steph eckardt

steph eckardt is a New York-based writer specializing in art, fashion, and culture. before going freelance, they spent six years at W magazine—most recently as Staff Writer, contributing to both the website and print edition. prior employers include New York magazine and The Cut. they also recently held the position of Content Lead at Platform, helming all editorial at the e-commerce brand aiming to democratize access to artworks affiliated with top gallery David Zwirner.

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art

• In the Studio With Faith Ringgold, Living Icon
• The Originals: Alex Katz
• A Look Back at JAM, the Boundary-Pushing Art Gallery Still Unlike Any Other
• How Two Talking Lizards Went From Instagram Sensations to a Major Museum
• In a Q&A With Artnet, Tom Sachs Explains the Connection Between the Spacecrafts, Barbie Doll, and Vacuum Cleaner in His Current Show
• Agnes Gund’s Philosophy of Philanthropy
• How @jerrygogosian Went from Instagram Troll to Sotheby’s Curator
• In the Studio With Naudline Pierre, the Painter Uncovering the Unknown
• David LaChapelle on His Fotografiska Retrospective, the AIDS Crisis, and Andy Warhol
• Inside Lucien’s (Very New York) First Art Show Opening
• Why Alice Neel’s Portraits of Her Neighbors Are What a Divided America Needs Right Now

fashion

• The Reinvention of the Mary Jane
• The Most Exciting Designers Debuting at New York Fashion Week Fall 2023
• Supermodel Kristen McMenamy Has Turned Instagram Into High Art
• Harvey Weinstein’s Outfit Did the Talking for Him When He Silently Turned Himself In
• André Leon Talley Defends Ugg—and That Vogue Cover
• Timothée Chalamet and Kristen Stewart Agree: Chartreuse Is the New Slime Green
• Ziwe Took a Break From Editing Her Julia Fox Episode to Attend the Loewe Show
• Area Men Mostly Unaware That Men’s Fashion Week Is Happening
• The Most Surprising Models of Fashion Week Spring 2023
• The Best Celebrity Vintage Fashion Moments of the Year
• Killing Eve Fashion Recaps

culture

• Sipping Martha-ritas With Martha Stewart at Her Insta-Famous Farm
• John Waters Amends His Most Famous Rule
• Fran Lebowitz Doesn’t Have a Cell Phone, But Knows Everything That Happens on Social Media Anyway
• Margaret Atwood, Elisabeth Moss, and the Women Behind the Disquietingly Vital The Handmaid’s Tale
• Sienna Miller Is Ready to Make You Laugh
• The Secret to Paris Hilton and Chris Zylka’s Love Is Very Highbrow
• Erin Doherty Is So Much More Than The Crown’s Princess Anne
• No Photographer Captured the Studio 54 Era Quite Like Rose Hartman
• The Janes Is the (Surprisingly Uplifting) Abortion Story We Need Right Now

politics

• Alyssa Milano on Being Inside the Kavanaugh Hearing: “It Was Nauseating”
• Inside New York’s Abortion Rights Rally to Uphold Roe v. Wade
• March for Our Lives: Meet the Elementary School Students and 70-Something Activists on the Ground in Washington, D.C.
• Tina Brown on the Post-Harvey Weinstein Reckoning
• Ranking the Absolute Worst Apologies by Men Accused of Sexual Assault Post-Harvey Weinstein
• Meet the Marchers of the Women’s March on Washington
• Inside Donald Trump’s Unwelcome Homecoming to Trump Tower
• A Brief History of Donald Trump Spitefully Pouring Wine Down Women’s Backs

citations

• In America: A Lexicon of American Fashion (pub. The Met/Yale University Press)
• Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again (pub. Whitney Museum)
• Reckoning: The Epic Battle Against Sexual Abuse and Harassment (pub. Houghton Mifflin)
• Revealing Britain’s Systemic Racism: The Case of Meghan Markle and the Royal Family (pub. Taylor & Francis)
• Art and Resistance in Germany (pub. Bloomsbury)
• Memorializing and Decolonizing Practices in the Francophone Caribbean and Other Spaces (pub. Cambridge Scholars Publishing)
• Carmen Herrera: Lines of Sight (pub. Whitney Museum)
• Dismantling Global White Privilege: Equity for a Post-Western World (pub. Berrett-Koehler Publishers)
• Culture Strike: Art and Museums in an Age of Protest (pub. Verso Books)
• Reclaiming the Tomboy: The Body, Representation, and Identity (pub. Lexington Books)

contact

hmu @ stepheckardt@gmail.com—especially if you’re an editor looking for art/fashion/culture stories or someone looking for a consultant in those fields. in any case, hope you have a gr8 day!