Objet d’Art: Coloring Outside the Lines
October 1, 2015
Every month, Interview picks an artist or designer created object that straddles the line between aesthetics and function. Subdued tastes need not apply.
Anish Kapoor Colors Russia Red
September 24, 2015
Last week, on the opening day of London-based artist Anish Kapoor’s first Russian solo show at Moscow’s Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center, Europe’s precarious current events hung heavily in the air.
Louise Bourgeois’s Psychological Turmoil in Cells
September 23, 2015
The first survey of artist Louise Bourgeois’s work in Russia opened last week at the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art in Moscow, presenting 25 of her “Cells” alongside Maman (1999) and a never-before-actualized vanity mirror.
Trevor Paglen Dives Deep
September 17, 2015
Artist Trevor Paglen’s current solo show at Metro Pictures in New York aims to depict the physical dimensions of the Internet.
Artists at Work: Artie Vierkant
September 1, 2015
It’s a tangled world wide web out there, and artist Artie Vierkant has always been always ahead of the curve in conceding the impossibility of controlling images and information jumbled therein. His 2010 essay “The Image Object Post-Internet,” which he wrote while in graduate school, dismantles the notion that art–or anything, really–can have a true […]
Come Together
August 18, 2015
In 2005 artist Agathe Snow famously threw a 24-hour dance party in a loft on an abandoned block near Ground Zero.
Objet d’Art: Summer’s Not Over Yet
August 18, 2015
For this month’s Objet d’Art, we gravitated toward Isaac Nichols’s “Banana Girl” pot design, which in all of its fruit-patterned swimsuit glory, captures the summer spirit.
Clifford Ross’s Natural State
August 6, 2015
For his survey “Landscapes Seen & Imagined” at MASS MoCA, Clifford Ross experiments with natural imagery.
How Ethan Greenbaum Sees the City
July 27, 2015
For his first solo show at East Hampton’s Halsey McKay Gallery, Ethan Greenbaum juxtaposes a new series of 3-D powder prints and larger-scale vacuum form paintings.
Stars Across Time
July 20, 2015
Hoping to bring newfound attention to Pollepel Island just north of New York City, Melissa McGill devised and executed the public artwork Constellation, consisting of 17 solar-powered LED lights on 40- to 80-foot tall poles.
Objet d’Art: Living Music
July 15, 2015
Like photographs, music used to be tied to a single, fixed physical existence.
One Writer, Twelve Artists, and Everything in Between
July 2, 2015
For a group show at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, curator Andria Hickey looked to Gertrude Stein’s Tender Buttons for inspiration.
Each x Other’s Artistic Androgyny
June 29, 2015
Each x Other was founded in 2012 by a fashion designer and artistic director who envisioned a clothing line rooted in collaboration with visual artists.
Character Study
June 24, 2015
“The show will be online forever, until someone pulls the plug on the Internet,” says David Wilfer, the founder of The World’s Best Ever, about the exhibit he curated at Joshua Liner Gallery, “All Types of Characters.”
Objet D’Art: Inflatable Chandelier
June 18, 2015
Every month, Interview picks an artist- or designer-created object that straddles the line between aesthetics and function. Subdued tastes need not apply.
Kiersey Clemons
June 1, 2015
At only 21, Kiersey Clemons is already something of a showbiz veteran.
Avan Jogia
June 1, 2015
After making his first big splash playing a teenage heartthrob on Nickelodeon’s Victorious, Avan Jogia could have gone the easy route, playing the token high school hunk on TV and in movies.
GucciVuitton’s New Pop-Up Shop
May 31, 2015
When the Institute of Contemporary Art Miami approached Miami-based artist collective Guccivuitton about a show, a typical survey did not seem like the appropriate approach to communicate their criticisms and concerns.
Geometry Lessons with Math Bass
May 20, 2015
Sculptor, painter, and video artist Math Bass’s first museum solo show, “Off the Clock,” is now on view at MoMA PS1.
Objet D’Art: Rob Pruitt’s Graffiti Folding Chair
May 15, 2015
Following his blowout solo show-cum-birthday bash at The Brant Foundation Art Study Center, Rob Pruitt scaled it down this week, debuting a rather practical and managebly sized artwork in the form of a custom folding chair.