GUT CHECK
“I’m Looking to Heighten the Stakes”: Kinlaw and Jae Matthews on Queer Sex and Southern Pride
March 24, 2025
Before dropping her new album, the Carolina-born performance artist caught up with Boy Harsher’s Jae Matthews about turning the indescribable into music.
STUDIO VISIT
How Conversion Therapy Inspired the Artist Leonard Baby’s New Series of Paintings
March 18, 2025
Before the opening of his new show at Half Gallery, the painter invited us to his Bushwick studio to talk about how his repressed childhood inspired his new works.
EXPAT
Claire Tabouret Designed the New Stained-Glass Windows at Notre-Dame. She’s Ready for the Blowback.
March 13, 2025
“It’s not very French to move things around or to change things,” says the painter, who was commissioned to design the new stained-glass windows at Notre-Dame. “Maybe that’s one reason why I had to leave.”
GORE
Michelle Uckotter on Serial Killers, Control Freaks, and Her New Series of Slasher Paintings
March 12, 2025
The painter joined her collaborator Riley Mac to explain how Ronald Reagan and a recent breast augmentation inspired her new series of “hippie-slasher” paintings.
IN CONVERSATION
“Everybody Can Be Romeo and Juliet”: Anne Imhof on Love, Danger, and DOOM
March 11, 2025
The performance artist joined New York legend Justin Vivian Bond to discuss “DOOM: House of Hope,” her epic new three-hour show at the Park Avenue Armory.
ICON
“I’ve Never Felt Younger”: Michelangelo Pistoletto, in Conversation With Maurizio Cattelan
March 7, 2025
To mark a career-spanning retrospective at Lévy Gorvy Dayan, the 91-year-old artist joined fellow Italian Maurizio Cattelan to find out if art still has the capacity to shock.
CLICK
Photographer Martin Parr On Trump, Tourism, and the Trials Of Modern Living
February 28, 2025
“I feel pretty upbeat, but when I think about the planet and the world and our country, I can’t help but get depressed,” says the renowned photojournalist, who’s now the subject of a new documentary.
SOUL HACKER
Celebrity Psychic Wendy L’Belle-Tividad Taps Into the Frequency of Love
February 27, 2025
The Kundalini-awakened intuit tells her client, the painter Ariana Papademetropoulos, how she keeps her heart chakra wide open.
SMOKE BREAK
“I’m the Melancholy Party Photographer”: Talking Love and Natural Light With Marcus Maddox
February 27, 2025
“It starts out with young, sexy people in love, very blissful,” the photographer says of “Hey Lover,” his brand-new monograph. “But then it progresses into this sequence of unhappiness.”
XXX
“The Only Way Out Is to Get Fucked”: Behind the Scenes of the Brand-New Brazzers Book
February 26, 2025
After spending a year trailing the biggest stars in the porn industry, photographer Rosie Marks and writer Esra Padgett told us what they learned aboard the Bang Bus.
RETROSPECTIVE
“I’m So Old Testament, Honey”: Deborah Kass, in Conversation With Titus Kaphar
February 21, 2025
Ahead of a new exhibition of her paintings at Salon 94, the pioneering artist joined her friend Titus Kaphar to ponder Reaganomics, race theory, and how to resist the regime.
XXX
“What a Ride I’ve Had”: Peter Berlin on Sadness, Immortality, and Good Sex
February 19, 2025
“I’m constantly entertained by my thoughts,” the legendary 82-year-old artist tells writer Brontez Purnell. “Usually, I find myself more interesting than the people I’m dealing with.”
BLOB
Kenny Scharf on Trash, Artificial Intelligence, and the Golden Days of New York
February 18, 2025
“I dislike it intensely,” the 66-year-old says of A.I. art. “I can tell it’s devoid of anything as far as the soul goes.”
DIRTY
“The Men Were His Life”: Inside the Sordid World of Photographer David Hurles
February 13, 2025
To mark the first large-scale exhibition of the photographer’s work, our editor-in-chief called up curator Dian Hanson to talk about the well-endowed men that made David Hurles tick.
XXX
Photographer Del LaGrace Volcano on Cruising, Community, and the Dyke-Fag Alliance
February 13, 2025
“My role as a photographer or as an artist is to be a creator of spaces where people feel safe enough to give me what they’ve got,” says Volcano, whose 1988 monograph, “Queer Dyke Cruising,” has been reissued with Climax Books.
ART
Get a Load of Jamian Juliano-Villani, the Chaos Agent of the New York Art World
February 12, 2025
Last December, the larger-than-life artist and her friend Borna Sammak spent the night in her Flatiron studio, drawing, rolling joints, and talking the night away.
OPENING
At His Namesake Gallery, Rajiv Menon Wants to Put South Asian Artists on the Map
February 10, 2025
“A lot of artists share a lot of their practice on Instagram,” says Rajiv Menon, whose namesake gallery opens in Los Angeles this weekend. “But I can tell very quickly if they’re in it for the art or for the clout.”
DISCOURSE
Michael Abel and Tunji Adeniyi-Jones on Troll Art, Traditionalism, and Taking the Bait
February 7, 2025
On the heels of their respective shows in New York and Seoul, the artists got together to discuss art world economics and, of course, that infamous Harpers Magazine cover story.
SCENE AND HEARD
“I’m Not Buying Anything”: On the Grounds at the Armory’s Young Collectors Night
February 3, 2025
At the Park Avenue Armory’s Young Collectors Night, we asked guests to come clean about whether or not they’re really buying art—and what’s up with all the horse paintings.
ICONS
“I Want to Live to 110”: Marina Abramović, in Conversation With Juergen Teller
January 31, 2025
“This is exactly why we are in this conversation together, because I don’t compromise,” the 78-year-old conceptual artist tells photographer Juergen Teller. “I can’t compromise to the market and I never did.”