Art

NUDE

How a New Portfolio of Lost Paul Cadmus Drawings Is Redefining His Legacy

December 13, 2024

Graham Steele and Jarrett Earnest join us to talk about “Paul Cadmus: 49 Drawings,” a new portfolio of the artist’s sketches of his lover and muse, Jon Anderson.

IN CONVERSATION

Rafik Greiss and Rose Salane on Nostalgia, Transcendence, and Revolution

December 12, 2024

To mark the opening of his new solo show “The Longest Sleep” at Balice Hertling, the artist joined his friend and curator to discuss what inspired his most recent work.

FAIR

Meet Shanzhai Lyric, the Art Collective Celebrating New York City’s Digestive Tract

December 11, 2024

At the fifth edition of “Press Play,” Pioneer Works’ annual art fair, we talked to Ming Lin and Alex Tatarsky about parrots, piracy, and the profundity of plastic bags.

BASEL

“I’m Obsessed With Ambiguity”: 20 Minutes in Miami With Artist Lucy Bull

December 10, 2024

“I was a slightly delayed bad girl,” says the painter, whose solo exhibition, “The Garden of Forking Paths,” opened last week at ICA Miami.

RICHES

Big Money and Micro Bikinis: Taylore’s Miami Art Week Diary

December 9, 2024

Our senior editor documents the best in overhyped parties and expensive outfits.

MORNING AFTER

“That Was a Big Moment For Me”: Inside the BlackStar Luminary Gala With Tourmaline

December 9, 2024

After being honored at the Luminary Gala thrown by Blackstar Projects, the artist recapped her big night in Philadelphia with us and writer J Wortham.

BACKSTAGE

“Eyeliner Is Butch”: Casey Jane Ellison Takes Us Inside Her New One-Woman Show

December 4, 2024

On the eve of her new one-woman show in Los Angeles, the comedian joined Steven Phillips-Horst to discuss nudity, sisterhood, and the perils of feeling too cool.

STUDIO VISIT

Artist Ruby Neri on Motherhood, Primal Urges, and Her Buxom, Bronzed Sculptures

November 27, 2024

The Los Angeles-based sculptor invited us to her studio to talk about the compulsive urge to create that resulted in her new solo exhibition at David Kordansky Gallery.

IN CONVERSATION

Dorothea Rockburne and Walter Robinson on Sex, Fame, and Mathematics

November 26, 2024

“Art is sexual,” says the 95-year-old contemporary artist, “and that’s very hard to talk about because this is a culture which completely perverts sex, in my opinion.”

NAKED

Meet Lara Verheijden, the Photographer Reinventing the Nude Calendar

November 26, 2024

“Everybody in general is someone you want to have sex with,” the photographer says of the subjects she shot for the Texas and New York editions of her 2025 nude calendar.

provocateur

Artist Tom Sachs on Chainsaws, Cybertrucks, and Egg McMuffins

November 21, 2024

At Acquavella, where his new show is currently on view, the artist opened up about everything— except the recent exposé accusing him of running a cult-like workplace.

BACKSTAGE

“I’m the Long-Reigning Queen”: Behind the Scenes With Camp Icon Alina Troyano

November 20, 2024

Playwright Branden Jacobs Jenkins sat down with his former teacher to reminisce on the downtown theater scene she helped create.

OPENING

“The Camera Is the Fetish”: Devan Díaz on Curating Bad Girls at OCD Chinatown

November 7, 2024

After the opening of “Bad Girls” at OCD Chinatown, curator Devan Díaz called our fashion director Dara to talk about the trans nude and feminine expression.

MARTYRDOM

“Art Makes the Unbearable Bearable”: Romana Londi, in Conversation With Ottessa Moshfegh

November 5, 2024

To mark the opening of her exhibition at Rhinoceros Gallery, the Italian painter talked to novelist Ottessa Moshfegh about pain, pleasure, and depictions of martyrdom.

OPENING

“Acid at the Country Club”: Painter Witt Fetter Examines Image Overload at Derosia

November 5, 2024

While surveying her latest batch of meme paintings, now on view at Derosia, the artist talked to us about country club culture and the “Brat-ification” of Kamala Harris.

IN CONVERSATION

Kilo Kish and Savanah Leaf on Making Art About the American Dream

October 31, 2024

The musician and artist Kilo Kish talked to the filmmaker Savanah Leaf about embracing criticism and the day-to-day endurance of being an artist.

ICONS

Francesco Clemente and Ed Ruscha on Rejection, Religion, and Getting Too High

October 30, 2024

“It puts me in a good mood to be talking to you,” the visionary artist (and 1988 Interview cover star) told his old friend Ed Ruscha. “We have known each other for a long time now.”

COLLECTOR

Former Interview Editor Joan Agajanian Quinn Shows Us Her Treasured Art Collection

October 24, 2024

Interview’s former west coast editor welcomed us into her Beverly Hills home to show us her cherished art collection and reminisce on the good old days working alongside Andy Warhol.

FAIR

Colette’s Sarah Andelman Takes Us Inside Art Basel’s First-Ever Retail Shop

October 23, 2024

In Paris last week, Sarah Andelman, founder of the iconic concept store Colette, walked us through Art Basel Shop, the legendary art fair’s first-ever retail store.

SCULPT

“Is Being an Artist a Kink?”: Jack O’Brien, in Conversation With Tarek Lakhrissi

October 18, 2024

To mark the opening of their respective exhibitions, the young sculptors linked up to talk kink, Dante’s “Inferno,” and the RuPaul Industrial Complex.