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
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
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
Michael Landy gets creatively destructive in Basel’s Tinguely Museum
The British artist shares the Swiss kinetic sculptor’s love of jumble and junk
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
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
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
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”