Tom Sachs

Art / 5 Oct 2017

Tom Sachs shapes a self-portrait through things, found and fabricated

Objects that arouse, titillate and terrify are all locked up in Tom Sachs’ Wunderkammern – cabinets of curiosity the artist has constructed for an exhibition at Sperone Westwater, ‘Objects of Devotion’. Sachs is an artist who, whether critical or not...

Design / 13 Jun 2017

A collaboration between Tom Sachs and Nike is out of this world

Tom Sachs loves objects with battle scars: imperfections that bear witness to experience, character, and perseverance. The New York artist, who this year judged our Design Awards, embraces flaws in all his work — resourceful, rough-edged contraptions that harness the...

Design / 12 Jan 2017

Artist Tom Sachs on judging the Wallpaper* Design Awards 2017

A visit to Tom Sachs’ Lower Manhattan studio is akin to entering one of his bricolage installations. Everywhere there is evidence of his enthusiasms, with towers of tools and raw materials and even stacks of trainers. Sachs has become known...

Art / 24 Mar 2016

Out of this world: Tom Sachs takes cosmic tea at the Noguchi Museum

Artist Tom Sachs’ new exhibition at Long Island City’s Noguchi Museum combines his signature madcap bricolage with Isamu Noguchi’s serene monolithic sculptures – an improbable intersection of space travel, tea ceremony, Americana and Noguchi. ‘Noguchi said, "To be hybrid is to be...

Art / 18 Mar 2016

Life on Mars: Tom Sachs’ space adventures captured on film

In the early aughts, filmmaker Van Neistat worked as a fabricator for Tom Sachs, notably on the artist’s massive foamcore model of Le Corbusier’s Unité d’Habitation and helped make the film (with his brother Casey) about Sachs’s mixed media Nutsy’s...

Art / 12 Nov 2015

Artist’s Palate: Tom Sachs’ Baked Alaska

Among the sculptor Tom Sachs’ cultural appropriations, remixes and samplings (such as a McDonald’s on wheels, a cardboard Chanel chainsaw and an Unité d’Habitation cut from foamcore), space exploration, in its Cold War pomp, has remained a constant. In 2007...