Interview articles from November 2008

Interview archives from November 2008

View November '08: Interview's editorial directors discuss ...
November 1, 2008... FABIEN BARON: Should we explain the cover a little bit? GLENN O'BRIEN: Well, it was inspired by Warhol's Vote McGovern poster from 1972, the one that's hanging outside our offices. It's a portrait of Nixon with a green and blue face...

Tom Sturridge.(View GUY)(Interview)
November 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] To take a breather from films, British actor Tom Sturridge ran among the lions. He returned some 14 months later from Botswana's Okavango Delta, where he had been studying the animals with his cousins. "I wasn't...

Clementine Poidatz.(View GIRL)(Brief article)
November 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Is Paris-born Clementine Poidatz really an American? As a child, she idolized Marilyn Monroe and Natalie Wood. She claims that she learned English before she even got around to her native French tongue. And her...

Katie Hickman.(DISCOVERY)(Interview)(Brief article)
November 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] AGE: 20. HOMETOWN: Youngstown, Ohio. CURRENTLY RESIDES: Williamsburg, Brooklyn. OCCUPATION: Student at the School of Visual Arts in New York. FUTURE OCCUPATION: Aspiring horror filmmaker, musician, and artist. REASON...

We asked some of our friends to shoot the world from their phones and send it to us.(CAPTURE)(Photograph)
November 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "Here I am in Bali, at a place called Ku De Ta, for an all-white party!" --FABIOLA BERACASA, CREATIVE CONSULTANT AND VIDEO CORRESPONDENT [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "This pic is of me in San Francisco for the...

Al Pacino nominates Jack Huston.(NOMINATIONS)
November 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "I worked with Jack on an indie film I've been directing," says Al Pacino of 25-year-old actor Jack Huston, who stars in Salomaybe?, Pacino's unconventional adaptation of Oscar Wilde's notorious play Salome. "He...

Violens: New York City's favorite underground rock band promises to swear off visual culture and then goes and makes a music video.(BEHIND THE SCENES)
November 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] On August 17, the year-old New York City rock band Violens gathered at a ground-floor loft in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, to make a video for "Spectator & Pupil"--a lush, dreamy song with careening atmospherics, New Wave...

Jorge Pardo's summer house.(HOME)(Brief article)
November 1, 2008... "We found the house through a real estate agent on the North Fork of Long Island in 2000 after we discovered the area through artist friends. It was built in the '50s by the Stamos family. Ours was the main house, and next door is where the...

Design or adoptions.(FASHION)(Brief article)(Photograph)
November 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] EVERYONE HAS FANTASIZED ABOUT BEING ADOPTED BY A RICH, POWERFUL PARENT. LATELY THAT DREAM HAS BEEN COMING TRUE FOR SOME OF THE WORLD'S MOST TALENTED, INDEPENDENT DESIGNERS AS THEY MAKE A BIG FAMILY BRAND MORE...

Bernard-Henri Levy: the infamous French thinker may hit both war zones and fashion parties, but he's dead set on changing the world order, and the idea that left is always right.(BOOKS)(Interview)
November 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In an ideal world, the greatest thinkers would be treated like celebrities. In reality, very few intellectuals ever manage that kind of popular appeal (and, ironically, the ones who do take a lot of heat for it)....

Fiasco new album.(AGENDA)(Sound recording review)(Brief article)
November 1, 2008... Fiasco band members Jonathan Edelstein, Julian Bennett Holmes, and Lucian Buscemi (son of actor Steve) may all still live with their parents, but their music careers are maturing rapidly. The Brooklyn high schoolers' propensity for intricate,...

Harmony Korine fanzines.(AGENDA)(Brief article)
November 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Harmony Korine is best known for his work behind the camera, but the filmmaker has also racked up a lot of hours in front of a photocopier. The reason: fanzines. Made during the past 15 years (some with the help of...

A/X Armani Exchange watches.(AGENDA)(Brief article)
November 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Italians aren't usually known for being on time, but Armani Exchange is out to change that perception. This fall, the baby brand of the Armani family launched a new line of timepieces for both men and women. A|X is...

