Artist interview

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

The reluctant comic-book hero: Interview with Robert Crumb

A major survey of R. Crumb’s countercultural cartoons opened in Paris last month, but he remains mystified by the attention

Interview with Tim Rollins and KOS: Don’t call it a comeback

The art collaboration that rose to fame in the 1980s is holding its first public workshop for youngsters at Frieze New York

Urs Fischer, the reluctant interviewee

On the eve of his Palazzo Grassi retrospective, the artist talks about how journalists have misinterpreted his work

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Andrea Fraser: exposing the art world from within

From mock guided tours to a sexual encounter with a collector, the US artist's work is a unique form of institutional critique

The outsider’s outsider: Interview with Jeremy Deller

Is Deller the best artist whom collectors rarely buy? And why is he showing in London, a city he tries to avoid?

From the archive—Frank Stella in 2012 on upcoming exhibitions in Zaragoza and Wolfsburg

Stella discusses a collaboration with the architect Santiago Calatrava in the lead-up to a major retrospective at the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg

Interview with Gabriel Orozco: “I am not into artists pretending to be heroes”

The Mexican artist Gabriel Orozco on his work, retrospectives and opening this year’s talks programme

Interview with Liam Gillick: “There’s a perversity in my method”

With a biennial, two shows and a knitwear range on the go, Liam Gillick talks about the lasting effect of his Goldsmiths years

Interview with Glenn Kaino: Now you see him...

When Kaino thought the art world was getting too obsessed with money, he retreated into the realm of magic

Sonic sparring and sound Clashes: Interview with Anri Sala

Inspired by punk, Anri Sala’s video art stages a musical battle with time

Interview with George Condo: Finding a theatre for the absurd

Velázquez meets Bugs Bunny in George Condo’s first major retrospective on the South Bank

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An interview with Anahita Razmi, winner of the Frieze Art Fair's Emdash Award '11

How a 12-screen video installation on show at Frieze was filmed despite Iran’s strict regime

Interview with Jarvis Cocker: "A show can plant a seed that flowers years later"

The musician and St Martin’s graduate on why access to art is crucial during an economic crisis

Paul McCarthy: 'Artists are seen as one step above criminals'

The artist on his early B-movie ambitions, art schools, the pressure to move to New York and why he’ll never leave Los Angeles

Interview with Wilhelm Sasnal: Home is where the art is

Wilhelm Sasnal on how his native Poland provides the inspiration for his work on canvas and celluloid

Twisted ways of seeing: Interview with Carsten Höller

Höller has a PhD in insect communication, but he abandoned the rules of science for the “subjective experience” of art

Interview with Thomas Struth: “Photographs reveal people’s inner agenda”

On the eve of his solo show at the Whitechapel Gallery in London, Struth talks about society, the family and the gaze

Interview with Antony Hegarty: “I think the art world is where I belong”

The musician explains why he is performing in the stage production The Life and Death of Marina Abramovic

Interview with Mike Nelson: On the biennale, Turkey, and being “not quite sure what installation is…”

His work at the Venice Biennale has meant rebuilding an installation inside a rebuilt caravanserai within the British Pavilion

Interview with Neo Rauch ahead of his German retrospective: “You won’t find an ‘Untitled’ among my works”

The painter on the burdens of being a professor, the need for figures and his prophetic abilities

March 2011archive

Lynda Benglis: not a material girl

The artist on the 1970s feminist movement, unsolicited opportunities and that legendary Artforum advert

Interview with James Franco: “I wanted to create a feeling of ‘too much’”

The actor on stepping outside of Hollywood fame and why collaboration feels so natural

Interview with Bruce Weber: “We had to work fast—and run”

Photographer Bruce Weber has spent seven years recording the plight of Miami’s Haitian community

Interview with Elmgreen & Dragset on staging their newest work: “Actors are playing us, but we might interfere”

The artists on splitting up but staying together and why they are putting their lives on stage