Video, film & new media

Interview with James Franco: “I wanted to create a feeling of ‘too much’”

The actor on stepping outside of Hollywood fame and why collaboration feels so natural

Interviewarchive

Interview with Peter Weibel: Centre for Art and Media Karlsruhe “will be the Louvre of media art”

Peter Weibel, head of ZKM Karlsruhe, on the Moscow Biennale and subverting military technology to create virtual sculpture

Museumsarchive

MoMA makes a stand by acquiring video removed from display by Washington's NPG

Wojnarowicz’s A Fire in My Belly is already on display at the New York museum

Iranarchive

Robert Adanto's documentary "Pearls on the Ocean Floor" throws spotlight on Iran's revolutionary female artists

The women who go against the grain, featured at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston

Outrage at Smithsonian self-censorship over Wojnarowicz work

Controversy follows decision to remove David Wojnarowicz video loaned by National Portrait Gallery

Playing the mating game: Interview with Isabella Rossellini

Isabella Rossellini’s acclaimed short films about animal sexual behaviour are being shown at the Wolfsonian

Interview with Francis Alÿs: “Each situation calls for a new answer”

The artist on running inside tornadoes, failing to sabotage the art market and the appeal of Mexico City

Interview with Jenny Holzer: In her own words (or not, as the case may be)

The American artist on her “odd and lonely” childhood, other people’s texts and why she’s returned to painting

Shaun Gladwell on life in Afghanistan

The Australian artist’s three-week sojourn with troops will form basis of new work

Featuresarchive

Two new programmes: Warhol is remembered by his ageing stars, and original art is taught

Twenty Factory regulars look back on the creative freedom that fuelled the New York enterprise, while three art schools are brought under the microscope

New media exhibition as the "the coming of age show" for the National Museum of China

The country’s first major survey of new media took place in June—with a little help from MoMA, Tate, and several others

Russian art collective AES+F celebrates 20th anniversary with retrospective

Tate acquires edition of video shown at this year’s Venice Biennale

Tatearchive

Tate to launch Tate Channel, a film and video resource

This ambitious project will serve as an archive, allowing unprecedented remote access to information and art

Art makes a scene in virtual platform Second Life

The online virtual world is becoming one of the best places for artists, curators and dealers to meet

Interview with Bill Viola on new work Love/Death: Video is "about really seeing, not just stopping at the surface"

This month, the US artist is unveiling an ambitious new project in London based on his re-working of a Wagner opera

Books: Francis Bacon’s passion for the camera

This is the first study of the painter’s use of photography

Arts in broadcasting and television: Is controversy old hat?

Tracey Emin’s new film aroused much excitement in the papers because of scenes of rape and suicide, but not much on screen

Interview with Tracey Emin: Art, life and autobiography

Tracey Emin’s new exhibition concentrates on her work as a filmmaker in which she usually takes the starring role

Interview with Susan Hiller: Her new work Clinic and the human quest for a visionary, mystical experience

American artist’s most recent piece is based on three years of research on the internet

Three degrees of separation: Interview with artist Mark Wallinger

Absence is as important as presence in Mark Wallinger’s new works on show

Interview with John Wood and Paul Harrison: “I like the little one”

John Wood and Paul Harrison’s minimal, deadpan performances make complicated references to the art world of the past—with a dash of slapstick

Tate St Ives transports with 'Real life'

Video works from a number of top artists are now on show

Interview with Rachel Feinstein: “I want to be taken more seriously”

The artist talks about her trials as a woman in a man’s field, the female way of working, her free-floating wackiness and making movies