If I told you that the Metropolitan Museum of Art was presenting works on paper from three long-dead artists in their collection, you wouldn’t immediately think sex. However, Obsession: Nudes by Klimt, Schiele, and Picasso from the Scofield Thayer Collection … Continued

Painter, diarist, and dandy-about-town Duncan Hannah has released Twentieth Century Boy, a memoir of his days—or more importantly, his nights—gliding through the 70s punk-rock scene in downtown Manhattan. Based on journals he kept between 1970 and 1981, Hannah’s book takes … Continued

The undertaking to capture the influence of the dramatic visual aspects of Catholicism is monumental. Andrew Bolton dreamed up the show for the 2018 Met Gala, Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination. “As the curator, you are always interested in … Continued

Few names in the fashion world evoke such adulation like Alexander McQueen’s. The “hooligan of English fashion” as he was affectionately known, was a rising star in London almost from the moment he touched needle to fabric back in the … Continued

David Hockney is no stranger to film or photography. Whether posing for it or wielding it, the camera has long been the artist’s ally. From his rise to fame in the swinging scene of London in the 1960s, Hockney embraced … Continued

The easy conversation is the one about an artist’s influences. It’s the one where writers and critics behave as though artists are collages of recycled sensory detail, or a cocktail of, say, David Lynch-meets-Baroque-pageboy. The longer an artist is active, … Continued