Teju Cole
March 21, 2014
The American-born, Nigerian-raised novelist connects disconnected worlds—by book, by twitter, by any device that holds his weight.
The 2014 Whitney Biennial
March 6, 2014
The 2014 Whitney Biennial will be the last such romp for the exhibition in the museum’s current Marcel Breuer-designer building. But, in so many ways, this year’s Biennial is more about looking forward that back. The work selected to represent the state of American art challenges how we see it, who can claim to be its creator, and sometimes if we can even locate it in a single space. Six New York artists on the roster are taking on the Biennial with a hometown advantage.
Kevin Beasley
March 6, 2014
The 28-year-old, Virginia-born Kevin Beasley is an artist-in-residence at the Studio Museum in Harlem.
Darren Bader
March 6, 2014
A mere two months before the Whitney deadline, 35-year-old artist Darren Bader doesn’t know what he’s making for the Biennial.
Carissa Rodriguez and Ei Arakawa
March 6, 2014
One of the most highly anticipated projects of this year’s Whitney Biennial is the collaboration between Ei Arakawa, the New York-based performance artist with a growing cult following, and Carissa Rodriguez, most familiar as a director of the Lower East Side gallery Reena Spaulings Fine Art.
Ken Okiishi
March 6, 2014
When you face a wall of Ken Okiishi’s new paintings for the Whitney Biennial, you don’t quite know where to look.
Emily Sundblad
March 6, 2014
For the Whitney Biennial, co-curator Michelle Grabner asked painter, gallerist, and musician Emily Sundblad to contribute a video.
Laurie Simmons
March 4, 2014
The renowned photo artist explores the codes and constructs of womanhood in a hyper-visual American society. Like daughter, like mother.
Farah Pahlavi
January 8, 2014
Before the unrest of the Islamic Revolution of 1979 drove the Shah of Iran from power, his wife, the Empress Farah Pahlavi, helped transform the country into an international cultural hub, hosting and supporting artists, organizing festivals, opening museums and galleries, and building, in Tehran, one of the most coveted collections of modern art in the world—an assemblage of works that has remained largely unseen during her 35 years in exile. Here, she talks to Bob Colacello about the Iran that was, her late husband’s controversial legacy, and the Iran that she hopes will one day rise again.
Raymond Pettibon
December 16, 2013
At 56, Raymond Pettibon, whose hyperkinetic, maniacally articulate, often tragic-comic, and frequently politically charged drawings and watercolors helped define the visual language of American punk rock, is still hardcore.
Jon Batiste
November 11, 2013
On a mission to give new meaning to the term “free jazz”—Che Guevara-style.
Kim Gordon
October 2, 2013
The epic soundscapes of Sonic Youth might be in her rearview, but Kim Gordon is still making artfully mind-expanding noise with her latest musical project, Body/Head, which explores the Descartian duality with a furious storm of experimental post-rock and improvisational thunder. Here, she opens up about moving on, her radical life, and why she’s still making it all upas she goes along.
Lorde Can’t Get Used to Hearing Her Music in Public
October 1, 2013
Is precocious electro-spitfire Ella Yelich-O’Connor pop music’s new teen superstar?
Steve McQueen
October 1, 2013
With his first two full-length features, Hunger and Shame, Steve McQueen has established himself as a veritable bard of men who are bleakly imprisoned—sometimes physically, often psychologically, and frequently with little hope for redemption or escape. But his latest film, 12 Years a Slave, might very well be his most chilling yet, offering an unflinching look at one of the darkest periods in American history through the true story of Solomon Northup, an accomplished violinist and free-born African-American citizen of the pre-Civil War north who was kidnapped and illegally sold into slavery—and spent more than a decade fighting his way back to freedom
Lizzy Caplan
September 30, 2013
After a spin through the TV-development ringer, funny girl Lizzy Caplan finds liberation in Masters of Sex.
Iggy Azalea
September 26, 2013
Hip-hop’s latest girl-hope is all blond ambition.
T.J. Wilcox
September 18, 2013
For his new exhibition at the Whitney this month, the artist offers a view of New York that’s at once panoramic and highly personal.
Wardell
August 8, 2013
Rarities: brothers and sisters who genuinely like to hang out together; well-adjusted children of parents who are in the movie business.
Carl Andre
June 14, 2013
Fusing the ethos of the industrial age with a kind of modern transcendentalism, Carl Andre became on of the most influential artists to emerge from mid-century America, changing the way that sculpture was understood, how materials were used, and in some of his most famous works, the very nature of the ground beneath our feet.
Emory Cohen
May 16, 2013
Emory Cohen isn’t a typical young actor reaching for the stars. “I’ve been to L.A. once,” he says, sipping black coffee in an uptown café.