Nancy Baker Cahill is an award-winning interdisciplinary artist whose hybrid practice focuses on systemic power, consciousness, and the human body. As a new media artist, Cahill creates immersive and interactive experiences, video installations, and conceptual blockchain projects rooted in the practice of drawing. Her monumental augmented reality a…

KIKI SMITH is one of the most influential visual artists in the contemporary world. Since the 1980s, Smith has created a prolific and provocative body of work that explores embodiment and the natural world. Utilizing a broad variety of materials and mediums – including sculpture, printmaking, photography, drawing and textiles – Smith’s unique style…

GABRIEL GONZALEZ is a Grammy Award winning singer-songwriter and leader of a new break-out collective of world class musicians embodying the truth of the Los Angeles Latin experience – La Verdad. Since 2015 Gonzalez has also been a lead singer for Boogaloo Assassins, the famed 12-piece Latin Boogaloo, Salsa, and Latin Soul band with whom Gonzalez i…

ISABEL VINCENT is an award-winning writer and investigative journalist and the author of the new book "Overture of Hope: Two Sisters' Daring Plan That Saved Opera's Jewish Stars from the Third Reich." The book uncovers the amazingly true story of Ida and Louise Cook -- two British opera fans who masterminded their own plan to rescue dozens of Germa…

Susan Davis is the Founder & President of DESERT X, a site-specific, contemporary art exhibition that is held in the Coachella Valley of Southern California every two years. Since 2017, DESERT X has pushed the boundaries of art beyond the gallery walls to present work that engages with the public in desert environments, through unique installations…

Vera Mulyani is considered the world’s first Marschitect. She is the Founder and CEO of Mars City Design, a global innovation platform whose purpose is to research, conceptualize, and design eco-sustainable cities for life on Mars. Mulyani’s concept of urbanism on Mars also advocates a self-sustaining lifestyle on Earth. Growing up in the polluted …

Kathleen Turner is an award-winning American actress and director, celebrated for her acclaimed work in film, television and theater. With an over forty year career, Kathleen's bold and brave choices as an artist has led to a groundbreaking body of work that has changed cultural perceptions of how women are portrayed on the screen and stage. Always…

David Levinthal is a New York–based photographer whose work explores the relationship between photographic imagery and the fantasies, myths, events and characters that shape the collective American consciousness. Refining a personal photographic style and vision, Levinthal utilizes toy figures and structures as subject matter for the creation of a …

Eric Fischl is one of the most influential painters of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Inspired by his own middle-class upbringing on Long Island, Fischl’s provocative paintings expose the underbelly of American suburban life while piercing through its veil. Through startling scenes of grief, adolescent sexuality and political malaise, Fisc…

April Gornik is an American Artist known for her dynamic and powerful landscape paintings. Gornik’s large scale luminous paintings evoke moments of transience and calm, as well as volatility and eruption. Yet, her vivid canvases are never literal, but rather imagined and emotional spaces. While Gornik focuses on the light and colors of the landscap…

In the late 90’s, JT LeRoy – a male teen sex worker turned-novelist – became an overnight literary sensation. Publishing three bestselling books, LeRoy’s electrifying work revealed a subversive American culture that had never before been explored. Immediately, LeRoy was celebrated by Hollywood and the Literati. The only problem was... JT didn't act…

Joep Beving is a Dutch composer and 21st-century music phenomenon, known worldwide for his gorgeous and haunting compositions which he often refers to as "simple music for complex emotions.” Joep has reenergized the world of modern classical music and proven that it’s never too late to embrace one’s creative passion. His first album "Solipsism", wh…

Today in Paris marks the unveiling of the infamous Christo and Jeanne-Claude's posthumous dream project -- "L‘Arc de Triomphe, Wrapped”. Artlaws is thrilled to present a special event interview with celebrated artist and photographer Simon Chaput who knew Christo and Jeanne-Claude intimately, as both friend and colleague. After meeting the artist c…

Moisés Kaufman is a Tony and Emmy nominated playwright and director, best known for his revolutionizing plays that sensitively probe questions of culture and sexuality. As co-founder and Artistic Director of Tectonic Theater Project, Kaufman has been one of the most important voices in American theater over the past three decades. Born in Venezuela…

Zack James is the founder of Animeme Studios and creator of one of YouTubes' most successful and longest running animated series YO MAMA -- a channel that's garnered over 8 million subscribers across all platforms and over 2 billion views. Considering the longstanding success of the franchise, many people are unaware that the show's creator is an a…

Many people know the multi-talented Martin Mull as a celebrated TV and film actor and comedian, as well as a musician and writer. But what some people don’t know is that, first and foremost, he is an artist -- a respected accomplished American painter, whose work is embraced and lauded by the artworld, and resides in museums and private collections…

Hailed as the “Punk Ballerina” by Vanity Fair, legendary dancer and choreographer Karole Armitage is the Artistic Director of the New York-based Armitage Gone! Dance Company. After rigorous training in classical ballet, Armitage began her professional career as a member of Balanchine’s Grand Theatre de Geneve. Soon thereafter she started exploring …

For over 20 years, Casey Spooner has pushed boundaries at the intersection of art, spectacle, and entertainment. When he first joined forces with his art school friend Warren Fischer in 1998, little did they know their multimedia project FISCHERSPOONER would capture the attention of the world. Making their debut at an East Village Starbucks, this o…

Los Angeles based photographer and visual artist Melanie Pullen is best known for her breathtaking and startling series High Fashion Crime Scenes. In this extensive photo series which has evolved over fifteen years, Pullen recreates grisly true historical-crime scenes, while outfitting her "victims" in haute couture -- 13 million dollars worth. Mel…

Brooklyn based performance artist Narcissister is infamous around the world for her shocking and transgressive performances, which the New York Times dubbed "avant porn". Growing up as a mixed-race child in La Jolla, the artist experienced hate crimes and discrimination first hand. Feeling like the ultimate outsider, she began to look inward and re…

When singer-songwriter Esthero (Jenny-Bea Englishman) released her trip-hop masterpiece Breath From Another in 1998, she was only eighteen years old. Leaving behind her idyllic countryside home in Ontario to pursue the burgeoning music scene in Toronto, Esthero penned an album that would change the face of music. With two acclaimed solo albums to f…

When a former child music protege from Glendale meets a mesmerizing singer-songwriter from Glasgow, an extraordinary synergy takes place and a multitalented music couple is born -- none other than Paul Cantelon and Angela McCluskey. Angela is the Grammy nominated artist best known for her ubiquitous hit “Breathe” from her high profile collaboration…

Derek Ahonen is an internationally acclaimed playwright best known for his gritty, volatile, and darkly humorous work. As co-founder of The Amoralists, the trailblazing New York City theater company, his aim was to write and produce raw theater with absolutely no moral judgement, while expressing the American condition in a completely honest way. A…