Matthew Barney

Beautiful Plinky Folk Star Joanna Newsom Gets Kind of Lost at 'Beautiful People' Party

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"We are here to celebrate all the beautiful people, and tonight you are all beautiful," said David Hershkovitz, publisher of Paper magazine as he took the stage at Hiro Ballroom to introduce Joanna Newsom.

The crinkly-voiced neo-folkist graces the cover of the magazine’s April “Beautiful People” issue, in honor of which many beautiful New Yorkers gathered to celebrate, well, each other’s beauty.  read more »

A Queen of All Media Misses Grand Synthesis

(One third of) Betty Woodman
Collection of Bunty and Tom Armstrong
(One third of) Betty Woodman

You’ve got to hand it to an artist who could even conceive of an erotic burrito, and then must  read more »

A Queen of All Media Misses Grand Synthesis

You’ve got to hand it to an artist who could even conceive of an erotic burrito, and then muster u  read more »

The Quiet One

So far, Deborah Treisman is shaping up to be the George Harrison of the storied New Yorker fiction d  read more »

Zigzagging Between Extremes-Sometimes Getting Away With It

Bill Jensen is one of our most interesting-and inconsistent-painters.  read more »

Leonardo Da Vinci Left Breathtaking Painting Incomplete

It's with high expectations-indeed, the highest-that we go to an exhibition of drawings by Leonardo  read more »

Komar & Melamid's Dreams; Dannheisser's Prima Donnas

Since the fall of the Soviet Union, Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid have been plagued by some pre  read more »