Artists boijeot.renauld Camp Out on Broadway for a Month

Interviewing the French duo as they shift their bed and chairs down NYC sidewalks

By Natasha Tauber Artists Laurent Boijeot and Sebastien Renauld, together boijeot.renauld, work in “actions,” and their latest is a one month migration through the length of Manhattan, via Broadway. Having started in Harlem and unhurriedly making their way down, the French duo are inhabiting New York City’s public thoroughfare with the wooden tables, chairs and bed they’ve designed. The artists, together with partner Mélanie Heresbach, …

Le Sonneur’s Love Letters

The anonymous French artist leaves messages and makeshift doorbells the world over

“I am at your door, almost in your home. I play with these limits and I begin a gentle intrusion,” Le Sonneur tells us. Rather than the beginning of a psychological thriller, these words seem to be proof that street art can be poetic. The anonymous French artist—whose work adorns homes from Paris to Mexico—sticks fake doorbells on entryways. He even writes love letters, leaving …

Studio Visit: Conceptual Artist Dove Bradshaw

A look behind some of her stone work currently on show at the Noguchi Museum

by Natasha Tauber In the live/work space artist Dove Bradshaw shares with her partner of 41 years, artist William Anastasi, every sightline is assembled in deference to her eye and the couple’s evolving artistic harmonies. Dense pockets of books and recordings are points of gravity, in an expansive light-filled upper Manhattan apartment made loft-like by the removal of many of its 1913 walls. In art, …