Artist interview
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
Interview with Anish Kapoor: “I really do believe that making art and looking at art are very difficult”
The sculptor won the Turner Prize in 1991
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
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
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