Artist interview
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
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
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
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