When the pair first met, the world was in a pandemic chokehold, and the two actors pined for the return of jubilant, sweaty revelry. Three years later, they tied the knot with a ceremony dedicated to that very feeling. Here, the couple shares a few snapshots from an unforgettable night.
It was the summer after Rachel Sennott attended her first Met Gala, riding high off the kind of early filmography that would make an agent’s eyes water—with Shiva Baby, Bodies Bodies Bodies, and Bottoms released one year after the next. There next to Sennott—popping bottles and enjoying “writhing-around-on-the-floor kind of nights”—was Charli. Once the drinks were cleared away and the post-party film was developed, the two sat down for a debrief about the hottest summer on record.
3. CULTURED's Power Art Advisor List: 20 Advisors Shaping the World's Top Collections
As the art market has grown precipitously over the past three decades, so has the business of art advising. CULTURED consulted expert contributors, gallerists, art-fair executives, and collectors from around the globe to assemble a group of trustworthy and influential advisors shaping some of the world's top collections.
4. Art and Fashion Pioneer Michèle Lamy Shares Her Rules for Dressing Like Yourself and Staying in Love
Few life stories hew as closely to a sense of personal style as Michèle Lamy’s. The artist partnered with THE SKATEROOM, a social education platform that works with artists on limited edition skateboard collections to raise funds for community projects. To mark the release, Lamy shared her top rules for living life in style.
5. Make Art Great Again? A Response to the Nostalgia and Backlash in Dean Kissick’s Clickbait Manifesto
The Critics’ Table enters the fray, taking a close look at Dean Kissick's recent, polarizing cover article for Harper’s. Our guest critic, the artist Ajay Kurian, questions Kissick’s assumptions about marginalized identities and major institutional exhibitions, suggesting that—as art discourse dovetails with anti-woke culture wars and we descend deeper into hell—neither DEI window dressing nor a return to the past will save us.
6. Exactly How Bad Is the Art Market Right Now? Experts Sound Off as the Fall Season Begins
Auction prices for some young artists have crashed as much as 90 percent since the peak of demand in 2021. Auction houses’ revenues are down significantly. And gallerists—who are known to put on a brave face and positive spin—haven’t been shy about telling the press that buyers are much less active right now.
7. Actor Noah Jupe Is Breaking Away From Child Stardom With Two Very Different Roles
Working alongside Hollywood icons (Natalie Portman, Michael Douglas, and Christian Bale, to name a few) is no new ground for 19-year-old British actor Noah Jupe. With his latest projects, Apple TV’s Franklin and Lady in the Lake, Jupe is ready to melt that image out of audience's minds and reintroduce himself as an actor who contains multitudes.
In addition to resurfacing drawings the artist has kept in storage, the Drawing Center exhibition "The Way I See It: Selections from the KAWS Collection" also lifted some of the works on view straight from Donnelly's walls—going so far as to reconstruct the layout the artist devised for them in his Brooklyn home. In the midst of their temporary move to Manhattan, Donnelly took a moment to let CULTURED peek inside his prolific collecting practice.
Here, writer Ocean Vuong weaves a tale of two Julys: the first reveling in the quotidian beauty of his mother Rose’s Hartford nail salon, the second chronicling a string of humid New England days spent with his brother 15 years later, mourning her death. The acclaimed poet reflects further on his first public foray into photography, and the eerie plasticity of time.
10. Principal Ballerina Isabella Boylston on the Biggest Misconception About Elite Dancers
Ahead of her appearances with the Hamptons Dance Project, the American Ballet Theatre star sat down with CULTURED to discuss overcoming outdated stereotypes about ballerinas and balancing her life onstage and on Instagram.
11. Why Can’t We Look Away From Gwyneth Paltrow?
In 2008, when Goop was founded, the public was particularly starved for direction. In the face of economic collapse and general doom and gloom, Prophet Paltrow emerged as a figure you could trust to tell you how to make yourself feel better. Sixteen years later, the vibes are still very much bad—perhaps worse than they were before—and we clearly still crave her self-assured guidance and blissed-out lifestyle, which only seems to become more blissed-out with each passing day.
12. Introducing CULTURED's 2024 Young Artists List
There’s been a lot of hand-wringing lately about how contemporary art has lost its edge. You may have heard that the field is in a state of aimlessness. It’s uninspired. It’s backward-looking. The 30 artists on CULTURED’s ninth annual Young Artists list offer a powerful rejoinder to this idea.
