Interview

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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First he outraged art audiences in the early 1990s with works like his shark in formaldehyde. (The New York city department of health banned one piece on the grounds that it might induce vomiting.) Then he outraged critics with tactics like decorating a cast of a human skull with 8,601 diamonds worth more than $20 million. Now, the ultimate British bad boy has outraged dealers by skipping the gallery and selling his work at auction. He may have just been making a little Hirst-style mischief-or changing the state of the art market forever.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 11/26/08

Jade Jagger spent her adolescence in the wilds of the Upper East Side, attending Spence School and hanging out in Central Park.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 11/26/08

Evan Rachel Wood's restrained performances in Thirteen (2003), Pretty Persuasion (2005), Down in the Valley (2005), and her latest, The Life Before Her Eyes, have raised the specter of an all-American golden girl who yearns to be tarnished.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 11/26/08

Stephin Merritt is one of America’s most original and distinctive singer-songwriters. He has contributed music to soundtracks, works of musical theater, and television commercials, but he remains best known as the main singer and songwriter of the band the Magnetic Fields.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 11/26/08

Raf Simons Sure, he seems quiet. But the Belgian designer and brain behind Jil Sander will stop at nothing to make fashion smarter and more innovative. The master designer talks with a promising young designer, who happens to be Kanye West.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 11/26/08

Elizabeth Peyton's illuminating portraits of rock stars, French heroes, wayward youths, and close friends are less concerned with who they are than what they do. Peyton captures a single fleeting moment and makes it live forever.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 11/26/08

Once thought of as ghetto trinkets, hip-hop jewelry is finally getting the royal treatment it deserves. by bevy smith.

   ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 11/26/08