LIT
In Her New Story Collection, Author Pemi Aguda Invites Readers For a Haunting
May 15, 2024
“I have not experienced ghosts personally, but perhaps my stories are an invitation to them,” says the author of “Ghostroots,” a collection of haunted stories set in her native Lagos.
SOUND ADVICE
Tom Krell of How to Dress Well Is Pop Music’s Resident Philosopher
May 14, 2024
In this week’s SOUND ADVICE, the multimedia artist rang in the release of his new album by curating us a playlist of his faves: Mariah Carey, 1010benja, and Nirvana.
it-girl
“There’s a Massive Disco Ball”: Alexa Chung Reviews Gucci Cruise 2025
May 14, 2024
After Sabato de Sarno’s first Cruise collection for Gucci, we recapped the show with fashion’s favorite it-girl, from the suede jackets down to the dreamy ballet flats.
RIOT GRRRL
“We’re Trauma Bonding”: Kathleen Hanna, In Conversation With Brontez Purnell
May 14, 2024
Before publishing her memoir “Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk,” the Bikini Kill singer looked back at her place in the Riot Grrrl movement with fellow punk rocker Brontez Purnell.
OPENING
Lucky DeBellevue Paints the Sexy, Tortured Worlds of Rainer Werner Fassbinder
May 13, 2024
“I didn’t want to shy away from sexuality,” says the downtown painter, who painted stills from a number of the German director’s films for his new solo exhibition.
STUDIO SESH
“Music Is an Act of Service”: Willow Smith, In Conversation With St. Vincent
May 13, 2024
After dropping their respective albums, the musicians linked to discuss self-love, self-producing, and why you don’t have to earn money from your art to truly be an artist.
PANEL
For Artist Diedrick Brackens, Weaving Is An Act of Religion
May 10, 2024
“Ritual in some sense is about repetition, and repetition is a holy act,” says the 35-year old artist about what drives his textile practice.
CLICK
“You Ghosted Andy Warhol”: Magdalena Wosinska, in Conversation With Christopher Makos
May 10, 2024
The two photographers got on Zoom to talk about celebrity egos, making it in Tinseltown, and Wosinska’s new book “Fulfill the Dream,” a document of the 90s skate scene.
BDSM
Joanna Arnow Tells Sean Baker How to Direct a Movie While Getting Spanked
May 10, 2024
The director of “The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed” got on Zoom with fellow filmmaker Sean Baker to talk Letterbox’d, BDSM, and working with her parents.
VROOM VROOM
Francesco Ragazzi of Palm Angels Is Putting the Fashion in Formula 1
May 9, 2024
Last weekend, Palm Angels invited Interview to the Miami Grand Prix, where the Milanese streetwear label dressed drivers on the Moneygram Haas Team.
OPENING
Artist Nikita Gale Is Watching You From the Nosebleeds
May 9, 2024
The LA-based artist’s new exhibition at Petzel Gallery imagines a stadium’s nosebleed seats as “not just a position and a space, but a theoretical, philosophical position.”
search history
Harry Jowsey of Too Hot to Handle Wants You to Know He’s 6′5″
May 9, 2024
In this week’s Search History, the “OnlyFans” hottie and star of “Too Hot To Handle” sends us his Tinder bio and reveals the famous couple he wants to have a threesome with.
SMOKE BREAK
“Explore Page Realness”: A Nine-Minute Cig With Artist Kiernan Francis
May 9, 2024
For our inaugural installation of Smoke Break, we caught up with artist and filmmaker Kiernan Francis at his raucous LES opening.
dirty
“It’s Really Fucking Turnt”: Five Minutes With Teyana Taylor at Her Secret Burlesque Show
May 8, 2024
“It’s actually really fucking turnt,” said the singer and actor, who kiki’d with Interview on the dance floor at her secret pre-Met Gala party.
in conversation
Jessica Pratt Meets Her Number One Fan Molly Gordon
May 8, 2024
“I am such a big fan, truly,” actor Molly Gordon gushed to the singer-songwriter, whose new album “Here In the Pitch” was inspired by the California rock of the 1960s.
VENICE BIENNALE
For Jonathan Lyndon Chase, A Masterpiece Emerges From the Rubble
May 8, 2024
“I’m very interested in this idea of what our bodies carry,” says the 35-year-old artist. “If we take something like paper and crumple it, it always kind of holds a memory.”
HOME SWEET HOME
“We Were Fighting or Fucking”: The Boys of Mötley Crüe Meet Mel Ottenberg
May 8, 2024
The boys of Mötley Crüe tell us how they wound down after years spent being the world’s most chaotic heavy-metal band.
MET
The Carlyle Takes Us Behind the Scenes of The Met with Camila Cabello and Troye Sivan
May 7, 2024
At the legendary hotel where A-listers get glam for the Met Gala, photographer Andrew Tess captured some of the night’s biggest stars on polaroid.
MET
“British, Y’know?”: Little Simz Went Classic Burberry For Her First Met Gala
May 7, 2024
Before attending her very first Met Gala, the British rapper called us from her hotel room to tease her look, a custom design by Burberry creative director Daniel Lee.
ROMANCE
Usher Shows Us How He Preps for Fashion’s Super Bowl
May 7, 2024
The R&B icon sat down for an interview with our senior editor, who had a few questions about fandom, fashion, and life as a sex symbol.