Interview Magazine - Most Recent Art Items

Rob Pruitt

By James Franco Photography Mario Sorrenti — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0100

Artist Rob Pruitt has always ridden the line between celebration and irony, which makes him the perfect person to give the New York art world one thing it's been missing: its own version of the Oscars.

Olympia Scarry

By Derek Blasberg Photography David Burton — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 12:37:22 +0100

This globe-trotting blonde grew up in a children’s book. Now that she’s come of age, she’s busting out with her industrial multimedia art projects and the first subject she’s taking on is the emotional gap between men and women

Ari Marcopoulos

By Dave Muller — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 12:17:46 +0100

A mid-career retrospective is a lot like a midlife crisis, but the nomadic dutch photographer has
lived—and captured—so many lives, his exhibition is more a party than a cause for alarm

Vito Acconci

By Karen Wright Photography Acconci Studio — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 00:00:00 +0100

Vito Acconci has spent the last four decades taking a radical hard line in his ever-escalating war against the traditional definitions of art—and he’s got the scars to prove it.

Miranda July

By Matthew Higgs Photography Lukas Wassmann — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 13:36:42 +0100

Miranda July took over a garden in Venice at this summer’s Biennale and made the viewing audience a complicit part of her sculptures. July, who moonlights as a filmmaker, actress, performance artist, and fiction writer, seems to want her work to play a part in people’s lives—and hopes they’ll return the favor.

Luigi Colani

By David Colman — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 13:08:50 +0100

Luigi Colani designed planes, trains, and cars that look as futuristic today as when he drew them decades ago. Tomorrow is still his yesterday.

Kevin Baker

By Ken Miller Photography Graeme Mitchell — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0100

Kevin Baker isn’t following the typical young New York artist career trajectory. Instead of clubbing, he’s gardening. And his subject isn’t alienation, it’s beauty.

Levi van Veluw

By Interview Photography Niall O'Brien — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0100

Viktor & Rolf discovered strange worlds on the face of Dutch artist Levi van Veluw

PrideLuxe

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0100

2009 marks the 40th Anniversary of New York City's Pride celebration, with this year's festivities set to be the most extravagant yet.

No Soul For Sale Storefronts

Fri, 19 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0100

On the occasion of the X Initiative's No Soul for Sale, a convergence of non-profit and independent art spaces, we asked each of the 38 international participants for photos of its storefront—the face that they present the world walking by.

No Soul For Sale

By Alex Gartenfeld — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0100

Why sell anything when the economy's not buying? From July 24–28, the X Initiative hosts "No Soul for Sale," a gathering of 38 not-for-profit centers, alternative institutions, artists' collectives and independent enterprises who get free, undivided space to devise an installation of their choosing. The spaces come from as far and in as many forms as Trinidad's Studio Film Club, Peter Doig and Che Lovelace's blog and Caribbean film screening series, and Artis Contemporary Israeli Art Fund, an art production organization based between New York and Tel Aviv. In Interview's commitment to No Soul For Sale, we've focused on three spaces of decresing distance form our fair city—Kling&Bang, an artist space in Reyjavik; Vox Populi, an elected board of artists; and Dispatch, a commercial space run out of a small artist storefront on the Lower East Side. It's an anthropological survey of spaces with different conditions and mi

Maurizio Cattelan

By Michele Robecchi Photography Mario Sorrenti — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 17:29:53 +0100

Maurizio Cattelan knows that it’s better to be the class clown than the class nerd. But just because a lot of his art productions are outrageous, and oftentimes hilarious, doesn’t mean the Italian artist isn’t serious about starting a revolution.

Wade Guyton

By David Armstrong Photography Mario Sorrenti — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0100

Wade Guyton has been heralded as the artistic hope of his generation. The tireless young artist will probably fulfill his destiny, as long as they never stop making Epson desktop printer ink.

Philip Taaffe

By Diego Cortez Photography Mario Sorrenti — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0100

Philip Taaffe makes art the old-fashioned way: with paint. And his paintings are as complex and alive as they are beautiful. In an age of market-driven, hog-wild modernism, that ain’t easy.

Liam Gillick

By Matthew Brannon Photography Mario Sorrenti — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0100

Liam Gillick lives near the United Nations, which might explain why an Englishman who calls New York home is representing Germany at this year’s Venice Biennale. Gillick’s art is universal.

The New New York Art Scene

By Alex Gartenfeld Photography Robbie Fimmano — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0100

Remember when New York City was a place where the hopeful, the talented, and the lost came
to get found, live cheaply, and become great (not just rich) artists? Well, it hasn’t seemed like
that kind of place for a while, but a new young art scene is emerging in all the boroughs that is more excited about the city streets than the white walls of Chelsea.

Elizabeth Neel

By Michel Auder Photography Mario Sorrenti — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0100

Elizabeth Neel is a New York painter, like her famous grandmother, Alice, who gave her a first set of paints. She’s grown up a lot since that day. Her gestural abstract canvases leave the family tree far behind.

Rachel Feinstein

By Glenn O'Brien Photography Mario Sorrenti — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0100

Rachel Feinstein is a singular artist as well as famous muse to her painter husband. She seems almost a traveler through time with her heirloom beauty and her throwback bohemian charm.

Glenn Ligon

By Jason Moran Photography Mario Sorrenti — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0100

Glenn Ligon doesn’t make work for easy reading. Whether they’re quotes on canvas or a film piece modeled on Uncle Tom’s Cabin, his tricky translations are about getting lost and getting found.

John Currin

By Glenn O'Brien Photography Mario Sorrenti — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0100

John Currin stirs people up. He makes pictures that look a lot like what pictures used to look like. Is he against modernism or what? And why are his paintings so damn well made?