Just last week, Yoko Ono, the award-winning artist, accomplished musician, and cultural icon released YOKOKIMTHURSTON, a full-length album in collaboration with Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore of the legendary rock band Sonic Youth. The record, with its captivating 14-minute first single “Early in the Morning,” features the ... More

The tent pole movies at the New York Film Festival, which opens its 16-day run September 28, are more than likely going to end up in a theater near you—even if it’s an art-house cinema slightly off the beaten path. The festival is opening with Ang ... More

Looking at small, slim, strong celebrity fitness guru Tracy Anderson today—just six weeks after she gave birth to her second child—you’d never guess she was in very different shape after baby number one. But back when she was expecting her first child in 1998, she spent nine months sitting by ... More

Nicole Richie is soaking wet. She’s been standing under a running faucet—intended to mimic a downpour—for 15 minutes. Between takes, a makeup artist bolts in with the speed and urgency of a U.S. Open ball boy, using a spray bottle to spritz her face with water and ensure that her ... More

During her lifetime, heiress Doris Duke was known for her many romantic affairs, intense relationships with men ranging from General George S. Patton to Errol Flynn that blazed for a while before sputtering out. Today, one of her great passions—her love of Islamic art—lives on in the form of ... More

During her lifetime, heiress Doris Duke was known for her many romantic affairs, intense relationships with men ranging from General George S. Patton to Errol Flynn that blazed for a while before sputtering out. Today, one of her great passions—her love of Islamic art—lives on in the form of ... More

Our minds are packed with preconceived notions when we look at any object, no matter how ordinary; we can’t help it. Artist Wolfgang Tillmans wants to change that. In the recently published Taschen book Neue Welt (“New World”), Tillmans’ ... More

People often hang their museum-quality art on the wall, but some sweet-smelling art aficionados will be keeping this particular objet in a more unusual place: the medicine cabinet. Renowned French artist Jean-Michel Othoniel is currently the subject of a retrospective at the Brooklyn Museum that covers 25 years of his ... More

Joel Kinnaman was 10 years old the day he soured on fame. He was the goalkeeper on his youth soccer team in Sweden and had just allowed the opposing team to score. “I was so pissed at myself,” he recalls. The whole stadium started chanting a name, but it ... More

When Stephen di Renza came to Fez in 1999 to purchase a riad—a traditional Moroccan house—he was only the second foreigner ever to do so, he says. “I couldn’t believe people weren’t coming here and buying up these beautiful old buildings for vacation homes.” In the past decade, throughout ... More