Interview

Thumbing (or rather manhandling) the encyclopedic volume Marc Jacobs Advertising 1998–2009is like flipping through snapshots of an exclusive family album.  BLOG POSTED: 08/27/09

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.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 07/27/09

Creative Time, the storied 35-year-old art production non-profit, knows something about thinking outside the box.  BLOG POSTED: 05/08/09

Ron Arad thought he could save the world with his chairs. His furniture may not have actually rescued the planet, but he has surely saved the design world from boredom and predictability:
Tables standing on walls, armchairs made of car seats, and crystal chandeliers that display text messages . . .

He’s titled a new show “No Discipline”—which could mean that he’s transforming all of them.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 04/28/09

If the "Younger Than Jesus" crowd is all about social networking devices, I thought I'd find some followers of  journalism in the "Pictures Generation" show, which opened last night at the Met. That's until I met Barbara Bloom.  BLOG POSTED: 04/21/09

If you had shot homemade footage obsessively for the last 40 years, perhaps your movie would be as exciting or as beautiful as that of artist and film-maker Michel Auder's. Then again, maybe not.  BLOG POSTED: 03/25/09

A few years ago, art-world videographer Paul H-O dated a famous artist. Now he's made a movie about it.  BLOG POSTED: 03/23/09

Felix Burrichter, editor of New York-based architecture and design magazine PIN-UP, interviews Hussein Chalayan, an exhibition of whose work opens at London's Design Museum this week.  BLOG POSTED: 01/20/09