Daily Newsletter The sculptor and video artist talks mass culture, and Nathan Fielder as performance artist?

October 27, 2026 — 5 min read

Pop star Justin Bieber is no saint — well, actually, in Paul Pfeiffer’s art, he kind of is. In an interview in today’s issue, the sculptor, photographer, and video artist talks about his woodcarved portraits of Bieber in the likeness of Christ on the cross, his imagined million-seat stadiums, and the rituals of mass culture. “Emotion itself becomes the architecture of soft power,” he says.

All the world’s a stage. No one might exemplify that age-old adage better than the deeply contemporary (and utterly deadpan) comedian and director Nathan Fielder. Also today, Associate Editor Rebecca Schiffman takes on You Can See Everything , his new documentary about Theranos fraudster Elizabeth Holmes.…