It’s Springtime in Paris for David Hockney
Inside and outside the soaring spaces of the Louis Vuitton Foundation in Paris, everything is in bloom. “Do remember they can’t cancel the spring,” reads a pink neon sign above…
Jazzed About Abstraction: Jack Whitten’s Show Is a Peak MoMA Moment
“I’m a product of American Apartheid,” the artist Jack Whitten wrote, a blunt fact that led him to project, in his art, a very different reality, one of “infinite diversity…
Merle Oberon, Hollywood’s First South Asian Star
The Academy Awards always bring with them a series of firsts. First Black man to win for best costume design (Paul Tazewell). First openly trans person to be nominated for…
Jesse Welles, a Folk Musician Who ‘Sings the News,’ Is Turning the Page
In a small home recording studio on a Monday afternoon in January, Jesse Welles sat with a guitar on his lap, dressed head-to-toe in black. Welles, a singer-songwriter with a…
Hilton Als Is a Critic Who Curates, or Is It the Other Way Around?
Hilton Als is best known as a writer. His essay collection “White Girls” was a finalist for a 2014 National Book Critics Circle Award, and he won a Pulitzer Prize…
Bill Gates Isn’t Like Those Other Tech Billionaires
The older he gets, the more Bill Gates is surprised by what the world dishes up. Take billionaires. There are many now from the tech industry, quite a few with…
Japan Once Dominated the Art Market. Is the Country Ready for a Comeback?
Yuko Mohri thought she knew what the Japanese government wanted from its artists: something conservative and quiet. It certainly wasn’t a renegade punk rocker with a penchant for moldy fruits.…