Andy Warhol started Interview in 1969 because he wanted to get into parties. That's one version of the story, anyway — that the artist and his Factory entourage needed press passes to the New York Film Festival, so they created a twenty-eight-page film journal called inter/VIEW and showed up with credentials. The first issue featured the cast of Agnès Varda's experimental film Lions Love, and the masthead listed Gerard Malanga, Paul Morrissey, John Wilcock, and Warhol himself as editors.
What began as a hustle quickly became something far more significant. By the early seventies, Bob Colacello — a Columbia film student who'd started writing reviews for the magazine — had taken over as editor, and Interview was transforming from underground film journal into the defining document of New York's social and cultural life. Warhol wanted every issue to feel like a great dinner party: a grande dame next to a rock star, an up-and-coming actress beside a political figure. He conducted interviews with a tape recorder perpetually in his pocket, publishing the conversations as raw, unedited transcripts. Artist Richard Bernstein created the magazine's bold, colorful portrait covers from 1972 to 1989, giving the publication a visual identity as distinctive as Warhol's own silkscreens.
After Warhol's death in 1987, the magazine passed through several editorial eras — most notably under Ingrid Sischy, who ran it from 1989 to 2008 and kept the publication at the center of art and fashion culture. Peter Brant, who acquired Interview from the Warhol Foundation, oversaw the magazine until it shuttered in 2018. It was subsequently relaunched and continues to publish, carrying forward Warhol's original vision of celebrity, art, and culture as inseparable elements of the same glittering conversation.
Interview remains one of the most iconic magazine brands in American publishing — a publication that didn't just document pop culture but helped invent it.
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