Culture Profiles

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WFMU

WFMU was not the first freeform radio station, but it… >>

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Hedi Slimane

By Avram Finkelstein

The Art of Style.

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UCB Theatre

By Anna Graizbord

Breeding ground for many influential comedy figures.

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Tonetta

By Anna Graizbord

Mysterious, uninhibited, and sexually charged DIY video artist.

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Podcasts

By Anna Graizbord

Downloadable audio programs characterized by their magnified level of intimacy.

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Sheila Hicks

By Michael Tomeo

The source from which most fibers art flows.

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George Inness

By Michael Tomeo

Landscape painter who mixed the real and the romantic.

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Bill Cunningham

By Ranjani Gopalarathinam

Uncovering fashion on the city’s streets.

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Ben Katchor

By Damian Van Denburgh

Art manufactured from the detritus of daydreams.

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Mod

By Jim Allen

Sharp-dressing, scooter-riding, soul-loving Brits

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Herzog and de Meuron

By Adriana Szkolnik

Possibly the defining architects of their generation.

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Janaina Tschäpe

By Adriana Szkolnik

Brazilian-German artist turns myths corporeal.

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Vik Muniz

By Adriana Szkolnik

Appearances are deceiving in more ways than one.

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Numen / For Use

By Adriana Szkolnik

Multi-faceted designers create an architecture of lightness.

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Reggie Watts

By Stewart Mason

Blurring the lines between improv comedy and indie rock.

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Olafur Eliasson

By Adriana Szkolnik

Intellectually stimulating notions about community.

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Anish Kapoor

By Adriana Szkolnik

Seductive sculptures in a realm outside language and beyond image.

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Elizabeth Peyton

By Carrie Tucker

Modern portraiture sans irony.

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Gabriel Orozco

By Adriana Szkolnik

Collector of the mundane discovers art where most of us… >>

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Harvey Pekar

By Damian Van Denburgh

Harvey Pekar transformed the mundane into the profound.

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Keith Knight

By Stewart Mason

Life-affirming political cartoonist.

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Robert Mapplethorpe

By Michael Shaw

Classical grace and beauty in the most unexpected places.

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Charles and Ray Eames

By Stewart Mason

Their self-contained but inviting world still feels current.

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Hipgnosis

By Stewart Mason

More than any other design company, Hipgnosis was responsible for… >>

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Barney Bubbles

By Stewart Mason

London ad man turns lysergic light-show hippie, then becomes the… >>

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Malcolm Garrett

By Stewart Mason

Designed era-defining graphics for new wave and new romantic acts… >>

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Peter Saville

By Stewart Mason

Defined album cover design in the 1980s, creating wonderfully tactile… >>

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Bernd and Hilla Becher

By Jim Allen

German couple's photographs examined functionalist design from a fine-art perspective

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Yohji Yamamoto

By Ranjani Gopalarathinam

Yamamoto's designs allow fashionable women to be playfully intellectual and… >>

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Jim Flora

By Jim Allen

His bold, freewheeling style broke new ground and created the… >>

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Banks Violette

By Carrie Tucker

His art, menacing and curiously stifling for such minimal creations,… >>

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David Noonan

By Carrie Tucker

Noonan's works are much like the famous "young girl/old woman"… >>

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Lenny Bruce

By Jim Allen

A Kerouac of stand-up comedy.

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Coyle and Sharpe

By Jim Allen

Pulling absurd, elaborate pranks on unsuspecting passersby led to a… >>

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Eddie Izzard

By Jim Allen

Leading standup comic with a penchant for transvestitism, discursive style,… >>

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Gareth Pugh

By Carrie Tucker

English designer flaunts an Alice In Wonderland meets S&M-goth-club-kid aesthetic

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James Ensor

By Carrie Tucker

One of the great tragedies of modern art is that… >>

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Christian Jankowski

By Carrie Tucker

Jankowski’s art is an exuberant, often humorous elevation of the… >>

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Ricky Gervais

By Jim Allen

Actor, writer and director turns public humiliation into hilarious comedy

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Critical Mob

Critical Mob is a discovery site, an editorial-driven, team-curated effort… >>