Gerasimos Floratos
March 1, 2016
The artist who grew up above the family deli in Times Square paints the world outside his window.
True Colors
February 26, 2016
By the 1980s, Atlanta-born artist Emma Amos had lived in New York for two decades and had been the youngest and only female artist in Spiral, a Civil Rights era collective of African-American artists.
Hayden Dunham’s Material Interests
February 25, 2016
“It’s more, for me, an opportunity to give people the ability to be empowered by information and to make decisions that can change entire systems and infrastructures,” artist Hayden Dunham says when we meet her at Red Bull Studios New York.
Guy Bourdin
February 17, 2016
Never-before-seen images from the great surrealist fashion photographer—it’s never not a Bourdin moment.
Objet d’Art: Pursed Expression
February 9, 2016
Every month, Interview picks an artist- or designer-created object that straddles the line between aesthetics and function. Subdued tastes need not apply.
Visionary
February 8, 2016
In a career spanning over two decades, German fashion photographer Horst Diekgerdes has shaped a signature aesthetic of the softly erotic and darkly dramatic.
How to Make a Scene, or Not
February 3, 2016
In a whirl of rapid-fire curating, Kai Matsumiya has organized a marathon of 11 mini-solo exhibitions to take place in the next five weeks at his eponymous Lower East Side gallery.
A Few Sex-Positive Feminist Artists, Once Misfits
January 15, 2016
In “Black Sheep Feminism: the Art of Sexual Politics,” curated by Alison M. Gingeras, each of the four female aritsts explores nudity by presenting women’s sexuality as an inevitable fact, and one not mutually exclusive with female empowerment.
Objet d’Art: A Space Oddity
January 15, 2016
Every month, Interview picks an artist- or designer-created object that straddles the line between aesthetics and function. Subdued tastes need not apply.
Personal Effects
December 14, 2015
Photographer Catherine Opie is known for her seemingly disparate interests; some of her most famous series have been of S&M enthusiasts and high school football players.
Objet d’Art: Swap at the Museum
December 14, 2015
There are a few ways we might mentally categorize the array of belongings strewn in our lives, from useful to arbitrary to totally obstructive.
Agathe Snow’s Evolution
November 18, 2015
It’s felt like a while since Agathe Snow has been a regular presence in New York City’s art world, having retreated from a whirlwind downtown scene to Long Island in 2008. But Snow, who is best known for socially oriented performances, was always planning to return. And, since her 5-year old son has started school, […]
An Auction at Sotheby’s, Public School Style
November 17, 2015
Public School co-founders Dao-Yi Chow and Maxwell Osborne have curated an exhibition to serve as a preview of Sotheby’s fall prints auction.
Objet d’Art: Sacai’s Chic Teddy Bear
November 16, 2015
Every month, Interview picks an artist or designer created object that straddles the line between aesthetics and function. Subdued tastes need not apply.
MODERN MASTERPIECE
November 6, 2015
Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict takes its name from the legendary art patron’s own words, explaining her life’s obsession: “I became an addict, and I sort of couldn’t help it anymore.”
Cynthia Daignault, an artist Painting America in a New Light
November 4, 2015
Last spring, painter Cynthia Daignault set out on a six-month journey around the circumference of the United States, documenting the landscape every 25 miles. The 360 resulting oil paintings are now on view as one singular work, Light Atlas, at Lisa Cooley in New York.
Amalia Ulman
October 14, 2015
One artist has tapped into the many faces and fictions of online identity. Is Amalia Ulman making the internet art of our era?
Interplay
October 13, 2015
Writer-artist David Colman and Visionaire co-founder Cecilia Dean chose Move! as the title of the roving arts-meets-fashion installation they co-curate to emphasize a sense of action.
Moving Pictures
October 13, 2015
After a few years of painting being the reigning genre in galleries, it looks like video art might finally be returning to the fore. This month three major artists are tackling video in their latest New York shows.
Desert Oasis
October 13, 2015
The art world in New York is notoriously corporate. But for every pristine blue-chip gallery, there is a small, rambunctious enterprise bolstered by friendships and openings where whiskey is served out of Dixie cups.