DIRECTOR
“It’s All Just Meaningless”: Inside the Based Mind of Harmony Korine
March 24, 2025
Before an immersive screening of his film “Baby Invasion” at Knockdown Center, the director joined us to talk about gaming, anime, and making based movies.
SXSW
Director Alex Scharfman on Unicorn Mythology and Corporate Greed
March 21, 2025
“They were always this untamable manifestation of nature incarnate,” the director says of unicorns, which feature prominently in his SXSW smash starring Jenna Ortega and Will Poulter.
SXSW
How Camila Mendes and Rachel Matthews Turned an NYU Meet-Cute Into a Production Company
March 21, 2025
After the SXSW premiere of “Idiotka,” longtime besties Camila Mendes and Rachel Matthews joined Jeremy O. Harris to talk about their new production company, Honor Role.
IN CONVERSATION
Author Josh Duboff and Alison Roman on the Aimless Drift of Your Early Thirties
March 21, 2025
Before the release of his debut novel, “Early Thirties,” the journalist-turned-author joined his friend Alison Roman to talk interview etiquette and pandemic-era gloom.
IN CONVERSATION
Mark Anthony Green Tells Cord Jefferson Why Making Movies Is His Favorite Drug
March 20, 2025
Before “Opus” hit movie theaters, the directors linked up for a wide-ranging chat about control, obsession, sacrifice, and always chasing the moviemaking high.
POP
“Ideas Are Nice, But Music Is Stronger”: Oklou, in Conversation With A. G. Cook
March 19, 2025
After dropping her debut album, the musician called up A. G. Cook to talk French idealism, YouTube rabbit holes, and her biggest project to date: impending motherhood.
SPILL
“Carcass Out!”: RHOBH’s Dorit Kemsley on a Messy Season of Breakups and Belvederes
March 19, 2025
Over cocktails at the Chelsea Hotel, the consensus star of RHOBH season 14 joined us to discuss her fraught relationships with her husband PK and ex-bestie Kyle Richards.
SXSW
“I’m Drawn to Ridiculous Extremes”: Mimi Cave on Housewives, Holland, and the Hyperreal
March 19, 2025
After the SXSW premiere of her film “Holland,” the director joined us to talk about working with Nicole Kidman and how growing up in the Midwest forced her to daydream.
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.
SXSW
“It’s the Ghetto MedBot”: Flying Lotus Takes Us Inside His Body Horror Space Odyssey
March 18, 2025
After the SXSW premiere of his new film “Ash,” the filmmaker joined us to talk stuntmen, bisexual lighting, and his love for Coralie Fargeat’s “The Substance.”
OFF MENU
Denise Richards on Oils, OnlyFans, and the Secret to a Happy Marriage
March 18, 2025
“I pee all day long,” says the “Wild Things” star, who joined us downtown to talk about co-parenting in the public eye and where she stands with some of her former RHOBH co-stars.
DIRECTOR
“I’d Trade All the Compliments For a Budget”: 30 Minutes at IFC With Todd Solondz
March 17, 2025
As a 4K restoration of “Palindromes” arrives at IFC Center and The Metrograph, the director joined us to talk about making movies in a market increasingly inhospitable to independent film.
SEARCH HISTORY
“The Algo Is Haunting”: Sophia Ziskin on It Girls and Incriminating Texts
March 17, 2025
In this week’s Search History, the Angeleno DJ and model dishes on her Blue Bottle order and her steamy makeout session with The Dare at the Grammys.
ICON
“If You Look for Change, You Find Change”: Fassbinder Muse Hanna Schygulla Reflects on a Life in Cinema
March 14, 2025
After the Berlinale premiere of her new movie, Fassbinder’s greatest muse joined us to discuss her collaborations with the titans of 20th century film, from Godard to Varda.
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.”
GREEN ROOM
“Demonic, Ethereal, Fun”: Seven Minutes Backstage With Sasami
March 13, 2025
Before her show at Rough Trade, we joined the classically trained musician to talk about her recent pivot to pop music: think Bruce Springsteen meets alien huntress.
NYC
“Get Weirder and Fucking Weirder”: Erin Magee and Lourdes Leon on Boys Clubs and MadeMe Girls
March 13, 2025
The designer joined her friend and MadeMe muse Lola Leon to talk streetwear codes, spiritual alignment, and why the gays invented fashion as we know it.
FICTION
Can a Trans Writer Be America’s Next Great Novelist? Torrey Peters Thinks So.
March 12, 2025
Earlier this month, we visited the “Detransition, Baby” author at her Brooklyn apartment to talk about writing amidst the Trump administration’s assault on trans rights.
OUTSIDE
“We Should All Be Worried”: New Yorkers Flood the Streets for Mahmoud Khalil
March 12, 2025
On Monday afternoon, we joined thousands of New Yorkers at Manhattan Federal Plaza, where The People’s Forum hosted a demonstration against the sudden detention of Columbia student Mahmoud Khalil.
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.