Robert Longo studio

Leather harness top, leather and silk chiffon skirt, and white heels MANDY COON, and silver and leather collar with heart pendant DELFINA DELETTREZ

interview by GLENN O’BRIEN
photography ROBERT LONGO

All works courtesy of Metro Pictures Gallery, New York

 

GLENN O’BRIEN — Okay, so here I am walking through Robert Longo’s studio on Center Street in Soho. Robert looks kind of the same as he did when he was a guitar-playing bad-boy artist in the ’80s. He’s still got his Elvisy pompadour and sideburns and that unrepentant guy-ness that goes so perfectly with the post-macho black-and-white graphite drawings of his that made such a splash in the ’80s. I went to put my coat down but Robert warned me, “It’s like a coal mine in here.” And it was — the black stuff from his drawings was all over the place. I joked…