13. Caroline Calloway on How the 'Hot Mess Memoirist' Elizabeth Wurtzel Inspired Her New Advice Book
Calloway has always gotten off on zigging when we expect her to zag, and here she hopscotches deftly between genres, writing in an entrancing new form that combines advice book, biographical exploration, memoir, reclamation of the listicle, graphic nonfiction, and annotated bibliography.
The ins and outs of Travis Scott’s relationships are standard fodder for tabloid headlines. But one relationship in particular—his six-year-long creative flirtation with artist George Condo—has flown largely under the radar. From their respective perches in Houston and the Hamptons, the pair let CULTURED listen in on the kind of conversation they’d typically have over dinner—a meeting of the minds equal parts intimate and unpredictable.
15. The Lost Kitchen’s Erin French Reveals America’s Most Underrated Culinary Destinations
In her show, Getting Lost With Erin French, the farm-to-table restaurateur traveled across the country in search of inspiration. CULTURED caught up with French about the most surprising spots along her journey and how the trip changed her cooking.
16. Interior Designer Max Nobel Has a Showstopper in His Art Collection (and It’s a Robot)
It’s a question that has plagued art fanatics through the ages: do you design your home around the artwork, or buy pieces that slot into your space? The Nobel LA founder shares his opinions on designing art-filled spaces and the best philosophy for approaching the art market.
17. How Did 5-Time Pulitzer Finalist Joyce Carol Oates Become a Gen-Z Twitter Meme?
The author joined Twitter, now X, in 2012 on the suggestion of her publisher, Penguin Random House, and has since amassed an audience of over 250,000 followers who tune in to absorb, with both genuine interest and morbid curiosity, the unpredictable thoughts of a literary titan.
18. 'Why Are We So Hungry?': Willem Dafoe and Marina Abramović Discuss Their Many Appetites
Marina Abramović first encountered Willem Dafoe through his performances at the theater below her Manhattan apartment. Dafoe, for his part, felt a sense of kinship with the artist’s work—its riskiness and force—before he even met her. The two became steady collaborators in the mid-aughts, most recently starring opposite each other in Abramović’s operatic debut, The Seven Deaths of Maria Callas, which premiered in 2020 at Munich’s Bayerische Staatsoper.
Jess Damuck, the author of the best-selling cookbook Salad Freak, and pop-music producer and actor Benny Blanco have much in common, including the desire to make addictive, refreshing work and a love of backyard gardening. The duo, who have new cookbooks out this spring, compare notes on their divergent food and entertaining philosophies.
Almost two decades after they closed Ciel Rouge, the Chelsea speakeasy they ran and lived above, Michael and Victoria Imperioli have brought their signature red upholstery to a joint on the Upper West Side. The iconic couple called up CULTURED to talk about insider cooking tips, their favorite New York haunts, and why bars should be spaces that fuel creativity and community.
21. A Guide to the Newest Galleries on the Block in Tribeca, the Rising Art-Market Epicenter of New York
Tribeca’s transformation from a swanky, residential enclave into a bonafide gallery hub has, of course, been metabolizing for years. Over the last decade, Tribeca has become New York's must-visit destination for gallery hoppers. Here's an inside look at the neighborhood's newcomers.
22. Maine Is a New Art-World Hotspot. Here Is Painter Ann Craven’s Guide to the Scene
Plenty of art-world denizens relocate to Cape Cod, the Hamptons, or upstate New York for the summer. But a growing contingent of artists, advisors, dealers, and museum leaders are now congregating a bit further north—in Maine. The artist Ann Craven, who owns the church where her gallery Karma stages seasonal shows, offers tips on where to eat, drink, and look at art in Vacationland.
The Eric Firestone show’s title, “No Man’s Land,” makes room for a string of interpretations. The male presence is clearly omitted in dela Roche’s works, and its negation beckons the kind of lawlessness that the titular phrase engenders. To discuss these dynamics and more, dela Roche sat down with CULTURED. Here, the self-taught creative talks rural isolation, secret queer relationships, and side-chick practices.
24. I’m a Finance Bro. What Should I Consume to Feel More Cultured?
Lately, the options for what to consume in the culture are overwhelming and the algorithm is making it impossible to figure out what’s actually good. In the first installment of CULTURED’s advice column, Cult Following, Delia Cai sketches out a reading list for a corporate drone in search of a more interesting life of the mind.
An Honest Woman unpacks the emotional intricacies and quotidian reality of selling sex—valuable counterprogramming for a culture that sensationalizes the industry. Beginning with her early forays into camming in college, we follow Shane as she shifts to in-person work and develops quasi-emotional relationships with her male clients—until a handsome suitor comes along and sweeps her off her feet.
