Interview

They were New York before New York knew what to do with them. They were lovers, best friends, fellow survivors. Patti Smith & Robert Mapplethorpe both became art-world legends and ’70s icons of radical downtown bohemia. Now Smith finally opens up about their days together, living at the Chelsea Hotel, buying art supplies before food, mixing with Warhol superstars and future rock gods, and doing whatever they had to do just to stay together.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 01/20/10

In Interview's January 2003 cover story, actress Brittany Murphy talked about life, death, and her idea of perfect happiness.  BLOG POSTED: 12/21/09

D.A. Pennebaker's Monterey Pop serves as a sort of corrective–not to popular ideas about the Summer of Love, but about its soundtrack.  BLOG POSTED: 09/23/09

Ang Lee is the only director who would ignore the ʼ60s rock stars onstage and inject a complicated family drama right in the center of the muddy Woodstock fields. To the horror of many festival fans, his latest film—a comedy—does not include the Grateful Dead.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 07/28/09

Ida Maria's new album, Fortress Round My Heart, reveals a rock star in the making. It drops today.  BLOG POSTED: 04/14/09

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