Artist interview

Interview with Roger Ballen on his new book Shadow Chamber: Going fishing, metaphorically speaking

The South African photographer talks about his work, techniques and latest book

Without a trace: Interview with Tino Sehgal

Tino Sehgal refuses to document his work, rejects written contracts, and only takes cash

Interview with Tomma Abts, champion of abstraction

Abts’ small, deeply layered canvases exert a quiet power

Interview with Marina Abramovic on her reperformances at the Guggenheim: Back to the classics

The Yugoslav-born artist will re-enact famous performances from the 1970s this month

Interview with Jake Chapman: “Our hunger for Goya has not waned but our horizon has widened”

On the eve of the Chapmans’ first commercial show in three years, Jake Chapman talks to The Art Newspaper

“Our hunger for Goya has not waned but our horizon has widened”: Interview with Jake Chapman

On the eve of the Chapmans’ first commercial show in three years, Jake Chapman talks to The Art Newspaper

Interview with Cecily Brown on her UK success: “The act of looking is underrated”

After her achievements in New York, British painter Cecily Brown is having her first solo show in the UK

Interview with Malcolm Morley: Paintings about the act of painting

After 50 years, Morley is still fascinated by the potential of the medium and is not too proud to learn from a “watercolour holiday” on an English barge with amateur artists

Interview with Dennis Oppenheim on hid latest exhibition: “I could never stay with just one thing”

The veteran artist promises “truly radical” new work in his show at the Price Tower in Bartlesville, Oklahoma

Making space speak: An interview with Richard Wentworth

Richard Wentworth’s mid-career survey at Tate Liverpool is more of a remix than a retrospective

Interview with Tracey Emin: Art, life and autobiography

Tracey Emin’s new exhibition concentrates on her work as a filmmaker in which she usually takes the starring role

Interview with Susan Hiller: Her new work Clinic and the human quest for a visionary, mystical experience

American artist’s most recent piece is based on three years of research on the internet

Interview with Barry Flanagan on his fascination with bronze: A tradesman, not an artist

Flanagan chooses to depict hares rather than people to steer away from the dominance of the portrait

Interview with Mike Kelley on accumulating the uncanny in his new Tate Liverpool show

The Californian post-conceptualist plays the role of artist, curator and collector in his latest piece

Three degrees of separation: Interview with artist Mark Wallinger

Absence is as important as presence in Mark Wallinger’s new works on show

Is it a bird? A plane? No, just a G-string: Interview with artist E.V. Day

E.V. Day on thongs, Stealth Bombers and why her latest work stretches elasticity to its limit

Interview with James Rosenquist on his month in Manhattan

Four exhibitions devoted to the Pop pioneer open this November, including a retrospective at the Guggenheim

Paula Rego: prints of darkness

After 40 years, the Portuguese-born artist is still surprised by the images she creates

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