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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Artist Drake Carr Casts His Muses in Glam Fantasies—From Dive Bars to Fashion Magazines
Drake Carr, a Christian boy from a tiny Michigan suburb a few miles outside of Flint, moved to New York City in 2015 because “this is where you move if …
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 …
The Ultimate Holiday Gift Guide For Every Personality
Whether you’re shopping for a best friend, parent, colleague, or a tricky mother-in-law who insists that she really doesn’t want anything (when she really does), finding the perfect holiday gift …
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 …
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 …
Chanel’s Sport High Jewelry Collection Is a Tribute to Femininity & Freedom
Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel contained multitudes. Her shadow has loomed large in the fashion world for more than a century—and for good reason. Despite the attempts of various biographers, her legacy …
At “The Time Is Always Now” Exhibition, a Welcome Reframing of Black Figures in Art
The realization hits like a bucket of cold water, though it ought perhaps to be obvious: Look back across history, says the British writer and curator Ekow Eshun, and you’ll …