—through the metrics that are defining it. Bringing together …
Meet the Collectors Reshaping the Art World Piece by Piece
The first thing you see when you walk into Lyndon J. Barrois Sr. and Janine Sherman Barrois’s house in L.A.’s Lafayette Square is a pair of paintings by Kehinde Wiley …
Supatida Sutiratana and the Art of Design Transformation
Supatida Sutiratana has long been a magnetic force in the world of graphic design and art direction, her name glowing brightly among the industry’s most imaginative minds. As the co-founder …
Photographer Nan Goldin Puts Six Gucci Campaign Images Up for Sale at Gagosian
LONDON — American photographer Nan Goldin is a deep thinker and extremely selective about what she puts her name to. This fall she shot Gucci’s “We Will Always Have London” …
For Sophie Calle, the Art of Oversharing Means Not Sharing Much at All
A couple of days before I was to meet Sophie Calle, a friend from New York who is a collector had an observation about the French artist: “She’s a hard …
Dylan Field ‘Got a Real Kick’ Out of This Week’s Enron Relaunch
Figma cofounder Dylan Field is seemingly a big Enron fan—or rather, of the crypto-fueled semi-parodic relaunch of the company that hit the web earlier this week. Sporting an oversized Enron …
Cindy Sherman and Luxury Resale Site Resee Team Up for Charity Sale
MAKING SPACE: In addition to the outfits of the characters in her famous self-portraits, American artist Cindy Sherman is also a dab hand at finds for herself. “I have always …