New Wave: On Set with Tom Sachs in His Rockaway Beach Surf House

“STANLEY KUBRICK IS DEAD” reads an etching in Tom Sachs’s familiar childlike script on a measuring tape mounted to a wall at the artist’s oceanside house in New York’s Rockaway Beach. This is secret code, scrutable to sharp-eyed Sachs initiates, as Kubrick, the storied movie director, died in 1999, the same year that Sachs—known for his bricolage sculptures and works in other mediums that play with DIY aesthetics—met the man he would collaborate with on