NYTimes Style Magazine 2019 Greats

NYTIMES MAGAZINE
By Hanya Yanagihara

In our 2019 Greats issue, out Oct. 20, T celebrates four talents who, in mastering their crafts, have changed their fields — and the culture at large: architect Shigeru Ban; artist Nick Cave; actress Rachel Weisz; and fashion designer Nicolas Ghesquière. They have in common an essential and fierce desire to communicate, whether through beauty or provocation, or both. Of all the questions we ask artists, “Where did you get your inspiration?” is both the most inevitable and the most impossible. Answering that question can be a frustrating experience. Our annual Greats issue is the apotheosis of what this magazine tries to be every issue: a conversation between artists of different mediums, a place where a fashion designer can find inspiration from a playwright, and a visual artist from an architect. [More]