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Put on Your Puffer Coat! Here's Our Critics' Guide to What's On in Chelsea, Tribeca, and Brooklyn
Alex Da Corte, Pink Store Front, 2025. Image courtesy of Matthew Marks Gallery. © Alex Da Corte Our What’s On column distills Critics’ Table coverage—from our In Brief roundups, Big Picture essays, and Close Look reviews—and organizes our recommendations by neighborhood. Tip: to map our picks and plan your route, enter the Critic’s Table hashtag #TCT in the search bar of the See Saw app. Easy! CHELSEA Alex Katz, Road 25, 2024. © Alex Katz / Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY.
Family Style - In the Details
“We all live with light,” says Gilbert Mathews. “When done correctly, lighting brings out the beauty of its surroundings.” The CEO and founder of Lucifer Lighting has made a name for his company whose name refers to the “bringer of light” in Latin with three tenets: “define, design, and disappear.” True to its motto, Lucifer is both under the radar and ubiquitous across architects, high profile clients, and luxury brands.
Chanterelles and Cockles
When it comes to both taking photos and making food, Jingyu Lin likes to involve the location—from editorials set in Iceland to meals made with seasonal produce. “Cooking is a huge part of my life. I'm all about sourcing local ingredients and produce to really get a feel for the city that I'm in,” Lin tells Family Style.
Family Style - Do Not Disturb
Art Harold Mendez gets site specific as Bella Union’s inaugural artist in residence. At the Napa Valley winery, a survey of his works made at past residencies is a sum of its parts. Art Since porcelain was introduced to the west in the 16th century, its craft has carried both the stories of and the prejudices toward Chinese culture. Today, a new generation of Asian women artists reckon with the medium’s past and reclaim its story at the Met.
Family Style - Star Vehicle
Last fall, Martine Gutierrez attended a gala at London’s Natural History Museum dressed solely in black panties and art-handling tape, “I’m naked in the calendar,” she says, referencing the honoree of the evening, Ethan James Green’s 2025 Pirelli Calendar, in which she can be seen laid out against wet sand for the month of May.
Portraits Off the Runway
Actress Zoë Kravitz reclines across a tangerine-colored canvas, wearing a ruffled, sheer turquoise blouse, a burgundy pencil skirt, and two oversized gold bangles. Her legs are kicked up, with one foot clad in a high heel and the other bare, as she raises a red brocade jacket the way a matador signals a bull. Painted by Francesco Clemente, Saint Laurent’s Spring/Summer 2025 campaign stars the actor alongside Isabella Ferrari and models Penelope Ternes and Ajus Samuel.
Challah French Toast
Art Harold Mendez gets site specific as Bella Union’s inaugural artist in residence. At the Napa Valley winery, a survey of his works made at past residencies is a sum of its parts. Art Since porcelain was introduced to the west in the 16th century, its craft has carried both the stories of and the prejudices toward Chinese culture. Today, a new generation of Asian women artists reckon with the medium’s past and reclaim its story at the Met.
Family Style - Daytripper
Culture For Martine Gutierrez, the body is as much a tool as it is a triumphant vanity project, an object of perfection where she just happens to live. Others have been taking notice. Design Lucifer Lighting has made a name for itself with fixtures meant to be experienced, not seen. Now for the second time in its 40-plus-decade history, it is launching a decorative fixture where form meets function.
The Crowning Jewel
Kelly Rutherford knows a thing or two about playing royalty. Off screen, the actress carries the same cool, composed, effortlessly chic energy as the roles that cemented her in pop culture. So when PDPAOLA revealed its latest fine jewelry collection, Rutherford naturally made perfect sense as the face. An old-world-style oil painting of Rutherford hangs at the brand’s sleek flagship in the West Village.
Everything Willy Chavarria sends down the runway walks with the assurance of being home
"No matter what I'm doing," says Willy Chavarria one day over Zoom, "you'll always know where I'm from, my influences and my culture." It’s the social nature of clothes that keeps the California-born, Irish and Mexican American designer's inspirations close to home. At his namesake label, the designer freaks classics like the T-shirt: dropped-shouldered USA crop tops turn the American flag upside down.
