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Tension, freedom, restraint: Elliott Puckette crosses the line at Kasmin New York
Artist Elliott Puckette talks doubt, contradictions, and venturing into sculpture at Kasmin New York
By Tilly Macalister-Smith Last updated
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Sculptor Leilah Babirye turns found objects into triumphant celebrations of queer identity
Since fleeing Uganda for the US, Leilah Babiyre is now taking the New York art scene by storm. Ahead of her second solo exhibition at Gordon Robichaux, the artist discusses her new, regal sculptures, which transform found objects into visions of a liberated queer and trans community
By Pei-Ru Keh Last updated
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In the darkroom with homoerotic art hero Tom of Finland
At Fotografiska New York, the reference photography for Tom of Finland’s sexually empowered drawings are receiving overdue exposure
By Harriet Lloyd-Smith Published
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Studio Shamshiri gets a midcentury Hollywood Hills home ready for its close-up
French-Tunisian entrepreneur Franck Nataf enlisted designer Pamela Shamshiri to oversee a refresh of his jewel box Hollywood Hills house
By Tilly Macalister-Smith Published
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Tom of Finland at 100: the icon who raised the homoerotic to high art
Tom of Finland beefed up the image of homosexuality, creating images of bulgingly priapic cops and cowboys that have become icons of gay liberation. To hail his centenary, we delve into the Wallpaper* archives to revisit this feature from the November 2014 issue (W*188), when our US editor Michael Reynolds teamed up with photographer Jack Pierson and art historian Richard Meyer to discover the artist’s house-turned-foundation
By Richard Meyer Published