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Through artist portraits, interviews, essays, and visual stories, this issue maps the soul of contemporary Bohemia and the people who live it today. Issue 02 is both a cultural document and an invitation to look closer at the world of creative expression, a celebration of the artists who further the bohemian spirit found at the intersection of art and humanity. Issue 02 2026 #availablenow at @villageworksnyc #tropsmagazine #artmagazine

Trops Magazine, Issue 02 Billy Dock, aka Billy Judah (@billyjudah ), is a visual artist currently working from the French Caribbean island Guadeloupe. His work consists mainly of paintings, drawings and installations that challenge concepts of identity, faith, history and perception while exploring texture, contrast and color through the artist’s multinational and multiracial perspective. After having studied painting, drawing, color theory and etching at Academia di Belle Arte in Florence Italy, Billy Judah first came on to the art scene in New York and Paris. Billy constructs paintings in layers, starting with a drawings that are progressively covered with sand, metal, acrylic and oil paint. — 1-3) Billy (Judah) Dock, Rhum kocaine and bananas, 2025. 4) Billy Judah in Guadeloupe studio, October 2025. Photo by Philippe Virapin (@ph.virapinphotographe ). #caribbeanartist #mixedmedia #nycartist #visualartist #artsmagazine

#ArtHistory The Fauves were a group of French artists active from 1904 to 1908, and their the style continued beyond 1910. They prioritized dynamic painterly qualities and strong color. #fauvism #matisse #andrederain #modernart

Trops Magazine, Issue 02 Developing a wonky and uniquely a-skewed visual grammar through the labor of painting, both still and moving life, are made at deliberately unusual scale. Through large scale representational oil paintings, tonalities and cultural universalities within western societies are emphasized and anthropomorphized. Through an interplay between visual research, (spanning from found imagery and utilizing video and photography stills) to an internal intuition for figuration, Farhi delivers various addresses on daily life through mark making and painting the surreal nature of our collective surroundings. — 1) Nick Farhi (@nfarhi_ ), Mystère de la Lune (walking on the moon), 2024. Oil, pastel, enamel on aluminum. 2) Nick Farhi in the Bronx. Photo by Bryson Malone (@brysonmalone ). 3) Quote from “For Real: Interview with Nick Farhi” by Nemo Librizzi (@nemolibrizzi ), as featured in Trops Magazine. 4) Nick Farhi, Evening pearls (after Ulysses), 2024 at Casino NY on East Broadway, NYC. #nickfarhi #tropsmagazine #nycartist #oilpainting #nycartscene

Join us this #BohemianWednesday for a special evening of art, music, poetry, and #dance @nena.nyc in collaboration with @khooneh.us Wednesday April 22 6pm-9pm Live Music, Art, Poetry, Dance 9pm-11pm dance floor with @djlilbuddy Bar Nena 63 Carmine St #westvillage Featuring: @ilkascobie @habibianmaryam @jeffwright436 @ian_bf_forde @djlilbuddy @emilioblue2 @armin.antique @adjuamusic @yaaaaasbrandon @luigicazzaniga @india.evansnyc #frezarr Trops Foundation provides a platform that empowers contemporary arts in the city of New York and beyond. #tropsfoundation

Celebrated #HighCulture this April 20 with @flowerychinatown and @revertnyc collecting gardening goodies with #TropsMobileApp Featuring #balafon by @ebrima.jassey.547 🎥 @videothepoet Happy #420 ! @thetrops artdrops

Trops Magazine, Issue 02 Monique Erickson (founder, LONESOME PRESS (@thelonesomepress )) is a poet, performer and publisher from New York City. “Lonesome Press is an independent imprint focused on poetry, music, culture, and the arts. Our goal is to bring poetry and the creative arts to a broad audience who might not otherwise encounter this vital work.” — 1) Monique Erickson (@myfairmomo ) photographed by Jordan Galland (@landofgal ). 2) Quote from “On Poetry” by Monique Erickson. 3) Featured in Trops Magazine, “Anna Akhmatova,” photographed by Moisei Nappelbaum (1921). 4) Quote from “Atlas of the Difficult World,” by Adrienne Rich. 5) LONESOME, No. 1 #nycpoetry #poetry #femalepoet #poetrymagazine #tropsmagazine

