Interview

Why sell anything when the economy's not buying? From July 24–28, the X Initiative hosts "No Soul for Sale," a gathering of 38 not-for-profit centers, alternative institutions, artists' collectives and independent enterprises who get free, undivided space to devise an installation of their choosing. The spaces come from as far and in as many forms as Trinidad's Studio Film Club, Peter Doig and Che Lovelace's blog and Caribbean film screening series, and Artis Contemporary Israeli Art Fund, an art production organization based between New York and Tel Aviv. In Interview's commitment to No Soul For Sale, we've focused on three spaces of decresing distance form our fair city—Kling&Bang, an artist space in Reyjavik; Vox Populi, an elected board of artists; and Dispatch, a commercial space run out of a small artist storefront on the Lower East Side. It's an anthropological survey of spaces with different conditions and mi  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 06/19/09

Artist Brendan Fowler can't be stopped: He launches his new book for the second time tonight in New York.  BLOG POSTED: 06/13/09

Zurich-based zine publisher Benjamin Somerhalder of Nieves selects his five favorite booksellers.  BLOG POSTED: 04/04/09

To some, Fusako Shigenobu inspires freedom; to others, terror. To artist Anicka Yi and architect Maggie Peng, she incites perfume.  BLOG POSTED: 02/02/09