The first time I was introduced to the trio of babes from Crazy White Bitches was when my friend Lea Colombo shot her editorial I Must Confess I still Believe for us in March of this year. Since then...
Hunter S. Thompson once famously said that in order to really live as a human being, you have to “buy the ticket, take the ride.” If that’s true, New Haven-based artist Johannes De Young must...
I have a short attention span and I like to laugh. I also like art. If you identify with these statements, I suggest you check out this short film about John Baldessari. Commissioned for the LACMA Ga...
When I opened a random email from Corey Smith with Comune logos all over the inside I immediately thought, “Trade show? Art show? Shit show?” I was wrong on all counts. It was, in fact, an invitation...
Joana Kohen is an artist from Istanbul, Turkey. Her intense and whimsical work focuses on acute consideration of the self, conveying different disciplines of commentary. Having studied fashion design...
Jazz may be one of the most bewildering of art forms. It’s so elusive, in fact, that people use the word “jazz” as if it were a synonym of “etcetera”. Like, “She’s into ...
What the what? Way To War, that’s what! Kirin J. Callinan is hands down the best thing to hit my inbox this month. Coming to you from Australia via our friends Terrible Records in the U.S. (and...
Azealia Banks is everywhere. Did you see that shoot that’s in Dossier? Did you hear that new track, Jumanji? In the spirit of summer and excess and hype, here are some outtakes from our shoot with Mi...
On May 4, a series of books by the Italian photographer Jacopo Benassi were showcased at The Milan Image Art Fair. Among the featured work were the set of photos, The Ecology of Image, and two collab...
New York City based photographer, painter, and videographer Marilyn Minter began her art career in 1989 with an unflinching series of paintings based on still images from hardcore pornography. Since ...
Born and raised in New York, Jeffrey Lewis leads a double-life, as both an illustrator and a singer songwriter. Both his music and comics are permeated by earnest storytelling and often self-deprecia...
This Thursday, May 17, come view video art by the shape-shifting ladies of Symbols + Rituals, listen to music by 51717, and stare wistfully at all the beautiful objects and clothes at Maryam Nassir Z...
Watermelon Mouse was created by Oliver Clark and is a product of his complex, insightful, inspired brain. Tune in regularly for more installments.
Up this month at LAX/ART is a group show combining two non profit art spaces, New York’s Participant Inc. and Los Angeles’s LAX/ART. Curated by Participant’s Lia Gangitano, the show thoughtfull...
London’s perennially popular Frieze Art Fair descended on New York City for the first time last week with a roar, bringing with it Frieze’s famous custom-designed tent (this iteration designed by Bro...
Our recently debuted issue features interviews with members of the New York graffiti collective the Peter Pan Posse, lead by Mint (a.k.a. Mikhail Sokovikov) and Serf (a.k.a. Jason Aaron Wall), along ...
I heard a story that Frieze Director Amanda Sharp found Randall’s Island on Google Earth – the perfect location to introduce New York to the art wonderland she created with Matthew Slotover alm...
In 2009, when Adam Yauch first found out he had cancer, The Beastie Boys had to cancel a number of shows that they had committed to. Other artists stepped up to fill in for them, including Jay Z at A...
It was the evening when Venus and Jupiter were perfectly aligned and reached its closest point to the human eye. I was getting ready for dinner with the “godfather” of American avant-garde cinema – J...
When I heard that our friend Alex Niemetz’s band was scheduled to drop a video for their single, I was Stoked! Just in time for summer and pizza, Grand Rapids are a young downtown NYC based country-g...
New York-based photographer Weston Wells presents ‘Outings,’ a seventeen-panel collage piece that examines the places and characters he has captured between his travels and day-to-day enc...
Last week, Todd Cole’s agent sent me a link to the new video he did for Kate Spade. So many fashion videos are boring, or cheesy, or just kind of mediocre, that I really appreciate when I see a...
Opening tonight in Berlin, This Land Was Made for You and Me explores the idea of America, through the eyes of young American photographers. The title is taken from the Woody Guthrie song This Land I...
I know you’ve seen a million pictures of Coachella already, but these ones by photographer Doug Neill remind me that summer is coming, and even if it has been a really mild winter, I’m st...
With campaigning for the 2012 general election well under way, Downtown for Democracy, the political action committee established during the 2004 elections, is back. Aimed at motivating and engaging ...
Ana Roman and Barbara Anastacio Keep it Mellow with some behind the sceens from the Dossier In Conversation interview. With her album, Even Assassins Have Lovers And Romance out this summer, an EP ou...
Underline Gallery is holding an online raffle to help one of their artists, photographer Bhumika Bhatia. Bhatia was is a terrible car accident in India, cannot currently use her hands, and has an eno...
Few of us enjoy the annual ritual of mailing our annual income taxes into the Feds. For Dustin Grella, getting a letter in the mail can be a literal drag. Grella, an artist and a C-7 quadriplegic who...
Who is Eleanor Friedberger? A musician, we think. More importantly, who was Eleanor Friedberger’s miniature on-stage ingenue-companion during her March 24th performance at the Crowley Theater ...
“SPRING BREAK!!!” Those two words seem like they should always be shouted together, perhaps accompanied by a fist-pump. Everyone has been there at one point in their lives—for some, Spring Break wa...
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