Artist interview
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
Interview with Julian Opie: Creating logo people
The relationship between the generic and the individual is at the heart of Opie’s digitally produced work
Interview with Pierre Huyghe: Where fact and fiction meet
A bank robbery and its portrayal in the film “Dog Day Afternoon” are the materials used by Huyghe to explore how fantasy shapes memory
Artist interview: Paul Etienne Lincoln
The Englishman in New York on his latest inventions and why he would have made a rubbish YBA
Artist interview: Sue Williams
The US artist on her shift to abstraction and being a happier person
Interview with Karen Kilimnik on her open-ended eclecticism
Appropriation, whimsy, balletomania, and anglophilia all go into Kilimnik’s installations
Interview with Marc Quinn on moving away from his body
The artist talks about truncation in art and life as his show opens at White Cube2
Interview with Yoko Ono: "I always move on"
As the Japan Society presents a retrospective of Yoko Ono’s work, she talks about the avant-garde in the 60s and her latest work
Now seventy-two, Helen Frankenthaler describes the experience and occasional joy of painting abstractions
“Making a message; giving a message”
Fresh from its successful stand-off with e-commerce giant, eToys, etoy enter Manhattan
The group of international, web-based, artists is bringing its witty blend of conceptual, digital and performance art to New York
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
Martin Parr describes in an interview how he picks up on clichés and consumerism
Multiple common sense courtesy of Xerox
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
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