He is at the center of the city’s skateboarding scene (he works with the streetwear company Supreme) and is an outspoken critic of the gentrification of downtown. In 2019, Adam Zhu created a petition that helped save the asphalt in Tompkins Square Park, which the city planned to replace with synthetic turf; Chloë Sevigny helped publicize the issue. He will release his first photography book, Nice Daze, this winter.
She came seemingly out of nowhere (Calgary, Canada, via the Rhode Island School of Design) but has quickly become the talk of the art world. Her old-master-style paintings of moody young women, which she makes in her apartment that doubles as a studio, sell to top collectors for many multiples of their estimates. Weyant’s first solo show with Gagosian—whose owner, Larry Gagosian, Weyant is currently dating—is on now.
