The work of Matthew Frost is ripe with modern wit. Whether it’s fashion films for Vogue, portraiture for L’Officiel, or editorials in Jalouse, the London-born, NYC-based Frost is sure to add his particular brand of humor, defined–and, perhaps, helping to define–the zeitgeist of today. He is the master of...
Read moreWynwood is a neighborhood in flux, and you can feel it on every block. After years of development, you’re just as likely to come across a contemporary art gallery or an artisanal bakery as you are a wholesale shoe warehouse in this long-time enclave of the working-class. It’s the...
Read moreJon Neidich is on a roll. Just 33 years old, the nightlife impresario and restaurateur stands at the helm of some of downtown Manhattan’s hippest rooms: Tijuana Picnic, Tico’s Tequila Bar, The Happiest Hour, Slowly Shirley, Acme, and, most recently, SIXTY LES’ very own Tiki Tabu. It’s a solid...
Read moreChildhood always leaves its mark. For Dayton, Ohio born-and-based artist Zachary Armstrong, it’s the driving force of his work. In familiar shades, primary colors evoking youth, Armstrong sketches and paints figures that wouldn’t seem out of place on the walls of an elementary school classroom. But these are childish...
Read more“Queer is a category in flux,” wrote philosopher Diane Raymond. Reappropriated from those who historically misused (and abused) it, queerness is something to be celebrated. For those who embrace it proudly, queer is “politically radical, rejects binary categories (homosexual/heterosexual), embraces more fluid categories, and tends to be ‘universalizing’ rather...
Read moreEveryone knows about the shopping on Rodeo Drive. The famous stairs. The Golden Triangle. They’ve seen the postcard of the palm trees that line the streets and the palm frond wallpaper that famously lines the BH Hotel. They know about the large Beverly Hills signpost on Santa Monica Boulevard...
Read moreEvery now and again a designer comes along that fully captures the zeitgeist. Neither limitedly nostalgic or impractically futuristic, it sits plumly in the now. New York City-based label Public School does this in spades. Founded in 2007 by Dao-Yi Chow and Maxwell Osborne, the brand represents a modern...
Read moreAn abstract optimism weaves itself through the work of Darren Goins. Working with a wide range of media–printmaking, painting, drawing, sculpture, neon–Goins’ art manages to capture the anxiety of the Information Age in both color and form. Reds, blues, greens, pinks: His colorful nebulas of paint move between patterns...
Read moreSurrounded by industrial buildings and adjacent a scrap metal yard, Bunker occupies an under-trafficked stretch of Metropolitan Avenue in Ridgewood, Queens. Getting to the much-beloved Vietnamese restaurant is, for some, a bit of a hike. But whether your trek involves a subway transfer or two (and perhaps a short...
Read moreIf you’ve lived in downtown Manhattan at some point over the last two decades, chances are you’ve probably seen Bill Powers. Owner of Half Gallery, which held court on the Lower East Side until its move to the Upper East two years ago, Powers can seem everywhere all at...
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