Sammy Loren

1 month ago | artillerymag.com | Emma Christ |Sammy Loren

As I fought through crosstown traffic, the messages came in fast and furious. Hurry up!… Where are you?!… She’s about to arrive!… You’re gonna miss her corvette pull up!When I finally parked and made it to Melrose Botanical Garden, the crowd was spilling onto the street. Traffic slowed down. Paparazzi snapped pics.

1 month ago | interviewmagazine.com | Sammy Loren |Jake Nevins

Halfway through my conversation with the French artist Claire Tabouret, we arrived at everyone’s favorite subject: psychoanalysis. Twice a week for seven years, the painter would visit her shrink’s book-filled Parisian office and recline on the sofa. “He would smoke,” Tabouret reminisced from her brightly lit LA studio last month. “And I would cry.” Tabouret illuminates her emotional turmoil in Moonlight Shadow, an enigmatic new show currently on view at LA’s Night Gallery.

Jan 22, 2025 | family.style | Sammy Loren |Meka Boyle |Sahir Ahmed

Long before he started interviewing international pop stars, Arman Naféei grew up navigating disparate worlds. He was born in Cologne, Germany to a family of Iranian intellectuals and was raised in rooms full of Persian poets and artists. As a boy, he’d soak up the rhythms of his immigrant parents’ language and culture and then lace up his cleats to play soccer with his friends. ‍“I like to dibble and dabble,” the DJ-turned-curator, 39, says now from his breezy Hollywood Hills home.

Jan 22, 2025 | family.style | Meka Boyle |Sammy Loren |Sahir Ahmed

Patti Smith’s voice is playing over speakers as she moves throughout Kurimanzutto’s New York gallery, making the finishing touches on her exhibition an hour before it opens. “Even in the '70s, I was always doing something right at the very end, because certain things just come to you right at the very end,” she explains. ‍Smith is wearing a black blazer, white T-shirt, navy pants tucked into black combat boots, glasses, and two long white braids.

Dec 10, 2024 | interviewmagazine.com | Sammy Loren |Jake Nevins

Late in my conversation with the painter Lucy Bull, the artist casually mentioned that notorious shitposter Tom Tuna was on the guest list for The Garden of Forking Paths, her solo exhibition now on view at the ICA Miami. It’s quintessential Bull: inviting the carnival to crash the art world. Since her early days curating shows from the desk of her East Hollywood apartment, Bull has brought together distinct scenes and transformed them into something new and electric.