Fall 2023, Page 2 of 3
Personal Best
Fiona Duncan tracks the development and reception of Robert Towne’s 1982 film.
Axel Salto: Playing with Fire
On the occasion of the forthcoming exhibition Playing with Fire: Edmund de Waal and Axel Salto, Edmund de Waal composed a series of reflections on the Danish ceramicist Axel Salto and his own practice.
Fashion and Art: Anthony Vaccarello
Anthony Vaccarello has served as creative director for Saint Laurent since 2016. Over the past seven years, in addition to overseeing the womenswear and menswear collections, he has spearheaded an ambitious program of collaborations with figures from the worlds of film, music, art, and beyond. Derek Blasberg caught up with Vaccarello in Los Angeles to discuss Saint Laurent Productions, which debuted with a new film by Pedro Almodóvar at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, as well as forthcoming projects with artist Cai Guo-Qiang and filmmaker David Cronenberg.
Modern Women curated by AWARE
AWARE: Archives of Women Artists, Research and Exhibitions is devoted to increasing awareness about women-identifying artists of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This Paris-based international nonprofit selected a number of works for the exhibition Modern Women, at Frieze Masters, London, in October 2023. Here, art historians from AWARE highlight four of the works presented.
Seductive Imitation: on Anna Weyant’s Still Lifes
Inspired by Anna Weyant’s still lifes, John Elderfield explores the genre and its relationship with trompe l’oeil techniques, tracking its formal development, as well as the evolving critical receptions it has elicited.
In Conversation
Helen Marden and Kiki Smith
Ahead of her exhibition in Athens this fall, Helen Marden met with longtime friend Kiki Smith at Marden’s home in New York’s West Village to discuss the bravery of color and the power of intuition.
Sara Cwynar by Sofia Coppola
Filmmaker Sofia Coppola visited the Brooklyn studio of artist Sara Cwynar to see her newest works and to take photographs. After their meeting, Coppola engaged Cwynar in a series of questions by email, covering her techniques, aspirations, and inspirations.
Come As You Are: Derrick Adams
Jewels Dodson visited artist Derrick Adams at his New York studio as he prepared for an exhibition of new paintings in Los Angeles in the fall of 2023. She reports on these works and on Adams’s embrace of joy, humor, and contradiction.
ANOHNI: My Back Was a Bridge for You to Cross
British-born, New York–based artist ANOHNI returned with her sixth studio album, My Back Was a Bridge for You to Cross, this past summer. Here she speaks with Michael Cuby about the genesis of the project and the value of life.