Numero New York

For our debut issue, art-world power broker Larry Gagosian sits down with legendary New York Times critic Roberta Smith for a sweeping conversation on legacy and leverage.

Lucinda Childs—one of the defining figures of 20th century dance—revisits her groundbreaking career working alongside. Robert Wilson, Merce Cunningham, Sol LeWitt, and other creative luminaries.

 Seminal artists Tina Barney and Vanessa Beecroft contribute fashion stories unlike anything seen before. In a richly reported dispatch from Utah, Jonathan Griffin explores the cultural ambitions driving Netflix founder Reed Hastings’s latest venture, Powder Mountain. Jeff Koons, in a rare interview, reflects on craft, controversy, and the cost of perfection.

At the insistence of my irredeemably Gen Z editorial team, we also include an unfiltered exchange between viral downtown darling Julia Fox and digital provocateur Elias Medini—a candid back-and-forth on identity, performance, and platform.

Finally, in perhaps the issue’s most compelling confrontation, photographer Nick Knight captures our dual covers in a jaw-dropping, genre- defying ode to Americana, where real-life models coexist with their AI-generated counterparts.