Interview

Dasha Zhukova, daughter of a Russian oligarch, has emerged as an unlikely force in the international worlds of fashion and art. First she co-created a clothing line. Then she celebrated the star-studded opening of her own contemporary gallery in Moscow. This fall, she adds another line to her résumé: Magazine Editor. The naysayers are ready—and so is she.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 07/27/09

John Currin stirs people up. He makes pictures that look a lot like what pictures used to look like. Is he against modernism or what? And why are his paintings so damn well made?  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 06/08/09

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

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

While you were out celebrating the New Year, resident New Yorker, director of Fred & Associates, and sometime host Jen Brill was hard at  BLOG POSTED: 01/05/09

No one comes to Miami during fair week just to look at art. What people like to do here is talk about it. They look at each other and talk.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 12/08/08