Louisa Buck

Louisa Buck is the contemporary art correspondent at The Art Newspaper

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Artist interview, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye: ‘Paint is Alive, fleshy and unpredictable’

As she prepares for a major exhibition opening in London this month, the British artist reflects on getting messy with paint, creating fictional characters and drawing on multiple sources to “play God”

Venice verdicts

Six major art-world figures give their verdict on Okwui Enwezor’s All the World’s Futures show for the 56th Venice Biennale, as well as commenting on the national pavilions and other exhibitions

Sinister sprites and hallucinatory reflections haunt Joan Jonas's US Pavilion

Artist transforms the space into an opulent environment, with readings from Nova Scotian ghost stories

'I don't like to say I'm representing America'—performance artist Joan Jonas takes on the US pavilion

She talks to The Art Newspaper about the natural world, working with children, the relationship between cooking and art, and why standing for a nation is always problematic

Sweet smell of success for Sarah Lucas at the British Pavilion

Custard and cream coloured sculptures retain some humour and bawdiness, but works by the former Young British Artist are more poignant than provocative

Sarah Lucas on a British pavilion show that will be 'hard-core crème Anglaise'

The YBA promises a bawdy mix of high and low culture, loo-paper meets bronze, in a show that is "classic Sarah Lucas" yet “very Casanova”

Wolfgang Tillmans at the Venice Architecture Biennale: Journeys into space

Wolfgang Tillmans’s Venice work explores architectural details, grand and humble, from 37 countries

Artist Interview: Why Tillmans is returning to Russia

The artist is taking part in Manifesta 10, despite the country’s anti-gay laws

Phyllida Barlow: the artist working with the Tate collection to interrogate the essential nature of sculpture

Since retiring from teaching at the Slade school after 40 years, the sculptor has found her large, site-specific works in great demand—not least at Tate Britain

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Works head to Tate fresh from Frieze thanks to the Outset/Frieze Art Fair Fund

Younger and less recognised artists were the order of the day