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The city of Miami has many faces: Art Basel outpost, Havana-in-exile, the endless stretch of tanned and toned bodies that is South Beach. Now The Webster introduces a new identity: surf mecca. Starting today, the luxury boutique on Collins–best known for its selection of Margiela, Viktor & Rolf, and Balenciaga–transforms its ground floor into “Surf […]

Tonight, my two best friends art and literature unite New York-style at the opening of Lush Life, an exhibition curated by Franklin Evans and Omar Lopez-Chahoud taking place at nine separate gallery locations on the Lower East Side. Featuring some of our favorite younger galleries, as well as artist Scott Hug (featured in The Last […]

We live in an age of borrowed nostalgia. Nineteenth-century mustaches on every upper lip and pre-Prohibition cocktails on every bar menu. We listen to music from the ’70s and wear clothes from the ’80s. And now, thanks to Tribeca shop Adeline Adeline, we can ride bicycles from ’40s. The shop, which opened on Reade Street […]

Most of us want to pretend that bad things never happened to us, that we have never been ashamed or mistreated—and, more importantly, that we’ve never done so to others. French artist Louise Bourgeois transformed all the bruising lies we tell ourselves into forms with a telltale heart that beat out for pernicious, principled truth. […]

It is perhaps the ultimate testament to a photographer’s vision when the images they produce become as famous as their subjects, à la Bert Stern’s infamous photographs of Marilyn Monroe. To that end, it’s hard to think of either Björk or Antony Hegarty without instantly recalling one of Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin’s stark, […]

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about The Doors’ Jim Morrison and the artist Stewart Home, and lo and behold, up pops a new exhibition by the gentleman who could have been their love child (should two men be allowed to reproduce). Rick Owens made his name in the late ‘90s as a fashion designer […]

By day three, the festival starts to wind down. The headliners are less exciting, the ambience is more subdued and the people less jumpy. Everyone seems to need a little bit more room to breathe and relax. I decided to enjoy the performances from behind the stage, instead of amongst the crowd in front. My […]

My personal mission for the day was to meet my teenage crush Mike Patton, singer of Faith No More. With my artist wristband I had access to just about every area on and behind the field, but for some reason the band had taken special security measures. I made a few attempts to slip into […]

Perhaps this is an obverse comparison, but I can’t help but juxtapose Iranian artist Shirin Neshat’s first feature-length film, Women Without Men, in comparison with Swedish director Niels Arden Oplev’s Men Who Hate Women (in the US, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo). Both films are adaptations of novels, and both use political struggles as […]