Interview

Filmmaker, musician, performer, painter, amateur engineer, and self-taught brush-maker James Nares is one of the art world's preeminent polymaths. But no matter the medium, he's always a big-canvas guy.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 11/23/08

He's a brilliant renaissance technician with hip-hop subject matter. His latest work focuses on young black men in a sadly familiar posture: Down. But in a world where bad is good, being down is not always such a bad thing.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 11/19/08

Christopher Wool is widely recognized as one of the world's most important painters. His first one-man show was at the legendary Cable Gallery in 1984, and since then, he has showed his bold word paintings; Richard Hell was one of the originators of punk music. He played in the first wave of bands that brought attention to CBGB and became famous in 1977 as the auteur of the album Blank Generation.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 11/18/08

Unlike many indie starlets who come to the screen after a few stints in life's darker corners, 18-year-old Jennifer Lawrence has never hit rock bottom.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 09/01/08

The Aristocrat of the Internet  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 09/01/08

Four years ago, the bard of New York nebbishes hightailed it to Europe and began a new chapter in his career. Here, the legendary writer and director opens up about his latest film Vicky Cristina Barcelona, his seduction by Scarlett Johansson, his return to the big apple, and how he got his modernist manhattanite mojo back.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 09/01/08

He was an astounding innovator who changed the course of art. He was also a bit of a prophet. In honor of his passing, we revisit a 1990 interview fu  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 08/01/08