Images courtesy of the artist and Galleri Kant Text by Claire Milbrath  Siro Cugusi’s Secret Garden showcases the painter’s trademark high-gloss, scribbly, mechanical masterpieces. Secret Garden is a funny exhibition title, said to evoke a meditative place of introspection and innocent pleasure, when in reality the works exhibited bring to mind medieval surgery, crude apparatuses, and sordid Guston flesh-tones….

BY EMER GRANT Jillian Mayer is an artist and filmmaker living in South Florida. Through videos, online experiences, photography, telephone numbers, performance, sculpture and installation, Mayer’s work explores how technology affects our experience of environments and identities. DIY instructional YouTube videos and “slumpies” (tech inspired ergonomic sculptures) have become her satirical trademark in the art world. Her…

Photography by Yuki Kasai Pare Styling by AntoninaKallaur Models: Etienne & Emerik 1: Emerik: Jacket: Comme des garçons homme plus 1993 Etienne: Suit: Issey Miyake 2-3: Emerik: Hat: Yohji Yamamoto pour homme fw 1995, sweater: yohji Yamamoto pour homme Pants: raf simons ss 2000-2001, shoes: basics Necktie: comme des garçons homme plus, gloves: yohji Yamamoto…

Images courtesy of the artist and James Fuentes, New York Text by Claire Milbrath cymbals of sleep uncurtain the night, 2018 Oil on canvas over panel, wood panels and burlap on the front only 8 panels, each panel : 72 1/2 × 40 1/4 × 2 inches “I was the shadow of the waxwing slain,…

Photography: Jetro Emilcar Styling: François Gravel Model: Laurence Fournier Beauty: Emy Filteau Clothing: 1. Wool Corset Jacket: Balenciaga by Nicolas Ghesquière A/W 2003 Wave Pumps: Proenza Schouler 2. Leather Cape: Custom Vejas Tortoise Shell Bikini: Paco Rabanne from Resurrection Vintage Leather Boots: Radio Canada costume archives 3. “La Reine Morte” Dress: Radio Canada costume archives Wave Pumps:…

Photos by Sandra Larochelle Photos  courtesy of the artists and L’Inconnue Text by Olivia Whittick “Never does one open the discussion by coming right to the heart of the matter. For the heart of the matter is always somewhere else than where it is supposed to be. To allow it to emerge, people approach it…

Photoraphy: Chus Anton Model: Yuna Mori Stylist: Masako Ogura Art Director: Gregory Clavijo     Clothing:  red dress, knit jacket and skirt by Kota Gushiken

PUBLISHED IN ISSUE 17 EDITORIAL BY LOGAN JACKSON MAKE UP BY SILVIA CINCOTTA MODELS: JUNE CANEDO, SPENCER SINGER, ANASTASIA BUKOWSKI What’s been stopping you? Have you been doing it wrong? We only use 0.1% of our entire brain, and the rest is owned by the NSA. Today I’m going to be showing you guys how…

PUBLISHED IN ISSUE 17 INTERVIEW & PHOTOS BY JUNE CANEDO STYLING BY TESS HERBERT June Canedo speaks to two of her favorite first-generation women on life-choices, immigrant parents, self-love, and freedom on the internet. Remy Fox was born and raised in Los Angeles, Slayrizz in New York. Both women are taking to the internet to…

PUBLISHED IN ISSUE 17 INTERVIEW & PHOTOS BY JUNE CANEDO STYLING BY TESS HERBERT June Canedo speaks to two of her favorite first-generation women on life-choices, immigrant parents, self-love, and freedom on the internet. Remy Fox was born and raised in Los Angeles, Slayrizz in New York. Both women are taking to the internet to…

Today we stream the newest video & track, “Marigold Mix,” from Montreal music maven CFCF. The video consists mainly of stationary cam footage of a snowy Montreal road, letting “the world do all the talking.” It’s a familiar sight for anyone living in Montreal, made immediately sentimental by the emotional density of the music, which is sweetly…

Clara Hirsch covers Vaquera’s Fall 2018 Ready-to-Wear show at Ukrainian National Home.

  TEXT BY CLAIRE MILBRATH PUBLISHED IN ISSUE 17 Staring up at the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, there are swarms of male bodies: bulging, complicated, exaggerated muscle. We find chiseled hands gripping rippling biceps, or floating bubble butts thrusting into the faces of other men. Michelangelo’s homoerotic dream would help form our notion of…

  To commemorate Valentine’s Day, and the act of loving, we share with you a list of our top ten films about revolutionary love—transformative, against-all-odds, empowering love. Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974) – Rainer Werner Fassbinder This film follows the blossoming of a romantic relationship between an older white woman and a recent Arab immigrant….

I found Sophie D’Ansembourg’s paintings online and fell in love with her naive flower still lifes. Her work reminds me of all the reasons I love painting—they are beautiful, free, and sincere. I asked Sophie some questions about her life and practice. – CM PUBLISHED IN ISSUE 17     As a child I used…

PUBLISHED IN ISSUE 17 ESSAY BY TAYLORE SCARABELLI ART BY LOUISA GAGLIARDI The 1987 sci-fi flop Cherry 2000 follows Sam Treadwell—a recycling-plant worker with a penchant for post-human women—on an epic journey through a lawless desert zone. He’s on a mission to find a replacement for Cherry, a fembot who, up until a traumatic household…