Interview Magazine - Most Recent Art Items

Garrett Pruter Disintegrates Reality

By Ashley Simpson — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:00:00 +0100

"I looked for the ones that weren't perfect—that weren't necessarily flattering," says 24-year-old New York-based artist Garrett Pruter of the family photographs he pulled from junk stores, flea markets, and estate sales, then sliced, scratched, and otherwise altered for his first solo show, "Mixed Signals," which opens tonight at Charles Bank Gallery.

Jon Kessler Celebrates the Blue People

By Brienne Walsh — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 10:20:00 +0100

Jon Kessler's current exhibition at Salon 94, "The Blue Period," was inspired by the artist's trips on the subway in New York. "I realized that half of the people riding were operating some kind of handheld device," Kessler told Interview. "They were physically there, but not actually there."

Run Away With Alec Soth

By Adam O'Reilly — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 14:00:00 +0100

Alec Soth spent five years seeking out men who were hiding from the world, and tonight he shows the results at his first show at Sean Kelly Gallery. The legendary Minneapolis-based photographer of Americana returns to New York to show "Broken Manual" for the first time in its entirety. (It's previously only shown in parts at the Walker Center for the Arts, and in a special-edition book.)

Tim Barber Shares His World

By Ken Miller — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 12:00:00 +0100

Tim Barber's recent book of photographs isn't self-titled. It's just called Untitled Photographs. Published with OHWOW, the monograph originated with an 2010 exhibition of Barber's work at the OHWOW gallery in Miami, and this week, Barber is launching the book in Europe with a presentation at London gallery Mother.

Remembering Mike Kelley

By Colleen Kelsey — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:35:00 +0100

Mike Kelley, acclaimed installation artist and musician, has died at the age of 58, of an apparent suicide. In 2009, Interview editor Glenn O'Brien sat down with Kelley, an artist whose aesthetic he appraised as "Joseph Beuys meets James Brown, or Marcel Duchamp meets The Contortions."

Design That's Guided By Voices

By Ariella Gogol — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 16:45:00 +0100

Design Voices, a new e-book from Coolhunting contributor Anna Carnick and Print contributing editor Jeremy Lehrer, sets out to illustrate today's design scene moment by consulting some of the world's most iconic creators, among them Maarten Baas, Dror Benshetrit, Giulio Cappellini, Milton Glaser, Ross Lovegrove, Stefan Sagmeister, Massimo Vignelli, and Tokujin Yoshioka.

Sandro Kopp Connects Via Computer

By Brienne Walsh — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 11:30:00 +0100

For "Being With You," his solo exhibition at Lehmann Maupin, Sandro Kopp has taken the idea of the mediated portrait into the digital era. Consisting of a series of real-time portraits that Kopp did of subjects that sat for him not in the flesh, but rather via Skype, the exhibition marries the practice of 19th century oil painting with modern communication.

Armchair Traveler: By Foot, By Car, By Bus

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 18:10:00 +0100

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.

Prada Presents: 24hours in Paris

By Emma Brown — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 18:00:00 +0100

Prada is in Paris for the evening! Alas, how we wish we were too. The purpose of Prada's Parisian visit is to present their "24h Museum," designed by artist Francesco Vezzoli and AMO (headed by Rem Koolhaas).

Armchair Traveler: Suburbia and the Squid

By Staff — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 17:15:00 +0100

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.

Artists Who'd Rob You Blind

By Nicholas Weist — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 17:10:00 +0100

With work from 1919 to the present day, this sprawling survey features imagined languages, personas, cities, and objects includes gems like the first edition of Kurt Schwitter's 1919 Dadaist poem Anna Blume, original prints from the mid-century, utopic-minded Italian architecture firm Superstudio, and Adam McEwen's darkly gorgeous, contemporary graphite impressions of wooden chipboard.

Armchair Traveler: From Batman to Bed Bugs

By Staff — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 16:30:00 +0100

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.

Taylor Mead Bothers to Share Some Wisdom

By Ashley Simpson — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 14:30:00 +0100

"I'm a disciple of Nietzsche—I believe in a minimum of effort and a maximum of error," explains painter, poet, and Warhol underground film star/longtime lover Taylor Mead. "So I haven't bothered showing these paintings until now."

Time and Permanence: Ryan Foerster and Ben Schumacher

By Adam O'Reilly — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 12:45:00 +0100

Ryan Foerster and Ben Schumacher collaborate in their first show together at Martos Gallery in New York.

Docu-Drama

By Christopher Bollen — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 15:00:00 +0100

As a warm-up for next summer's happening, overseen by artistic director Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, dOCUMENTA, together with publisher Hatje Cantz, has created a series of interdisciplinary notebooks, appropriately titled 100 Notes—100 Thoughts.

Simon Denny

By Alex Gartenfeld Photography Sebastian Kim — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0100

An anonymous man—or group—managed to hijack the airwaves of two different Chicago television stations and broadcast a makeshift version of the pre-CGITV personality and New Coke spokesperson Max Headroom (himself an image of a dystopian media-infiltrated future).

Cyprien Gaillard

By Christopher Bollen Photography Sebatian Kim — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0100

It’s hard to think of a young artist whose career has had an upward trajectory as steep as 31-year-old Frenchman Cyprien Gaillard. His early video works of quasi-socialist Western European housing tracts in ruins had all the lyricism of landscape painting and the biting youthful nihilism of street art.

AIDS-3D

By Alex Gartenfeld Photography Sebastian Kim — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0100

While their name ruffles feathers, the two Americans who go by AIDS-3D—Daniel Keller, 25, and Nik Kosmas, 26—chalk up the moniker to an interest in looking at international catastrophes from a fresh, albeit twisted, perspective.

Adrian Ghenie

By Alex Gartenfeld Photography Sebastian Kim — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0100

With figures gnawed and slashed, blurred and speckled, Adrian Ghenie’s paintings involve the big ideas that transform men into larger-than-life emblems. Ghenie’s recent exhibition at Haunch of Venison in London featured humans wildly distorted and many with monkey features.

Oliver Laric

By Alex Gartenfeld Photography Sebastian Kim — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0100

Thirty-year-old Oliver Laric calls himself a “facilitator.” That’s a rather selfless designation to describe the poetry of someone who allows interactions with art to happen by surprise.