ICE SPICE's First LP
Beginners.
From debuts to do-overs, what it means to start an artistic life — at any age
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Clockwise from top left: Ice Spice, Sky Lakota-Lynch, Meg Stalter, Tyla, Sarah Pidgeon and Titus Kaphar.
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T’s Culture issue looks at artistic beginnings in all their forms.
By Hanya Yanagihara
THE FIRST STROKE
Artemisia Gentileschi’s “Susanna and the Elders” (1610).
Why, even as they progress in their practices, all artists remain perpetual beginners.
By Aatish Taseer
Origins
Tracy Chapman (right).
Lester Cohen/Getty Images
Musicians, writers and others on the work that started it all for them — and on what, if anything, they’d change about it now.
Interviews by Lovia Gyarkye and Nicole Acheampong
WHEN THESE TWOFIRST WORKED TOGETHER
Marc Jacobs and Cindy Sherman.
Bon Duke
Love, spats, splits and enduring affinity: creative partnerships that have stood the test of time.
Interviews by Ella Riley-Adams, Nick Haramis, Nicole Acheampong, Julia Halperin and Coco Romack
BEGINAGAIN
Jordi Roca.
Video by Anna Bosch Miralpeix
What it’s like to make new art after many years or amid new challenges — or to change careers completely.
Interviews by Michael Snyder, M.H. Miller and Emily Lordi
When the BeginningIs Also theEnd
Miguel Adrover.
Catarina Osório de Castro
People who found great creative success in one field — before life took them in a totally different direction.
By John Wogan and M.H. Miller
Juvenilia
Do Ho Suh’s “Tiger Mask” (1971).
Courtesy of the artist © Do Ho Suh
What artists see when they look back at work they made in their youth.
Interviews by Julia Halperin, Kate Guadagnino and Juan A. Ramírez
BEGINNERS
Ice Spice.
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A first album, a first restaurant, a first time on Broadway: Ten debuts happening right now.
Interviews by Juan A. Ramírez and Emily Lordi
How It Begins
Jenny Holzer.
Photographs by Nicholas Calcott
The very first steps, whether you’re an actor getting into character or an artist presenting the survey of your life’s work.
Interviews by Laura May Todd
THE BEGINNERS’ HALL OF FAME
Tabboo!’s “Lavender Garden” (2023).
Courtesy of the artist, Karma and Gordon Robichaux
Six people who found a new creative calling later in life — or for whom recognition was long overdue.
By Jason Chen
ADVICE ON BEGINNING
Kim Gordon.
Laura Levine/Corbis, via Getty Images
Ten creative minds on how to start, pivot and productively procrastinate.
Interviews by Kate Guadagnino
UPNEXT
Courtesy of Joseph Dirand Architecture
We asked 80 artists and other creative people to tell us what they’re starting right now or hope to start very soon.
Interviews by Kate Guadagnino
