Sebastian Kim

Janet Montgomery

October 20, 2012

Janet Montgomery’s face has been smiling from buses and billboards all over Manhattan this fall.

Ed Droste

October 20, 2012

The Grizzly Bear front man on how working on the band’s latest album helped him find his voice, his confidence, and maybe even his sanity

Charlotte Fever: A Look Back at Charlotte Gainsbourg

October 11, 2012

A singer, actress, fashionista, and charming Parisienne (an art in its own right), Charlotte Gainsbourg has thrice graced the pages of Interview. Here’s a compilation of our favorite moments with Charlotte the singer, Charlotte the actress, Charlotte for Ever (an eponymous album she recorded with her father at age 15), and the most graceful composite of the three, Charlotte Gainsbourg herself:

Zadie Smith

August 24, 2012

The author comes of age with her latest novel—and it’s more tongue than teeth.

Valie Export

August 24, 2012

In the 1960s, Austrian artist Waltraud Höllinger changed her name, declared war on the coded and the comfortable, and turned her own body into the battleground.

Zef Lessons: Dave Navarro Interviews Die Antwoord

August 17, 2012

Die Antwoord is touring with Jane’s Addiction, whose guitarist, Dave Navarro, is a nerdboy fan. For two years, he practically begged Perry Farrell and the rest of his bandmates to bring Die Antwoord out on tour. So naturally Navarro (with an assist from Interview‘s Dan Hyman) didn’t have to be asked twice to interview Die Antwoord, just after a show in Philadelphia and 24 hours prior to touching down for a joint gig in Williamsburg.

Daniel Turner

July 21, 2012

With his first big solo show at London’s White Cube Gallery this month, the New York–based artist Daniel Turner explores the value of hard work.

Kimbra

July 20, 2012

Even though 22-year-old New Zealander Kimbra Lee Johnson has spent a lot of time recently in the upper realms of the American pop stratosphere, people stateside are still just getting to know her breadth.

Fiona Apple

June 4, 2012

In an era when pop-star confession was more than just a social-media engagement strategy, Fiona Apple had the market cornered on tortured soul-baring. Now, with her first album in seven years, she’s back—older and wiser, but still very much in control of her brand

Kara Hayward

May 3, 2012

“I read whatever is put in front of me,” says 13-year-old Kara Hayward. “I gobble up books. Right now I’m rereading Bram Stoker’s Dracula.” Hayward’s voracious reading habits are shared by Suzy Bishop, the precocious bookworm she plays in Wes Anderson’s new film, Moonrise Kingdom.

Sandra Bernhard

April 2, 2012

An audience with the original queen of punk-rock-performance-art-musical-comedy

Legends: David Lynch

March 27, 2012

“Jimmy Stewart from Mars,” is how legendary producer Mel Brooks once described David Lynch.

Legends: Sofia Coppola

March 6, 2012

It’s hard not to respect a woman who managed to free herself from her father’s shadow, and acquire such a reputation in a largely male-dominated profession.

Gypsy Queen

February 11, 2012

The new excess: ornate earrings paired with layers of necklaces, dark metals, stones, symbols, and beads, all playing off one another, perfect for the world traveler for whom too much from all over is never enough

David Lynch

January 7, 2012

The director, artist, designer, songwriter, and auteur of the weirdly normal (or normally weird) on the joys of being promiscuous, the pleasures of earthly enlightenment, and why he has no trouble keeping it surreal.

Michael Fassbender

January 6, 2012

After nearly a decade of toiling in the shadows, Michael Fassbender achieved maximum exposure this year in his emotionally chilling—and intimately revealing—performance in Steve McQueen’s Shame as a raging sex addict struggling (and failing) to find some deeper existential meaning in the big, empty now . . . But wait, we’ll let him give you all of the sordid details.