Artist interview
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
Something old, something new: Interview with Thomas Schütte on his works in London and Leeds
“In a public space people should feel better after looking at the art”
Illuminating lacquer maker Onishi Isao, one of Japan's Living National Treasures
“The beauty is in the process and the final object is the sum of the path"
Interview with Olafur Eliasson on his pavilion in the park for the Serpentine
The Danish artist, whose Weather Project transformed Tate Modern, discusses his building for the Serpentine Gallery
Interview with Anselm Kiefer: “Expectations are always unfulfilled”
Anselm Kiefer on leaving his studio of 15 years, the commercialisation of art and why the Holocaust still matters
Art on the air: TV interviews with the tycoon, the craftsman, and the agitator
Damien Hirst on world domination, Grayson Perry on turning to tapestry and Anselm Kiefer on why Americans are hysterical
Jasper Johns: 'I was trying to see something, to see what seeing consisted of'
As the National Gallery of Art opens a show devoted to the artist’s work from the 1950s and 60s, he looks back on the decade and reflects on the process of making
Interview with Allora and Calzadilla on putting everything in context
The duo discuss the political and humorous aspects of their work before a major show at the Moore Space in Miami
Interview with Sean Scully: Bringing sex to the minimalist grid
After 25 years, the Irish artist is still going strong, subjecting his paintings to “tough love” and steering away from nostalgia