Artist interview
Interview with Angela Bulloch: Shining a light on the city
The artist has installed her latest work in the Basel cathedral, as part of the fair’s new Art Parcours project
Interview with Mark Bradford: “It’s a complex conversation and there’s no closure”
The artist on class and identity in South Central LA, working with children and making art in post-Katrina New Orleans
Interview with Claes Oldenburg on his bitter-sweet new project: “The objects of today are not interesting”
Claes Oldenburg on his love of things, the loss of his wife and whether to accept a commission for Abu Dhabi
Interview with Jenny Holzer: In her own words (or not, as the case may be)
The American artist on her “odd and lonely” childhood, other people’s texts and why she’s returned to painting
Interview with Bill Viola: An encounter between art and Faith at St Paul's
The pioneering video artist discusses his new commission for St Paul’s Cathedral in London
Interview with Chris Ofili: Something of the forest and the night
On the eve of his first retrospective, opening this month at Tate Britain, Chris Ofili tells us where he finds his inspiration
“I’ve never installed my work in such an exotic environment”: Interview with Yayoi Kusama
The Japanese artist speaks about her Miami exhibition
Interview with Gabriel Orozco on his upcoming travelling retrospective: A global artist with global concerns
The artist states his work is about “space and time, action and philosophy”
Interview with John Baldessari ahead of his upcoming Tate retrospective: “Nobody does anything new”
Baldessari talked to us about his latest work, his early days as a teacher and the infamous incident when he cremated 13 years’ work—and then made cookies out of the ashes
Why paintings succeed where words fail: Interview with Luc Tymans
The Belgian artist talked to us about the messages art can convey on the eve of exhibitions in Europe, Russia and the United States
Interview with Grayson Perry: The “The Guernica of the credit crunch”
Perry is about to show his most ambitious work, a huge tapestry depicting images of consumer excess and retribution
Interview with Jeff Koons on the eve of his summer show at the Serpentine: Pop culture meets art history
Koons talks to us about the artists who inspire him, his studio system, and what he hopes to communicate to the public through his work
My road to Basel 1985: Interview with Shirazeh Houshiary
Shirazeh Houshiary on identity, spirituality and the excess of gimmicks in contemporary art
Our road to Basel 1970: Interview with Christo and Jeanne-Claude
Christo and Jeanne-Claude on escaping from communism, how they met and what it takes to become an artist
Interview with Antony Gormley on the Fourth Plinth project: “Why not treat everybody as a hero?”
If he gets planning permission, Antony Gormley will transform Trafalgar Square into a space for the ordinary man and woman
The changing faces of Cindy Sherman
We speak to the chameleon-like photographer about her latest series, in which she becomes a string of fictional, surgically-enhanced socialites
Interview with Chuck Close on how his grandma’s crochet inspired his artistic vision
On the eve of a show at PaceWildenstein in New York, the veteran US artist discusses the importance of the year he spent with his grandmother when he was eleven
Interview with Jeremy Deller on tackling the troubled legacy of Iraq War
Turner prize-winner to take the controversial show on a three-week tour of the US in late March
Interview with Patti Smith: "I look at Jeff Koons’s stuff and I’m appalled”
The veteran rocker discusses the artists who inspire her, those who do not, and what drives her photography
Interview with Jane and Louise Wilson: Stanley Kubrick’s photographs brought to life
The sisters had access to the late film-maker’s huge archive and focused on a film about the Holocaust which never got made
Artist Interview: Marilyn Manson and his dark Miami debut
The gothic rock star reveals the inspirations and compulsions behind his new work on show in the Design District
From the archive: Richard Serra discusses why the moving body is so important to him and the use of steel as a material in its own right
The acclaimed US sculptor tells The Art Newspaper why he never thought there would be an audience for his work
“I always insist that the artist must be given carte blanche”: Interview with Huang Yong Ping
The artist discusses his work, politics, censorship, “fake art” and the Beijing Olympics
Interview with Robert Rauschenberg: Commemorating the artist
We reprint extracts from an interview with one of the most important artists of the post-war era
Interview with Ellsworth Kelly: “The freedom of colours in space”
Speaking with the American painter in Basel on colour, geometry, and learning how to see
Artist Interview: David Lynch’s diamond dome
The cult film-maker shows off his skills as an artist with a new, atmospheric work in Miami in the Cartier pavilion
“Every society has its taboos”: Interview with Farhad Moshiri
The Middle Eastern contemporary artist discusses the state of the art market, his commercial success, and what it’s like to work in Iran
The Iraq war in watercolour: Interview with Steve Mumford
The artist has visited Iraq five times, and has no qualms about placing himself in the line of fire to document the conflict
Interview with Peter Doig on how Trinidad gave his art immediacy
On the eve of a major show at Tate Britain, we talk to the artist about his life and work in the Caribbean
Interview with Cai Guo-Qiang on the eve of his retrospective: “I am eternally optimistic; I am Chinese”
The artist discusses his materials and his potentially explosive new book