Art

IN CONVERSATION

Jeffrey Gibson Tells Michèle Lamy How Rave Culture and Porn Collectors Inspire Him

August 6, 2025

“Art has given me an opportunity to lean into things that don’t seem practical,” the 53-year-old painter and sculptor tells Michèle Lamy. “They don’t have to be linear, they don’t have to make sense.”

SEARCH HISTORY

How Julian Glander Got New York’s Funniest Comedians to Join His Animated Film

August 6, 2025

In this week’s installment of Search History, the Pittsburgh-born animator joined us in DMs to talk about his new film “Boys Go to Jupiter,” featuring the voices of Cole Escola, Janeane Garofalo, and Julio Torres.

IN CONVERSATION

“Should We Talk About Death?”: P. Staff and Jamieson Webster Take Aspen Art Week

August 5, 2025

In an exclusive conversation hosted by the Aspen Art Museum at its 2025 AIR festival, the artist and psychoanalyst went deep on dreams, nightmares, and last words.

VR

“I Built a Box That Has Sex With the Floor”: Jordan Wolfson, by Matthew Barney

July 23, 2025

Artist Jordan Wolfson rang up Matthew Barney for our Summer issue to talk sculpture, slapstick, and the vast indifference of the universe.

ICON

“Sinéad Belonged to No One”: An Exclusive Excerpt From Nothing Compares to You

July 21, 2025

Sinéad O’Connor, writes Rayne Fisher-Quann, “serves as a reminder to me to me that certain kinds of women have been carving their lives into inconvenient shapes for as long as anyone can remember.”

OPENING

“She’s a Real 20th Century Figure”: Thelma Golden on the ICA’s Mavis Pusey Retrospective

July 18, 2025

Thelma Golden and Hallie Ringle take us through the adventurous life of the artist, who died and 2019 and is now the subject of a career-spanning survey at the ICA Philadelphia.

OPENING

“City Life Shouldn’t Be Owned”: Photographer Joseph Cochran II Wants a New York for the People

July 14, 2025

At the opening of “Public Work,” his solo show at Swivel Gallery, the photographer talked to us about gentrification, bureaucracy, and documenting the inner workings of city life.

IN CONVERSATION

Cecilia Vicuña and Giuliana Furci on Mushrooms, Brain Rot, and the End of the World

July 11, 2025

“There are lots of studies devoted to what A.I. is doing to the human brain,” the poet and artist told the mycologist Giuliana Furci. “It’s actually rotting the brain.”

TELL-ALL

After Living in the Shadow Of Her Artist Ex-Husband, Anna Condo Is Coming Clean

July 9, 2025

After the opening of her exhibition at SuperRare’s offline gallery, the artist and ex-wife of George Condo went on the record for the first time about her life as a muse, among other pursuits.

CREATOR

Star Amerasu and Elliot Page on Wishes, Warhol, and Queer Liberation

June 24, 2025

“It’s about using my anger to motivate me to help other people,” the multi-hyphenate tells her friend and collaborator. “I think our trans-cestors were very much like that.”

SMOKE BREAK

“Nudity Is Just Normal”: Stripping Down With Photographer Marie Tomanova

June 17, 2025

“I grew up in a family where nudity is just normal and nothing weird,” said the photographer at the launch of “Kate, For You,” her new photo book. “It’s kind of a Czech thing.”

OPENING

Adrien Brody Wants You to Know He’s Serious About His Art

May 30, 2025

“I find great creative autonomy and freedom in creating tangible, visual art,” said the two-time Oscar winner at the opening of “Made in America,” his new exhibition of paintings.

WALK THROUGH

How Poetry Inspired Artist Lotus L. Kang’s Uninhabitable Greenhouse at 52 Walker

May 28, 2025

“I’m offering you to enact your own internal experience,” says the Toronto-born, New York-based artist of her new installation “Already,” now on view at 52 Walker.

TINSELTOWN

“Haunted by the Ghost of Hollywood”: Inside Ryan Murphy’s New Suite at the Chateau Marmont

May 27, 2025

After spending the first few years of his career bunkered down at the Chateau Marmont, the writer and director now has a permanent office at the storied hotel, designed in collaboration with L.A. gallerist Trevor Cheney.

CLICK

In Chessa Subbiondo’s Photographs, Hot Girls Are Always Crying

May 21, 2025

The photographer joined us to explain how she cultivated her icy, deadpan vision in her first photography book, “SPLINT.”

OPENING

Can a Portland Gallery Make It In New York? The Girls Behind ILY2 Think So.

May 15, 2025

“Of course it’s a risk,” says Jeanine Jablonski of launching her and Allie Furlotti’s gallery, ILY2, in New York. “But I keep saying that if there was a time to take a risk, it’s now.”

ICON

Founding Editor Gerard Malanga Takes Us Back to the Early Days of Interview

May 9, 2025

To mark the release of a new monograph, “Gerard Malanga’s Secret Cinema,” the photographer joined us to look back on a life spent in and around Warhol’s Factory.

IN CONVERSATION

Getting Up Close and Personal with Painters Emma McIntyre and Richard Hawkins

May 6, 2025

After opening their recent gallery shows in Hong Kong, the two artists caught up about their shared obsessions, from Baudelaire’s poems to the work of historian Michael Levey.

MET

Jeremy O. Harris and Met Curator Monica Miller Give Us a Lesson in Black Dandyism

May 5, 2025

“I don’t want to think about the beginning of Black dandyism as happening to Black people,” says the curator of the Costume Institute’s new exhibition. “No, the minute it happened, they understood what it meant.”

TOUCH GRASS

Flowers, Fungi, and Decomposed Condoms: Inside the Mad World Earth Day Showcase

April 30, 2025

At the annual Earth Day Celebration hosted by SoMad, a collection of New Yorkers told us why nothing is cooler, or queerer, than nature.