Artist interview
Interview with artist Richard Long: Still walking, after all these years
Long’s latest show is a collaboration with Indian tribal artist Jivya Soma Mashe
The art of allusion: Interview with Damian Loeb
Damian Loeb’s work relies on the viewer’s recognition of the visual sources that he quotes liberally
Francis Giacobetti interviews Francis Bacon: “I painted to be loved”
The last summing up, two months before he died, by the greatest Irish painter of the 20th century in an interview with the photographer Francis Giacobetti
Interview with John Wood and Paul Harrison: “I like the little one”
John Wood and Paul Harrison’s minimal, deadpan performances make complicated references to the art world of the past—with a dash of slapstick
Interview with Robert Ryman: Painting is for pleasure
Ryman has been painting white on white for more than 50 years. He talks about how his paintings work and which shade of white he uses
Interview with Robert Indiana on LOVE, Pop, words and more
Indiana has emerged from his Maine retreat to claim his rightful place alongside his more famous contemporaries
Interview with Richard Hamilton: Product Displacement
As major exhibitions of his work open in London and Barcelona, Hamilton explains his boredom with the London art scene, the lineage of his tables and his undying debt to Marcel Duchamp
Interview with Arman: "I do not want to end up in my own mausoleum”
The French artist on playing chess with Duchamp and collecting his own work
Interview with Michael Landy post-'Breakdown': New directions and championing of the urban weed
Last year Michael Landy meticulously catalogued and then destroyed all his material possessions. For his latest show he has photographed and etched the plants that grow spontaneously throughout the city
Interview with Steven Assael: Painting, the fullness of experience
The foremost figurative painter of his generation, talks about his passionate commitment to the art
Interview with Inka Essenhigh: "The world is big and time is short”
Essenhigh talks about her switch from enamel to oil, the difficulties of making pretty pictures and the ominous undertow of her paintings
Three young photographers who covered the war in Afghanistan talk about their experiences
'I am a photographer and I quite often get sent to photograph wars, I report on the human condition'
Interview with artist Thomas Joshua Cooper on his new show: At the edge, between lands and sea
Cooper is mapping out a metaphysical space with his images of oceans, forests, rocks and sky
Interview with Rachel Feinstein: “I want to be taken more seriously”
The artist talks about her trials as a woman in a man’s field, the female way of working, her free-floating wackiness and making movies
Interview with Gary Hume, king of the narrative-free form: “I want to abolish ‘me’ in my art”
Hume talks painting, why he relishes a little melancholy, and what he learned from working with Stella McCartney
Interview with Warren Neidich: When scientists make art
Trained as a neurobiologist, his art is about ways of seeing both physiological and as affected by the high-tech visions around us
Interview with Mona Hatoum: Pass the electric fork, please
The artist uses kitchen utensils and household objects to charge domestic settings with danger
Gao Xingjian won the Nobel Prize for literature in 2000 but he has also revived abstract painting though his Eastern sensibility and technique
“We exist in a state of barbarity, where art is on the point of not loving art”
Taken over by the doodle: Interview with Carroll Dunham
Like the Surrealists, Dunham believes that his unconscious dominates him as he works
Interview with artist Harold Stevenson, a Jean Cocteau of Idabel, Oklahoma
The high camp survivor who was friends with all the legends
Interview with Cecily Brown: Goodness gracious! Dare one say landscape paintings?
Adrian Dannatt talks to a well primed young painter
Interview with Willie Doherty on remembering Bloody Sunday—and all the rest
Speaking to the artist who immerses himself in the Northern Irish situation and responds to its shifting sense of reality
Buried in the BBC archives since 1959, and published here for the first time, an interview with one of the founding geniuses of twentieth-century art, Marcel Duchamp.
Talking about his readymades and his most complicated work “The large glass”, now in Philadelphia, Duchamp reflects on how little he meant to people in the late Fifties, when the painterliness of Abstract Expressionism ruled
Interview with Sam Taylor-Wood on glamour, drama, and trauma
The artist reflects on the combination of autobiographical content and common experience in her work
Ghada Amer: when Islam was sensual
The Egyptian artist draws on a Medieval Muslim erotic text to create her hand-stitched works
Andrea Zittel: Home, sweet unit
“Design issues seem more relevant to me than most that come up in the art world,” the artist says
Magic and mystery are the main concerns of Abigail Lane in her new solo show
"Magic is one of my ongoing interests"
Interview with Amanda Lear on being a celebrity and being an artist: "Everything that happened to me was completely by accident"
Actress, artist, disco diva, television star, lover of Salvador Dalí and a clutch of rock stars, talks about love, fame, fire and pain
Luc Tymans: on pigeon power
Belgium's representative at this year's Venice Biennale explains why pigeons are not symbols of peace, how he depicts violence without actually showing it and why he returned to painting
French-born painter Balthus, who died in February, rarely gave interviews and maintained that he delighted in being anonymous. His friend of 20 years, the actor Richard Gere, spent a few days at his Swiss home in December last year, where they enjoyed a long discussion, full of twists and turns
Art, acting, life, and Captain Haddock