Our correspondent Martin Bailey and art historian Martin Gayford talk about Van Gogh's time at the asylum of Saint-Paul-de-Mausole and Christian Marclay tells us about his ground-breaking work The Clock. Produced in association with Bonhams, auctioneers since 1793.

We spoke to the V&A's Alan Derbyshire about Nicholas Hilliard's trick for painting the perfect ruby and why collector's need to look at their miniatures often

The Los Angeles museum’s longest-serving director shares his recommendations for its newly appointed leader

The 86-year-old artist is showing three new short films at DC Moore Gallery in New York

From superhero action figures to Chianti-infused treasure hunts and poolside art, exhibitions are exploring the importance of play

She discusses her tightrope of Dagestani art and how she is combining beauty treatment and sculpture at the Liverpool Biennial

The french artist tells The Art Newspaper about her new Palais de Tokyo show, her Venice Biennale plans and why play is important

With the World Cup in full swing, we look at a London show exploring football as a cultural phenomenon with its co-curator Eddy Frankel, and talk to the British film-maker John Akomfrah about his exhibition at the New Museum, New York.

Ahead of his retrospective at Washington, DC's Smithsonian American Art Museum, the artist discusses his interest in the social and political implications of technologies, including mass surveillance systems and artificial intelligence

As Christo's new work for the Serpentine shows, he remains as ambitious as ever

The US pioneer of digital art discusses her passion for cutting-edge biology and its influence on her new multimedia exhibition, Anti-Bodies

Fifty years on, Joan Bakewell remembers speaking to the pioneering artist for the BBC, shortly before his death

The Italian artist speaks to The Art Newspaper ahead of his major show at Yorkshire Sculpture Park

With a retrospective lighting up the Whitney, the artist behind “that” work has finally returned to town

The Magnum photographer and subject of a travelling retrospective talks about her work, from documenting conflict zones to portraits of Carnival strippers

Imposing open-air work made of African farming fabric opens at New York fair this week

Interventions are being co-ordinated across the city as part of the Queens Museum’s exhibition

Emilia Kabakov discusses the duo’s past in the USSR and their aim to stop it defining how they are perceived as artists

The collector of contemporary Middle Eastern art tells us what she's bought and why it would be rude to say no to Gauguin

The Dubai-based financier tells us what he's bought and how he regrets not buying Russian art

The London/Berlin dealer and Art Dubai exhibitor on being too trusting and why small talk matters

The art collective is bringing daytime TV, complete with a celebrity chef, to this year’s edition of The Room—Art Dubai’s interactive dining experience

The artist trio of Rokni Haerizadeh, Ramin Haerizadeh and Hesam Rahmanian on the joys and challenges of living, working and collecting art together

Central Park is an ideal location for the British-Nigerian artist’s latest sculpture

The US artist discusses theatricality, science and the need for a greater environmental commitment in art

The Algerian-British artist explores her family’s experiences living in the shadow of colonialism

The Bay Area artist and his team build massive machines that act in dangerous performances—and they are opening their first gallery show in New York

The film-maker discusses her US-German heritage and how dance influences her work

With his immersive installation, the artist wants to raise awareness of climate change

The artist’s work offers a surreal view of hidden labour involved in the production of goods