Milky Chance
December 23, 2014
The German electro-folk duo bring it on the dance floor and far beyond.
Kris Knight
December 17, 2014
In his soft, moody color palette, the young Canadian painter doesn’t record faces—he tells stories.
Joan Jonas
December 10, 2014
The politics and audience may have changed since the early, experimental days of America’s seminal performance artist, but as she prepares to represent the United States at the Venice Biennale, her work is still just as radical.
Frank Stella
November 10, 2014
From minimalism to maximalism, from flat planes to endless dimensions, from modernism to postmodernism to a form entirely his own, the master artist has changed the forecast, velocity, and vibration of American art.
Cornel West
November 2, 2014
The most engaging public intellectual of our time—the professor emeritus of soul and funkadelic existentialist of American letters—is teaching us to live with the blues.
Julia Goldani Telles
November 2, 2014
“I love playing troublemakers,” says Julia Goldani-Telles, who is getting good at it.
Anicka Yi
October 10, 2014
The New York artist’s series of shows on Denial, Divorce, and Death may sound like a downer, but Yi is actually privileging senses other than the visual in her loaded, off-the-wall work.
Lia Ices
October 1, 2014
The captivating singer-songwriter gets in tune with her inner wild woman.
Renata Adler
August 14, 2014
Occasionally there are writers talented enough to define their generations. But rarely does one have the endurance and acuity to define half a century. From war zones to Watergate, from her exceptional experimental fiction to her navigation of media and law, Renata Adler has proven one of America’s literary and journalistic masters. As the resurgent appreciation for her fiction continues, we talk to her about all the places her writing has taken her—and why it’s crucial to question the given facts.
Alex Honnold
August 4, 2014
Without a net, a rope, or any safety equipment securing him in place, the greatest free-climber of his generation scales impossible heights without looking down.
Axel Vervoordt
July 16, 2014
With a few more jewels in his glittering résumé—and a complete Vervoordt village not far from his castle outside of Antwerp underway—the prince of Belgian design takes his rightful throne.
Tobe Hooper
July 14, 2014
For the 40th anniversary of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, the sisters of Rodarte sit down with the director to talk blood, fear, and power tools.
Kenneth Anger
June 30, 2014
Fabulist, artist, director, provocateur, and acolyte to the wickedest man in the world, Kenneth Anger has, over the course of his nearly 70-year career, become the patron saint of Hollywood bad boys and underground artists.
Parker Ito
June 23, 2014
Within a contemporary art world run a-muck in mediocrity, the young, Los Angeles-based artist is kicking his visual repertoire into high gear—crashing-and-burning images and pissing a few people off in the process. Long live Parker Ito.
Simon Amstell
June 16, 2014
The awkwardly charming English comedian gets funny with fatalism.
Mark Ruffalo
May 20, 2014
Charming or dangerous, irresponsible or heroic (and sometimes all of them at once), Mark Ruffalo’s tousled scoundrel characters have made him into the wounded hipster neurotic of modern cinema.
Sophie Calle
May 18, 2014
The iconic French artist has always taken unorthodox paths to reach the center of what it means to be human. This month, as she prepares for a show devoted to the death—or the conceptual afterlife—of her mother, she talks to novelist Heidi Julavits about how she manages to give so much of herself to her work without losing a single thing.
Joshua Ferris
May 12, 2014
In his latest novel, the New York author delivers an ode to God, shifting online identities, the power of doubt, and the profound alienation of dentistry.
Marie Lorenz
May 4, 2014
In a notoriously overcrowded, overexploited city, one New York artist has found an untapped medium to create epic cityscapes. Life jackets required.
Daniel ARSHAM
April 7, 2014
The Brooklyn-based artist envisions the future ruins of our disposable household objects.