Interview

Friday night's opening of "A Nightmare Full of Things Unspeakable" was not an event to miss by sleeping.  BLOG POSTED: 11/17/09

Possibly the only openly gay author from his native Morocco, the young Abdellah Taïa has chosen a vocation of literary transgressor and cultural paragon.  BLOG POSTED: 11/05/09

Tony Scherman and former Warhol assistant David Dalton attempt to pull back the veil on the original King of Pop.  BLOG POSTED: 10/29/09

Actor Jesse Eisenberg might well be his generation's Woody Allen--and its Joaquin Phoenix.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 10/27/09

There's great irony in the fact that Rob Pruitt is the man putting together the Guggenheim’s First Annual Art Awards, a sort of tongue-and-cheek version of the Oscars for contemporary American art. It’s the kind of irony more befitting a Hollywood film script than the New York art scene. On October 29, before an assemblage of heavyweights in the Guggenheim Museum rotunda, faux-champagne-bottle-in-ice-bucket lamp awards will be doled out to the winners of Solo Show of the Year, Group Show of the Year, Curator of the Year, and Artist of the Year, among a myriad of other categories.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 10/26/09

Cartonnist aleXsandro Palombo follows Karl Lagerfeld into the underground.  BLOG POSTED: 10/22/09

The ironic thing about Saturday's The Art of Rebellion group show at la.venue in Chelsea is that, in practice, it's hard to make capital-A art and capital-R rebellion work together.  BLOG POSTED: 10/19/09

The underground comics legend–and subject of 2003's American Splendor–on making something out of nothing.  BLOG POSTED: 10/13/09