Written by Alexa Carrasco It’s Sunday and Sadie Laska is in Forrest Hills, Queens. An average day finds her traversing the city, between Forrest Hills, Chinatown, and Industry City, carrying art supplies for either herself or an artist she works for, playing drums in her band I.U.D, going to art shows, painting. “I’m a painter and I can be a […]
Millie Brown
Written by Elisabeth Sherman In March of 2014, a video popped up online—and then quickly went viral—capturing a Lady Gaga concert, in which the singer invites the performance artist Millie Brown to join her on the stage. Gaga bangs wildly on her drum set, and screams “I don’t play by your fucking rules! This is our world!” as Brown pulls […]
Molly Soda
Written by Egor Alters Digital artist Molly Soda needs no introduction: with over 65k Instagram followers, Soda has become the darling of a new generation of uber-connected millenials that has come of age alongside social media. Her projects—occasionally crude, always personal—speak of Soda’s self-awareness, but also of her desire to connect with her audience on a visceral level. Earlier this year, she debuted Should I Send This?, a digital project of self-leaked nudes. It went […]
Hozier
Written by Sara Tardiff It’s the evening after being named VH1’s Art¬ist of the Year and Andrew Hozier-Byrne, known by the mononym Hozier, seems unfazed. Not with lack of elation, but he is almost un¬touched by the reality of it. With a year on the road, Byrne is walking away with a handful of chart-topping songs, a Grammy nomination, and […]
Chris Colfer
Written by Sara Tardiff Most red-blooded Americans can find familiarity in the high school experience forever preserved in television and film. For Chris Colfer, the archetypes of the demonic cheerleader and rampant over-achiever truly came to life after he graduated—on the set of Glee. The now 25-year-old has finally left those hallowed halls after the shows’ finale in March 2015, […]
Feipel-Bechameil
Martine Feipel and Jean Bechameil are Luxembourg-based artists whose grand, architectural works are captivating compositions of sculptural and architectural matter which distorts our perceptions of time and space and challenges our notions of what’s real. The artists spoke with NOTOFU about their work and creative process. What five words best describe your work? Deconstruction, uncertainty, melancholy, intemporality, playfulness. Your work […]
Mary Corse
For over half a century, Mary Corse—an American artist, primarily working through the medium of painting—has confronted the aura and specificity of materials, experimenting with their capacity to respond to the surrounding environment. From her iconic use of prismatic, glass microspheres, to her ongoing explorations of organic materials, Corse roots her practice in the belief that the essence of painting […]
Han Kang’s ‘Vegetarian’
Longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize (which the book went on to win), ‘The Vegetarian’ by Han Kang and translated from the Korean by Deborah Smith tells the story of Yeong-hye who suddenly declares she will no longer eat after having a disturbing dream. Originally published as separate “novelettes”, the three parts of the story are told from the point of view of her husband, […]
Asger Carlsen
6-year-old Asger Carlsen is channeling his inner James Deen. Perched atop a motorbike, he greets the camera with a stolid expression that holds a hint of suspicion. In another picture he is a cherubic looking toddler with a head crowned by a patch of white-blonde hair. These days Asger’s photos—even the selfies—have a decidedly different aesthetic. His distorted portraits bend, […]