Artist interview
Alberto Burri on Rauschenberg, Fontana and how an artist should manage his market
In a rare interview, the Italian artist spoke frankly about keeping the prices high for his work, saying: “I can always be a doctor instead”
Eddie Peake: When wrong feels right
As he prepares for his biggest exhibition to date, the British artist reflects on how his performances, paintings and other works “push what people consider to be OK”
Hiwa K: For Whom the Bell Tolls
Art must change if humanity is to survive, says this Iraqi artist, who has cast a bell from the melted-down armaments of Middle Eastern wars for a standout work in this year’s Venice Biennale exhibition
Doris Salcedo: silent witness
Doris Salcedo is devoted to making art about political violence in a world saturated with images of death and destruction. As a show opens at the Guggenheim, she says she hopes her elegiac sculptures might re-sensitise us
“I don’t have the illusion that art will save lives or diminish violence”
Doris Salcedo’s timely retrospective remembers victims of political violence
“The whole world is a political hot spot caught up in war, conflict and unrest”
Mona Hatoum returns to the Centre Pompidou this week, 20 years after it held her first solo museum show. The Lebanese-born, London-based artist looks back on her daring early performances and her openness to working in different media<br> <br>
Artist interview: Doug Aitken
The Californian on Darwin, DNA, Ruscha’s cactus omelettes and never having enough time
Kader Attia lends gravitas to Art Basel's Unlimited
Artist’s response to looting of Egyptian Museum puts widespread cultural destruction and political violence into sharp focus
‘All art is essentially a Rorschach test’
Marlene Dumas warns that you’ll miss a lot if you search for too much autobiography in her paintings
Swiss artist will make you dance to the music of fireflies and time
Robin Meier’s immersive installation is the Swiss watchmaker Audemars Piguet’s first commission
Artist interview, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye: ‘Paint is Alive, fleshy and unpredictable’
As she prepares for a major exhibition opening in London this month, the British artist reflects on getting messy with paint, creating fictional characters and drawing on multiple sources to “play God”
Cuban artist to stage new political project in Havana following arrest
Tania Bruguera, who has had her passport confiscated after planning a free-speech performance in Revolution Square, is due to host a 100-hour reading of the book The Origins of Totalitarianism ahead of the city's biennial
Shirin Neshat: cast against type
As a major retrospective opens in Washington, DC, the artist reflects on 20 years of challenging Western stereotypes of Iran
'I don't like to say I'm representing America'—performance artist Joan Jonas takes on the US pavilion
She talks to The Art Newspaper about the natural world, working with children, the relationship between cooking and art, and why standing for a nation is always problematic
Sean Scully: the wanderer
Soon to turn 70, the Irish-born painter has been on the move since the age of four. With major shows opening in Venice and other cities, he tells how travelling the world helps him stay “in an active situation”
‘No lawyer will represent me’
Tania Bruguera speaks to The Art Newspaper about life in Cuba after her arrest and the calls for a boycott of the Havana biennial in May
Artist Interview: Tracey Emin's Miami
The artist speaks briefly of her favourite Miami activities
Artist Interview: Why Tillmans is returning to Russia
The artist is taking part in Manifesta 10, despite the country’s anti-gay laws
Phyllida Barlow: the artist working with the Tate collection to interrogate the essential nature of sculpture
Since retiring from teaching at the Slade school after 40 years, the sculptor has found her large, site-specific works in great demand—not least at Tate Britain
Interview with Vito Acconci: From my space to yours
Shaking off the "continental" label has been a lifetime's work
From my space to yours: Interview with Vito Acconci
In the late 1960s, the former poet became a photographer, video and performance artist, using his own body as a subject
Interview with Josiah McElheny: The bright lights of Vizcaya
A glassblower’s take on a Florida utopia
Lawrence Wiener, the pioneer of Conceptual art, on transcending physical context and his egalitarian outlook
“The work has no metaphor: it is what it is”
Champion of the ‘free radicals’: Interview with Pip Chodorov
After introducing film to Fiac and battling to get fair prices for film-makers’ works, Pip Chodorov made his own history of experimental cinema—and now he is celebrating the work of a pioneering artist in a forthcoming Serpentine Gallery show.
New takes on Old Masters: Contemporary artists and the masters who inspired them
Five artists describe how the ideas and techniques of the artists of the past have informed their work
Inside the house that Theaster Gates built
Rising art star and activist Theaster Gates is transforming his Chicago neighbourhood, one building at a time
Interview with Oscar Tuazon: Sculptures you are supposed to play with
Artist Oscar Tuazon on his Public Art Fund project for Brooklyn Bridge Park
Interview with Pilippe Parreno: Warning, this art will self-destruct
Visitors to Parreno’s Beyeler show get a copy of his “black garden” film. The DVD will expire but the plants live on
'We are entering into the uncanny valley': Interview with Philippe Parreno
The artist’s solo show at the Beyeler this month includes new films starring a black garden and a robotic Marilyn Monroe
Trees of knowledge: Interview with Ackroyd & Harvey
Ackroyd & Harvey have fused nature and engineering to mark London 2012’s legacy and the Olympic Park’s hidden history