Ella Martin Gachot

3 weeks ago | culturedmag.com | Ella Martin Gachot

Portrait of Ryu Takahashi and Jenny Hata Blumenfield. Photography by Vacant. All images courtesy of ATLA. Tucked between Los Angeles's Little Armenia and Los Feliz, ATLA is quietly reshaping what an art gallery can look like. Founded by artist and ceramicist Jenny Hata Blumenfield and music exec and curator Ryu Takahashi, the space weaves their divergent creative backgrounds into a cohesive vision rooted in reverence—for high craft, community, and traditions new and old.

2 months ago | culturedmag.com | Ella Martin Gachot

Tish Weinstock at Gothic Bar in London. All images courtesy of Weinstock. London Fashion Week runs on tension. Chaos and poise, aloofness and zeal, the underground and the establishment. Tish Weinstock has seen it all. A writer, editor, and beauty-world clairvoyant, she’s both watched and shaped London’s sartorial landscape. From guerrilla runway shows to gothic institutions, she slinks through the city’s most fashionable haunts with ease, but has an unabashed penchant for staying home.

2 months ago | culturedmag.com | Ella Martin Gachot

Portrait of Erik Ramirez by William Jess Laird. All images courtesy of Ramirez. The best chefs don’t chase trends; they set them. The past decade has given Erik Ramirez many a chance to prove himself as deserving of that description.

2 months ago | culturedmag.com | Ella Martin Gachot

Portrait of Mina Stone. All images courtesy of Stone. There are artist's artists, then there are artist’s chefs. Few culinary minds have wielded as much (soft) power on the art world as Mina Stone. The longtime New Yorker has worked with one of the industry’s most mythological dealers, concocted daily meals for one of the last decade’s most ubiquitous artists, and even opened her first restaurant in an art museum.

2 months ago | culturedmag.com | Ella Martin Gachot

Portrait of Todd Gray by Jeremy Eichenbaum. All images courtesy the artist and Lehmann Maupin. That’s how Todd Gray remembers beauty being described during his time at CalArts. The Los Angeles native studied first under John Baldessari and Doug Huebler in the 1970s, then a decade later, with Allan Sekula, Catherine Lord, and Mary Kelly—all fierce interrogators of visual culture’s parameters. Classical beauty was out, critique—socio-political, institutional, aesthetic, economic—was in.