IN CONVERSATION
David Adjaye and Kwame Kwei-Armah Talk Basquiat and the “Black Gaze”
December 27, 2022
“As always, I feel like I’m at a lecture that I paid a lot of money for and I’m getting my value.”
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Kenny Scharf Talks to Trees
April 22, 2022
The legendary artist’s latest exhibition pays a frenzied, technicolor homage to the natural world.
SECOND ACT
“Just Fucking Do What You Want”: Leo Fitzpatrick on His Inaugural Gallery Show
December 8, 2020
The spirit of downtown New York is alive and well in the artist’s scrappy new gallery on St. Mark’s.
Before Coronavirus, Olivia Laing Wrote A Book About the Role of Art in A Crisis
May 13, 2020
“Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency” is a well-timed exploration of the ways in which art can heal an ailing world.
Kenny Scharf Looks Back On A Life of Making Boring Objects Brilliant
February 4, 2020
The artist revisits his zany hand-painted work in the era of Haring and Basquiat, from his pet vacuum to the Palladium pay phones.
Maripol Revives Downtown 81, Her Love Letter to Basquiat and His New York City
November 12, 2019
The film is a fairytale-homage to the New York that was and never again will be—but more importantly, to the friendships that blossom amidst the concrete.
Glenn O’Brien’s Poetry Brings The Factory to Life
October 21, 2019
From Robert Mapplethorpe peeing his pants to Mick Jagger’s birthday party, “Interview” veteran Glenn O’Brien remembers all.
The Intimate, Marijuana-Laced Portraiture of Lee Jaffe
June 27, 2019
The cross-disciplinary artist shows us his photos of Jean-Michel Basquiat, Bob Marley, and more ahead of an opening at Galerie Eva Prenshuber in New York.
Coffee Table Curator: Warhol, Wes Anderson, and Juergen Teller’s Hordes of Handbags
June 14, 2019
Showing—no, telling—you which art and culture books to add to your living room repertoire for the month of June.
Five things we learned from the Basquiat documentary, Boom for Real
May 7, 2018
Director Sara Driver tells us about her late friend and artist, Jean-Michel Basquiat, and the unpredictable world of ’70s New York that raised him.