Interview

Richard Phillips’s been accused of bringing sexy back to painting, drawing on porn as much as politics. He’s trying to destabilize our way of seeing—he can’t help it if you’re turned on in the process.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 02/27/09

James Jebbia built a fiercely independent, internationally obsessed-over, street-fashion cult and skating-goods empire as a purveyor of clothes you can wear, art you can ride, and sneakers you can’t find. So what’s his prescription for surviving these sallow economic times? To make like the president and keep it cool.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 02/26/09

Enter the Age of Individualism. Enter the Era of Iconoclasm. Enter the moment of independence. And enter Mary-Kate Olsen. A woman who is made for these times. Here she is: unabound, uninhibited, and un-twinned.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 02/11/09

Interview asked Neville Wakefield, curator of a recent show of four artists from Los Angeles, about those artists, their cult followings, and how he got on the Beat "beat."  BLOG POSTED: 01/21/09

Los Angeles-based artist Matt Johnson has the first show in the new Taxter and Spengemann space. We asked the artist about his sense of humor, and his favorite comedians.  BLOG POSTED: 01/14/09

While you were out celebrating the New Year, resident New Yorker, director of Fred & Associates, and sometime host Jen Brill was hard at  BLOG POSTED: 01/05/09

No one comes to Miami during fair week just to look at art. What people like to do here is talk about it. They look at each other and talk.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 12/08/08