This Girl’s Life: On Growing Up Trans in Texas
Editor’s note: Amid a charged national conversation about transgender rights, the question of how best to love, support, and care for trans-identifying young Americans has become a source of fervent debate.
Devan Díaz on Drake Carr
Drake Carr, Took a Long Time to Learn to Feel Free, 2018, acrylic and airbrush on bedsheet, 75 × 54". IF DRAKE CARR wants to see something sexy, he’ll make it himself. It began in the first grade with tracing superheroes in full regalia, but soon the clothes came off. “When my drawings started to look like something I could recognize,” he says, “my whole body would shake with fear and ecstasy.” Each nude sketch met the same end, ripped up and flushed down the toilet. A prayer followed its descent.
JULIEN CECCALDI
By Devan Díaz When God won’t answer your plea, Satan waits on standby. Julien Ceccaldi’s girls call on the latter. Based on the banned 19th-century novel Là-Bas by Joris-Karl Huysmans, infamous for its detailed descriptions of necrophilia, child sex murders and a black mass, the artist’s latest exhibition of paintings, styled mannequins and collected objects are split between Lomex and Jenny’s galleries in New York. The shows follow the tale of a Victorian girl living in our present day.
The 6 Pairs of Underwear I Recommend If You Don’t Want to Tuck (or Use a Gaff)
Photo-Illustration: retailer Like many people, I’m ready to wear clothes once more. I pine for skirts, dresses, and exposed skin. But anyone who’s getting dressed to leave the house again knows that it presents a problem we didn’t have to think about during our year of living at home: what goes under the clothes. There are, of course, the usual underwear concerns, like finding pairs that balance fashion and function or won’t show lines across your butt.
María Belén Correa and Cecilia Estalles speak with Devan Díaz and Thora Siemsen about El Archivo de la Memoria Trans Argentina
Vanesa Sander and her boyfriend, Salta, Argentina, 1988. Founded by activist archivist María Belén Correa in 2013, El Archivo de la Memoria Trans Argentina is a historical-memory project devoted to lost friends and forebears. This growing collection of more than ten thousand documents—photos, videos, and mementos––gives flesh to trans lives in Argentina. The archive originated as a private Facebook group, a forum for research and discussion sustained by the dedication of its members.
The 6 Pairs of Underwear I Recommend If You Don’t Want to Tuck (or Use a Gaff)
Photo-Illustration: retailer Like many people, I’m ready to wear clothes once more. I pine for skirts, dresses, and exposed skin. But anyone who’s getting dressed to leave the house again knows that it presents a problem we didn’t have to think about during our year of living at home: what goes under the clothes. There are, of course, the usual underwear concerns, like finding pairs that balance fashion and function or won’t show lines across your butt.
The Trap: A New Era of Trans Representation
CR Fashion Book may earn money from the products featured on this page. Representation is everything, or so we’ve been told. Trans stories are more visible in media than ever, but too often they resist joy, telling hollowed-out, one-dimensional tales of trauma. Devan Díaz imagines a new era for trans representation, whose stories will be shimmering, sexy, and complex. I think it started in 2017, or 2016, the year identity stuck to our ambitions.
Beverly Glenn-Copeland Interview: "Keyboard Fantasies"
Beverly Glenn-Copeland does not listen to music. Instead, he translates it — a process that began before he was born. His mother played piano for an hour a day while he was in utero, hoping music would seep into his genes. It must have worked. Classically trained, he spent much of his career composing for kids' TV shows. In his downtime during the mid-1980s, Glenn-Copeland self-released Keyboard Fantasies on cassette, unacknowledged at the time but now recognized as an underground classic.
Facetune And The Self
I don’t know what I look like, and the mirror isn’t helpful. Still, the mirror is where it starts. I direct myself: point the chin down, turn to the left, adjust the eyebrows and mouth according to my mood. I lift my phone and open the camera, steadily clicking the shutter, shifting between poses which have become muscle memory. When I’m done, I’ll choose one photo—always the one that resembles me least.
