Author Archives: Katherine Krause

Katherine Krause is the Editorial Director of Dossier Journal.

Coachella Finale

I know you’ve seen a million pictures of Coachella already, but these ones by photographer Doug Neill remind me that summer is coming, and even if it has been a really mild winter, I’m still really excited. Also, I don’t care what anybody says, I think Katy Perry looks adorable. A$AP Rocky, too.

Forever Vision

Josh Slater is an artist known for his trippy, psychedelic line drawings of complex geometric shapes. His references combine science fiction and other futuristic influences with natural wonders of the world ike moss and other stuff like that. His latest thing is taking his graphic skills off of the page and making multi-dimensional videos, sculptures [...]

Boys Of Summer

Tanlines. The word, the name, conjures up not just the literal stain of the sun on your skin, but also that end-of-summer feeling when the traces of those hot nights, and sun-drenched days at the beach fade away and nostalgia for it all kicks in almost as soon as September rears its head. Tanlines, the [...]

Issue #9 is Almost Here!

This is a little teaser video provided by Andrew Kuykendall from the shoot he did in Palm Springs with the insanely beautiful Ashely Smith for the new issue of

Monsters Inc.

Forget vampires or werewolves, New York-based artist Meryl Smith has created her own world of magical animals called Cryptids. Based on mythological beasts whose existence has been implied throughout history, but never proven, such as the Loch Ness Monster or Bigfoot, these lesser known cryptids are rendered in meticulous true to life detail, making them [...]

Artsy Fartsy

Each year when The Armory Show comes to town, I feel like more and more things happen surrounding it. This year is particularly interesting as everyone anticipates the Frieze Fair taking over Randall’s Island in May. Will it be bigger, better and more interesting than the Armory? Probably. Will more things happen surrounding it? I’d [...]

Big in Belgium

I heard this song on the radio the other day and just couldn’t get it out of my head. At first I thought maybe it was an 80′s song that I had forgotten about. Filled with heavy emotional harmonies, it is very much in the vein of duets like Don’t You Want Me Baby and [...]

Three is the Magic Number

This weekend, The Total Look opened at LA MOCA’s satellite space in West Hollywoood. The show is a celebration of the collaboration between designer Rudi Gernreich, model Peggy Moffitt and photographer William Claxton. The late designer, an LA-based Austrian transplant, was well known for inventing the topless monokini (popular in Europe in the 1960′s) and [...]

Terrywood

This weekend was all about Hollywood. In addition to the Oscars, which were as always, a bit lagging. (David Letterman: “The oscars are like a JetBlue flight, you wait for four and a half hours and don’t take off.”) This weekend was also the opening of photographer Terry Richardson’s Terrywood. This marks the first solo [...]

Full Nelson

The artist Yinka Shonibare describes himself as a “post-colonial hybrid,” having grown up in both Nigeria and London’s East End. His work deals mainly with these themes of colonial expansion, imperial history and shifting cultural power. I know that sounds heady, but bear with me. Having recently been given a prestigious public art commission in [...]