Interview

When Acne Paper was founded in 2004 as a literary prong of the multi-faceted Swedish denim empire, it faced a challenge: having to prove its creative independence, and its worthiness beyond being a fancy bit of advertising.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 07/06/11

One of the lions of the 20th century, and a symbol of modernism and its undoing, Cy Twombly has died at the age of 83.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 07/05/11

As a surprise selection to represent the U.S. at this summer’s Venice Biennale, the Puerto Rico–based duo embraces the art—and sport—of extraordinary dysfunction  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 06/30/11

As in the biblical act of creation, artist James Turrell likes to start with the light. Over the past five decades, he has used it and manipulated it to create a moving, mystical body of installation art designed to blast open our perceptions. And while his work will appear for a limited time this summer at the Venice Biennale and at Moscow’s Garage Center for contemporary culture, Turrell can always be found working on his eternal masterpiece—a crater in Arizona with a view of the universe.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 06/30/11

The newest, the most thoroughly curatorial and editorial, and perhaps the most visually intriguing, and the only one with the backing of big-time curators, is Paddle8.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 06/22/11

A small painting of the earth hovers several feet above the 11 other works in Jules de Balincourt's sprawling Bushwick studio.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 06/20/11

Tonight marks the opening of the artist's second solo show, "Too Dark One Light." The exhibition will be the first shown in the new gallery space, Late Night Chameleon Café, a high concept by- appointment-only store opened in East London last year.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 06/15/11

Last summer when Brooklyn-based artist Brian Donnelly, aka KAWS, was headed to Hong Kong to oversee the production of a five-meter tall sculpture of his famous Companion mouse character going up in Harbour City, he asked his friend Claire Darrow what he should do with the piece, which was his to keep, after the exhibition.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 06/08/11

On the top floor of the Hermès store on Madison Avenue, past shelves of signature silk scarves and leather accessories, hangs "Illuminance," a new body of work by the Japanese photographer Rinko Kawauchi.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 05/25/11

For the past five years, Los Angeles–based collage artist Elliott Hundley has been working his way through the Greek tragedies.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 05/24/11