Lauren Cornell: Crusading Curator
Three years ago, Lauren Cornell, then the director of the art-and-tech organization Rhizome, wrote in an essay for Frieze magazine that she “spent a considerable amount of time thinking about why ‘Internet’ is such a gauche word in contemporary art.” These days, she finds the idea laughable. “Things have really changed,” she says. “The Internet has been internalized by the art world.” A lot of this has to do, of course, with the emergence of the Web-savvy artists that Cornell, 36, championed when she was a co-curator of the first triennial at the New Museum in New York, in 2009. Most prominent among them is Ryan Trecartin, whom Cornell, now full-time at the New Museum, brought on as her co-curator for the museum’s next triennial, to open in spring 2015. This time around, they realized that the Internet has helped break down not only the art world’s barriers but also the tyranny of age. “Youth doesn’t have to do with a number,” says Cornell, who has done away with age cutoffs (in 2009, the artists were under 33). “It has to do with freedom.”
Next In Line
In the wake of a critically acclaimed survey at the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, in 2011, and a solo exhibition at MoMA PS1 in New York, in 2012, Matt Connors has been garnering some serious attention.
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Photograph by Thomas Dozol.
“It’s a creative zone where people can brainstorm ideas.” – Lena Ott
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Photograph by Taea Thale.
Michele Abeles stole MoMA’s 2012 “New Photography” show with her seductive, sharply lit photomontages that incorporated wild prints, domestic objects, and nude male models.
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Photograph by Taea Thale.
Twelve years ago, the director Richard Linklater began filming Ellar Coltrane, who was then 7 years old, for his movie Boyhood, a year-by-year dramatization of how a child gradually ages into adulthood.
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Photograph courtesy of IFC Films.
“My work can be read as traditional painting, but it’s really these two mediums put together.” – Wyatt Kahn
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“Embracing discovery and accidents is what I really like about glass.” – Flavie Audi
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Photograph by Billal Taright.
Kathryn Andrews gets some of her best ideas driving around Los Angeles, where the visual contradictions she sees every day find their way into her art.
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Photograph by Columbine Goldsmith.
“I say, ‘I’m your sister, trust me!’ I don’t do that with the other girls. But with Léa, I can say, ‘You need to wear it.’ ” – Camille Seydoux
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The 23-year-old Swiss-born, Paris-based designer Julie Richoz makes elegant objects from glass and porcelain.
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Photograph by Estelle Hanania.
GEMS, the Washington, D.C., duo composed of Lindsay Pitts, 28, and Clifford John Usher, 29, has a romantic-pop sound with plenty of ebb and flow.
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Photograph by Holly Burnham.
Twigs, or FKA Twigs, grew up in the English countryside, and her hypnotic, bare electro-pop is powerful in the way that a whisper, delivered confidently, can be louder than a shout.
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Photograph by Jaime James Medina.
Austria-based producer and electronic solo artist Sohn, whose new album drops this month, is mournful and moody, stripping down his raw heartbreak to a post-dubstep beat.
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Photograph by Andreas Waldschuetz.
The 19-year-old London singer-songwriter Laurel Arnell-Cullen, who goes simply by Laurel, sets off her storytelling against a restrained backdrop of sharp drumming and hand-clapping.
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Courtesy of Pip
Born in Kentucky, Boyd Holbrook, 32, who got his start as a model, has all-American good looks and star quality that first became evident in Behind the Candelabra.
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Photograph by Katie Fischer.
“The Internet has been internalized by the art world.” -Lauren Cornell
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Photograph by Taea Thale.
“Jewelry lives in the way it’s passed on.” – Hollie Bonneville-Barden
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Photograph by Josh Shinner.
“I’m interested in collaboration and bringing in all these different voices.” – Simon Castets
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