Kim Hastreiter — STUFF: A New York Life of Cultural Chaos

Kim Hastreiter — STUFF: A New York Life of Cultural Chaos

Published by Damiani, this is Kim Hastreiter's memoir told through the objects she has accumulated across five decades of downtown New York life. Hastreiter — co-founder of PAPER magazine, and a fixture of the NYC art-fashion-culture conversation — uses her Stephen Sprouse dresses, her flea-market ceramics, her Basquiat drawings and her 1989 Macintosh to tell a story about a city that no longer quite exists.

Forewords from Jeffrey Deitch, Whitney Mallett and Carlo McCormick. Over 1,400 colour images; a cover drawn by the street artist Jim Joe. Hardcover, 448 pages, with four ribbon markers — the kind of book object designed to be lived with. Published April 2025.