New York Magazine: April 17, 2017 Issue

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April 17, 2017

Cover Story

Kara Walker After Subtlety

The public artist of our time ponders her next big statement. By Doreen St. Félix

On the Cover: Kara Walker. Photograph by Ari Marcopoulos for New York Magazine.

Features

My Life As a Failed Artist

A critic confronts his old work, decades after abandoning it.

By Jerry Saltz

Plus: Jerry reviews his own early work.
What Broke the Met?

Believe it or not, part of the problem was the gift shop.

By Boris Kachka
She Came From Instagram

Food-obsessed artist Chloe Wise and her mixed-up relationship with ubiquity.

By Jessica Pressler
Is Political Art the Only Art That Matters Now?

The art world does battle with Trump. And itself.

By Carl Swanson

Plus: What makes protest art successful?

Intelligencer

The National Interest

Reagan manipulated television. Trump is controlled by it.
Encounter

Girls actor Andrew Rannells, who would rather not be a poster boy for anything.
Urbanities

The more metropolitan liberals resist, protest, and strike, the more foreign they will become to the rest of the country.
Reread: February 19, 1973

Living in a loft is so ubiquitous now that it’s easy to forget that it had to be invented, and the place where it was invented was downtown New York.

Culture

The Cut

How Has One Designer Spent Decades Defining the Avant-Garde?

Rei Kawakubo’s constant quest for the new at Comme des Garçons.

Departments

Strategist