Portrait of the Rag & Bone Man
July 14, 2014
Last week at Chelsea’s DIA Center, New York-based haute-streetwear label Rag & Bone debuted its SS15 menswear line.
Mike Bones
August 10, 2009
Judging from his music—plus the fact that he lists “beautiful women and existential despair” as his main influences—it’s reasonable to assume that Mike Bones is a miserable guy. Turns out he isn’t.
Agnès Varda
May 22, 2009
Agnès Varda was a pioneer of the nouvelle vague, a daring cinematic politico, and graced the first cover of Interview way back in 1969. In her latest masterpiece, she literally sets sail through the story of her life.
Albert Oehlen
April 24, 2009
Albert Oehlen is a painter who is leading the way. Whether anyone is following is almost irrelevant, because Oehlen’s fantastic exploratory techniques and improvisational spirit have blazed a spectacular trail through abstraction. And he has breathed some intoxicatingly revivifying fumes into the corpse of surrealism in the bargain. If he’s a one-man movement, maybe that’s enough.
Violens
November 21, 2008
Violens are the latest brainchild of Miami-bred Jorge Elbrecht, a 30-year-old artist, singer, and guitarist who is also a member of the popular art and music collective Lansing-Dreiden. On August 17, the year-old band gathered at a ground-floor loft in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, to make a video for “Spectator & Pupil”-a lush, dreamy song with careening atmospherics, New Wave harmonies, and a hard, galloping beat.