Artist interview

‘Blood can either be a connective tissue or something used for division’: Jordan Eagles on his show a Pioneer Works

The artist uses the Mets baseball team and his own blood to explore his battle for belonging and the politics of health

‘The content, material and form support each other’: Sandy Rodriguez on her Hispanic Society Museum show

The Los Angeles-based Chicana artist employs centuries-old Indigenous processes for making maps and other materials

‘Common ground for me is everywhere I step’: Mohammad Omer Khalil on his five-institution show

The 90-year-old artist, who has lived and worked in New York since the 1960s, has been largely overlooked in the US

‘This is an opportunity that will never happen again’: Syrian artist Sara Shamma on rebuilding her country

The Syrian pavilion brings back to life an ancient funerary tower, in tribute to the culture destroyed during the Syrian war

Beware the technology rat trap: Cooper Jacoby’s standout contribution to New York’s Whitney Biennial

The US artist’s sculptures explore the ways in which AI behemoths and other corporations turn our data into financial assets

Lubaina Himid on capturing the 'uneasiness' of Britain for her Venice Biennale pavilion

The artist, who was born in Zanzibar, describes Britain as having "all the hallmarks of safety and calm, but has an underlying loathing of the Other"

'I wanted to catch the desperation': Dries Verhoeven on turning the Dutch pavilion into a bunker for the Venice Biennale

The open, light-filled Dutch pavilion has been turned into a dark bunker-like space, where visitors will experience a raw vocal performance

Arthur Jafa: ‘America has always been a demonic state. And we love it’

Jafa and Richard Prince come together for the first time in an explosive new exhibition which shows their shared interest in appropriation and the real America

Lee Ufan: ‘I try to bring together those things which are made and unmade’

The South Korean artist, whose work is on show in Venice's Piazza San Marco during the Biennale, describes how his work combines the natural and industrial, and why he taught himself to draw breath—literally

‘It’s really important that the public is not just a silent witness’: Marina Abramović on her Venice Biennale exhibition

The self-styled “grandmother of performance art” is the first female living artist to exhibit at the Gallerie dell’Accademia—and she wants everyone to join in

Paul McCarthy: ‘The world is now an extreme absurdity. The work is a reaction to that’

The veteran provocateur talks about his return to the enduring motif of Santa Claus, and his ongoing collaboration with the German actress Lilith Stangenberg, as an exhibition of his taboo-busting work opens in Paris

A brush with... Andrew Cranston—podcast

Andrew Cranston talks to Ben Luke about his influences—from writers to musicians, and, of course, other artists—and the cultural experiences that have shaped his life and work

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A brush with... Sanya Kantarovsky—podcast

Sanya Kantarovsky talks to Ben Luke about his influences—from writers to musicians, and, of course, other artists—and the cultural experiences that have shaped his life and work

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‘I’m interested in breaking binaries, barriers and boundaries’: Sarah Rosalena on her new LACMA commission

The Angeleno academic and weaver has drawn on her family history to create a permanent artwork for LACMA

In partnership with Los Angeles County Museum of Art

A Brush With... Hurvin Anderson—podcast

Hurvin Anderson talks to Ben Luke about his influences—from writers to musicians, and, of course, other artists—and the cultural experiences that have shaped his life and work

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A Brush With... Lorna Simpson—podcast

Lorna Simpson talks to Ben Luke about her influences—from writers to musicians and, of course, other artists—and the cultural experiences that have shaped her life and work

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Exhibitionsinterview

‘The subject demanded a more restrained approach’: Carlos Rolón on revisiting the 1966 uprising in Chicago's Humboldt Park

The Chicagoan artist’s solo exhibition at 65Grand documents the Puerto Rican community, where he lives, through intricate, monochrome drawings, found material sculpture and more

Chan Wai Lapinterview

Swimming pools and school rules: artist Chan Wai Lap on the unusual themes behind his installations

The Hong Kong artist's works focus on codes of behaviour in seemingly disparate environments

Exhibitionsinterview

‘There’s a bead connection to every place’: Wendy Red Star on exploring the real and symbolic currency of beads

The Apsáalooke artist’s new exhibition at Sargent’s Daughters in New York takes the form of a simulated trading floor for glass beads

A brush with… Danh Vo—podcast

Danh Vo talks to Ben Luke about his influences—from writers to musicians, film-makers and, of course, other artists—and the cultural experiences that have shaped his life and work

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‘My paintings are always really kitchen sink, everything’s thrown into them’: Christina Quarles on her new solo show in Los Angeles

The artist’s first solo exhibition with Hauser & Wirth in Los Angeles features works she made after her community in Altadena was devastated by the Eaton fire in January of last year

‘Everyone can talk about a cabinet or a chair’: Ryan Preciado on his show at Hollyhock House in Los Angeles

The artist brings his “insecure sculptures” to one of Frank Lloyd Wright’s most unusual buildings, located in East Hollywood

A Brush With... Veronica Ryan—podcast

Veronica Ryan talks to Ben Luke about her influences—from writers to musicians and, of course, other artists—and the cultural experiences that have shaped her life and work

Hosted by Ben Luke. Produced by David Clack and Aimee Dawson
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Rose Wylie: ‘It’s very, very fragile where a painting ends. All the time it sits on a precarious edge’

After beginning her career in the 1950s, and then taking 25 years out to raise a family, the artist finally hit her stride in the 2000s. Now, she is the first female painter to have a show in the main galleries of the Royal Academy of Arts in London

Exhibitionsinterview

Tracey Emin: ‘I’ve done more in my last five years than in the whole rest of my life’

Tate Modern is hosting the largest retrospective to date of one of the UK’s biggest artists, who has never shrunk away from laying bare the most intimate and even traumatic details of her personal life

A brush with… Louis Fratino—podcast

Louis Fratino talks to Ben Luke about his influences—from writers to musicians, film-makers and, of course, other artists—and the cultural experiences that have shaped his life and work

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Aiza Ahmed: ‘I’m finding ways to explore humanity’

The young Pakistan-born, New York-based artist is showing new works from her Doha residency programme at Art Basel Qatar

Exhibitionsinterview

'We can imagine alternatives to the present': Cannupa Hanska Luger on his exhibition at the Joslyn Art Museum

For his new show, the multidisciplinary artist drew inspiration from 19th-century watercolours of Indigenous communities by the Swiss artist Karl Bodmer

Enrico David: ‘It’s as if the objects are there as an avatar for something that has gone’

From mutated humanoid figures to sculptural furniture and miniature theatrical scenes, the Italian artist’s exhibition at the Castello di Rivoli teems with proxies for loss

A brush with… Olafur Eliasson

Olafur Eliasson talks to Ben Luke about his influences—from writers to musicians, film-makers and, of course, other artists—and the cultural experiences that have shaped his life and work

Hosted by Ben Luke. Produced by Philippa Kelly, David Clack and Aimee Dawson
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