Interview

Werner Herzog on what he's learned from disastrous shoots in the jungle, "the bliss of evil," working with Nicolas Cage, and the importance of Anna Nicole Smith.  BLOG POSTED: 11/18/09

This year's Bushwick Film Festival lent a screen to a host of emerging artists from New York's most creative bourough.  BLOG POSTED: 09/01/09

The second season of HBO's True Blood kicks off on June 14.  In case any of you missed the bloody phenomenon, it's a series about the undead. Below we've asked some of this season's stars to give us their thoughts on immortality, Twilight, and celebrity vampires.  BLOG POSTED: 06/11/09

Philip Taaffe makes art the old-fashioned way: with paint. And his paintings are as complex and alive as they are beautiful. In an age of market-driven, hog-wild modernism, that ain’t easy.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 06/08/09

Clayton Cubitt's photographs go beyond the surface—or bury it entirely.  BLOG POSTED: 04/06/09

Chris Blackwell put Jamaica on the musical map, helped shepherd in the golden age of British rock, lit the fuse on Bob Marley’s Rasta uprising, and launched u2 into the stratosphere, transforming the music business in the process. As the label he founded, Island Records, celebrates its 50th anniversary, he surveys what he hath wrought.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 03/24/09

What you quickly realize at SXSW is that there's simply no way to see it all. But David Coggins caught We Are Power, Little Boots, and The She Creatures.  BLOG POSTED: 03/20/09

Performance artist Kalup Linzy isn’t just one of the art world’s brightest new gender-bending characters—he’s many of them  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 02/27/09