Curious about
their work,
not the moment.
Leila Antakly has spent over twenty years in conversation with artists, musicians, designers, filmmakers, and thinkers all over the world who are making work that matters. These are the conversations.
Interviews from the Archive
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Artist Anthony White
An Australian in Paris who let the 2015 terrorist attacks force him to question whether abstraction could be justified at all — and came out the other side with a practice built on dissent. Anthony White talks Kiefer, Foucault, the Gilets Jaunes, Rosa Parks, and why the most important thing he can tell you is: be kind.
Kees van de Wal: Minimalism and Abstraction
He told himself to stop painting the horizon. That decision led to shapes that represent nothing yet mean everything — upright rectangles with missing corners, silly pink shapes with black patches, cardboard from old packaging boxes treated until it becomes art. A conversation with Zaltbommel's quietly rebellious minimalist, Kees van de Wal.
ARTIST SPOTLIGHT DEBORA KOO
She entered college as a government major, changed her mind, and eventually found her way to an old factory building in Charlotte NC with the most beautiful musty light. Debora Koo paints cakes and love stories — and she just got married. A new chapter is beginning.
“Visibility has never been our measure of significance. We seek out artists and inspiring individuals whose work sparks curiosity, challenges assumptions, and leaves a lasting impression.”