Interview

I'm at the Cindy Sherman opening at Metro Pictures. Jerry Saltz is here too. I know who he is because I've read some of his articles. I know what he looks like because of that television show he's on, the art competition, and even though I haven't seen it, I have seen a still from the show in which Saltz's right eyebrow is raised and his head is tipped with critical suggestiveness. At the gallery tonight, he's having a private conversation when a photographer approaches him to snap a picture. Saltz flashes a quick peace sign and goes right back to his conversation. The move has the whiff of a well-timed cultural ritual, the photographer and Saltz engaged in a smooth, effortless choreography.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 04/30/12

Last Friday, a carefully packaged white, circular, plexiglass badge arrived at the Interview offices. An accompanying note explained that the button was in fact an MP3 player (or "playbutton"), part of a series of 100 buttons on which famous creative New Yorkers, and a few New York institutions, have recorded . . .pretty much whatever they wanted to record.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 04/30/12

It is with great sorrow that we report the death of Swiss artist, David Weiss. Collaborating with Peter Fischli since 1979, Weiss and Fischeli's photographs, sculptures and films are part of the collections of the Guggenheim in New York, Tate in London, Kunsthaus Zurich, and Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin, and in 2003 the duo won the Golden Lion prize at the Venice Biennale.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 04/27/12

The art world too global for you? Each week, Interview highlights in pictures the shows you'd want to see—if you could jetset from one international art hub to the next.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 04/27/12

The back room at Martos Gallery on 29th Street in New York has been mysteriously re-christened Shoot The Lobster, a new offshoot project space, and its second show hosts the work of the young New York monochrome painter Joshua Smith.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 04/26/12

London-based, Scottish artist Robert Montgomery occupies a delicate space between street art and academia. Educated in the Situationism and Marxism, he took these texts at their word, and brought his slyly political, text-based art to the public sphere. His simple, graphic poems have since been plastered, often illegally, over advertisements and billboards internationally. Tomorrow, Montgomery will invade a new commercial space, the Dior Homme Pop-Up shop in Soho, with a 2009 piece, WHENEVER YOU SEE THE SUN REFLECTED IN THE WINDOW OF A BUILDING IT IS AN ANGEL, which was selected by Dior's menswear designer Kris Van Assche.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 04/25/12

The art world too global for you? Each week, Interview highlights in pictures the shows you'd want to see—if you could jetset from one international art hub to the next.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 04/20/12

Tonight is the Brooklyn Museum's annual Brooklyn Artists Ball, an event which always reminds us of one of our old friends, the late Jean-Michel Basquiat. The Brooklyn Museum was, as Basquiat told us in the interview below, Basquiat's favorite museum (though growing up in Brooklyn himself, he might have been a little biased). We thought we'd revisit this interview between art curator and critic, Henry Geldzahler, and Jean Michel.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 04/18/12

Agathe Snow conceived of the ten sculptures in "I like it here. Don't you?," currently on view at New York's Maccarone gallery, while lying on the floor with her baby, waiting for him to go to sleep. "I saw works that would center around themselves, and stretch from both the ceiling and the ground," she told Interview.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 04/18/12

Twenty-five years after his death, Andy Warhol's influence is everywhere—from his constantly copied pop-art paintings, to his famous "15 minutes of fame" quote, to the continued existence of Interview, to his seemingly glamorous New York social life with the Superstars, and, a little later, Studio 54.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 04/16/12