Artist interview
A brush with... Stanley Whitney
An in-depth interview with the artist on his cultural experiences and greatest influences from Paul Cézanne to Miles Davis
A brush with... Wilhelm Sasnal
An in-depth interview with the artist on his cultural experiences and greatest influences from Edgar Degas to Wolfgang Tillmans
Lawrence Lek on the pitfalls of artists making work about artificial intelligence
Lek has taken over a disused mall in Berlin for his latest speculative fiction show on self-driving cars
John Akomfrah: the film-maker exposing the colonial adventures of microorganisms and more
The Venice Biennale-bound artist discusses his latest video work exploring the so-called Columbian exchange and tells us why his films owe a debt to cinema but are “rendered slightly strange”
The shape of water—artist Alia Farid on the impact of extractive industries in Iraq and Kuwait
The Kuwaiti-Puerto Rican artist and Artes Mundi nominee explores the Arab diaspora in Puerto Rico in Chisenhale Gallery show
‘Some things are just sweet and then they go sour’—artist Henry Taylor discusses his Paris show, From Sugar to Shit
The Los Angeles painter settled in the French capital, setting up a studio and frequenting the Musée d’Orsay
A brush with... Camille Henrot
An in-depth interview with the artist on her cultural experiences and greatest influences, from Louise Bourgeois to the violence of Disney cartoons
Sallisa Rosa: ‘The audience can remember what the earth feels like’
The Brazilian artist’s first solo US project, an Audemars Piguet Contemporary commission, turns the Collins Park Rotunda into a cavern of clay
An-My Lê: the artist portraying the inhuman scale of war and small acts of resistance
Airlifted out of Vietnam as a teenager when Saigon fell, the Vietnamese American photographer makes no attempt to simplify the unbearably complex, and pits individual agency against huge geopolitical forces
A brush with... Urs Fischer
An in-depth interview with the artist on his cultural experiences and greatest influences, from jazz and drawing workshops to Hieronymus Bosch
A brush with… Stephen Willats
An in-depth interview with the British artist, exploring his radical work from the 1960s to today
‘It’s important to me to show what happened’: the Israeli artist drawing the traumatic events of 7 October
In the aftermath of Hamas’s attack on Israel, the Kyiv-born, Tel Aviv-based artist Zoya Cherkassky-Nnadi made drawings depicting victims and hostages
A brush with... Sutapa Biswas
An in-depth interview with the artist on her cultural experiences and greatest influences, from the the textural, labour-intensive work of Howardena Pindell to Jean Cocteau's film Orphée
‘As a tool, meaning has its limits’: Pope.L on being inspired by the romantics and the power of the absurd
As his South London Gallery show opens, the self-proclaimed “friendliest Black artist in America” explains why creating new versions of his work is so important
Judy Chicago: the veteran artist backing great forgotten women and creating beauty from pain
As a vast retrospective opens in New York, the US artist discusses a 15th-century female author who has inspired her, the “purpose of life” and why she believes her work is only now being properly understood
Zak Ové: ‘I learned that the important thing is never to be shut down’
The artist’s rocket sculpture explores Black influences on the Western world
Claudette Johnson: ‘I’m trying to introduce another gaze—a Black feminist gaze’
The artist discusses her Courtauld show and why Black men became subjects for her work
'How do you take the palette of a sunset and sour it just a little?' Tammy Nguyen on her solo show at the ICA Boston
Tammy Nguyen discusses her exhibition at ICA Boston, which takes on the legacy of transcendentalism through the lens of the Vietnam War
El Anatsui: the sculptor on making art from waste, and waking up the artist in all of us
The Ghanaian artist, whose new work is about to be unveiled in Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall, explains the layered meanings behind his use of recycled bottle tops in his signature glittering, fabric-like hangings
A brush with... Torkwase Dyson
An in-depth interview with the artist on her cultural experiences and greatest influences, from Kiki Smith to Saidiya Hartman
Experimental artist Sung Neung Kyung on why he's still performing at 79-years-old
Sung's performances and early installations are included in a major survey on experimental art in mid-20th century Korea, currently at the Guggenheim Museum in New York
A brush with… Sarah Lucas
An in-depth conversation with the artist about her cultural experiences and greatest influences, from the sculptor Eva Hesse to the Museo Diego Rivera-Anahuacalli in Mexico City
A brush with... Claudette Johnson
An in-depth interview with the artist on her cultural experiences and greatest influences, from Toni Morrison's writings to Picasso's Les Demoiselles d’Avignon
A brush with... Yinka Shonibare
An in-depth interview with the artist on his cultural experiences and greatest influences, from William Hogarth to the "total artwork" of opera
Takashi Murakami: the pop artist on cartoons, capitalism and what he learnt from Star Wars
The Japanese artist, whose latest show opens in San Francisco this month, explains the connection between his colourful aesthetic and darker influences, including natural disasters and the pandemic
A brush with… Analia Saban
An in-depth interview with the artist on her cultural experiences and greatest influences, from the writings of Julia Kristeva to her epiphanic visit to New York
A brush with... Alvaro Barrington
An in-depth interview with the artist on his cultural experiences and greatest influences, from Johannes Vermeer to Tupac Shakur
A brush with... Mandy El-Sayegh
An in-depth interview with the artist on her cultural experiences and greatest influences, from Albrecht Dürer to Theresa Hak Kyung Cha
A brush with... Larry Achiampong
An in-depth interview with the artist on his cultural experiences and greatest influences, from Adrian Piper to The Legend of Zelda video game
'I'm receiving messages from a parallel universe': Naudline Pierre on the ecstatic world of her works on paper
Pierre discusses her latest exhibition at the Drawing Center in New York