Kim Gordon

On the eve of the release of her first solo album, "No Home Record," the artist talks California, "Socialist Realism," and why she doesn't want to be a "celebrity artist."

The 'Sonic Youth' bassist has a whole separate career in visual art—but don't call it a side hustle.

If not entirely unknown, pleasures are oddly hard to come by at Simon Lee Gallery's show of visual art by and about music and musicians.