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UNTITLED

Arn Gyssels, an underground artist from Antwerp, lives inside of the Roman Colosseum and from his grape-stained throne watches an endless battle. The combatants are beauty and the raw chaos that shapes...

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Black Mirror

Fashion magazines have shaped pop culture and the ideal of beauty for decades. Young girls flip through the glossy pages, in awe of the flawless-looking models who line them. Critics focus on the...

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Baby Alpaca

My first interaction with Baby Alpaca, the band led by singer and songwriter Chris Kittrell, is over email, when he mistakes me for a violin player. He has invited me to their studio to practice with...

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At Home With … Kim Mesches

Who: Kim Mesches, Fashion Designer and Creative Director of KM Collective Where: Williamsburg, Brooklyn What: 1-Bedroom Townhouse with workspace WC: How long have you lived in the space? KM: I’ve been...

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WC Gallery: Daniel Arnold

“It was the straying that found the path direct.” — Austin Osman Spare On a warm evening in early summer, nearly three years ago, I went to a bar-turned-gallery in the Lower East Side to see a photo...

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WC Gallery: A Fine Black Line

I’ve known Amit Greenberg for nearly two years, and at no point in that span have I not been impressed with what struck me as his relentless enthusiasm, the steam that powers his lithe frame. Between...

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Mono No Aware

In the film world, the concept of time – and the deconstruction of it – is an artistic opportunity. While in reality, we view it as something inevitable, uncontrollable even, in motion pictures it is...

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VINYL

Ciara Phelan is a freelance designer and illustrator working from a shared studio in North London. After graduating in 2008 studying Graphic Design at Brighton University she worked as a junior at a...

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New Bohemians

It’s time for another crop of Brooklyn’s finest. These Brooklynites represent a broad artistic spectrum, from comedy to glassblowing, yet share one thing in common: A relentless desire to create. It is...

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HARD NIPS

It would be a mistake to call Hard Nips a girl band. Yes, the group consists of four women who play instruments together, but that hardly qualifies them under that clunky label with its myriad...

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Finding Now

Before you get to the “ow” of “NOW” the idea itself is already in the past. It’s a unique word in that way, the only one I can think of that negates itself as it is said. NOW is a difficult thing to...

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At Home With … Elizabeth

Who: Elizabeth Perrin, Photographer Where: Greenpoint, Brooklyn What: Parlor Floor of an 1890′s Brownstone. WC: How long have you lived in the space? EP: It will be two years October 2016. WC: What did...

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A Girl and Her Room

To a teenage girl no space is more sacred than her bedroom. The room becomes an extension of who she is at that time. A fully functional visualization of her hopes, fears and desires fun-tacked to the...

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Desert Mouth

Sketchbook by artist Jesse Draxler To see more of his work visit JesseDraxler.com.

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Bright Young Things: Jené DeSpain

The City That Never Sleeps has endless amounts of time for inspiration. Whether it’s the juxtaposition of light and dark, mixing alchemical elements of old and new world, or structurally creating...

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Do you feel safer or more alienated by the police presence in NYC?

That’s what we wanted to know. Working Class hit the streets to see what people in Brooklyn had to say. I feel neither, but it depends on the situation. Sarah Kosloff outside the Fort Greene Flea...

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The Odalisk Diaries

Navid Sinaki was born during a war that most people watched on television. As a gay man under relentless oppression of Iran, he found that he didn’t exist. It wasn’t until his family fled the the...

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A Conversation with Cecilia Elguero

Cecilia Elguero is an Argentinian-born, Brooklyn-by-way-of-San-Francisco multimedia artist. Her work spans from sculpture to installation to jewelry design; yet her comforting, thoughtful, and warm...

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WC Gallery: Javier Piñon

The artist Javier Piñon grew up in Kingwood, Texas, a suburban enclave of Houston that, in the 1970s, billed itself “The Livable Forest” to attract families fanning from the oil-fueled metropolis....

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BOY TOY

Photography by Ignacio Lozano Model is Luca Guarini

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