Articles by Nadja Sayej
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Alex and Allyson Grey's Visionary Art Temple, Entheon, Will Be Built
Devotional portrayals of the universal human journey from birth to death will find a new home at the trippiest building you can imagine in New York’s Hudson Valley, thanks to a Kickstarter campaign that raised $210,000. Full story
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A JPEG Interview with Douglas Coupland
Author Douglas Coupland is pretty tired of email interviews, and who can blame him? To keep things fresh, Nadja Sayej interviewed him with JPEGs of handwritten questions, and Douglas responded in kind. Full story
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Naked on Skype with Spencer Tunick
You know Spencer Tunick—the famed artist who photographs groups of naked people en masse, thousands and thousands of naked people in spectacular body landscapes. Basically, no one else has fought city councils and countries harder in the name of public nudity. Since the 1990s, Tu… Full story
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The Anti-Jukebox Musical: ‘Peaches Does Herself’
This Sunday, the HAU Theater in Berlin hosts the European premiere of Peaches's rock opera cum feature film, 'Peaches Does Herself.' The film tells a semiautobiographical tale of Peaches's rise from a bedroom tinkerer to a provocative and revered international performer in 22 son… Full story
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North Korea's First Racing Video Game Is Terrible
North Korea has been in the news lately for a very scary reason, but it isn’t every day that Asia’s hermit kingdom releases a car-racing video game. And when they do, you can definitely expect it to be a boring simulation about driving down a pin-straight, barely decorated highwa… Full story
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Chapel of Sacred Mirrors: Cosmic Creativity, Entheogens, and Psilocybin with Allyson and Alex Grey
Alex Grey, the visionary artist best known for his TOOL album covers, has founded what might be the most unconventional church in all of New York State. Full story
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Shooting the Shit with Marina Abramovic
I was somehow—and surprisingly—invited to her VIP private dinner party at a classy Viennese restaurant after her latest opening Thursday night, “With Eyes Closed I See Happiness, 2012” at Galerie Krinzinger in Vienna. Correction: I crashed the dinner party with three of my artist… Full story
The Mare
A New Story by Mary Gaitskill
Toppling a Delicate World
Being Gay and South Asian In America
There's No Sex in Prison Showers
We Usually Wore Our Underwear
Try Not to Destroy Your Life
The First Time I Took Molly
A Teacher and Her Student
Marilynne Robinson on Staying Out of Trouble
"Whitey" Isn't Very Popular in Boston
Interviews with Some of His Old Friends