Artist interview

Interview with Jeff Rosenheim and Maria Morris Hambourg on Walker Evans: At the roots of Warhol

The upcoming Met exhibition presents the whole career of the photographer famous for his images of the Depression

The body under scrutiny: Interview with Kiki Smith

Kiki Smith responds to recent attacks on her work by Met director Philippe de Montebello

Asking Jules Olitski “What’s it like to be forgotten?”: the great colourist and the whims of fate

Clement Greenberg said he was “the greatest painter” alive; then in the 70s the world stopped talking about Jules Olitski

From the archive: Frank Stella in 1999 — 'I started, and I think I am going to finish, as a committed abstractionist'

The American artist talked about working to commission, exploring the creative tension between figurative and abstract art, his debt to artists of the past and his views on artists of today

Interview with Ann Hamilton: The Biennale and seeing through the American dream

The American artist, forty-three, represents the US at the Venice Biennale this year

Artist interview with Ruth Duckworth: America's top artist in clay turns 80

She sees herself as a sculptor and rejects any links with Arts and Crafts descendant, Bernard Leach

Interview with Brice Marden, heir presumptive to Pollock

The artist speaks ahead of his upcoming Dallas exhibition on his varied historical influences

Interview with Andres Serrano: Mining the seamy side for all it’s worth

After sacrilege and violent death the artist whom the moral majority (minority?) love to hate, is now into explicit sex

Per Kirkeby: His brick work at Tate and his red shadow

Kirkeby speaks to The Art Newspaper about making space in the Duveen galleries and the influence (or lack thereof) of geology and Jung

Interview with Chuck Close: “Nothing engages me as much as people”

The artist's technique has changed from photo-realist air-brushing to collage, dot-painting, and more recently, to thickly painted grids

Robert Rauschenberg: 'Business sure screwed up the art world universally'

On the occasion of his Guggenheim retrospective, the artist talks about his globe-trotting approach to “the adventure of art”

Reading between the lines with Mondrian and Bridget Riley

Riley speaks of the fortuitous events that led to the upcoming exhibition at Tate and the significance of Mondrian's artistic evolution

Interview with leading figures in British sculpture: Jon Thompson and Richard Wentworth on filling the void

A conference will be held in London this month on the state of sculpture and its teaching in Britain

June 1994archive

R.B. Kitaj: 'I begin my working day by falling asleep in front of my easel'

The American artist, who has lived in Britain for the past 35 years, is celebrated with a large exhibition at the Tate

Interview with Marcel Duchamp: Life is a game; life is art

From 4 April to 18 July the Palazzo Grassi is showing a 300- work exhibition by Pontus Hulten of the work of Marcel Duchamp, the artist whose ideas have pricked through the whole history of twentieth-century art. Here we publish one of his last interviews, made in 1966

Life is a game; life is art

From 4 April to 18 July the Palazzo Grassi is showing a 300- work exhibition by Pontus Hulten of the work of Marcel Duchamp,the artist whose ideas have pricked through the whole history of twentieth-century art. Here we publish one of his last interviews, made in 1966

June 1992archive

Just what is it that makes Richard Hamilton so different, so appealing?

The artist gives a rare interview ahead of his Tate Gallery retrospective, weighing in on Pop Art and the Pop revival and the need for quality judgements in art and consumer society

Gérard Regnier interviews Francis Bacon on pathos, Picasso, and death

“Pathos means longing; yes, longing and feeling that wonderful things are possible but not really happening”

Interview with Marcel Duchamp: Buried in the BBC archives since 1959, and published here for the first time

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