I cannot remember a time…before I loved Glenn O’ Brien. I love TV Party (which deserves a post unto itself), I love his style advice column for GQ (even though it never applies to me), I love his persistently-pretty lady eyes (he looks like Ellen Burstyn from the sinus up), and I weirdly love the [...]

Chinese artist/activist Ai Wei Wei – recently famous for his sunflower seeds installation at the Tate Modern – remains in custody of authorities after being detained in a Beijing airport. His work is so funny and inclusive, I never knew that he is also an outspoken critic of the Chinese government and advocate for human [...]

Super funny Q + A over at Motherboard.tv with a former hacker prodigy who makes Mark Zuckerberg look like Nelson Mandela (or maybe just Nelson from the Simpsons). Either way, this Mike Pepper is the epitome of what I like to call “a damn weiner kid,” and the fact that he and his ilk are [...]

Ron English, the artist who recently pulled one of the most meaningful April Fool’s pranks in recent memory, has in in-depth interview over at Fecal Face. His work spans an array of self-taught styles and techniques and many contain a conceptualist bent I hadn’t been aware of before. Definitely worth reading if you’re only familiar [...]

To the Best of Our Knowledge is an awesome public radio program I discovered short after moving to the bay area. I listened to a back-to-back marathon of this show while painting my living room, and this episode, about pushing the limits of music and sound, is by far my favorite. If you don’t have [...]

Homegirls over at Cat Party (an NY based blog I lurk on the daily) turned me onto this great Vice interview with iconic graphic designer George Lois. If Milton Glaser had big cojones and was really mean…he might be this dude. -christina “George Lois was one of the primary architects of the Creative Revolution in [...]

via Hypebeast: “In anticipation of Jean Touitou’s latest A.P.C. flagship store in New York City, the French-Tunisian had some colorful commentary to share. The always enigmatic designer touched upon celebrity culture in fashion, the association of the Chinese as fascists and why he won’t be jumping to show in China any time soon. A selection [...]

Lola Dupre is a Glasgow-based collage artist who works completely by hand. Fecal Face has an interview with this extremely patient young lady, including many photos of her meticulous work. Click here to check it out. -christina

After this apocalyptic meeting of the minds, I suppose anything is possible. In this fascinating cultural artifact fro Interview Magazine, my favorite tender yet eccentric folk singer Will Oldham (aka Bonnie “Prince” Billy) sits down for a chat with singer/producer R. Kelly, who in Oldham’s words, “represents so much of what is both good and [...]

I know there’s quite a few skateboarders-cum-photographers out there, but it’s a completely natural progression; like the model-cum-designer or actor-cum-jerkoff. So don’t hate on Alex Olson for being a burgeoning photographer on top of being a sometime model and all-the-time shredder with a sexy dad (sorry, had to say it). Dazed Digital has a nice [...]

Via Don’t Panic: “Voina (or “War” to give them their English name) are a radical art group concerned with challenging the Russian establishment on important political issues such as attitudes towards homophobia, race, and the totalitarian actions of the state, through creating outrageous and provocative art performances in Russia. Two of their members; Oleg Vorotnikov [...]

One of a series of talks with artists at this years Art Basel Miami, Baldessari sets aside his usual sharpness and answers the question “what makes you feel alive?” with the pleasant, easy-going attitude he’s known for. Take a moment to read the intro on Nowness, it references Baldessari’s involvement the long-overdue art initiative Pacific [...]

You know Johnny Ryan – he draws all those incredibly gross and/or offensive comics in back of every issue of Vice. I’m always impressed by his abject willingness to be a horrible human being, even though I hate how entertained I am by all of it. The intro to the interview nails the appeal of [...]

Dirty Laundry Presents: Abe Vigoda from Dirty Laundry on Vimeo. Dirty Laundry Presents is a web show where a lady named Malia shoots the shit with cool -ass bands…in a laundromat! From the newsletter: “This week on Dirty Laundry, we’ve got LA-by-way-of-Chino art-punksters Abe Vigoda, who along with bands like No Age and Mika Miko, [...]

There’s a great interview in Paper with recently-appointed NY Times Style Magazine Editor in Chief Sally Singer (who edited the news and features sections of American Vogue for over 10 years). Singer and Paper editor Kim Hastreiter wax philosophic on the politicization of cultural commodities beyond fashion (why is it cool to buy organic shit?), [...]

Nice exclusive interview and photos with HR from Bad Brains. His responses start to get a little convoluted toward the end, but you should always listen to old punks, even when they start talking like a bottle of  Dr. Bronners… posted by christina

Our good homie Kevin Hayes has a mini-interview up on Fecal Face! Kevin shoots takes amazing nude portraits of girls looking louche and comfy and totally like themselves, even when you can’t see their face. There’s so much trust in his photos, it’s sort truly moving and sort of fucked up at the same time. [...]

Someone told me about extremely interesting and surprisingly cordial George W. Bush interview by Gavin McInnes. There’s a note at the end saying the whole thing is made up, so I don’t feel enlightened so much as confused and ambivalent. Read it and decide for yourself.

“Photographer slash filmmaker slash pornographer; New York-based artist Richard Kern can proudly raise his hand and claim all three titles. From the 1980’s and onwards, Kern made his name mixing the true original rock ‘n’ roll ingredients of sex, music and drugs in his work.” (via Ponystep, read the full interview here)

“When the six artists behind the newly founded THIS Los Angeles gallery space launched their inaugural show in February this year they decided to open with a rather large bang. Inviting over 100 artists mates, including Geoff McFetridge, Maya Hayuk, Jim Houser, Alex Prager, Estevan Oriol, Jason Lee and Andy Jenkins, the Highland Park-based community/performance/art [...]