Artist interview
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