Cultured Magazine

CULTURED is a leading voice for inspiration and a trusted vehicle for discovery at the intersection of art, design, and style. Since its founding in 2011 by Sarah Harrelson, CULTURED has become a bellwether showcasing emerging talents before they become household names.

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LETTER from the EDITOR

RULES TO LIVE BY

A Well-Adorned Hand • With a string of museum collaborations on the horizon, Los Angeles–based jewelry designer Jess Hannah Révész dives deep into the art historical canon, crafting pieces with a will to endure.

For Michael Stewart, the Body Is a Landscape • The London-based designer’s sculptural fashion label, Standing Ground, built its credo on Irish mysticism, fantasy classics, and an intuitive approach to craft.

Painting for the End Times • Swiss artist Nicolas Party’s latest works, on view at Hauser & Wirth in New York until late October, imagine epochs before and after mankind.

We Are in the Soup Now • RIRKRIT TIRAVANIJA’S INAUGURAL U.S. SURVEY, “A LOT OF PEOPLE,” WILL FILL MOMA PS1’S HALLS THIS OCTOBER. THE EXHIBITION EXCAVATES FOUR DECADES’ WORTH OF WORK FROM ONE OF OUR ERA’S MOST CATEGORY-DEFYING ARTISTS, AND SHOWS US HOW MUCH WE OWE TO HIS PERIPATETIC PRACTICE.

Kelly Akashi’s Time Machine • The Los Angeles–based artist uses bronze, earth, hair, and plant matter to craft works that are at once deeply intimate and existentially out-of-reach. This fall, her galaxy-spanning practice will be honored with two West Coast exhibitions.

After Years of Searching, White Cube Has Found a Home in New York. Just Don’t Call It an Outpost. • The British gallery will open its first permanent U.S. branch this October with an inaugural group show.

THE FOREIGN AND THE FAMILIAR • WHETHER ON THE ART-FILLED WALLS OF HER WEST VILLAGE HOME, OR IN THE FALL COLLECTION OF HER NAMESAKE CLOTHING BRAND, VERONICA DE PIANTE WEAVES TOGETHER SUBTLE REFERENCES FROM HER GLOBAL UPBRINGING TO MESMERIZING EFFECT.

A SEAT AT THE TABLE • With the newly inaugurated Mickalene Thomas Scholarship at the Yale School of Art, collectors Carmine Boccuzzi and Bernard Lumpkin are offering one lucky student a chance to become the artist’s newest mentee.

Are You Listening? • The full breadth of Judy Chicago’s work is finally getting the art world’s unmediated attention. Her largest survey to date, a choral recontextualization of her six-decade-long career, opens at the New Museum in October.

MEET THE NEXT GENERATION OF BREAKOUT DESIGNERS • The runway is often a petri dish for larger social reckonings around the body and identity. Last year, the upheaval of Roe v. Wade and a slew of anti-trans bills resurfaced ongoing questions about bodily autonomy, just as America’s racial history was negotiated on a global stage following the protests of 2020. Designers, much like the rest of us, are contending with these forces in deeply personal ways. Despair is certainly a logical response, but in the work of this year’s breakthrough talents—Lu’u Dan, Hodakova, DJ Chappel, and Zoe Gustavia Anna Whalen—there’s a lot of hope, too. Hailing from the U.S. and abroad, these designers offer up visions of ourselves that are fiercer, and freer, than those we are most often handed. Some contend with the industry’s culture of frenzied consumption by sourcing secondhand materials or opting for a more meditative pace. Others reckon with their own relationships to gender, nationality, and race, presenting critical yet undeniably joyful work. All four capture the feeling of moving through our flawed and topsy-turvy world.

GUCCI’S NEW ERA • GUCCI’S ENDURING LEGACY IS GROUNDED IN CONSTANT REVITALIZATION. THE ITALIAN HOUSE’S FALL/WINTER 2023 WOMEN’S COLLECTION IS AN HOMAGE TO THE ECOSYSTEM OF DESIGNERS AND ARTISANS WHO HAVE POOLED THEIR KNOWLEDGE...