T’s 2020 summer art issue coincides with a breakdown of the status quo, both in the art world and the real one. Not for nothing, we’ve titled it “True Believers.”
By M.H. Miller
PhotoCreditPortrait by Jan Zamoyski. Artwork courtesy of the artist and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, N.Y./Los Angeles and Fortes d’Aloia & Gabriel, Sao Paulo/Rio de Janeiro
Over the past months, Americans have embraced comfort food with a renewed fervor. But this isn’t the first time culinary habits have shifted during a pandemic.
Isabel Marant has always known exactly how she wants to dress. In the decades since she founded her brand, people all over the world have adopted her tastes as their own.
Last May, when our known world was one way, we began planning these stories. By last month, when we were finishing work on this issue, the world was another way.
For years, Silk Road travelers made the grueling trek past towering mountain ranges and ancient cities now lost to time. Centuries later, one writer attempts to retrace the journey.
His image is so commonplace that you could believe it must always have existed — yet for six centuries after his death, he was never once depicted in human form.