Trops Magazine, Issue 02 Julian Schnabel (@julianschnabelstudio ) is one of the most seminal and virtuosic artists working today. His multidisciplinary practice extends beyond painting to include sculpture, film, architecture and furniture. He is an award winning movie director but primarily a painter. His use of preexisting materials not traditionally used in art making, varied painting surfaces and inventive modes of construction were pivotal in the reemergence of painting in the United States in the late 1970’s and the rest of the world. In 1978, he began to make Plate Paintings, imagic works with sculptural surfaces produced by layering shards of broken dishes with thick applications of auto body putty, dental plaster and oil paint on wooden structures. His unorthodox, highly experimental approach to use of materials, gestures and form and large scale and shaped paintings have blurred the distinction between abstraction and figuration, making the battle between the two obsolete. Throughout his practice, he sustained the use of objet trouvé and chance-based processes, transforming painting and opening the door for new generations of young painters today. — 1) Julian Schnabel, Number 3 (Self-Portrait of Caravaggio as Goliath, Michelangelo Merisi), 2020. Oil, plates and bondo on wood, 72 x 60 inches. 2-3) Julian Schnabel with Australia, 1986, in New York, 2024. Photograph by Ben Adams (@benadamsstudio ). 4) Featured in Trops Magazine, Julian Schnabel, 6th and Houston Street, New York, 2024. Photograph by Ben Adams. 5) Quote from “Everything Lightly: Interview with Julian Schnabel” by Nemo Librizzi (@nemolibrizzi ). 6) Julian Schnabel, Drawing for Robbie Vickers and Richard Serra I, 2023. Oil on map, 97.5 x 67 inches. Courtesy of The Lock-Up (@thelockupartspace ). #visualartist #filmmaker #platepaintings #julianschnabel #nycartist

Scene from the Halloween art crawl in collaboration with @flowerychinatown featuring live performances by @_julia_kulakova and @thedolphinsquartet as well as art by @uneekstreet and #barronclaiborne Using the #TropsApp guests were able to claim a free roller bouquet of herb! Celebrate high culture all weekend at the flowery with free goodie bags, pre rolls and gardening treats using the #tropsmobileapp Link in bio #highculture

Trops Magazine, Issue 02 Annu Yadav (@annuyadavart ) is a New York based multimedia artist born in Rajasthan, India. Her work moves through the spaces between polarities, where things do not fully resolve. She is drawn to what happens in between, the places where contradiction lives. Gender and human division, west and east, left and right, tenderness beside violence. Meaning, for Yadav, begins in these unsettled edges. Trained in fashion and textile design at NIFT and CCA in San Francisco, she shifted to constructing psychological and narrative landscapes in paintings and installations. — 1) Annu Yadav, Nothing Grew Where They Planted their Flag, 2025. Oil on unstretched Canvas, Volcanic Stones, 82 x 52 inches. 2) Annu Yadav in NY studio. Photo by Brandon Perdomo (@studiobirdhaus ). 3) Annu Yadav, Before It was Drawn in Ink, 2025. Latex on Gauze, 36 x 24 inches. #sanfranciscoartist #indianartist #nycartscene #artmagazinefeature #multimediaart

Trops Magazine, Issue 02 Jim Jarmusch (@jim.jarmusch ) is an American visual artist and filmmaker based in NYC. As a director and screenwriter, Jarmusch has been a longstanding force in independent cinema, he presents collages. Featuring clippings from old newspapers, superimposed famous faces, and differing time periods, the images are familiar, but fleeting. — 1) Jim Jarmusch by Pat Martin (@patmartin__ ). 2) Quote from “Glass Phase: Interview with Jim Jarmusch” by Nemo Librizzi (@nemolibrizzi ). 3-4) Jim Jarmusch on the-set of “Father, Mother, Sister, Brother” © Vague Notion, 2024, #CaroleBethuel. 5) Jim Jarmusch and Jafar Panahi (@jafar.panahi ) at NYFF screening of “It Was Just an Accident”, 2025. Photograph by Mettie Ostrowski (@mettieostrowski ). #tropsmagazine #nycfilmmaker #visualartist #artmagazine

Trops Magazine, Issue 02 Kate Simon (@katesimon ) is a writer and portrait photographer. Throughout her career, she has taken photos of many influential artists from all ways of life, such as Madonna, Andy Warhol, Patti Smith, and The Clash, just to name a few. One of her most iconic portraits was of Bob Marley, used on the front cover of his 1978 album, “Kaya.” Simon’s work is internationally recognized and many of her pieces can be seen in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery, the MOMA, and the Andy Warhol Museum. — 1) Kate Simon, NYC, 2010s. 2) Quote from “Cultural Figures: Interview with Kate Simon” by Nora Tofigh (@noratofs ), featured in Trops Magazine. 3) Mockup from Trops Magazine, featuring Bob Marley, holding coptic cross, at home, 1978. Photo by Kate Simon. 4) Mockup from Trops Magazine featuring Cookie Mueller, at home, 1989. Photo by Kate Simon. #portraitphotographer #femalephotographer #katesimon #nycphotography #artsphotographer