Rishad Mistri
Heather Corcoran
It’s a rainy November morning when I show up at the Museum of Modern Art. I find myself nervous to meet Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster. Just 12 hours ago,
I attended her insanity-inducing “K.62” performance piece, a collaboration with experimental conductor/composer Ari Benjamin Meyers and part of the Performa performance art biennial. This is how it...
Maxwell Williams
Dorothy Hong
I met Diana Al-Hadid during last year’s Art Basel in Miami, where I helped her deconstruct one of her pieces—a manatee-sized skeletal tower made of crumbly-looking polymer gypsum honeycomb with a metal and wood infrastructure—in preparation to ship it back home to her studio. Heavy and colossal as it was, the sculpture seemed so fragile. We watched it...
Garret Suhrie, Don Flood, Patrick Hoelck, Ben Cope, Kurt Iswarienko, Luke Duval, Gitte Meldgaard, Lionel Deluy, Peter Gurnz
BOXeight is a collaborative arts organization, founded by Peter Gurnz and partners Michael Utsinger and Azzurro Mallin, featuring gallery space and photo studios in Downtown Los Angeles. A leader in Downtown L.A.’s art revival, the organization produces fashion shows and content with many competitive L.A. designers.
More information: www.boxeight.com...
Gregg LaGambina
Kurt Iswarienko
This old place perched halfway up a green hillside is about death and history and survival. Built upon a foundation of myths and cultivated half-truths, hovering on the air like the hummingbirds seeking out the pink bougainvillea blossoms that frame the shimmering blue pool, the Chateau Marmont in Los Angeles doesn’t care whether you live or die. It just wants an...
Andrew Pogany
Martien Mulder
Somewhere in the magnificent, violent, bulging city of Rio de Janeiro, Vincent Cassel sits in a smoking chair by the window of his 23rd floor suite, looking beyond the reflected glare of the megacity's bright vista into the unknown. The 42-year-old Parisian actor is over 5,000 miles away from his country of origin, over twenty years into an esteemed acting...
Ed Schad
Chloe Aftel
Jim Shaw works in Glendale amongst machine shops and mechanics garages, not too far from a large number of car dealerships. Shaw’s studio is non-descript among them except that it is filled full of piles and piles of projects, assorted paintings and papers, severed movie prop Satan heads and all sorts of ephemera. He has always worked this way,...
