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Mike Kelley, acclaimed installation artist and musician, has died at the age of 58, of an apparent suicide. In 2009, Interview editor Glenn O'Brien sat down with Kelley, an artist whose aesthetic he appraised as "Joseph Beuys meets James Brown, or Marcel Duchamp meets The Contortions." ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 02/01/12
The Rise of Rome: Questions for Emi Fontana
With one month remaining in Mike Kelley and Michael Smith's installation "A Voyage of Growth and Discovery," Los Angeles-based West of Rome brought the exhibition to life with a benefit event last week. ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 08/03/10
Art should be illuminating. Thanks to an environmentally-friendly EU law that comes into effect on September 1, some art will be much less so. ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 08/05/09
Javier Peres: The Third K is for Kindness
Javier Peres is the bon vivant dealer behind Peres Projects, who for the last decade has outsmarted by secreting his arresting intelligence and authenticity. His latest coup is the three-person show, "KKK," featuring Koh, Koons, and Kelley. ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 04/07/09
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