Hunt Slonem’s Studio
November 25, 2008
“I was looking for a new studio for three and a half years before I moved into this one in Hell’s Kitchen last December. The studio is on the fourth floor, in a big loft that used to be offices for Moviola.
Charles Hamilton
November 25, 2008
It’s been a long time since a rapper came along with skills like Charles Hamilton’s. The 20-year-old MC’s flow is spellbindingly dense, studded with punchy triplets and trippy associations.
Hooman Majd
November 25, 2008
Throw away your policy papers: There’s more to the Iranian-American divide than trumped-up political gambits, evangelical crazy talk, death stares, and enriched uranium. A new book gets at the crux of it all.
Cam Archer
November 22, 2008
“My favorite art is the stuff that breaks my heart,” says 27-year-old Santa Cruz, California, resident Cam Archer. “That pushes me to put work out there that does the same.” The young director became a film-festival favorite in 2006 with his winsome feature Wild Tigers I Have Known, about a 13-year-old’s unrequited love for a cool-boy classmate; it expanded on his 2003 short film Bobbycrush.
Josephine Meckseper
November 21, 2008
At her solo exhibition in New York City last spring, 44-year-old artist Josephine Meckseper showed a six-minute film titled O% Down, a hot and incendiary black-and-white remix of car commercials set to a merciless industrial-noise song called “Total War.”
Jorge Pardo’s Summer House
November 21, 2008
Jorge Pardo’s summer house in East Marion, N.Y.