Simon Denny
November 29, 2011
An anonymous man—or group—managed to hijack the airwaves of two different Chicago television stations and broadcast a makeshift version of the pre-CGITV personality and New Coke spokesperson Max Headroom (himself an image of a dystopian media-infiltrated future).
Adrian Ghenie
November 29, 2011
With figures gnawed and slashed, blurred and speckled, Adrian Ghenie’s paintings involve the big ideas that transform men into larger-than-life emblems. Ghenie’s recent exhibition at Haunch of Venison in London featured humans wildly distorted and many with monkey features.
Jeremy Shaw
November 29, 2011
For a show at New York’s PS1, 34-year-old Canadian Jeremy Shaw turned a white-walled room into an immersive video experience that felt to some like being at a rave on drugs.
Nina Beier
November 29, 2011
Of any artist working today, 35-year-old hyper-mixed-media artist Nina Beier is creating some of the boldest examples of the contemporary artwork in crisis mode. This has a lot to do with the unstable, in flux, usually-referencing-something-absent, often-crushed-or-pieced-together, and likely-to-change nature of her sculptural explorations.
Charlotte Gainsbourg
November 28, 2011
The French singer-actress on bad dreams, apocalyptic fantasies, and how she’ll always be daddy’s girl.
Jack Quaid
November 28, 2011
Jack Quaid’s post-apocalyptic debut.
Eva Chow and Brian Grazer
October 30, 2011
Two years after it was nearly shuttered, the film department at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art is getting a reboot—hand, naturally, there’s a star-studded premiere involved
Big Nils
October 27, 2011
Teenage angst is alive and well, and living in Northampton, Massachusetts, as the fledgling punks in Big Nils can attest. The quartet, composed of Coco Gordon Moore (vocals), Zoe Wardlaw (guitar), Lilly Daiber (bass), and Sen Morimoto (drums), performs the sort of no-nonsense rock ‘n’ roll that has inspired rebellious kids for generations. Dissonant art rock, the next generation.
Ellsworth Kelly
September 24, 2011
The painter who defined abstraction for almost a century talks about inflating fake tanks to fool the Germans during World War II, finding himself ridiculed by Fernand Léger, working alongside his good buddy Agnes Martin, fearing the recourse of Republicans, being (perhaps) the first major modern artist to slip into architecture, and how the sighting of a bird may have led to one of the greatest careers in contemporary art.
Alicia Vikander
August 25, 2011
When Alicia Vikander auditioned to play 18th-century Danish Queen Caroline Mathilde in screenwriter-director Nikolaj Arcel’s upcoming feature debut, A Royal Affair, the Swedish-born actress faced a peculiar challenge: “After the last casting, the director came to my hotel to speak with me, and I just smiled and nodded,” says Vikander.
DJ Wolfram
July 12, 2011
I first met Wolfram—born Wolfram Eckert, but Wolfie to his friends (supposedly)—in Miami at the Standard hotel. It was in the lobby at 8 A.M., and he was wearing a green kimono and pink flip-flops, which I thought was impressive, endearing, and kind of horrifying, but mainly impressive and endearing.
JW Anderson
May 23, 2011
The former acting student turned menswear designer takes on his greatest role yet: Creating womenswear of beguilingly offbeat beauty
Olivier Theyskens
April 19, 2011
In his new role as Artistic Director of Theory, the Belgian designer is putting to rest those pesky notions of bringing chic to the masses
Nir Hod
April 19, 2011
For his latest exhibition, artist Nir Hod unleashes a perverse playgroup of stuck-up, beautiful children
Julie Taymor
March 25, 2011
On February 19, director Julie Taymor and her friend, the actor Alfred Molina, with whom she’d worked on both Frida (2002) and last year’s film adaptation of The Tempest, got together for what would become a wide-ranging discussion on theater, art, her creative process, and, of course, Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, the endlessly scrutinized, $65 million musical that Taymor had spent the past nine years working to bring to the stage.
The Borgias
December 30, 2010
The Sopranos may have had North Jersey, but The Borgias ruled renaissance Rome. A new Showtime series delves into the sordid rise and precipitous fall of 15th-century Italy’s complicated first famiglia.
Sofia Coppola and Stephen Dorff
November 19, 2010
With their new film, Somewhere, about a burned-out movie star who struggles to reconnect with his pre-teen daughter, director Sofia Coppola and actor Stephen Dorff set out to see just how many questions, fears, and anxieties about fame, art, parenthood, isolation, intimacy, love, responsibility, and the existentially fraught bubble of Hollywood you can cram into a suite at the Chateau Marmont. Turns out, it’s a lot.
Miles Teller
November 18, 2010
Actor Miles Teller’s big debut in John Cameron Mitchell’s Rabbit Hole.
Hanna Liden
October 15, 2010
Downtown New York’s most haunting landscape photographer broadens her range by narrowingher focus and taking on landscapes of a darker, more interior kind
Lena Dunham
October 12, 2010
Filmmaker Len Dunham’s quarter-life crisis.