Interview

Wavves is the stage name for a young SoCal musician who escaped a life of zonked-out video-game boredom by writing songs about it. He now enjoys zonked-out video-game bliss.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 04/28/09

Witness the recent transformations in Russia: 24-year-old Gosha Rubchinsky showed his second collection ever in an Orthodox church turned Soviety-era boxing gym, and the result looked more like a fighting arena than ever.  BLOG POSTED: 04/20/09

Mike Mills is a California-based artist, graphic designer, and film-maker—a Renaissance Man if there ever were one, although he's less interested in mastering different fields than he is in putting them all to his various purposes.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 03/30/09

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

Shepard Fairey has become a "real" artist in a lot of ways, and the ICA is acknowledging it with 20 years of silk screens, works on paper, and two vitrines filled with memorabilia, including a letter from President Obama himself, thanking the artist for his support.  BLOG POSTED: 02/06/09

Director Stacy Peralta's latest, Crips and Bloods: Made in America, comes out Friday. He discusses the fashion tips he got from LA gang-bangers, and getting "burned" by a controversial Burger King ad.  BLOG POSTED: 01/22/09

He used to cover gallery walls with bullet holes. But he’s traded in the gun for a smiley face. Has the bad boy artist finally gone soft? Or is the smiley face smiling about something weird and terrible?

   ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 01/20/09

At first, Gardar Eide Einarsson's work could be mistaken for the kind of art made by a lot of young, white New York guys these days. There's plenty of graffiti, references to gangs, skateboarders, the police, a couple flags with dark mottos, and even cameos by radicals like the Unabomber.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 11/28/08