artist interview
Is Loie Hollowell a Georgia O’Keefe for the Instagram Age?
The artist tells us how she makes her paintings pulse with sexual energy.
'Shakespeare in the Really Disturbing, Chaotic Park'
The A.I. artist Ian Cheng discusses his immersive video simulations, which interrogate human behaviors and motives.
Get a Behind-the-Scenes Look at Comic Illustration From the Industry
Comic artist Declan Shalvey dishes the dirt on creating stellar comics.
This Human Gummy Bear Plugs His Butt with a Fancy Haribo Dildo
Haribo is Carly Mark's favorite brand. For her first solo show, the artist brings advertising and consumerism to its logical conclusion by creating an apocalyptic advert starring Eric Wareheim as an anthropomorphic gummy.
Artist Devin Troy Strother Doesn't Want to Talk About Being Black
Strother talked with me about his new solo show, Space Jam, and his desire to be the art-world's version of Michael Jordan: a "supreme entity who's surpassed identity and blackness."
The Creator of 'Hip Hop Family Tree' Talks Rap History and Comics
Ed Piskor is in the middle of putting out a comic-book history of hip-hop that is pretty much the best history of hip-hop anyone's ever done.
Coco Capitán's Inscrutable Self-Portraits
The 22-year-old's first solo show, Let Me Not Introduce Myself the Pleasure Is Yours, opens this week at London's Display Gallery, so I talked to her about how she hides her identity in plain sight.
The Sound of Trance May Change, but Vocals Stay the Same
Dash Berlin knows the sound he likes—and he’s sticking to it.
Fairmont Doesn’t Care To Be Labeled, Neither Should You
Fairmont tells us how his love for synthesizers eventually became a passion for synthesizer music and why genres don’t matter.
"We Look at Everything We Put Out As Art": An Interview with My Favorite Robot
We sat down with the guys from MFR to hear why making art is more important than being everybody’s best friend.
Classixx Talk About the Evolution of their Live Set and LA’s Best Drunk Food
On a baking hot hotel balcony, we met up with members Michael David and an already sunburned Tyler Blake to talk tours, tunes, and tacos.