Tom Sachs

Tom Sachs on Switzerland, LSD, and the cult of organisation

Tom Sachs has more in common with the Swiss than he would have you believe. The American artist runs a decidedly precise operation in New York governed by a rigorous framework of ten rules – or ‘bullets’ – outlined in...

Fashion / 9 Oct 2018

Unpacking Tom Sachs and Nike’s latest space age sneaker

This week, the artist Tom Sachs unveils his latest sculpture: the Nike Mars Yard Overshoe. It is an artefact that conveys the corporeal values of Sach’s sport of making and musing. ‘I take the sock-liners out of my sneakers so...

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...