Maria Bamford on creativity and mental health

Actor and comedian Maria Bamford discusses making work about your real life and the complicated relationship between creativity and mental health.

“I hate being limited. I would rather be great at everything. I want to destroy in any kind of comedy room. I want to be able to make anybody laugh, even if it’s in a different language, even if it’s not a laughing-appropriate situation. Like, it’s not even a comedy show at all. It’s a crime scene. I go to crime scenes and see if I can make people laugh, just to take on the challenge.”

“Just Fucking Do What You Want”: Leo Fitzpatrick on His Inaugural Gallery Show

Once upon a time, before the rise of the Chelsea arts district and its white cube galleries, there existed a wild and unorthodox scene bubbling up on the cross streets of New York’s East Village. In the 1980s, spaces like FUN Gallery and Gracie Mansion provided an antidote to the big-money art market and served as a launching pad for the likes of Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, and David Wojnarowicz. In recent years, a new crop of young art spaces has started to pop back up in the East Village, seemingly reviving that early, fabled spirit of the irreverent, unfussy, and less obsessed with sales totals. The most recent example is Public Access on St. Mark’s Place, which opened this past fall. Founded by the actor/artist/DJ Leo Fitzpatrick, along with his partner, the gallerist and bar owner Brendan McElroy, the small storefront is bent on a wild-hearted, community-minded program that’s a welcome throwback to the city’s scrappier days…

PUSS PUSS Issue 12

For issue number 12 of PUSS PUSS, I spoke with the genius playwright and screenwriter Jeremy O. Harris and drag sensation Gigi Goode.

We're Here. We're Queer. Maybe Someone is Fucking on the Bed.

I chatted with photographer Spyros Rennt for the Fall issue of Interview Magazine.