Min Chen

Brooklyn

Art and Pop Culture Editor at Artnet

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Oasis’s Go-To Photographer Is Selling Prints of His Rare, Iconic Shots

6 days ago | news.artnet.com | Min Chen

In 1988, a young Lawrence Watson landed the opportunity of a lifetime. Paul Weller and Mick Talbot of alt-pop outfit the Style Council were recording a few videos at Pinewood Studios, close to London, the budding photographer was told. Would he like to pop by to snap a few photos? Watson didn’t need to be asked twice. He spent an entire day shooting Weller, Talbot, and vocalist Dee C. Lee variously posed on a stage at the studio under moody lighting.
Oasis’s Go-To Photographer Is Selling Prints of His Rare, Iconic Shots

6 days ago | flipboard.com | Min Chen

1 day agoAimee Lou Wood has no hard feelings for "SNL" star Sarah Sherman. After the "White Lotus" actress criticized Sherman's impression of her in a recent "Saturday Night Live" sketch, Wood revealed the comedian sent her flowers. "Thank you for the beautiful flowers," Wood wrote in an Instagram story …
What’s a David Wojnarowicz Artwork Doing on the Poster for Ari Aster’s New Film?

1 week ago | news.artnet.com | Min Chen

Eddington, a new film by Ari Aster (Hereditary, Midsommar), looks primed to plumb the depths of the auteur’s brand of existential and social horror. Premiering at the Cannes Film Festival next month, the movie unfolds over the month of May 2020, as the sheriff and mayor of the titular New Mexican town clash over the most polarizing totem of the COVID-era: the face mask.
These Medieval Manuscripts Were Bound With an Unlikely Animal Hide

1 week ago | news.artnet.com | Min Chen

It’s not uncommon for Medieval manuscripts to be bound in animal skins. The hides of deer and goats were used, as were those of boars. But a new analysis of 16 manuscripts held in a French abbey has uncovered the use of a mysterious, surprising skin. The study homed in on a set of Romanesque volumes in the Clairvaux Abbey in France. Established in 1115, the monastery has in its collection a whopping 1,450 manuscripts, which date back to the 12th and 13th centuries.
Cj Hendry’s Wacky New Balloon Sculptures Are a Cheeky Nod to Jeff Koons

1 week ago | news.artnet.com | Min Chen

Cj Hendry’s new project is blowing up. Literally: she’s taken to creating balloon sculptures, twisting and modeling balloons of every color into forms so absurd she’s only calling them “knots.” She is, of course, playfully nodding to Jeff Koons’s celebrated Balloon Dog series. Except, where Koons elevated the balloon animal, Hendry’s forms are admittedly “totally ridiculous.” They’re less Jeff Koons and more, well, Keff Joons. “Keff Joons is my ridiculous little rebellion,” she told me over email.
Is That a Frank Lloyd Wright Building in Apple’s Buzzy New Comedy Series?

2 weeks ago | news.artnet.com | Min Chen

Spare a thought for Matt Remick, the head of Continental Studios, the filmmaking outfit at the center of Apple TV’s new comedy series The Studio. Freshly appointed, he’s confronted with a host of new responsibilities from hunting down a lost film reel to telling director Ron Howard that the ending of his latest movie sucks. At the same time, he’s trying (vainly) to mollify auteurs as much as his franchise-brained corporate overlords. How is Matt doing?
Amy Sherald’s Sublime Museum Show Takes New York-See 6 Unmissable Standouts

2 weeks ago | news.artnet.com | Min Chen

Across nearly 50 portraits in the Whitney Museum of American Art’s sweeping Amy Sherald exhibition, you’ll find a host of ordinary subjects. A cowboy stands in a stars-and-stripes shirt, a girl daintily balances an oversized teacup, and a boy perches high atop a playground slide. But their everydayness reveals something far deeper: the striking individuality and complexity that make up the American identity.
The Only Ancient Greek Theater on the Ionian Islands Is Finally Unearthed

2 weeks ago | news.artnet.com | Min Chen

More than a century after its initial discovery, the only known amphitheater on the Ionian Islands is finally seeing the light of day. Perched on a hillside on Lefkada, an island off the west coast of Greece, the structure has been excavated by archaeologists from the Ephorate of Antiquities of Aitoloakarnania and Lefkada over the past decade. While the upper part of the building has not been well preserved, the team was able to study its cavea, or semicircular seating area.
How a Set of Medieval Tapestries Inspired Horror-Comedy ‘Death of a Unicorn’

2 weeks ago | news.artnet.com | Min Chen

The unicorns in the new A24 film Death of a Unicorn (2025) have the majestic, elegant bearing you’d expect of the mythical creature—but with an extra ferocious and savage bite. It’s not a reimagining of the beast for a slasher movie’s sake, though. As we learn, it’s a pretty accurate picture of the unicorn as passed down through the ages.
Tilda Swinton Is Getting Her Own Museum Show in Amsterdam

3 weeks ago | news.artnet.com | Min Chen

Everyone’s favorite screen icon and fashion plate Tilda Swinton is taking the spotlight in a forthcoming exhibition celebrating her artistry and creative partnerships. Opening in September, “Tilda Swinton – Ongoing” is being developed by the actor exclusively for Eye Filmmuseum in Amsterdam. The outing, she said in a statement, is offering her the opportunity to revisit her four-decade career, during which she’s starred in films from experimental indies to big-budget Hollywood productions.