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Lauren Halsey Introduces the Elite Art World to South Central LA
The red-hot 36-year-old artist has achieved global success with a very local approach: applying imaginative, laserlike focus to a few square blocks of her hometown. In doing so, she renders and reflects what it’s actually like to live and work in—and never, ever leave—South Central Los Angeles.
Culture
How Painter Sayre Gomez Captured the Polarized Heart of Los Angeles
Gomez speaks to Easy Otabor, the owner and curator of the Anthony Gallery, about the sometimes “overwhelmingly sad” city that is the artist’s muse: “It [can be] as simple as waiting at a red light and noticing something about a strip mall that I’ve never seen before.”
Style
First Look: Vans Just Linked with Fashion's Favorite Artist on Some Very Sick Sneakers
OTW by Vans tapped Sterling Ruby on a new silhouette that combines several classic skate shoes.
Culture
How Anna Weyant Became The Most Talked About Painter In The Art World
The star painter on her surging auction prices, her relationship with gallerist Larry Gagosian, and her strategy for tuning out the circus that surrounds her.
Style
Is Ed Ruscha the Most Stylish American Artist?
An ode to Ruscha's decades-long refinement of his unique, western-inspired personal style.
Culture
Artist Marc Hundley Recommends Finding Success After 40
“There's a greater chance of feeling irrelevant if you get what you think you want,” says Hundley, who talked to GQ columnist Chris Black about making “dumb art” and staying out until six a.m. in his 50s.
Culture
The Anxiety and Ecstasy of Rashid Johnson
Rashid Johnson was a blue-chip artist whose work offered a radically fresh portrayal of Black cultural identity. Then he got sober, found God, and began to transform the art world from the inside.
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Is the Painter Barkley Hendricks the Ultimate Menswear Artist?
GQ caught up with the curator and critic Antwaun Sargent about his work on Barkley L. Hendricks: Portraits at the Frick, now on view.
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For Tennis Star Reilly Opelka, Art Collecting Is a Sport
The Guston-collecting, Margiela-wearing, McEnroe-dialing 26-year-old explains why he shuns art advisors (“I don't respect the profession”) and shows no emotion during studio visits. “I love any opportunity to go against the grain,” he tells GQ columnist Chris Black.
Style
Cult Label Mfpen Makes Scandinavian Minimalism That’s Actually Fun to Wear
GQ columnist Chris Black dropped into the brand’s Copenhagen HQ and talked with founder Sigurd Bank about hardcore, graffiti, and opting out of growth.
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What’s Cool Right Now, According to Stylish People With Great Taste
What should you wear? How should you smell? Where should you be eating? Or vacationing? You might never know without The GQ Hype List, a super-specific, deeply personal, earth-spanning guide to what’s cool right this very minute.
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The Less-Is-More Mastery of Painter Mathew Cerletty
GQ columnist Chris Black visits Cerletty in his studio, where the painter can spend weeks making a single painting of a street sign, cracker box, or envelope. “I'm going for that low-output, high-quality thing,” he says.
Culture
How Did One Man Steal $2 Billion in Art?
The most audacious art thief of our age opened up about the tricks—and the hubris—that helped him swipe hundreds of pieces all across Europe.
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Did a Secret Manhattan Cult Drive Jackson Pollock to His Death?
The Sullivan Institute brought a radical vision to midcentury psychotherapy, promoting alcohol and sexual freedom as conduits for creative expression. For a tormented genius like Pollock, those ideas proved very dangerous.
Style
Graffiti Icon Futura on His $100,000 Virgil Abloh Nike Collab
The New York legend talks his new NBA Finals project, coming up alongside Basquiat and Haring, and the secret to a great collaboration.
Culture
When Is a ‘Problematic Fave’ Actually a Monster?
In her bestselling new book, Claire Dederer reckons with problematic artists like Roman Polanski and J.K. Rowling—and the thorny question of whether we can still love their greatest works.
Style
Bright Lights, Bladee City
When their record labels asked Bladee, de facto frontman of the Swedish musical sensation Drain Gang, and his creative-partner-in-crime Varg2™ to make an album, they started making art together instead. GQ tagged along while they got the downtown treatment for their first-ever New York gallery show.
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Why Every Fashion Kid Is Suddenly Collecting Old Books
Following a few cool moodboards on IG isn’t enough anymore. To attain true aesthetic clout, you need to own physical copies of vintage fashion tomes, lookbooks, and magazines—and a new generation of book dealers is here to help.
Style
At 83, Designer Gaetano Pesce Is More Relevant Than Ever
A legend of Italian art, architecture, and beyond, Pesce has been reimagining everyday objects and furniture in vibrant new ways for decades. Now, the culture is finally catching up to him.
Culture
Here’s What Went Down in the First GQ3 Drop
Everything you need to know about the groundbreaking art, insane benefits, and wild IRL event surrounding GQ’s first Web3 drop.