How 'RuPaul's Drag Race' Has Forever Changed The Conversation Around Drag
"Sleeper hit" is a term used to describe a song or album that plays successfully for a long period of time, despite having had an unsuccessful release. Lady Gaga's "Just Dance" debuted in early 2008 but did not reach the top until January 2009, where it would spend 49 weeks on the Hot 100. That was my junior year of high school, and I was the only one amongst my friends who could play music while on the go.
LA Singer San Cha at Red Bull Music Festival Los Angeles
When San Cha was six years old, she knew she would become a performer. Her earliest musical memories begin with watching school band performances, where she realized she would take the stage herself one day. She started with the flute, always keeping it on her and practicing whenever she had the chance. This world of sound made sense to her; as the child of Mexican immigrants, performance became a way to bypass her surroundings.
How Did An Entire Group Of People Become A Fashion Trend?
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One thing I never expected to worry about is how daunting it can be to dress for a photoshoot. Even though I wasn’t the one being photographed, the pressure of being so close to watching how an image is made was enough to make me take a hard look at my closet. Dressing my body in transition is a challenge in general, but today there were higher stakes — it was a fashion shoot after all.
By Thora Siemsen Verified, Lia Clay, Sean Bennett, Devan Diaz, Marcus Cuffie, Pierce Hughes, Eric Mestman
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Tea and Apathy
Music December 31, 2018 • Devan Diaz on Martine Gutierrez’s “Apathy” Martine Gutierrez, Apathy, 2018, digital video still. SHE APPEARED IN MY LIFE at the corner of Ninth Avenue and Thirty-Seventh Street, the star of a billboard advertising “Martine Jeans.” The seductive arch of her back evoked a nude—but she was completely covered. I wanted that mien for myself. A quick Google search revealed that the jeans did not exist—the image was the product.
On The 6: Confronting the Mortality of Girls Like Me
Feature Image via Shutterstock. It’s Trans Awareness Week, the week leading up to Trans Day of Remembrance on November 20th. When we say that Autostraddle is website primarily for queer women, we want to be 100% clear that that includes queer trans women and that it’s important to honor trans women year-round, not just in obituaries. So all week long we’re going to be spotlighting articles by and about trans women, with a special focus on trans women of color.
This Quinceañera Was a Celebration for Trans Women
What does activism mean to you, and are you comfortable with the title of 'activist'? I believe activism is about standing up for other people, and making sure you are going out there and speaking your mind. I know I’m not like every single transgender girl who is Latina, and I’m not like every Latina in general, and I want to stand up for people in general. No matter what their gender is, no matter what their race is, no matter what their sexuality is.
Hari Nef Curates the First Edition of Love Magazine's 'We Love' Site
Love magazine has announced the launch of “We Love” a new online curated list of everyone “who matters right now across the realms of fashion, art, photography, entertainment and activism.” The new microsite will grow in the coming weeks as Love’s team of nominators continues to put up their selects for the tastemakers in each genre. First up?
Rookie " Beauty Firsts
Rookie is an online magazine and book series for teenagers. Each month, a different editorial theme drives the writing, photography, and artwork that we publish. Learn more about us here , and find out how to submit your work here ! My first beauty product was a Lip Smacker Sparkler lip gloss in Vanilla Frosting.
What It's Like To Model In An All-Trans Women Fashion Show
It is August in Brooklyn, New York; it's the second heat wave of the summer. I feel the wet spot of sweat on my back grow, as I practically run to make it on time to a meeting. It's hard to imagine a future beyond this sweltering reality. However, my destination—Gogo Graham’s Spring/Summer 2017 collection—is proof that time does go on, the seasons do change. This is how the fashion system works; it anticipates the desires of the consumer months in advance.
Makeup Trick: Renoir Blush
This flushed look will really make an impression. Rookie is an online magazine and book series for teenagers. Each month, a different editorial theme drives the writing, photography, and artwork that we publish. Learn more about us here , and find out how to submit your work here ! Hello! October's theme is GLORY . Here's what kinds of submissions we're looking for, plus info on how to send us your work.
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