Interview

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

Cindy Sherman The ultimate shape-shifter poses for us on the eve of exhibiting a new set of character portraits at New York's Metro Pictures Gallery. For "20 Questions," friends and colleagues of the artist were invited to pose a question. What follows are Sherman's responses.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 11/29/08

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

Since 1988, Maison Martin Margiela has been exacting its own intelligent revenge on the ordinary inseams of high fashion. Celebrating 20 years this fall,  the maison is still light-years ahead of its time.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 09/01/08