Interview
Beer with a Painter: June Leaf
Walking through the green door into June Leaf’s old-school New York studio — a street-level space downtown — is a bit like entering a Willy Wonka world.
Interview
Interview
The Meandering Comics and Narrative Paintings of an Independent Chinese Cartoonist
SHANGHAI — When Yan Cong started self-publishing comics in the mid-2000s, his work ignored the conventions of the manga-influenced Chinese comics industry and looked instead like characters from children’s cartoons had wandered into an unexpectedly adult world.
Interview
Hernan Bas on Painting Aristocratic, Queer Life in 1920s London
Aloof, gay waifs appear as persistently in Hernan Bas’s paintings as saints in a cathedral.
Art
Beer with a Painter: Bill Scott
Last summer, Bill Scott and I were invited to participate in final critiques at the Mount Gretna School of Art. Critiques are usually predictable affairs, but I was surprised by Scott’s interactions with the students.
Interview
Barkley L. Hendricks on "the Fucked-Up-Ness of American Culture"
Barkley L. Hendricks is well known for creating life-size oil paintings of mostly black American subjects from northeastern cities, but his practice involves much more than that.
Interview
Liberate Tate Activists Look Back on Six Years of Fighting BP Sponsorship
Last month, BP announced that it will end its 26-year-long sponsorship of Tate.
Interview
Looking Back at Toronto's Radical 1980s Underground Art Scene
TORONTO — The Rebel Zone provides insight into a scene that set the stage for a whole generation of artists, ultimately leading to one of the city’s earliest examples of gentrification.
Interview
Berlinde De Bruyckere's Beloved Corpses
Berlinde De Bruyckere’s work is often unsettling.
Interview
Jonas Mekas on the Poetry of Filmmaking and Living
"All of my past is in me. And whatever I do is determined and tinted by it. But there are also things in me that were inherited or given to me by angels, which are completely out of my control."
Interview
Beer with a Painter: Sam Gilliam
“I’m just getting started,” Sam Gilliam says with a playful smile as he watches me take in his Washington, D.C. studio.
Interview
Trump l’oeil: A Conversation with the Donald’s Portrait Painter
Donald Trump doesn’t like to appear sketchy.
Interview
Chinese Casino Workers and the New American Suburbs
Currently on view at the Museum of Chinese in America, SubUrbanisms: Casino Urbanization, Chinatowns, and the Contested American Landscape, is a fascinating look at the evolution of the American suburbs beyond the archetype of the Anglo-Saxon, nuclear, single family and binary notions of home.