Tom Sachs, the artist revered by both downtown gallerists and hypebeasts, runs his Chinatown studio as a disturbing extension of his art practice. Employees recall nearly naked Zoom calls, uncomfortable discussions of porn, thrown ladders, and more
he illustrates another motto — “The Virtues of a Freakout” — by throwing a typewriter through a wall. It flies into a room where a woman is calmly eating noodles. It hits her.
When you start working at Tom Sachs’s studio, you’re given manuals, and they’re substantially more detailed thanIn one, after suggestions on how to properly approach Sachs about his lunch, there’s advice for “Avoiding Things That Make Tom Mad,” which begins with a metered verse: “Tom will sometimes scream / Tom will sometimes brood / Though dire life may seem / Happiness lies in reading Tom’s moods.” Sachs’s spokesperson says this manual was a joke. Recent employees say they took it seriously.
According to several former studio members, you were at risk of having things thrown — if not at you, then in the direction of where you were working. “I saw him throw a sheet of steel across the room because someone had left it in the wrong place, and it almost hit a tank of welding gas,” says a former fabricator. “And when I went to the studio manager to say, ‘Hey, he threw something toward me,’ her response was ‘Well, at least he didn’t throw it at you; he used to throw stuff at people.
Around people he deemed important, several former studio members say, he sometimes made a point to act more reserved. But in stressful settings, like gallery installations, he let his guard down, according to someone who worked with him at an institution where he was showing work. She saw him yell at his studio members: “And his workers are just like, ‘Yes, chef.
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