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2 weeks ago | 
rosssimonini.substack.com | Ross Simonini
The only objects I’ve ever collected are books about the German artist, Joseph Beuys. Monographs, interviews, biographies, criticism. Usually, I look at art books for the pictures but I’ve read all my Beuys books, cover to cover, and somehow I still remain mystified by both the art and artist. This is what keeps me engaged in a lifelong study of his work.
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3 weeks ago | 
family.style | Natasha Stagg |Meka Boyle |Ann Binlot |Ross Simonini
On a Sex and the City tour, part of a friend’s New York-themed birthday week itinerary, I am now the same age as Carrie Bradshaw in the show’s final season (2004), but it is 20 years later.
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3 weeks ago | 
family.style | Meka Boyle |Natasha Stagg |Ann Binlot |Ross Simonini
Andrew J. Greene is holding a “Yes or No” coin in his hand as he leans forward on a leather chair in his bungalow-turned-studio in central Los Angeles. Vintage scales line his mantle, old fortunes are clipped to a note-card tree, and two early ‘90s novelty talking characters—the Yes Man and Whipping Boy—stand by ready to be turned on and either belt out affirmations or take the blame. Choices are abundant, but the artist doesn’t offer answers.
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3 weeks ago | 
family.style | Ross Simonini |Chloe Grace-Press
Winter 2024 Art CommissionsFebruary 14, 2025 8:00 AMThere is a private, far away world that artists return to time and time again. Its parameters, molded in childhood and chiseled away in practice. Like the natural landscape, it is always shifting, eroding, and regenerating anew. We can see it, too, eyes closed: a snow capped mountain, an ancient organism, our body, cosmic. Eyes open, gaze fixed, it is a coil on a vine, a statue, light streaming from a window.
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3 weeks ago | 
family.style | Ross Simonini
The best spring rolls are handmade, according to Kemio. Whenever the Japanese Internet sensation returns to Japan to visit his family, he looks forward to his grandmother’s signature variety, packed with ground pork, bean sprouts, and garlic chives, and wrapped in rice paper. “She waits for me to arrive with the spring rolls ready,” he tells Family Style.
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3 weeks ago | 
family.style | Ross Simonini |Natasha Stagg |Ann Binlot
When I studied music composition at the University of California in the 2000s, a new wave of contemporary classical music was on the rise. Max Richter and Jón Þór “Jónsi” Birgisson were at the crest of this wave, and I could sense the students around me wrestling with the influence of their sweeping, minimalist atmospheres. For us, this music created a fresh, liminal space between the atonal music of the academy and the ambient experiments of post-rock.
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3 weeks ago | 
family.style | Ross Simonini
Risotto is more than just rice—it's a dish loaded with flavor, and memory too. For Jelka von Langen, nothing beats her father’s version with mushrooms and parsley, topped with Parmesan cheese, garlic, and white vermouth. It has personal history, too: “My father grew up in Ticino, Switzerland,” the photographer tells Family Style.
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3 weeks ago | 
family.style | Ross Simonini
The vibrant fashion scenes of Hans Neumann often occur by the seaside, connecting back to the photographer’s upbringing rooted in the beaches of Lima, Peru. Now based between Paris and New York, Neumann makes the Peruvian ceviche that he grew up eating at home. And it's the tiger’s milk marinade that makes it shine—a lime-forward juice, blended with ginger, garlic, cilantro, and more. “It reminds me of long summer days by the ocean,” he tells Family Style.
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3 weeks ago | 
family.style | Ann Binlot |Meka Boyle |Natasha Stagg |Ross Simonini
Nina Kintsurashvili received her art education across remote destinations within Georgia, accompanying her father, Lasha Kintsurashvili, a renowned fresco painter and calligrapher, as he restored decaying works across the country. It was during these travels that the artist developed her own visual language, influenced by Mkhedruli (the curved script of the three Georgian alphabets), religious imagery and iconography, medieval murals, arahceolgy, and frescoes found in cathedrals and monasteries.
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1 month ago | 
rosssimonini.substack.com | Ross Simonini
Life is not about finding yourself or finding anything. Life is about creating yourself and creating things. — Bob DylanEvery artist expresses persona. For performers, the public face is inside the art. The work of Charlie Chaplin, Billie Holiday, Ana Mendieta, or Jimi Hendrix cannot be separated from the undeniable power of persona. For artists who send their work into the world, persona may be less apparent.
