Interview

In a perfect world, human beings would be able to transcend race, class and gender. In the meantime, Chicago-based artist Nick Cave has set out to achieve this through his art, by dedicating his oeuvre to "Soundsuits," colorful, life-size sculptures and wearable performance pieces, which are "second skin" costumes.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 09/02/11

Luis Gispert spent embedding himself among car clubs and label-obsessed gear heads, learning from the guys who pimp out Cadillacs, Lincolns, and beat up late Eighties Bimmers and Mercedes with Gucci, Louis Vuitton, and Burberry logo fabrics.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 09/01/11

A habitual presence among the downtown crowd, art photographer David Armstrong has captured intimate moments in the lives of hundreds of young men (and a few women)—models, friends, and lovers—over the span of his more than three-decade career.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 09/01/11

With a new sexually charged project that captures a collection of New York City art-world men in acts of la petite mort, the artist examines the gray lines between intimacy, voyeurism, and exhibitionism  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 09/01/11

27-year-old photographer and filmmaker Erik Madigan Heck has paved a golden pathway for himself over the past five years, weaving a cohesive portfolio of collaborative work through the fashion and art worlds of New York and Paris.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 08/31/11

Jason Horvath and Bill Hilgendorf, the duo behind the Brooklyn-based design company Uhuru, have reclaimed some pretty unexpected materials, such as bourbon barrels and pieces of the Coney Island boardwalk, to create their furniture collections.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 08/18/11

"I wasn't as interested in capturing the likeness of somebody as much as their temperament," says 32-year-old artist Lola Schnabel of the series of dreamlike portraits she created this past year.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 08/17/11

Steven Klein's rigorously conceptual images embrace theatricality and intimacy alike to cast a darkerlight on America's celebrity culture.

   ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 08/05/11

Amy Phelan, the notorious New York art collector and chair of the Aspen Museum of Art's annual summer benefit, says there's more to Aspen than ski bunnies and chair lifts.

   ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 08/03/11

When a studio fire nearly incinerated former designer Helmut Lang's archives in February 2010, the artist was inspired: Lang says, "I became intrigued by the idea of destroying it myself to use as raw material for my art."  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 07/22/11