IN CONVERSATION
Dorothea Rockburne and Walter Robinson on Sex, Fame, and Mathematics
November 26, 2024
“Art is sexual,” says the 95-year-old contemporary artist, “and that’s very hard to talk about because this is a culture which completely perverts sex, in my opinion.”
NAKED
Meet Lara Verheijden, the Photographer Reinventing the Nude Calendar
November 26, 2024
“Everybody in general is someone you want to have sex with,” the photographer says of the subjects she shot for the Texas and New York editions of her 2025 nude calendar.
provocateur
Artist Tom Sachs on Chainsaws, Cybertrucks, and Egg McMuffins
November 21, 2024
At Acquavella, where his new show is currently on view, the artist opened up about everything— except the recent exposé accusing him of running a cult-like workplace.
BACKSTAGE
“I’m the Long-Reigning Queen”: Behind the Scenes With Camp Icon Alina Troyano
November 20, 2024
Playwright Branden Jacobs Jenkins sat down with his former teacher to reminisce on the downtown theater scene she helped create.
OPENING
“The Camera Is the Fetish”: Devan Díaz on Curating Bad Girls at OCD Chinatown
November 7, 2024
After the opening of “Bad Girls” at OCD Chinatown, curator Devan Díaz called our fashion director Dara to talk about the trans nude and feminine expression.
MARTYRDOM
“Art Makes the Unbearable Bearable”: Romana Londi, in Conversation With Ottessa Moshfegh
November 5, 2024
To mark the opening of her exhibition at Rhinoceros Gallery, the Italian painter talked to novelist Ottessa Moshfegh about pain, pleasure, and depictions of martyrdom.
OPENING
“Acid at the Country Club”: Painter Witt Fetter Examines Image Overload at Derosia
November 5, 2024
While surveying her latest batch of meme paintings, now on view at Derosia, the artist talked to us about country club culture and the “Brat-ification” of Kamala Harris.
IN CONVERSATION
Kilo Kish and Savanah Leaf on Making Art About the American Dream
October 31, 2024
The musician and artist Kilo Kish talked to the filmmaker Savanah Leaf about embracing criticism and the day-to-day endurance of being an artist.
ICONS
Francesco Clemente and Ed Ruscha on Rejection, Religion, and Getting Too High
October 30, 2024
“It puts me in a good mood to be talking to you,” the visionary artist (and 1988 Interview cover star) told his old friend Ed Ruscha. “We have known each other for a long time now.”
COLLECTOR
Former Interview Editor Joan Agajanian Quinn Shows Us Her Treasured Art Collection
October 24, 2024
Interview’s former west coast editor welcomed us into her Beverly Hills home to show us her cherished art collection and reminisce on the good old days working alongside Andy Warhol.
FAIR
Colette’s Sarah Andelman Takes Us Inside Art Basel’s First-Ever Retail Shop
October 23, 2024
In Paris last week, Sarah Andelman, founder of the iconic concept store Colette, walked us through Art Basel Shop, the legendary art fair’s first-ever retail store.
SCULPT
“Is Being an Artist a Kink?”: Jack O’Brien, in Conversation With Tarek Lakhrissi
October 18, 2024
To mark the opening of their respective exhibitions, the young sculptors linked up to talk kink, Dante’s “Inferno,” and the RuPaul Industrial Complex.
ORAL HISTORY
“He Was the Center of Attention”: Basquiat at Area, by the People Who Were There
October 18, 2024
Jean-Michel Basquiat’s art and New York’s nightlife collided often, no more so than at Area. Here, those who were there share their memories of a time when creativity was the reason to celebrate.
POWER-LEZ
How K8 Hardy Got Jenna Lyons to Wear a Dress
October 17, 2024
To mark the release of their latest collaboration, “Studio Dress,” K8 Hardy called up her friend Jenna Lyons to talk fabric TikToks, power lesbians, and showing their underpants.
butts
Photographer Chivas Clem Takes Jack Pierson Inside His Archive of Drifters
October 17, 2024
“Most of them are felons and don’t vote and have no relationship to politics,” the photographer said of the men featured in his new show at Dallas Contemporary, “Shirttail Kin.”
ICON
“How Do You Feel About Getting Old?”: Robert Longo, in Conversation With Richard Price
October 8, 2024
Before the opening of Longo’s comeback show, “Searchers,” the artist talked to his friend Richard Price about burnout, filmmaking blunders, and the pleasures and pitfalls of getting older.
STUDIO VISIT
Sculptor Brian Oakes on Fedora Guys and Sorting Machines
October 7, 2024
At Blade Study, where his show “SEED” is on view this month, the artist talked to us about dioramas, “fedora guys,” and why pressing buttons is compulsive.
PICABIA
“I Don’t Believe in Meaning”: Getting Existential With the Painter Harold Ancart
October 3, 2024
“I don’t think that painting is by any means an extremely serious activity,” says the artist, who walked us through his new show at Fleiss-Vallois, “7 Paintings and 1 Painting.”
IN CONVERSATION
Johanna Hedva and Maggie Nelson on Kink, Capitalism, and the Hope-Doom Binary
October 2, 2024
To mark the release of their new essay collection, “How to Tell When We Will Die,” the writer, artist, and activist caught up with their old friend Maggie Nelson.
SMOKE BREAK
“Bring Back Spanking”: A Five-Minute Cig With Photographer Sam Penn
October 1, 2024
In this week’s installment of Smoke Break, we caught up with the New York photographer at the Paris opening of her debut solo show at Balice Hertling.