ICON
Steven Klein on Pride, Censorship, and His Favorite Madonna Memory
June 28, 2024
“The culture has actually gotten a little bit more conservative,” says the photographer, looking back on his racy collaborations with Madonna and Nicole Kidman.
SMOKE BREAK
“Gentrification Is Fucked Up”: We Got Stoned With Artist Derrick Adams
June 28, 2024
At the trailblazing artist’s studio, we enjoyed a five-course meal, each with a cannabis pairing, and talked gentrification, cartoons, and his latest sculpture, “The Holdout II.”
VENICE BIENNALE
How Sappho and Kate Bush Inspired Artist F Taylor Colantonio’s Venice Exhibition
June 28, 2024
The designer and sculptor talks about his Venice Biennale exhibition, “Frutti di Mare,” and the city’s rich history as a site of escape and reprieve for gay men.
OPENING
In Her New Show, Painter Amanda Wall Eroticizes Her Favorite Subject: Herself
June 26, 2024
Ahead of her solo show at Almine Rech, the painter talked to her ex-boyfriend, Purple Magazine’s Olivier Zahm, about sexuality, self-portraiture, and the suburbs.
IN STUDIO
How Japanese Coming-of-Age Films Influenced Painter Xingzi Gu’s New Show
June 26, 2024
The emerging painter discusses the themes of sexual desire and internet subcultures that form their solo exhibition “Pure Heart Hall,” now on view at Lubov.
PERFORMANCE
“I Want To Terrorize Americans”: Crackhead Barney Strikes Back
June 19, 2024
Following a dramatic guest appearance on Piers Morgan, the artist called up Brontez Purnell to talk Trump rallies, Black titties, and babysitting men.
DREAM MACHINE
Nona Hendryx Invites Carrie Mae Weems Inside Her Virtual Reality
June 17, 2024
The artist and musician tells friend and photographer Carrie Mae Weems about her mixed reality installation now on view at Lincoln Center.
PANEL
Photographers Zanele Muholi And Catherine Opie On Capturing The Harsh Realities Of Queer Life
June 14, 2024
Shortly after her eponymous exhibition opened at Southern Guild, Zanele Muholi joined Catherine Opie on a panel moderated by LACMA curator Britt Salvesen.
RAZA
Reynaldo Rivera and Willy Chavarria on Cholas, Crazy Exes, and Gang Rites
June 12, 2024
The photographer, who’s currently presenting his very first solo show at MoMA PS1, has a long-awaited reunion with fashion designer and longtime friend Willy Chavarria.
ARTIST
Diamond Stingily and Arthur Jafa on Ego, Grief, and Dopamine
June 12, 2024
“I try not to get too caught up in what an article or a paragraph about me says, because there’s more to me than that.”
IN STUDIO
In Her New Show, Painter Emily Ferguson Explores the Lore of the It Girl
June 12, 2024
In her new show at Nicodim Gallery, “It Girl,” the painter meditates on the female experience by rendering famous women like Nico and Carrie Bradshaw on canvas.
IN STUDIO
Artist Suzanne McClelland on Self-Annihilation and Social Cannibalism
June 6, 2024
The 64-year-old painter tells us how the practice of reading tea leaves inspired her current solo exhibition “Highland Seer,” now on view at Marianne Boesky Gallery.
IN CONVERSATION
To the Artist Hugo McCloud, Even Dead Flowers Are Worth Painting
June 3, 2024
The artist talked to curator Aurora James about grief, beauty, and the arduous process behind his new paintings, now on view at Sean Kelly, New York.
IN CONVERSATION
Artist Nina Chanel Abney Plays 20 Questions With Tierra Whack
May 31, 2024
After opening her exhibition “LIE DOGGO” at Jack Shainman The School, the artist and rapper got together to imagine swapping lives, Freaky Friday-style.
SMOKE BREAK
“I Had an iPod on My Pussy”: An Eight-Minute Cig With Artist Jacolby Satterwhite
May 24, 2024
In this week’s installment of Smoke Break, we smoked American Spirits with the 3-D artist and provocateur outside of The Kitchen’s Spring 2024 Gala.
OPENING
“What Does It Mean to Have Survived?”: Lyle Ashton Harris, in Conversation With Ryan McGinley
May 20, 2024
Before opening his sprawling mid-career retrospective at Queens Museum, the 59-year-old artist talked art, activism, and acupuncture with his friend Ryan McGinley.
RORSCHACH TEST
Bruce LaBruce on Gen Z, GHB, and Double Penetration
May 16, 2024
In this week’s Rorschach Test, the artist and pornographer sounds off on Pride Month, steam rooms, campus protests, and his “deep sexual fetish for rough trade.”
OPENING
Lucky DeBellevue Paints the Sexy, Tortured Worlds of Rainer Werner Fassbinder
May 13, 2024
“I didn’t want to shy away from sexuality,” says the downtown painter, who painted stills from a number of the German director’s films for his new solo exhibition.
PANEL
For Artist Diedrick Brackens, Weaving Is An Act of Religion
May 10, 2024
“Ritual in some sense is about repetition, and repetition is a holy act,” says the 35-year old artist about what drives his textile practice.
CLICK
“You Ghosted Andy Warhol”: Magdalena Wosinska, in Conversation With Christopher Makos
May 10, 2024
The two photographers got on Zoom to talk about celebrity egos, making it in Tinseltown, and Wosinska’s new book “Fulfill the Dream,” a document of the 90s skate scene.