Inside the issue, we share a conversation with Basquiat’s sisters, Lisane Basquiat and Jeanine Heriveaux, filmmaker Tamra Davis, art dealer Larry Gagosian, and author and curator Fred Hoffman, reflecting on their experiences with the artist during the 1980s in Los Angeles. A detailed account of Gagosian’s fledgling days showing and selling art sets the stage for his introduction of Basquiat to the the West coast art scene.

We debut a new series of themed supplements with a deep dive into film. Rainer Judd celebrates the release of Sofia Coppola: Archive 1999–2023, recently published by MACK, and Coppola’s behind-the-scenes photograph from The Virgin Suicides graces the supplement’s cover. Carlos Valladares interviews Whit Stillman about his early influences and contemplates Frederick Wiseman’s latest documentary. Adam Dalva considers constraints and liberties in film adaptations of Haruki Murakami’s short stories. Robert M. Rubin explores the lasting influence of Richard Sarafian’s 1971 film, Vanishing Point. And Raymond Foye talks shop with John Klacsmann, archivist at Anthology Film Archives, peeling back the curtain on film preservation.

Elsewhere in the issue, we present Barry Schwabsky on Jeff Wall, Rachel Cusk on Duane Hanson, Fiona Duncan on Lisa Lyon, and Olivier Berggruen on Kelsey Lu. We kick off our 2024 serial fiction series with a short story by Arinze Ifeakandu. And we share conversations between Jamian Juliano-Villani and Jordan Wolfson, Stanley Whitney and John Szwed, and Corey Keller and Putri Tan on Francesca Woodman, among others.

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