Louisa Buck

Louisa Buck is the contemporary art correspondent at The Art Newspaper

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Rebecca Warren's Fleischvater on at Modern Art, London

Her familiar clay objects may be joined by new works in other media

Interview with Michael Landy post-'Breakdown': New directions and championing of the urban weed

Last year Michael Landy meticulously catalogued and then destroyed all his material possessions. For his latest show he has photographed and etched the plants that grow spontaneously throughout the city

Interview with Inka Essenhigh: "The world is big and time is short”

Essenhigh talks about her switch from enamel to oil, the difficulties of making pretty pictures and the ominous undertow of her paintings

Interview with Rachel Feinstein: “I want to be taken more seriously”

The artist talks about her trials as a woman in a man’s field, the female way of working, her free-floating wackiness and making movies

Interview with Gary Hume, king of the narrative-free form: “I want to abolish ‘me’ in my art”

Hume talks painting, why he relishes a little melancholy, and what he learned from working with Stella McCartney

News from London: Artists turned thespians, gallery expansions, and Tate's sweet tooth

Comedian Tony Hancock is revealed as an artist, Tracey Emin makes movies and Anthony D’Offay does a film course

Interview with Mona Hatoum: Pass the electric fork, please

The artist uses kitchen utensils and household objects to charge domestic settings with danger

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News from London: Opening bottles and opening galleries

Leading dealer throws party for Tate’s Andy Warhol show

Wolfgang Tillmans' new film "body" boogies at Maureen Paley Interim Art

The video work will be displayed alongside other new photographic work

Interview with Willie Doherty on remembering Bloody Sunday—and all the rest

Speaking to the artist who immerses himself in the Northern Irish situation and responds to its shifting sense of reality

What's on: Salomòn Huerta

His first solo show at Gagosian

Interview with Sam Taylor-Wood on glamour, drama, and trauma

The artist reflects on the combination of autobiographical content and common experience in her work

Andrea Zittel: Home, sweet unit

“Design issues seem more relevant to me than most that come up in the art world,” the artist says

Luc Tymans: on pigeon power

Belgium's representative at this year's Venice Biennale explains why pigeons are not symbols of peace, how he depicts violence without actually showing it and why he returned to painting

Szeemann's moving Venice Biennale: Video work dominates 49th edition

Our overview also reveals the highs and lows of this year's biennale, which draws heavily on Scandinavian artists and pays tribute to grand masters Serra, Beuys, Twombly and Richter

Interview with Gilbert & George on originality and art: “Artists are very limited”

The duo dislike art that only the art world can understand and explain their campaign to be different

London galleries: Gilbert & George get horny in White Cube debut

Painting pushed into new places at Victoria Miro and The Approach and seismic shifts at asprey jacques as the Chapmans explore their feminine side at Modern Art

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Books: Absence in art and the absent Kapoor artwork in analyses of nothing

The evergreen aesthetic attraction of nothingness is explored and Anish Kapoor’s book replaces a vanished work

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What's on in London: Tracey Emin builds a helter-skelter

Unsettling excesses at Stephen Friedman and various ponderings on places and no-places at Milch, Corvi Mora, Timothy Taylor and Emily Tsingou

Interview with artist Richard Wilson: The topsy-turvy tendency

These works of art take a global perspective and are literally geologically based

What's on in London: Painterly hyperbole at D’Offay and canine grandeur at Salmon

Epic list-making at Gagosian and a sombre investigation of society at the Lisson

Interview with Mat Collishaw: Nappy change for art

Disillusioned and sick of heavy-handed art that tries to shock, the artist has now turned to kitsch and sentimental themes