Thought I’d post an interview I booked and moderated between two of my favorite New Yorkers, artists Kaws and Jose Parla. The article was published on Jay Z’s website, Life+Times. Since we hadn’t seen each other in a bit due to travels, we thought we’d make the cheap excuse of meeting up for a home cooked meal at Jose’s home. Together, we fell back all night to reminisce about the good ‘ol days. Read more »
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Amadou & Mariam with TV on the Radio
Last month I was invited to DJ a very cool music video shoot by Director Jennifer DeLia and Producer Julie Pacino. The song is created by the genius African duo, Amadou & Mariam with a collaboration by TV on the Radio’s Kyp and Tunde. Filmed at The Box (NYC), it was the party of parties I must admit… Read more »
Listen to All Sugar Barons Shows
By popular demand, here’s my Sugar Baron radio show podcasts. Stay tuned for tons of interesting guests — cuban influentials to cuban-philes. Expect Latin funk from neighboring nations as well as Cuban classics, jazz, boogaloo, mambo’s, and anything else I can dig up. Read more »
Familial Finery
A few yeas ago, a fresh new magazine approached me and asked about my mothers style influence on me. Preen asked a few other women the same question actually. The following is the result of this trip down memory lane. Read more »
Chris Habib Goes Deep Inside Twitter
Chris Habib is one of the few artists we know who deserves to be filed under “interdisciplinary.” The history of his wonderfully subversive creations are too long to list, so we enocurage you to visit his universe, Visitor to better understand the complexity of his mission. Read more »
Daphne Guinness’ First Film
Recently, I bumped into an old project I produced for Daphne Guinness, entitled Phenomenology of Body (2008) inspired by a book she introduced me to, Phenomenology of Spirit. We were both passionate about women’s roles and their archetypal dressing throughout history. Read more »
Sugar Barons Show #1
Years in the making… and officially launched. Last week was the first Sugar Barons Radio show, weekly selection of latin funk, cuban jazz, boogaloo, and classics. Here’s the playlist from my maiden voyage. Read more »
Looking Back on Ostalgia
20 years after the Berlin wall, The New Museum exhibited more than 50 artists from both the East and West last October 2011. The art was a profound commentary on Communist society. Here’s the interview I conducted with the shows curator for The Standard Culture site. Read more »
Oscar de la Renta Loves Spain
We love Oscar de la Renta… and Oscar de la Renta loves Spain. We were called upon Nowness to film Oscar de la Renta and Andre Leon Tally discuss the paintings of Joaquín Sorolla alongside an exhibit of exquisite top designers, all conceived by De la Renta and curated by Leon Talley. Read more »
Buckminster Fuller Project
This December, my co-Director Crystal Moselle and I, experienced one of our favorite gigs, speaking to the prominent British architect, Lord Norman Foster, about his reconstruction of Buckminster Fuller’s Dymaxion car. It all took place at Art Basel 2011 in Miami Beach. Read more »
