Latest articles by Michael Reynolds - Art Direction
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Nine admirers share their love of artist Victoria Sambunaris
Esteemed collaborators and supporters share their thoughts on the American artist's epic visions of the United States landscape
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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
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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
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Art and light rule in this Pacific Palisades house
A couple’s Pacific Palisades house, by Johnston Marklee and Studio Shamshiri, puts their art collection in the best light
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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
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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
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Outer space: Rogan Gregory thinks big in his new LA studio
The artist’s new Santa Monica studio, a former garbage truck depot, is a blank canvas for big dreams
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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
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West Side Story: Hauser & Wirth’s new Chelsea outpost is big, clever and inclusive
An exclusive first look of Hauser & Wirth's forthcoming new building on Manhattan’s West Side, headlines our May 2020 issue (W*254). Designed by architect Annabelle Selldorf, 542 West 22nd Street is the first purpose-built, ground-up space for the Swiss mega-gallery. We went behind-the-scenes earlier this year, while the building was in its final stages of construction
