Innholdsfortegnelse for March 2019 i Vanity Fair

1 Ryan McGINLEY “Miley Everlasting,” p. 82 McGinley, who had a solo show at the Whitney at age 25, photographed Miley Cyrus outside an industrial sand plant in the Everglades, where the two listened to music, danced, and shared pictures of their pets. Cyrus once bought one of McGinley’s photos at a gala for aids research, outbidding Tom Ford. “I’ve always had a big place in my heart for her,” says the photographer. 2 Zach BARON “Miley Everlasting,” p. 82 “There are so few artists who actually command the attention of the country, and Miley Cyrus has been one of them for nearly a decade,” says Baron, a staff writer at GQ who toured Versace’s Miami mansion with the singer. “Everyone acts extremely strange and self-conscious the second they see…

Dree HEMINGWAY Hometown: Sun Valley, Idaho Last seen: Exploring modern love for In a Relationship Up next: Run with the Hunted Cause: “I work with Parley for the Oceans, an environmental organization that fights against the destruction of oceans, with a focus on plastic pollution.” “Turning 30 and buzzing my head was actually really grounding. I don’t compare myself to other girls anymore, and it’s been a nice exploration of self and of my own femininity. I’ve played a lot of nice girls, and I shaved it for a role that terrified me. I don’t like comfort zones.” Cailee SPAENY Hometown: Springfield, Missouri Last seen: Marching on Washington in On the Basis of Sex after escaping a cult in Bad Times at the El Royale Up next: Alex Garland’s Devs (FX) Cause: No Kid…

“Mean Girls meets The Matrix” is how a cast member from the initial run of Be More Chill described the musical in 2015. Today, lead actor Will Roland likes to call it “Little Shop of Horrors meets Ready Player One.” Based on a novel by Ned Vizzini, the musical, which opens on Broadway in March, follows a socially awkward teenager (Roland) who takes a pill that implants a super-computer life coach (played by Jason Tam) in his brain. Given the tech-infused plot—with music and lyrics by Joe Iconis, and a book by Joe Tracz—the show’s path to Broadway seems appropriate. After a two-month New Jersey debut four years ago, the show’s prospects looked dim. But, in a modern-day twist, the cast album gained a fervent online following. The viral buzz propelled…

Once upon a time, being an Anglophile was a lonely business. Back in the era when “streaming” referred to trickles of water, fans of British television relied on PBS for its steady drip of ornate Masterpiece Theatre costume dramas and antic Monty Python episodes. Public television peddled a kind of self-improvement myth—the notion that regular exposure to British accents could levitate you above the American masses. Even a 1970s Brit-com like Are You Being Served?—set in a London department store and oozing with innuendo—was treated as Noël Coward–level wit and refinement by PBS viewers long after it originally aired across the pond. For most of TV history, broadcast networks simply assumed foreign fare would not appeal to average-Joe viewers. Rather than import series, they revamped British successes into something more…

Men are scum. You can’t say that on Facebook. Men are pigs. You can’t say that either. Men are trash. Men are garbage fires. Also banned. It’s nine a.m. on an autumn Tuesday, and I’m sitting in on a meeting about “men are scum” at Facebook’s campus in Menlo Park, California. The trouble started a year ago, in the fall of 2017. The #MeToo movement had recently begun. Nicole Silverberg, currently a writer on Full Frontal with Samantha Bee, had shared on her Facebook page a trove of bilious comments directed at her after she’d written a list of ways men “need to do better.” In the comments section beneath her post, another comic, Marcia Belsky, wrote, “Men are scum.” Facebook kicked Belsky off the platform for 30 days. This…

At eight o’clock on a morning ravaged by sharp winds, 300 South African coal miners sat on the stone steps of a makeshift amphitheater on the edge of a soccer field. They hugged themselves against the chill. In the distance, four squat, beige smokestacks rimmed with black were belching up clouds of silent white smoke. A safety sign above the miners’ heads declared, fingers don’t grow on trees. In recent months, with paychecks coming less and less frequently, many of the miners were starving. They were meeting this morning to decide whether to strike. As they listened to their union leader outline the options, they all knew whom to blame: the Guptas. The three Gupta brothers—Ajay, Atul, and Rajesh—had bought the Optimum Coal Mine in December 2015, adding it to…

What is your idea of perfect happiness? Happiness is when I make a good artwork. What is your greatest fear? Nowadays the world is anxious with war and many people dying, and every now and then I think deeply about the life and death of a human being. Which historical figure do you most identify with? No one but myself. Which living person do you most admire? No one but myself. What is the trait you most deplore in yourself? There is nothing. I adore myself. What is the trait you most deplore in others? Nothing. What is your greatest extravagance? I have never thought about such as I am constantly busy with painting and thinking about my art. What is your favorite journey? Recently my only journey is going…

EVENT Vanity Fair Celebrates Dior Lady Art III This past January, Vanity Fair and Dior welcomed guests to the brand’s New York and Beverly Hills boutiques to celebrate Dior Lady Art III, a limited edition handbag collaboration with female artists. Special guests were invited shop the collection and listen to intimate talks with the artists. Condé Nast Archives Director Ivan Shaw chatted with artist Pae White in Beverly Hills. In NYC, Gallery Gurls blogger Jasmin Hernandez spoke to artists Polly Apfelbaum and Mickalene Thomas. EVENT Jane Walker by Johnnie Walker Unveils ‘Signs of Progress’ Exhibit In celebration of Women’s History Month, Jane Walker by Johnnie Walker will be unveiling the ‘Signs of Progress’ Exhibit starting March 1st at the New York - Historical Society in partnership with their Center for…

“In almost 10 years of talking and working together with Bowie, I learned that he had a deep faith in art as cultural transformation. If a song were a pathway to another way of being or a different society, why not a magazine page?”—Dean Kuipers, journalist, in the Ray Gun retrospective “I thought who I was, what I wore when caught off my guard, was much more interesting than anything I could have planned. Also I felt that my life, every thought I had, every gesture I made, was authentic.”—Isaac Mizrahi, author and designer, in his memoir “[Ethan James] Green is a counterculture portraitist, alive to a New York that still feels, somehow, like a freewheeling Wild West. His subjects—musicians and designers and all manner of ‘creatives’—are emissaries from a generation that…

Before Wayne Thiebaud began painting pie slices and lollipops in his now iconic Pop pastels, he sharpened his pen in the postwar years as a commercial illustrator. “We often had lipstick ads to make, and you had to draw them quickly, with a kind of advertising Esperanto visual language,” the 98-year-old says brightly, speaking by phone from Sacramento, after a morning round of tennis. For an artist drawn to commonplace objects, lipstick—like gumball machines, another Thiebaud muse—had a candy-colored charm, but it also brimmed with “unlimited potential,” he explains. Uncapped, with the pigment twisted up, the tubes resemble cathedral towers; arranged in single file, as in Lipstick Row (1964), they become soldiers in formation. But in Thiebaud’s vivid lineup, there’s no regimented uniformity (as was the case in 1943, when…

Before we begin, Miley Cyrus would like to read something she’s written. She’s not sure what to call it, actually. At one point she says “op-ed,” but it’s not an op-ed. Statement? It’s kind of a statement. She’s trying to explain herself. In November, her home in Malibu, the one she shared with her partner, Liam Hemsworth, along with two pigs, two horses, four cats, and seven dogs, burned to the ground. About a month and a half later, right around Christmas, she and Hemsworth got married. She’s still trying to make sense of it all—how one thing led to the other. Cyrus recently turned 26. The debut episode of Hannah Montana, the Disney show that made her famous, aired when she was 13, which means she’s now been a…