Artist interview
From the archive | ‘Public art is propaganda, frankly’: Hank Willis Thomas discusses gun violence and the urgent need for alternative memorials
A host of the artist’s exhibitions and public projects open in various locations across the US open this year
‘This US government looks more like Iran's every day’: Shirin Neshat talks about the power of political satire ahead of LA show
The Iranian artist's major exhibition opens at the Broad museum features new work addressing discrimination in Trump's America
Mark Bradford addresses modern-day xenophobia through Greek mythology and a Motown classic
US artist talks on The Art Newspaper Podcast about his London exhibition Cerberus at Hauser & Wirth
Mark Leckey on using Victorian techniques to evoke magical memories
For his new Tate Britain show, the artist used illusion to recreate his childhood experience beneath a motorway
'I'm drawn to contradictions': Danh Vo on why his London show includes work by the professor who told him to give up art
For his sprawling exhibition at South London Gallery the Vietnam-born, Danish artist salutes those who have influenced him
Frieze week: Ai Weiwei, Mark Bradford, Peter Doig, Melanie Gerlis, Hettie Judah
In this bumper edition we interview three of the world's leading artists, all of whom have shows timed to coincide with Frieze in London, plus all the latest news from the fair
'Artists have to be good citizens': Himali Singh Soin on Brexit, climate change and the alien other
Frieze Artist Award winner’s Arctic-inspired video draws on the Victorian Ice Age to talk about today's big issues
Elizabeth Peyton on Kurt Cobain, the Twilight films and painting a museum director in his shorts
In her new solo show at London's National Portrait Gallery, the artist connects the past with the present
Trevor Paglen on questioning the intelligence of AI
US artist’s new show at the Barbican continues his exploration into how artificial intelligence is shaping how organisations control us
Thomas Struth on being taught by Gerhard Richter and how he almost cancelled his Guggenheim Bilbao show
A retrospective of the German photographer opens this week and includes more than 130 works spanning four decades
'It’s our intervention that causes the mayhem': Kiki Smith on work, wandering and the wonders of nature
Tapestries, photography and sculpture feature in the US artist’s first major UK show for 25 years at Modern Art Oxford
Native American artist Santiago X on rebuilding Indigenous cities, one mound at a time
The forgotten history of Indigenous mound building will be reclaimed at this year’s Chicago Architecture Biennial
'Art's most high-profile provocateur' Maurizio Cattelan on his new Blenheim Palace show
Known for this dangling horse and gold toilet, the Italian artist's exhibition is in the unlikely setting of Winston Churchill's birthplace
Top of the Pods: video artists in the spotlight
We bring together discussions with three masters of video art: Ragnar Kjartansson, John Akomfrah and Christian Marclay
Lars Vilks: “Censorship is based on fear, not sensitivities towards ethnic minorities”
The Swedish artist is currently writing a musical about Islam
Interview with Sean Landers: Appropriating Picasso “because I want to be as great as him”
“I would like to leave a sad, funny, little painting”
Turner Prize nominee Helen Cammock on Baroque music and marginalised histories
The UK artist's solo exhibition at London's Whitechapel Gallery explores the lives of 17th-century Italian female composers
Ibrahim Mahama's ghosts of Ghana. Plus, China's epic Picasso show
We speak to the Ghanaian artist as he unveils a major new commission at the Whitworth as part of the Manchester International Festival. Plus, we find out about the Picasso blockbuster at UCCA in Beijing. Produced in association with Bonhams, auctioneers since 1793.
Interview: Lawrence Abu Hamdan—a self-styled 'private ear'
Your voice reveals much more about you than you think—and the Turner Prize nominee and Parcours artist is listening
How Dada inspired William Kentridge’s The Head and the Load
A snippet from our podcast interview with the South African artist as his show opens at the Kunstmuseum Basel
Interview: Andrea Bowers discusses power dynamics post #MeToo
The artist, whose work is causing a stir at Art Basel, aims to keep alive conversations on the toxic nature of power that sparked the feminist social movement
Book excerpt: William Kentridge reveals how Antoine Bourdelle inspired his work
In Jori Finkel's book It Speaks to Me, Kentridge discusses the sculpture in Johannesburg that first made him feel the power of art
Interview: William Kentridge on his life lessons
Self-interrogation is central to the work of the South African artist, whose latest piece on show at the Kunstmuseum Basel poses a series of questions that get half-answered
Cheryl Pope on love, representation and the comfort of textile art
The artist is showing a new series of wool roving nudes at Monique Meloche Gallery in Chicago
Interview: Pauline Boudry and Renate Lorenz on dancing in the Swiss pavilion
The duo explain why their Venice Biennale presentation Moving Backwards is actually a step forward
Painting, identity and injustice: Howardena Pindell and Oscar Murillo
With major gallery shows in London, the two artists discuss their multifarious art practices
Faith Ringgold discusses civil rights and children's books in solo London show
Acclaimed for her paintings and quilts, which weave in stories of the Civil Rights movement from a black female perspective, Faith Ringgold is about to open a solo show at the Serpentine Gallery, London—her first in a European institution.
An artist’s memories of Tiananmen Square
The Bay Area artist Stella Zhang was a senior at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing during the student-led protests. She has created a new work based on those memories—and the government’s efforts to silence them
The rise of the mega-dealers, plus artists take over the Guggenheim
Michael Shnayerson talks to us about his new book Boom and Nancy Spector and Paul Chan take us through the Guggenheim's Artistic Licence show
Harold Ancart on the art of handball
The Belgian artist's Brooklyn project is all play —and lots of work