INTERLOCUTOR Interviews

Virginia L. Montgomery (VLM) is a multimedia artist working across video, performance, sound design, and sculpture. She is known for her unique, synthesia-esque, surrealist works that unite elements …

Tyler Nesler talks with leading AI researcher, author, and TED speaker Blaise Agüera y Arcas about his new book, Who Are We Now? - an exploration of how biology, ecology, sexuality, history, and cult…

French-American artist Miles Hyman has a solo show, Secret Lives, up at NYC's Philippe Labaune Gallery through December 23. Hyman's recent paintings lead us on a journey through his sources of inspir…

“Everyone is fascinated by crime,” says author/musician Harper Simon. “When you look at the history of song, romantic love songs may be the dominant mode of songwriting, but second would probably be …

Born in Los Angeles in 1968, guitarist and composer Anthony Wilson is known for a body of work that moves fluidly across genres. The son of legendary jazz trumpeter and bandleader Gerald Wilson, his …

Gigi Chen’s work creates an aesthetic that combines her training as a traditional animator and painter, along with her love of the techniques of Old Masters. Entrenched in the art of storytelling, th…

Pete Min co-runs the innovative Los Angeles label Colorfield Records. At Colorfield, artists are encouraged to compose in the studio and often play instruments they’re unused to. There’s as much emph…

Martine Johanna is a Dutch-born female artist who has been actively exhibiting her work since 2007, starting from little daily drawings to Amsterdam street art with a small band of brothers. Within t…

Sayazake is a visual artist who operates in the realm of Photography, Illustration, and Painting. His work speaks to a conversation of adventure, spirituality, anime, and eccentricity.

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KIDLEW is an NYC-based color-blind Chorean (half-Chinese/half-Korean) artist. Born in Queens, NY, and raised on Strong Island, he started doodling the cartoon characters he saw daily on TV as a kid a…

Jeffrey Everett is a successful designer, illustrator, and author working outside of Washington, DC. Jeffrey has had the pleasure of designing and illustrating for a wide variety of entertainment, co…

Founded in 2020, Philippe Labaune Gallery focuses on graphic design by featuring high-level artists whose common point is to explore new territories and to decompartmentalize the borders separating v…

The creator of the band the Bloods—the first out, queer, all-women-rock band—Adele Bertei has made a career as a singer, songwriter, writer, and director. Her resume, which spans decades and discipli…

Known for his paintings featuring a solitary astronaut wandering through scenes filled with pop culture iconography, Scott Listfield creates works which invite viewers to perceive the contemporary wo…

Zhivago Duncan was born to a Syrian mother and a Danish father in Terre Haute, Indiana. His fluidity across materials and cultural signifiers reflects the relentlessness of an investigative mind. Wit…

An interview with artist Vonn Cummings Sumner about his visual takes on the iconic cartoon character Krazy Kat, from George Herriman's wildly weird and wonderful newspaper comic strip that ran from 1…

KIDLEW is an NYC-based color-blind Chorean (half-Chinese/half-Korean) artist. Born in Queens, NY, and raised on Strong Island, he started doodling the cartoon characters he saw daily on TV as a kid a…

Shapeshifting through time, space, and spirit, Uhl’s debut EP Channels is a genre-bending and vocally explorative collection of songs threaded together not as much by their similarities as by their n…