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May 2012

Vanity, Versace Style

Versace, arguably the fashion house of va-va-voom, unveils its latest treat for the bombshell in your life—or for her wrist, at least. Vanity, the latest line of timepieces for the Milanese brand, celebrates and reinterprets the label's signature aesthetic details.

Get It

From Dior’s Lady Dior to Louis Vuitton’s new updated speedy, the timelessness of an iconic “It” bag, that external mark of stylish exclusivity, proves that there is always some “It” worth bagging.

Tom Sachs Space Craft

In his art work, sculptor Tom Sachs consistently recontextualizes the iconography of modernity.

With their new video for "PSA," which we're pleased to exclusively premiere today, Leucadia, California-based synth-pop duo Junior High (comprised of Michael Deakers and Josh Ottum) hearkens back to the days of Weird Science and "Wayne's World."

Sigur Ros Are 24-Hour Party People

Sigur Rós has announced a rolling global listening event, Valtari Hour, to commence at this Thursday at 7 pm in every time zone around the world. There is, of course, a hashtag.

The Track
Of The Week

Exclusive Song Premiere: 'City of Lovers,' Baby Monster

Recent items

New Again: John Travolta

We doubt that John Travolta will be singing the words, "Summer lovin', had me a blast" any time soon.  From our experience, actors get a little upset when you ask them to repeat catchphrases from their previous films. It is also a particularly polemic time to accost Travolta with regards to his summer loving—he is currently facing allegations of sexual battery.

Cinematic Arias

The late German filmmaker Werner Schroeter never tired of exploring his many passions—often all at once, with his muses (Candy Darling, Isabelle Huppert) inhabiting lushly colored fusions of music, melodrama, and kitsch.

Casting Call: The Jungle Book

It seems that Rudyard Kipling's short-story collection, The Jungle Book, is on Sony's remake agenda. According to Variety, the studio has already recruited Harry Potter screenwriter, Steve Kloves, to pen a live-action script. Never ones to pass up fantasy-casting a late-19th-century work of fiction, we perused our actor archive for a suitable cast.

Trailer Face-Off! Lawless vs. Savages

This week: Lawless vs. Savages, two gangster films dealing with the complications that accompany the trafficking of illicit substances.

Zal Batmanglij Is Community-Minded

For a first feature, Zal Batmanglij's Sound of My Voice shows remarkable confidence of vision; Batmanglij trusts his audience enough to leave multiple significant plot points completely open to interpretation.

Other Features

Lipps Service: Super CNNCTD

This week, Scott ran into his favorite editors at the Interview-hosted launch of the Dior Homme pop-up shop on Greene Street, where he snapped some quick pics of James Van Der Beek and Andrej J for the site!

Other Features

Alix Kates Shulman Finds Threes a Crowd

The threesome is a power game. In Alix Kates Shulman's novel Ménage (Other Press), the author hilariously pairs a blustering businessman, his bitter wife, and an oozingly charming writer in a pseudo-sexual struggle.

Avedon Exposed

In the 1960s and 1970s, as America was in the midst of multiple revolutions, Richard Avedon became the ultimate chronicler of the heroes and horrors of the time—and one of his signature methods was to let his subjects strip down and show themselves for who they really were. As the curtain rises on a new retrospective of the legendary photographer’s work this month at Gagosian Gallery, we celebrate the master portraitist’s unabashed exploration of the body politic—in all its ragged glory

Thad Ziolkowski Surfs the Midwest

Thad Ziolkowski is blond, lean, and I imagine he writes with a surfboard not far from his desk in his New York apartment. In 2003, Ziolkowski released On a Wave, a memoir documenting the return to his first love—surfing—years after abandoning the sport of his early teenage years in Florida for the writer's life in the city.

Armchair Traveler: Surface Tension

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.

Front to Back with Ari Marcopoulos

With his Contax camera close in his pocket at all times Ari Marcopoulos produces photos with an amazing and precise flow that matches his history, coming up among skateboarders. For "Wherever You Go," his first solo show at Chelsea Marlborough Gallery [opens tonight], Marcopoulos pulled from his immense body of photographs, 2008-2012 for a fresh survey.

The Sound of Silence

Imagine the sound of Sonic Youth guitarist Lee Ranaldo’s brain waves as he tries to conjure up the most beautiful guitar solo ever. That’s the soundtrack to Loris Gréaud’s One Thousand Ways to Enter (2011), a film of Rorschach-like clouds of smoke undulating slowly underwater.

Equal Opportunity

When Matt Keegan ceased publishing his annual journal of experimental artists’ texts, North Drive Press, in 2010, he had no intention of returning to the world of print.

Going Remote

Next month, Frieze, London’s international contemporary-art fair, finds an unlikely home at Randall’s Island Park, a largely overlooked spot in the east River sandwiched between East Harlem, the South Bronx, and Astoria, Queens.

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Vidal Sassoon

Vidal Sassoon created a hairstyling empire that includes a product line and numerous hairstyling academies. In the new documentary Vidal Sassoon: How One Man Changed the World with a Pair of Scissors, we learn the story behind the name.

ARCHIVE

Joseph Nahmad Contemporary Presents 'Open Your Eyes' by Roy Nachum

May 10, 2012 @ Joseph Nahmad Contemporary, W. 14th Street, New York City