The foremost figurative painter of his generation, talks about his passionate commitment to the art

Essenhigh talks about her switch from enamel to oil, the difficulties of making pretty pictures and the ominous undertow of her paintings

'I am a photographer and I quite often get sent to photograph wars, I report on the human condition'

Cooper is mapping out a metaphysical space with his images of oceans, forests, rocks and sky

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

Hume talks painting, why he relishes a little melancholy, and what he learned from working with Stella McCartney

Trained as a neurobiologist, his art is about ways of seeing both physiological and as affected by the high-tech visions around us

The artist uses kitchen utensils and household objects to charge domestic settings with danger

“We exist in a state of barbarity, where art is on the point of not loving art”

Like the Surrealists, Dunham believes that his unconscious dominates him as he works

The high camp survivor who was friends with all the legends

Adrian Dannatt talks to a well primed young painter

Speaking to the artist who immerses himself in the Northern Irish situation and responds to its shifting sense of reality

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

The artist reflects on the combination of autobiographical content and common experience in her work

“Design issues seem more relevant to me than most that come up in the art world,” the artist says

"Magic is one of my ongoing interests"

Actress, artist, disco diva, television star, lover of Salvador Dalí and a clutch of rock stars, talks about love, fame, fire and pain

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

He talks to The Art Newspaper ahead of his upcoming show at White Columns

The duo dislike art that only the art world can understand and explain their campaign to be different

Telling universal stories about love, insanity, and death through film and music

How her paintings have the limitations of bodies

Charles Saatchi and Eli Broad both collect him, but only 13 US museums have examples of this artistic rebel’s work

These works of art take a global perspective and are literally geologically based

Disillusioned and sick of heavy-handed art that tries to shock, the artist has now turned to kitsch and sentimental themes