Interview

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

It's late-breaking news, but Richard Prince is getting sued. As a result, his catalogue has become super rare. Interview investigates.  BLOG POSTED: 03/10/09

Richard Phillips’s been accused of bringing sexy back to painting, drawing on porn as much as politics. He’s trying to destabilize our way of seeing—he can’t help it if you’re turned on in the process.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 02/27/09

Roman Polanski may soon be permitted back into the U.S., but he’s made some of his most compelling films while in exile from the Hollywood machine. As he collaborates with artist Francesco Vezzoli on a commercial for a fictional perfume starring Natalie Portman and Michelle Williams, the director talks about the Perils of the movie world and the pleasures of skiing drunk at night.

   ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 01/15/09

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

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

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

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