Artist interview
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
Jenny Holzer: towards the mot juste
The US artist on text being just one medium in her work and how trying to measure up to Goya can keep her motionless for months
Hollywood actor Richard Gere in conversation with Balthus: Art, acting, life, and Captain Haddock
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
Synthesiser’s synthetic synthesis: Interview with leading New Media artist Leo Villareal
He talks to The Art Newspaper ahead of his upcoming show at White Columns
Interview with Gilbert & George on originality and art: “Artists are very limited”
The duo dislike art that only the art world can understand and explain their campaign to be different
Interview with Shirin Neshat: Where madness is the greatest freedom
Telling universal stories about love, insanity, and death through film and music
Interview with Angela de la Cruz on the physicality of her paintings: “I like sex a lot”
How her paintings have the limitations of bodies
Leon Golub is still getting to the real at the Brooklyn Museum of Art
Charles Saatchi and Eli Broad both collect him, but only 13 US museums have examples of this artistic rebel’s work
Interview with artist Richard Wilson: The topsy-turvy tendency
These works of art take a global perspective and are literally geologically based
Interview with Mat Collishaw: Nappy change for art
Disillusioned and sick of heavy-handed art that tries to shock, the artist has now turned to kitsch and sentimental themes
Interview with artist James Metcalf: Metal mettle
The adventurer, war hero, metalworker, sculptor, and political activist talks about Paris in the 1950s and his work in Mexico