Interview

There is a conspiracy theory that Sweden is quietly taking over the world. If that's true, Jonny Johansson and his fanatically popular fashion brand, ACNE, will certainly be in the power seats.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 11/28/08

He is one of our most successful and prolific artists. And a golfer, a car nut, a collector, and a connoisseur of the side of American culture they don't write about in books. He's a hepcat who removed himself from urban bohemia to explore America from a ruined rural landscape in hollering distance of the Borscht Belt. A pioneer of appropriation, lately he's been suggesting art could be a car, a handbag, or a video game.  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

Technology didn't kill thatre. Director Marianne Weem and her computer-friendly ensemble turn sets into channel-surfing high-speed wonderlands.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 11/27/08

The Talking Heads’ former frontal lobe on recording his soulful new album with Brian Eno, transforming buildings into musical instruments, writing song-and-dance numbers about Imelda Marcos, and designing bicycle racks for a better tomorrow.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 11/26/08

“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

Harvey Milk certainly wasn't the first gay politician to win an election in the united states, but he might very well have been the loudest. With his latest film, Milk, director Gus Van Sant chronicles the unlikely rise and tragic fall of an American revolutionary.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 11/26/08

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