Artist interview

‘Only ideas can change the world’: an interview with the Zero group’s Heinz Mack

The artist, who turns 86 in March, reflects on new work—but how little his ideals have changed—ahead of presentations in St Moritz and New York

Sean Scully’s grand finale opens in China

Abstract artist enjoys critical acclaim with two career surveys in as many years

Tala Madani: the descent of man

As Tala Madani prepares for the Whitney Biennial, she explains how childhood comics and Trump’s election victory figure into her satirical images of men

Rachel Maclean: Selfie Portrait

The video artist, who is representing Scotland at next year’s Venice Biennale, discusses her satirical take on identity and online narcissism

The great 3D quantum leap

As the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis prepares for its 2017 survey of Merce Cunningham, it has commissioned an ambitious work from Charles Atlas, the late choreographer’s former collaborator

Gabriel Orozco: nature meets geometry in south London

Interlocking circles are key to the Mexican artist’s design for his new public garden at the South London Gallery

In pictures: Frieze Masters

The leading British artist Cornelia Parker picks six standout works from the fair

Interview: Yuri Pattison has his eye on you

The winner of this year’s Frieze Artist Award taps into mass data surveillance by filming and recording visitors to the fair

Interview: Philippe Parreno goes with the flow

The French artist's ambitious Turbine Hall commission for Tate Modern is a gesamkunstwerkof sound, bacteria, floating fish and a ventriloquist

Guerrilla Girls: going ape at the art world

The “feminist masked avengers” are targeting private museums in their continuing fight for greater diversity in cultural institutions

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Philippe Parreno creates a public ritual at Tate Modern

As he takes on the Hyundai Commission in the Turbine Hall, the French artist on exhibitions as works of art, why he dislikes the word “installation” and engaging with Londoners

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Ragnar Kjartansson: New Romantic

As a major show of his work opens at London’s Barbican, the Icelandic artist discusses his fascination with Romanticism and explains why he gets his mother to spit in his face every five years

Jonas Mekas: the film-maker’s film-maker

Art Basel honours the Lithuanian-American artist who survived Hitler’s labour camps

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Michael Landy gets creatively destructive in Basel’s Tinguely Museum

The British artist shares the Swiss kinetic sculptor’s love of jumble and junk

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Tobias Rehberger shows Basel the birds and the bees

Hives and cuckoo clocks adorn the artist’s art trail across the Swiss-German border

Marvin Gaye Chetwynd: What's Going On

As she prepares a new performance for the Liverpool Biennial in July, the British artist reflects on her eclectic and ramshackle works, and injecting fun into art and anthropology

Rodney McMillian and the poetry of the past

The artist, the subject of three retrospectives in New York and Philadelphia, finds history in abstraction

Kerry James Marshall: driven to make a difference

As his touring US solo exhibition opens in Chicago, where he lives, the painter reflects on the oddness of survey shows, the power of the market and achieving all his dreams

Yoko Ono: Serious Play

As shows of her work draw the crowds in Beijing and Lyons, the Fluxus veteran and conceptual art pioneer reflects on her longevity. The secret? Mischievous improvisation and cold baths

Interview: Cai Guo-Qiang takes stock of Chinese art now

Artist-turned-curator looks beyond political messages and record prices for group show in Qatar

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Do Ho Suh: the fabric of life

As shows of his work open at opposite ends of the US, the nomadic Korean-born artist explains how his coloured cloth installations reflect his transient existence

Daniel Buren fills Brussels show with all of his favourite things

The conceptual artist pays tribute to his friends and masters–just don’t call him a curator

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Mark Wallinger: ‘Facing up to myself’

The UK artist has been doing some soul-searching. He tells us about his latest works, partly inspired by Freud, and his own experiences of psychoanalysis

Abbas Kiarostami on his fixation with doors, the still image and carpentry

The Iranian film-maker is showing a photographic series he’s worked on for 20 years at Toronto’s Aga Khan Museum

Walk on water with Christo

The artist who once wrapped islands in Biscayne Bay reveals why he is in a hurry to create Floating Piers

Design is about the human intent

Yves Béhar, the Swiss-born, San Francisco-based designer behind Jawbone’s Up fitness tracker and One Laptop Per Child, is the winner of Design Miami’s 2015 Visionary Award

Susan Philipsz: Eavesdropping on the Eisler files

The Turner Prize-winning Scottish artist finds inspiration in the FBI files of the communist composer who spent the 1940s in Hollywood and the Cold War in East Berlin

Warning: you are under surveillance

The artist Trevor Paglen interrogates the world of mass surveillance and its increasing impact on society

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Rebirth into a strange new world

The Argentine artist Adrián Villar Rojas talks about his troupe of collaborators and how we are all sculptors—as well as sculptures

From the archive: Frank Stella in 2015—on his Whitney retrospective

As a major exhibition opens at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the US artist reflects on how beauty is “a given” in art—and how, after nearly 60 years, he is still pursuing “the problems of painting”