Artist interview

The following is excerpted from Conversations with Artists, a collection of conversations by Heidi Zuckerman with thirty-four contemporary artists. INTERVIEWER Your work is extensive and takes many different forms. How do you respond when people ask you what you do? SIMPSON It gives me pause when people ask me what I do, because there are so […]

Tracey Emin - Exorcism of the Last Painting I Ever Made, 1996

From Jimmy Buffett outside his Palm Beach, Florida, home to Misty Copeland stretching her legs in Manhattan, the portraits show just how much our personality is reflected in where we live.

One evening at sunset, while reading over her lyrics in Sunset Park in Brooklyn, Bikôkô—which also means ‘sunset’ in the Basaa language of Cameroon—envisioned an album on which each song would represent a moment of the day.

From performances for “six people in a loft” to “O Superman,” MTV fame, and her time with Lou Reed, the artist reflects on her many years in New York.

Art, orange marmalade, and mushroom pizza

Inside the studio of the artist who works with everyone from J.W. Anderson to Tory Burch and Elie Saab.

"Des visages et des fleurs", is the name of her new exhibition at the Paris Contemporary Art Show 2019 from November 7 until November 11, 2019. Here's our exclusive interview with the artist herself, Nina Koltchitskaia.

She likens her practice to a game of “telephone” in which the work in question is constantly shifting in form and meaning during its progression. When she feels too comfortable with a particular method or idea she abandons it and moves on to something new. Your creative hunger seems to be independent of any particular medium. How important is the material to you? My working process is in many ways reminiscent of a dialogue. I never know how a certain [...]