Lily Kwak

Nov 8, 2024 | interviewmagazine.com | Lily Kwak

If you’re leading a mob of 40 people into the heart of Taipei, you might be a tour guide. Or you might be on tour with the indie bands Hyukoh and Sunset Rollercoaster, who’ve just hypnotized their fans in back-to-back sold out shows in Seoul and Taipei. To celebrate the occasion, the motley crew partied at a local dive bar called The Fucking Place. “I almost got PTSD,” says Sunset Rollercoaster frontman Kuo-Hung Tseng.

Sep 24, 2024 | interviewmagazine.com | Lily Kwak

New York fashion guy and street-style Tiktoker Maurice Kamara takes us on a tour of some of his favorite SoHo spots. ———Where we at? The famous Fanelli, fam. The vibe here is very chill right now, but sometimes it gets chaotic. Fashion-wise there’s a lot of stores nearby, so it’s a good place for people to come and show off their style. What do you order here? We get that spaghetti and meatballs. We got to make sure you get that sugar. And the OJ, no Simpson. Who comes here? You see a lot of VIPs here.

Sep 8, 2024 | interviewmagazine.com | Lily Kwak

“Every artist is a collector,” Amy Bravo remarks as she points to a curio cabinet replete with boxing gloves, synthetic hair, cow bones, and a palm tree. For her solo show at Swivel Gallery’s new Tribeca location, TransmogrificationNOW!, the Brooklyn-based, Italian-Cuban artist flexes a rich, visceral language that repurposes family keepsakes and found objects to create a world that reflects her own family mythology and queer experiences.

Sep 8, 2024 | flipboard.com | Lily Kwak

7 hours agoThe $80 option is loud and built for adventures. If the compact Wonderboom is just too big for you, Ultimate Ears' latest speaker will supplant that model as the smallest entry in the company's current lineup. The Miniroll is, as the name suggests, a diminutive version of the company's flat, …

Sep 5, 2024 | interviewmagazine.com | Lily Kwak

On Wednesday, near Tompkins Square Park, we lit one up with artist Emma Stern, whose solo show The Rabbit Hole opened to a raucous crowd at Half Gallery. Her work is an extended performance, a marriage of her formal background in figuration and her own inquiries into 3D software used by video game developers and porn creators that uses the vocabulary of fetish and fandom communities to reimagine female tropes as sexy avatars.