Interview

Sebastian Horsley's recently published-and justly acclaimed-autobiography, Dandy in the Underworld, is a true story of love and drugs and clothes and marriage and money and gangsters and actually getting crucified to see what it's like.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 11/29/08

Adam McEwen wrote actual obituaries for The Daily Telegraph in London before he ever turned the genre into artwork, writing obituaries for still living and breathing celebrities like Kate Moss and Jeff Koons (he's done nine in total and has three more on the way). Seeing news in an art gallery of someone dead who is still so obviously alive is like creating a black hole on the wall-which seems to be an effect that McEwen, age 43, now living and working in New York, is particularly good at making.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 11/29/08

Unlike in fashion, in the art world, you don't define work in terms of looks, models, and seasons. But then an artist like 33-year-old painter Katherine Bernhardt comes along and takes fashion photos, magazine spreads, and model poses as her subject matter. She basically turns the latest Versace campaign or Kate Moss editorial into an immortal, high-art form. The Missouri-born artist, who is usually in New York but has been jumping around Europe in various residencies lately, paints fast, with a brutal, slash-strike brush style that hardly goes easy on beauty.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 11/28/08

The legend who brought a rebel color spectrum to the staid black-and-white art of photography swears he’s never been in a fight, that all his drinking buddies are dead, and he just may be color-blind.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 11/27/08