Ryan Simón interviews photographer Matthew DeNicola about candidness, death anxiety, Todd Solondz, the originality problem, and his podcast The Saltbox.
Ryan Simón interviews Erik Harris, aka GoldPNY, about the hardcore scene, conspiracy theory, American nationalism, White Crime, and the artist's will to power.
Ryan Simón interviews poet Aaron Fagan about his poetry, art, skateboarding, American surrealism, and the meaning of "nothing."
Ryan Simón interviews writer Adam Lehrer about art, addiction, safety propaganda, and his new book Communions.
Like Kazimir Malevich, the Father of Suprematism, Lady Gaga devotes her pop art to the supremacy of pure feeling in her 2020 album Chromatica.
April Werle is a Filipino-American muralist exploring identity through bursts of color, simple geometry, and Michelangelesque hand gestures.
Lady Gaga's Chromatica mixes the concepts of installation art and pop music to create a portable world-building experience.
Originally published in 1843, "The Black Cat" remains one of Edgar Allan Poe's most psychologically disturbed and narratively ambiguous short stories.
"Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street" by Herman Melville, a short story originally serialized in two 1853 issues of Putnam's Magazine.
Vittorio Pelosi the founder of Intentism, a new art movement that rejects the postmodern death of the artist.