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Penguin napping, abusive nuns, exploding cadavers and tragic games of russian roulette – these are just some of the tales in Bedtime Stories for Bad Boys and Girls, a new book and exhibition by artists Larry Clark and James Gilroy. The two met in downtown New York in the early 1970s and formed an instant and permanent bond rooted in drugs and a shared pleasure in indeterminancy. “We were living with abandon and not thinking about the consequences,” Clark tells me. Gilroy elaborates, “Back then, you walked down the block and maybe ran into somebody or into a situation. We’d just get...

Some photographs offer a crystalline vision, an intimation of how the world would look if only our eyesight were finer and more powerful. Others remind us that things can slip in and out of view, eluding the gaze. The latter group includes the work of Genesis Báez. Shadows and reflections, condensation and blur—the nine color photographs in her exhibition “Holding Water” accentuated everything that interferes with the camera’s ability to capture its object. At times, the results verged on illusionism. In Crossing Time, 2022/2025, for instance, we saw a woman in a partially darkened space crouched on what appears to be...

Published last year, Kevin Hatt’s zine of his portraits of Chloë Sevigny and Harmony Korine offers a rare glimpse of two people in love before their lives would change forever. Shot ahead of the release of Kids – the film that propelled them into stardom – the images resulted from a chance encounter between Hatt and Sevigny in downtown 90s New York, and Korine’s spontaneous decision to join the session. Rendered in black and white, the images are tentative and unguarded, yet the subjects’ magnetism is already palpable. The zine reads as a tender parenthesis between private life – a teenage romance...

“We are so accustomed to thinking of photographs as ‘moments’ that are ‘captured’,” Genesis Baez tells me when I ask what drives her work. “But I am interested in the ways that photographs can be like water: unfixed, describing our permeability, and suggesting how we are all interconnected.”