Interview

Perched in his fortress of solitude high above the streets of Manhattan, Lucas Samaras has created a remarkable new body of work—and, in fact, an entire lifestyle—in self-imposed seclusion, driven in large part by the endless exploration of the one thing he can never escape: himself. As he prepares to represent his native Greece in this year’s Venice Biennale, the notoriously reclusive artist opens up about his new work, old ways, and why, despite the clamor of the critics, he’s still master of his domain.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 02/26/09

James Jebbia built a fiercely independent, internationally obsessed-over, street-fashion cult and skating-goods empire as a purveyor of clothes you can wear, art you can ride, and sneakers you can’t find. So what’s his prescription for surviving these sallow economic times? To make like the president and keep it cool.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 02/26/09

In the last three years, Lily Allen has become a MySpace poster girl, released a hit record, achieved international fame, punched a paparazzo, gotten drunk at an awards show, slagged off Madonna, and kicked in the door for an undulating wave of nervy female British singers armed with varying degrees of wit and attitude. Along the way, she stumbled upon a new formula for how to become a pop star in the 21st century.

   ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 01/20/09

Marc Jacobs is a fashion designer who's changing the meaning of that job. He does what an ordinary superdesigner does, i.e., create fashion-changing clothes for his own labels and for a great French house, but he also does so much more.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 11/30/08

When Brigid Berlin, Andy Warhol's BFF, a decided Libertine ("L") in her day, came into her inheritance, she didn't race out and get coiffed. But she did wear a beehive of a ring from her mom, Honey Berlin, a tall swirl of diamonds.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 11/30/08

Sebastian Horsley's recently published-and justly acclaimed-autobiography, Dandy in the Underworld, is a true story of love and drugs and clothes and marriage and money and gangsters and actually getting crucified to see what it's like.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 11/29/08

We all have things wiped from our memories. Sometimes that's good, sometimes not. But Mike Kelley's sculptures and installations are impossible to forget-he challenges what we see and how we see it. He plumbs the depths of childhood, repressed memory, psychoanalysis, and pop mythos-but that's just the starting point for an individual speculative universe where things make startling, weird sense.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 11/28/08

Walt Disney may have invented the theme park, but Jeff Koons is the undisputed all-American master when it comes to filling the physical world with outsize work that deftly reflects all the mixed-up dreams, romances, anxieties, and desires of the psychological one. And if it seems like his big, brash, and occasionally mind-boggling art has taken on a life of its own recently, then it's with good reason: Because everything is going according to plan.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 11/26/08