Interview

To anyone who knows anything about skateboarding Mark Gonzales needs no introduction. To those who don't know, The Gonz is a legend. An exhibition of his new paintings opens tomorrow.  BLOG POSTED: 07/08/09

Photographer Lauren Dukoff was Devendra Banhart's first friend when he moved to the United States; she's made him his muse in her first book.  BLOG POSTED: 06/17/09

Before the band's New York show Sunday, Chairlift's Caroline Polachek talks about her short life with a drifter, zombie tweens, and a spat with the fish stick himself.  BLOG POSTED: 05/09/09

David Markey's 1991: The Year Punk Broke was commissioned as a diary by Thurston Moore; it's become much, much more.  BLOG POSTED: 05/04/09

Zurich-based zine publisher Benjamin Somerhalder of Nieves selects his five favorite booksellers.  BLOG POSTED: 04/04/09

Violens are the latest brainchild of Miami-bred Jorge Elbrecht, a 30-year-old artist, singer, and guitarist who is also a member of the popular art and music collective Lansing-Dreiden. On August 17, the year-old  band  gathered at a ground-floor loft in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, to make a video for "Spectator & Pupil"-a lush, dreamy song with careening atmospherics, New Wave harmonies, and a hard, galloping beat.  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

Age: 22. Hometown: Bethel, Connecticut. Currently resides: Bushwick, Brooklyn. Occupation: Dancer and choreographer.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 11/26/08