CULTURE

When Two Artists Fall in Love

Sometimes, things can get intense—for better or worse.

by Christopher Bagley

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Manfredi Gioacchini

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Manfredi Gioacchini

Shio Kusaka, Jonas Wood, and their children, Momo and Kiki, at home in Los Angeles.

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Alex Cretey Systermans

John Giorno and Ugo Rondinone, at Paris’s Palais de Tokyo for the “I ❤ John Giorno” exhibition, 2015.

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Terry van Brunt/Courtesy of Robert Rauschenberg Foundation

Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns, in Los Angeles, 1980.

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John Currin and Rachel Feinstein, at home in SoHo, 2011.

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VBK, Wien.

Marina Abramovic and Ulay in their work Relation in Time, 1977.

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Lee Krasner and Jackson Pollock, 1949

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Simon Watson

Mark Handforth and Dara Friedman, at their studio in Miami, 2014.

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Thibault Montamat

Etel Adnan and Simone Fattal, at home in Paris, 2016.

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Yoshihiro Makino

Ricky Swallow and Lesley Vance, at home in Los Angeles, 2016.

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Diego 
Rivera and Frida Kahlo, in Mexico City, 1939.

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Courtesy of Jason Fox

Jason Fox and Huma Bhabha, in New York, early 
1990s.

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Richard Kern

Jonathan Horowitz and Rob Pruitt, 2010.