The judge’s daughter, the sculptor’s wife, the elegant neighbor—like many women of her generation, Richanda Rhoden was largely defined by her relationships. But I suspect that she introduced herself as an artist. For decades, Rhoden painted almost every day. After Read More …
In its second season, “The Deuce” (HBO), a saga of the nineteen-seventies Times Square sex trade, is ripening into a squalid fantasia, and it sizes up the hustles of art and life through the eyes of Candy (Maggie Gyllenhaal). Formerly Read More …
The San Francisco-based brand Allbirds makes shoes so soft and flexible that you can bend them almost a hundred and eighty degrees in your hands. When worn, the lightweight rubber soles flare out at the ball of the foot, creating Read More …
There may be no more trenchant metaphor for the creative process than the artist-in-residence program at the San Francisco Transfer and Recycling Center, a forty-seven-acre garbage dump on the western banks of the 101. Since 1990, select artists have been Read More …
In 1933, the first time that the Barnes Foundation asked an artist to paint something to fit specifically into its walls, the artist was Henri Matisse. Matisse, who had to be convinced, rented a warehouse in Nice to work on Read More …
Stuff is a problem. Just ask the wellness experts. “Clutter is bad” is a mantra so ubiquitous that I sometimes think we are all living in the wake of that Steve Jobs portrait from 1982: black turtleneck, hi-fi, bare floors, Read More …
Last month, the trailer for the Netflix series “Insatiable” arrived, inciting a smattering of indignation. The protagonist, Patricia Bladell (Debby Ryan), begins the series as a high-school student shunned for her fullness of figure and taunted by her classmates as Read More …
On Friday, Tavi Gevinson, the editor-in-chief and founder of Rookie, wrote in her monthly editor’s letter that the beloved online publication would be folding. Gevinson began Rookie in 2011, at the age of fifteen, on the heels of her forward-thinking Read More …
The eternal challenge is to answer grief with something that resembles love. To choose not just to sit around decrying hardship and injustice but instead to uncurl your fists and approach sorrow with grace, power, and, most incredibly, gratitude—not for Read More …
The day that Maggie Robinson Katz found out that her father had terminal cancer, she also found out that her family was broke. Her father, Terry Robinson, was a prosperous businessman. He was proud of his success, and of his Read More …