THE LAST GIFT GUIDE

For their first-ever museum exhibition, fashion groundbreakers Mike Eckhaus and Zoe Latta have created an immersive experience incorporating retail, art, and one-off clothing designs in their continuing drive to question established norms.

Drawing on a wealth of visual knowledge gleaned from hours spent poring over books, Mugrabi reinterprets the concept of personal style to encompass art, architecture, and design as well in articles and her signature Muse Boards, which offer a new interpretation of the latest fashion collections.

The French artist pulls from his studies in philosophy and epistemology to create swirling abstract paintings and mixed-media sculptures assembled from found materials that touch on the basis of knowledge and rationality in the search for ultimate truth.

The young painter reinvents centuries of art history in works that merge realism and abstraction, beauty and camp, and subversion and self-absorption.

In a book of watercolors, the Swedish artist and illustrator turns away from his fashion work for more intimate portraits that reflect the fragility of the human body as a protest against the slow response to the AIDS crisis.

After bursting onto the New York art scene straight out of Columbia in the mid-2000s with his heavy metal-inspired works, the provocative artist is returning to the city from a stint upstate with newly sophisticated and subdued pieces.

Born hard-of-hearing and diagnosed early with autism, the Belgian artist creates work from strange juxtapositions of everyday objects, revealing new facets of their daily existences.

The young Manhattan-raised artist reinterprets the black urban experience in her paintings, sculptures, and installations, working with “avatars” composed of paint and recycled materials to reflect the city’s diverse energy.

The legendary artist and native New Yorker takes inspiration from the untrammeled waters of Iceland and late-night West Village jazz sets in her works about identity, memory, and desire.

After founding the Tumblr Black Contemporary Art and the Twitter and Instagram accounts Museum Mammy, the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s social media manager works to bring new voices and audiences into the art history establishment.

Geometric shapes, organic forms, and architectural patterns intermingle in the artist’s vast and richly spiritual drawings.

Our annual selection of gifts for you and yours, including everything you can imagine from a silk toothbrush on up to your own private island.

Born into a creative family, the Argentine artist finds new energy with bright pops of color and powerful new stone sculptures in a new stage in her artistic development.

The Australian photographer offers one last look at summer in his new book, which celebrates the iconoclastic personalities of New York City’s beloved urban beach.

After making a name for himself with his large-scale figurative sculptures reflecting the fragility of the human body, the British sculptor—newly an American citizen—finds a fresh political imperative for his art.

Illustrator Greg Foley and writer Andrew Luecke cover one hundred years of teenage rebellion, popular music, and street style in an illustrated compendium of a century’s worth of groups and subcultures—complete with expert-curated playlists on Apple Music.

The photographer-and-stylist duo offer up a vision of the future that crosses boundaries of gender, race, and individual expression in a photography series reflecting the New Africa movement.

How does a creative agency stay creative? Matte discusses the latest iteration of its experiential installation-turned-party and what it means to evolve.