Jumpsuit exhibit.(AGENDA)(Brief article)
November 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] For anyone who has ever doubted the sartorial parallels between models and convicts, now's your chance to reevaluate. Currently on display at the Phoenix Art Museum, "One for All, All for One: The Jumpsuit," is an...

Paul P. show.(AGENDA)(Brief article)
November 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Vintage gay porn of the '70s--pre-AIDS and precocious--has informed many of artist Paul P.'s dreamlike paintings and drawings over the years. In his show opening November 15 at New York City's Daniel Reich Gallery, E...

Seth Price self-help book.(AGENDA)(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Everyone dreams of picking up and walking out on life. Thanks to New York City's newly minted art-publishing house the Leopard Press, that dream can finally become real. The Leopard's first imprint, How to Disappear...

David Fenton show.(AGENDA)(Brief article)
November 1, 2008... Yippies. Hippies. Sit-ins. Be-ins. The late '60s saw all manners of protest. It also provided a stage for then-teen underground photographer David Fenton to capture the clash of protesters and police. Starting October 30, Manhattan's Steven...

Lyx couch.(AGENDA)(Brief article)
November 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Rolling hills, bell curves, the Loch Ness monster, and now Swedish design firm Lyx's latest sofa all have been known to follow an undulating wave shape. The couch--or the Topografi Seating System, as its designer,...

Dri.(MUSIC)(Adrianne Verhoeven )(Interview)(Brief article)
November 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] When serious Fleetwood Mac-style romantic shenanigans caused the 2004 split of her indie-rock band the Anniversary, singer Adrianne Verhoeven was prepared to say goodbye to music for good. "I remember sitting at home...

Elad Lassry.(ART)(Interview)(Brief article)
November 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] "It's kind of the post-picture-generation approach," says Elad Lassry of his high-conceptualism--meets--stock photography technique. The 30-year-old artist, who is a native of Tel Aviv and moved to Los Angeles at...

Jonny Johansson: How did a brand that shares a name with something teenagers don't want become the leading fashion force for the next generation? ACNE's founder and creative director just wants to stand out.(FASHION)(Interview)
November 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] There is a conspiracy theory that Sweden is quietly taking over the world. If that's true, Jonny Johansson and his fanatically popular fashion brand, ACNE, will certainly be in the power seats. Johansson and three...

Josephine Meckseper: maybe it was the green-party mom, the anarchist dad, or childhood vacations with commie guerillas, but the work of this artist is a political tour de force connecting big cars, big oil, the right wing, military jets, and sleazy lingerie.(ART)(Interview)
November 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] At her solo exhibition in New York City last spring, 44-year-old artist Josephine Meckseper showed a six-minute film tided 0% Down, a hot and incendiary black-and-white remix of car commercials set to a merciless...

Too, too Bijoux.(FASHION)(Brief article)(Photograph)
November 1, 2008... FALL WAS A BOUT BIG BRASSY HERE-I-AM ACCESSORIES. BUT THE MESSAGE FOR, THE CRUISE-COLLECTIONS CROWD WAS: TURN THAT AMP TO 11. THESE MATCH ED JEWELRY SETS ARE SO FLAGRANT THEY'LL BE NOTICED BACK ON SHORE [ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] ...

Josh Brolin: as a nation divided prepares for a moment of historic change, Republicans and Democrats, pundits and pedants, and reformers and rogues across the political spectrum can all agree on one thing: when it comes to the movies, this is Josh Brolin's year.(Cover story)
November 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] To understand Josh Brolin, to really get inside his skin, it helps to know that in addition to being an actor--and a fine one at that--he really knows how to pick his stocks. In fact, a few years ago, when the...

Giorgio Armani: the richest designer in Italy didn't inherit it, he made every last euro with a vast talent, hard work, and a gift for management that even a Caesar would admire. Like an emperor, he knows his past and his future and isn't afraid to consider immortality.(Interview)
November 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] It's not easy to get an interview with Mr. Giorgio Armani. He's got protection. So to get him, we sent our Italian secret agent, Daniela Morera, who has been an important Interview contributor for half her life and...

