Kathleen Madden, Art Historian & Gloria Sutton, Art historian

You’re both art historians. What’s the story of how you met?

We met working at Interview Magazine probably in 1994.

Who are some celebrities you’ve interviewed for Interview Magazine you remember?

No, we weren’t working in editorial. They wouldn’t let us near anybody. We were in the back.

How did you become art historians?

We decided to critique the capitalist patriarchy and wanted to get out of commercial publishing and become poor and destitute working on arcane areas of knowledge.

What do you think the future for art magazines is? Do you think there’s a future for paper or is everything going online?

I think there’s always space of criticality and publications have always been the breeding ground for that because it’s a slower, glacial pace. It doesn’t have to be as responsive. I think paper publishing works on a different cycle of time which showcases different ideas and it’s much needed now.

As an art historian, what do you think the future of art is?

In a nutshell, art has always been about communication with interfacing with an unknown public from day one. From cave paintings and the zeitgeist, and understanding what’s happening.

How has your friendship prospered from the days at Interview Magazine?

I don’t want to give Interview too much credit. We barely worked there. Between London, New York, and Boston. It’s very spontaneous and very much about serendipity and having long term shared experiences and creating more. This basically sums up friendship when you’re over fifty.