A brush with...
In this podcast, based on The Art Newspaper's regular interview series, our host Ben Luke talks to artists in-depth. He asks the questions you've always wanted to: who are the artists, historical and contemporary, they most admire? Which are the museums they return to? What are the books, music and other media that most inspire them? And what is art for, anyway?
Podcast | A brush with... Michael Raedecker
An in-depth interview with the artist on his cultural experiences and greatest influences, from the New Romantics of the 1980s to a 1992 edition of Documenta
A brush with... Alex Katz
An in-depth interview with the artist on his cultural experiences and greatest influences, from artist Paul Cezanne to jazz maestro Charlie Parker
A brush with… Shahzia Sikander
An in-depth interview with the artist on her cultural experiences and greatest influences, from time spent in Mogadishu, Somalia, to the work of the artist Eva Hesse
A brush with… Zineb Sedira
An in-depth interview with the artist on her cultural experiences and greatest influences, from the conceptualist Mary Kelly to jazz and ska music
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... 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
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
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
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
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
A brush with... Jeremy Deller
An in-depth interview with the artist on his cultural experiences and greatest influences, from Francis Bacon to Mike Kelley
A brush with... Jacqueline Humphries
An in-depth interview with the artist on her cultural experiences and greatest influences, from Caravaggio to early-2000s video games
A brush with... Gary Simmons
An in-depth interview with the artist on his cultural experiences and greatest influences, from David Hammons to 1980s punk rock
A brush with… Phyllida Barlow
We sat down with the late artist earlier this year to discuss her cultural experiences and greatest influences, from Louise Nevelson to Fyodor Dostoevsky
From Romare Bearden to Marvel Comics: Tonya Matthews on the art and artists she loves
The president and chief executive of the International African American Museum in Charleston, United States also talks about her experiences of Japan and the power of a Lucille Clifton poem
A brush with... Alfredo Jaar
An in-depth interview with the artist on his cultural experiences and greatest influences, from Marcel Duchamp to Ben Okri
A brush with... Mike Nelson
An in-depth interview with the artist on his cultural experiences and greatest influences, from Francis Bacon to J.G. Ballard
A brush with... Matthew Krishanu
An in-depth interview with the artist on his cultural experiences and greatest influences, from Jean-Michel Basquiat to Gwen John
A brush with... Amy Sillman
An in-depth interview with the artist on her cultural experiences and greatest influences, from Maria Lassnig to Gertrude Stein
A brush with... Joan Jonas
An in-depth interview with the artist on her cultural experiences and greatest influences, from the writer Jorge Luis Borges to her life-changing visit to Iceland
A brush with... Haroon Mirza
An in-depth interview with the artist on his cultural experiences and greatest influences, from Salvador Dalí to the Royal Academy's Sensation
A brush with... Tess Jaray
An in-depth interview with the artist on her cultural experiences and greatest influences, from Henri Matisse to W.G. Sebald
A brush with... Alicja Kwade
An in-depth interview with the artist on her cultural experiences and greatest influences, from Gordon Matta-Clark to Leonardo da Vinci
A brush with... Nick Cave
An in-depth interview with the artist on his cultural experiences and greatest influences, from Elsa Schiaparelli to Parliament/Funkadelic.
A brush with... Helen Marten
An in-depth interview with the artist on her cultural experiences and greatest influences, from Robert Rauschenberg to Roland Barthes