Interview

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

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

The father of punk won't stop until he's conquered the art world, upstaged porn's sex scenes, and put a dead French fashion designer in a Broadway musical.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 11/25/08

Filmmaker, musician, performer, painter, amateur engineer, and self-taught brush-maker James Nares is one of the art world's preeminent polymaths. But no matter the medium, he's always a big-canvas guy.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 11/23/08

Yasmine Chatila: One weekend there was a massive snowstorm, and I was pretty much snowed in. My neighbor, a filmmaker, had an amazing movie library and we decided to have our own film festival. I noticed some binoculars on his windowsill.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 11/18/08

Christopher Wool is widely recognized as one of the world's most important painters. His first one-man show was at the legendary Cable Gallery in 1984, and since then, he has showed his bold word paintings; Richard Hell was one of the originators of punk music. He played in the first wave of bands that brought attention to CBGB and became famous in 1977 as the auteur of the album Blank Generation.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 11/18/08

The Last of the Supermodels. She ended an era. And then started another one. There's something really special about Kate. She is a casual philosopher. She knows everybody. And if she doesn't know everything, she knows a lot-about a lot of things. She's bewitching and witchy-wise. Here's some of the wisdom. And some of the wit.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 09/01/08