Interview

Glenn Ligon doesn’t make work for easy reading. Whether they’re quotes on canvas or a film piece modeled on Uncle Tom’s Cabin, his tricky translations are about getting lost and getting found.

Maurizio Cattelan knows that it’s better to be the class clown than the class nerd. But just because a lot of his art productions are outrageous, and oftentimes hilarious, doesn’t mean the Italian artist isn’t serious about starting a revolution.

Elizabeth Neel is a New York painter, like her famous grandmother, Alice, who gave her a first set of paints. She’s grown up a lot since that day. Her gestural abstract canvases leave the family tree far behind.

Philip Taaffe makes art the old-fashioned way: with paint. And his paintings are as complex and alive as they are beautiful. In an age of market-driven, hog-wild modernism, that ain’t easy.

Rachel Feinstein is a singular artist as well as famous muse to her painter husband. She seems almost a traveler through time with her heirloom beauty and her throwback bohemian charm.