Interview

There is only one place in the art world where Charles Manson, Gumby, J. Edgar Hoover, a cartoon mouse on acid, surfers, baseball players, homicidal teenage punks, and topless girls could all meet up, and that's in the drawings and collages of this southern California-based artist. His reach has gone way beyond his underground punk-scene beginnings, but Pettibon's still sketching the loveliest misfits.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 11/30/08

With the fourth-season premiere of Showtime's critical darling Weeds, Hunter Parrish reprises the role of Silas Botwin, the eldest son of a suburban-MILF weed pusher played by Mary-Louise Parker.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 11/30/08

Avoiding controversial, difficult, or polarizing subject matter has never been Bill Maher's strong suit. Maher's new film, Religulous, is a globe-trotting exploration of what we believe, why we believe it, and the mess it has all created.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 11/30/08

At first, Gardar Eide Einarsson's work could be mistaken for the kind of art made by a lot of young, white New York guys these days. There's plenty of graffiti, references to gangs, skateboarders, the police, a couple flags with dark mottos, and even cameos by radicals like the Unabomber.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 11/28/08

In the early 2000s, a young painter emerged on the New York art scene, known for his hauntingly seductive figure paintings of friends and family members, executed in bright, bold colors and often set against elaborate wallpaper motifs. Mathew Cerletty, who shows at Rivington Arms gallery in New York, could have remained his generation's premier portrait artist. But in the last few years the 28-year-old Wisconsin native went in a completely different direction, creating strangely confrontational sign and word pieces that range from bizarre koans like "The Feeling is Mutual" to "Diet Coke" logos. Turns out, the words are just as autobiographical.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 11/28/08

The legend who brought a rebel color spectrum to the staid black-and-white art of photography swears he’s never been in a fight, that all his drinking buddies are dead, and he just may be color-blind.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 11/27/08

“There was a Valentino party at 54. I guess Stevie was trying to make it a really bad party, because he had the waiters dressed up like Pilgrims and he was serving turkey. . . . I lost Halston but I found him a little later eating a turkey leg, and he made me have some. The last place you want to eat meat from is a discotheque, but later I saw Stevie eating the turkey, too, so I guess it was okay.” The Andy Warhol Diaries, Sunday, November 19, 1978  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 11/26/08

The fair chameleon Ms. Blanchett doesn't have anything against being a movie star. But complaining about the paparazzi, offering empty platitudes about her co-stars, and ruminating on the differences between Los Angeles and New York isn't her game. That's why she's on the cover of our art issue. And because not once in the conversation that follows does she mention the word art. Yet that's what the interview is all about.
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