Joe Bradley
May 15, 2013
The Brooklyn artist finds transcendence in cave drawings and Philip K. Dick.
Kurt Vile
April 26, 2013
Talking vibes, zones, and tapping into the “soulful haze” with indie rock’s most obsessed-over singer-songwriter.
Sarah Polley
April 25, 2013
On her new documentary and finding out the truth—or more correctly, truths—about the family secret that rocked her world.
John Giorno
April 2, 2013
Every generation has its voices, every era its scenes, for more than 50 years, poet, performer, and painter John Giorno has occupied a special place in the New York avant-garde art and literary worlds—and the American counterculture. And, unlike many of his famous friends and collaborators, he’s managed to survive.
Adam Driver
March 26, 2013
The actor on his new film (good), red-carpet press lines (awkward), and not watching Girls (it’s just too hard).
Ansel Elgort
February 13, 2013
Ansel Elgort can’t wait to grow up.
The Londoners
December 6, 2012
London has always been the other art-world capital. But unlike New York’s commerce and cliques, the vast, polyphonic, British metropolis allows for a disparate range of voices, platforms, mediums, and displays of that signature English eccentricity. The art scene has come a long way since the days of YBA, and the group of artists included in these pages represent a new creative surge flowing everywhere from Hackney to Bloomsbury. God save the artists.
Jordan Wolfson
November 30, 2012
Welcome to the psychedelically animated, hyper-surreal world of artist Jordan Wolfson, where nothing is safe and everything is loaded.
Buke and Gase
November 29, 2012
The sublime ragged glory of the Brooklyn duo’s makeshift rock.
Jeremy Deller
November 27, 2012
Jeremy Deller has been tapped to take over the British Pavilion at the 2013 Venice Biennale, but that doesn’t mean the 46-year-old London-born artist is the embodiment of British contemporary art.
Lynette Yiadom Boakye
November 27, 2012
In the cramped Hackney studio of 35-year-old painter Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, there would be just enough room for a model to stand for the artist’s figurative oil works. Only Yiadom-Boakye doesn’t use a model. For the past decade, her growing cast of characters—predominantly black men and women rendered in a deft gestural realism so softly applied that the figures seem to materialize out of their muddy, color-field backgrounds—have sprung from her own imagination.
Cerith Wyn Evans
November 27, 2012
“I’m not a blond on a bum trip,” 54-year-old Welsh artist Cerith Wyn Evans says. “I’m a bum on a blond trip.” If human beings can be national landmarks, Wyn Evans should file for status.
Jake and Dinos Chapman
November 27, 2012
Jake and Dinos Chapman have, in their brotherly two-decade-long career, envisioned many incarnations of hell—Nazi, Freudian, apocalyptic, fast-food chain, Biblical hell with plenty of violence and limbs. That makes their studio, a former iron factory in Hackney Wick, a sort of artistic limbo—a place where two rather Herculean men, with the help of a team of assistants, go about creating new hells in toy-figurine form.
John Stezaker
November 27, 2012
In the past few years, photo artist John Stezaker has had something of an art-world zeitgeist moment—which is both deserved and a bit belated, as the 63-year-old artist’s career has spanned more than four decades. Stezaker’s most notable works involve the manipulation of archival film stock images—particularly black-and-white actor headshots circa the 1940s.
Haroon Mirza
November 27, 2012
Usually transmission and interference are treated as antonyms, but in the disorientating audio-visual environments of 35-year-old London-born Haroon Mirza, the two are inextricably combined. Mirza’s pulsating sound sculptures—which often involve rewired electronics such as turntables, speakers, radios, keyboards, and televisions, and sometimes incorporate household items like lamps, dressers, and even buckets of water—can resemble three-dimensional sci-fi dada collages.
Helen Marten
November 27, 2012
One of the most compelling artists to emerge out of London in the past few years is 26-year-old sculptor and video artist Helen Marten.
Ed Atkins
November 27, 2012
Ed Atkins puts the horror in horror vacui. Working primarily in video and text although his installations can include works on paper that function as treatments or prologues-the 30-year-old Oxford-born artist makes compositions saturated with sensual information that paradoxically expresses the impossibility of representing the complexity of flesh.
James Richards
November 27, 2012
At one point in James Richards’s video collage series The Misty Suite (2009), the footage cuts back and forth between a scene of a young, bored Heather Langenkamp in A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) sketching and nodding off, an instructional film about drawing, and a sci-fi outer-space scene. Many of the 29-year-old Welsh-born artist’s videos have a theme of school or instruction as if Richards is playing with the notion of appropriation as always pedantic or abstract.
Gillian Wearing
November 27, 2012
Much has been made of the way in which Gillian Wearing’s work anticipated social media. A renowned artist who was aligned with the YBAs in the ’90s, but whose work was more socially directed, the 48-year-old Wearing makes portraits through fragmentary imagery and texts that test the emancipatory potential of public address.
Eddie Peake
November 27, 2012
Eddie Peake had a busy week during London’s Frieze Art Fair last October. Not only was his Italian gallery showing one of his spray-paint-on-stainless-steel paintings at the Regent’s Park fair, but 31-year-old Peake also opened a collaborative show with artist Prem Sahib at Southard Reid that had a reflective golden wall bisecting the gallery, equipped with speakers playing electronic music and human laughing, spitting, and respiratory noises.