The New Yorker Dealer’s Hand verified_publisherThe New Yorker - Nick PaumgartenWhy are so many people paying so much money for art? Ask David Zwirner, one of the world’s most powerful art dealers. Very important people line up differently from you and me. They don’t want to stand...
The New Yorker Spot On verified_publisherThe New Yorker - Peter SchjeldahlHirst will go down in history as a peculiarly cold-blooded pet of millennial excess wealth. The art of Damien Hirst puts me in mind of a New Yorker cartoon by Peter Steiner, from 1997. One of two vultures...
The New Yorker Eerily Composed verified_publisherThe New Yorker - Rebecca MeadWhen Muhly composes, the last thing he thinks about is the notes. He begins with books and documents, YouTube videos and illuminated manuscripts. Nico Muhly, a composer, was bounding through Chinatown,...
The New Yorker Banksy Was Here verified_publisherThe New Yorker - Lauren CollinsBanksy, the invisible man of graffiti art, sees himself as a “quality vandal”—and his anti-authoritarian whimsy has won him a colossal following. The British graffiti artist Banksy likes pizza, though...
The New YorkerClothing The Misfit verified_publisherThe New Yorker - Judith ThurmanThe designer’s genius is for wrapping up the paradoxes of being a misfit and a cipher in something to wear that is magically misfitting. Does it really matter what one wears? I sometimes think my life...
