The latest issue of T peels back the layers on some of the most influential figures in our culture, past and present. In our cover story, Jody Rosen explores the meaning of music’s biggest superstar, Beyoncé – from her teenage days with Destiny’s Child to her current standing as pop’s most glorified (and scrutinized) V.I.P. In the Seattle laboratory of Nathan Myhrvold, Dwight Garner ponders the future of food over a 50-course meal the Mad Hatter-like culinarian cooked for his hero, Ferran Adrià. And in suburban Chicago, Emily Witt catches up with the teen blogger turned budding media mogul Tavi Gevinson, whose greatest act — after she takes on Broadway, that is — may be yet to come. Elsewhere, the outspoken critic and forward-thinking American fashion designer Elizabeth Hawes finally gets her due, more than four decades after her death; lit’s reigning bad boy and memoirist of the moment Karl Ove Knausgaard grapples with fame in a soul-searching essay; Charlotte Moss looks back on an interview with the late heiress and horticulturist Bunny Mellon, whose fabled Virginia estate is testament to her extraordinary life; BuzzFeed’s click-bait empire gets the “By the Numbers” treatment; and the director Richard Linklater, whose 1970s-set stoner dramedy “Dazed and Confused” helped define a generation (albeit almost two decades after the fact), tackles time once again in his most ambitious project to date. See all stories from the issue >>
Hailed as the 21st century’s answer to Proust for his controversial six-volume autobiographical work, “My Struggle,” Karl Ove Knausgaard responds to his sudden celebrity with this essay on his tortured relationship with fame — its intense lure, its perils and the Scandinavian culture that condemns its pursuit.
Richard Linklater had an idea to make a film about boyhood. All it would take was 12 years and a whole lot of thought about the meaning of time.
At the top of their creative fields, the fashion designer Raf Simons and the artist Sterling Ruby have succeeded at something almost more elusive and unexpected: a true, collaborative brotherhood.
Small, delicate pieces of jewelry, meant to be mixed and worn every day, are sentimental talismans of a particular moment in time.
The actress Zosia Mamet strikes a pose – a whole lot of them, in fact – while recreating images from fashion catalogs and magazines.
As Ziggy Stardust and Queen Elizabeth knew, a bare brow — bleached, stripped or powdered to invisibility — can transform the face and everything it conveys to the world.
Paris is for lovers and New York for dreamers, but when you’re a classy canine accustomed to life’s finer things, getting there can be for the dogs.
Once left behind by the competitive market, live art is now everywhere — thanks in large part to its staunchest advocate, RoseLee Goldberg.
Nathan Myhrvold, the Mad Hatter of modernist cooking, invited the movement’s leading chef, Ferran Adrià, over for a 50-course, lab-prepared meal. It was a lot to digest, sure, but what does a feast like this mean for the future of eating?
A few years ago, Beyoncé Knowles was like any other record-breaking pop star in an already crowded field. Then something changed.
Thanks to Facebook and Instagram, oversharing one’s personal life feels as authentic as reality TV. Right now anonymous posts hold the key to the truth.
From tween blogger to feminist editrix to Broadway actor, Tavi Gevinson is embarking on her next project: being a grown-up.
As leading architects race to put their visual signatures on every nook and cranny of the world, one critic wonders whether globalization is really such a good thing.
The humble T-shirt becomes a stylish message board thanks to flashy type and aggressive graphics.
André Le Nôtre’s 17th-century masterpiece for Louis XIV has not been altered for centuries — until now. The renowned yet humble French landscape designer Louis Benech is reimagining the four-acre Water Theater, the Sun King’s favorite grove.