Kehinde Wiley: he's a brilliant renaissance technician with hip-hop subject matter. His latest work focuses on young black men in a sadly familiar posture: down. But in a world where bad is good, being down is not always such a bad thing.(Interview)
November 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] The public perception of black male youth has arguably changed since artist Kehinde Wiley began painting his formal portraits while in residency at New York's Studio Museum in Harlem in 2000. Part of Wiley's process...

Cinema's coming attractions.(Interview)
November 1, 2008... EVERY MONTH WE LOOK AT ALL THE MAGAZINES, AND WE READ ABOUT EXACTLY THE SAME MOVIES IN EVERY ONE OF THEM. SOMETIMES WE GET TIRED OF HEARING ABOUT FILMS EVEN BEFORE THEY ARE RELEASED. SO INSTEAD OF ROUNDING UP THE USUAL SUSPECTS, WE THOUGHT WE...

Suitable for competition.(Brief article)(Photograph)
November 1, 2008... IN BEIJING'S BIG OLYMPIC POOL, WORLD RECORDS FELL LIKE LEAVES. EVEN BRONZE WINNERS BROKEN THEM. WAS IT THE ATHLETES OR WAS IT A NEW BREED OF HIGH-TECH SWIMSUITS? THEN THE RESORT COLLECTIONS FEATURED ANOTHER GENERATION OF FAST-FORWARD WATER...

David Byrne: the talking heads' former frontal lobe on recording his soulful new album with Brian Eno, transforming buildings into musical instruments, writing song-and-dance numbers about Imelda Marcos, and designing bicycle racks for a better tomorrow.(Interview)
November 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] David Byrne, the former Talking Heads front man, has been working solo and in what Robert Fripp once called small, independent, mobile, and intelligent units since the Heads split in 1991. One particularly small,...

The splat pack.(Interview)(Brief article)
November 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] FREDDY? JASON? LEATHERFACE? ALL ARE DATED MONSTERS OR PASSE SLASHERS. A FRESH CROP OF ZOMBIES, DEMON SEEDS, DEMENTED DOCTORS, AND SATANIC CHEERLEADERS IS ON THE LOOSE--WHICH ALSO MEANS A NEW BATCH OF NUBILE INNOCENTS...

Kirsha Kaechele: mom: a wild painter. Dad: an astrophysicist who dropped acid with the father of thermonuclear warfare. Kirsha got rolfed, visited a shaman in the Amazon, lived with radicals and Native Americans, then settled down and opened a communal art space in one of New Orleans's scariest neighborhoods.(Interview)
November 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Kirsha Kaechele runs KKProjects, an arts program (though that's way too square a word for it) located in six previously abandoned structures in the down-but-not-quite-out part of New Orleans where she has lived since...

Partygoers get snapped.(15 MINUTES: EVENTS PROMOTIONS)(Brief article)
November 1, 2008... The polaroid was celebrated at the opening of new SoHo hotspot Delicatessen, as Interview guests and partygoers lined the walls to get their photo snapped by photographer Terry Richardson. Faces in the crowd included Chanel Iman, Charlotte...

Interview the party!!!(SOCIETY)(Brief article)(Photograph)
November 1, 2008... WE DECIDED TO CELEBRATE OUR SEPTEMBER ISSUE, GROWING AN INCH TALLER, PLUS BETTER PAPER AND A BRAND NEW DESIGN, BY TOSSING A WILD PARTY AT ANDRE BALAZS'S NEW NEW YORK CITY HOTEL, THE STANDARD. THE PARTY WAS ANYTHING BUT [ILLUSTRATION...

Hurricanes and Turkey.
November 1, 2008... July 18, 64 A.D.--Nero fiddled while Rome burned; September 3, 2008 A.D.--Two days before the start of a sweltering New York Fashion Week, while Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Merrill Lynch, and Lehman Brothers were tanking, Valentino Garavani and...

June 1986: Charlie Sheen.(BACK PAGE)(Brief article)(Photograph)
November 1, 2008... HERE'S CHARLIE, THE MONTH FERRIS BUELLER'S DAY OFF OPENED. HE WAS "BOY IN POLICE STATION." SIX MONTHS LATER, OLIVER STONE'S PLATOON MADE HIM A STAR [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]