Michael Armitage
What is art for? A brush with… publication reveals artists’ favourite things
Book drawn from The Art Newspaper podcast includes 25 insightful interviews with key figures such as Doris Salcedo and Ragnar Kjartansson
Out in the open: Michael Armitage on how the pandemic led him to paint en plein air
The Kenyan-born British artist is showing a new body of work in his solo exhibition at the Kunsthalle Basel
Why did the €471m Caravaggio villa fail to sell?
Plus, artists create their own monuments at Goldsmiths CCA in London and Michael Armitage on Sane Wadu at the newly opened Nairobi Contemporary Art Institute
The Big Review: Michael Armitage at the Royal Academy of Arts
Probing the legacies of colonialism, Armitage's seductive paintings on East African bark cloth root themselves in a non-European Modernist tradition
What songs do contemporary artists listen to while they work? Tune in to our Spotify playlist to find out
From Joni Mitchell to Radiohead and Sun Ra, Michael Armitage, Jenny Saville, Chantal Joffe and Rashid Johnson reveal their favourite tracks
A brush with... Michael Armitage
The Kenyan-British artist tells The Art Newspaper about the art, literature, music and media that inspire him