Anna's Adventures in Wonderland
GQ US|February 2024
In recent years, 28-year-old painter Anna Weyant has found herself at the center of the art world circus thanks to soaring demand for her paintings, a surge in her auction prices, and a relationship with her gallerist, Larry Gagosian. When you cut through all the noise and hype, who is Weyant, and what's at the heart of her work?
By Carrie Battan. Photographs by Roe Ethridge
Anna's Adventures in Wonderland

One Day in LATE OCTOBER, the painter Anna Weyant took a friend with her to shop for a coat to wear to LACMA's annual Art + Film Gala. Even by the contemporary art world's extravagant standards, this gala creates a uniquely powerful blizzard of money, glamour, and prestige by bringing together just the right blend of Hollywood celebrity and adjacent art world royalty-which is to say, heavy on the Hollywood. For the evening, Dolce & Gabbana dressed the 28-year-old Weyant in a sheer black mesh dress, floor-length and dotted with crystals. A pair of black satin high-rise panties and a matching plunge bra would be plainly visible underneath. With this ensemble, her butter blond coif, and delicately contoured features, Weyant would, perhaps, look more like a young actress than a humble New York painter.

Now she needed a matching overcoat. Weyant summoned her friend to the changing room to give her opinion on her selections. She wore the dress underneath to get a sense of how the pieces would jibe. "My friend opened the door to the room, and she goes: Absolutely not. You cannot wear that to LACMA," Weyant tells me, about a week after the gala. "And I was like, 'Oh, I'm wearing it. It's the coat I want your opinion on-not the dress."

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