Artist interview
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
“I lived poor and there was no shame”: Interview with Susan Hiller on overcoming the art market
The artist speaks about the 1970s, public engagement, and the supernatural
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
Interview with Jonathan Meese: "I am the samurai of art”
The German artist explains why he puts aggression and provocation centre stage—along with his mum
Playing the mating game: Interview with Isabella Rossellini
Isabella Rossellini’s acclaimed short films about animal sexual behaviour are being shown at the Wolfsonian
Interview with Ged Quinn: “I don’t have this notion of extreme skill”
On the benefits of a free education, the influence of Caspar David Friedrich and working in pyjamas and wellies
Interview with Bryan Ferry: “I can’t imagine life without art around me”
The Roxy Music founder on being taught by Richard Hamilton, his love of British artists and viewing at speed
Interview with Michael Nyman: “There’s no scripts, no rehearsals, no actors…”
The composer explains the thinking behind his latest film, and reminisces about the parties held by a Frieze founder’s dad
Interview with Marina Abramovic: "Life is getting faster, the art has to go slower”
Marina Abramovic on the pain of sitting still, being the black sheep of the family and working with Robert Wilson
Interview with Sir Peter Blake: “I made a conscious decision to be kind to younger artists”
The pop “godfather” on stuffed animals, the urge to collect and the burden of Sergeant Pepper
Interview with Shirin Neshat: “For Iranian artists, being silent is like taking the side of the demon”
As her debut movie, “Women Without Men”, screens in Basel, the artist explains that cinema is closer to her people
Interview with Francis Alÿs: “Each situation calls for a new answer”
The artist on running inside tornadoes, failing to sabotage the art market and the appeal of Mexico City
“It’s a complex conversation and there’s no closure”: Interview with Mark Bradford
The artist on class and identity in South Central LA, working with children and making art in post-Katrina New Orleans
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