InterviewArt market
'I'm always amazed, in this business, by how seriously some people take themselves': Stephen Friedman on 25 years as an art dealer
The Canadian came to London as a 22-year-old, fell in love with the city and never left
InterviewMuseums & Heritage
Director of Yale Center for British Art embraces a global framework
Courtney J. Martin explains why it is time to reposition the Paul Mellon collection
InterviewTavares Strachan
Tavares Strachan: 'I grew up not feeling empowered by art'
As a new show opens at Marian Goodman Gallery in London, the Bahamian artist explains why he feels schoolchildren, and not the art world, are his natural audience
InterviewAi Weiwei
Ai Weiwei: If you do not question Chinese power, you are complicit with it—that goes for art organisations too
Dissident artist says that European museums in China are betraying their own values
InterviewAn-My Lê
An-My Lê: ‘Landscape is not a narrow category—it is a source of surprise’
With her first career survey now open in Pittsburgh, the photographer discusses her background in Vietnam and the West Coast of the US, and the influence of Walt Whitman
InterviewBook Club
Q&A | Vintage photo trove hidden in attic for decades revealed in new book
Alberto di Lenardo’s secret 8,000-strong archive has been distilled into a new publication by his granddaughter Carlotta, who tells us all about it
InterviewBook Club
Q&A | Lisa Tickner on the inspiration behind her book on London’s 1960s art scene
From student sit-ins to the importance of air travel in shaping the art world as we know it
InterviewA brush with
From logician Kurt Gödel to Turkish film and literature: Fatos Ustek on her biggest cultural influences
We ask the curator about her favourite art, books and what she has been doing during lockdown
InterviewBook Club
Q&A | Drawings of ‘eruptions of violence’ against statues fill Sam Durant’s new book
The US artist speaks about his research into historic cases of iconoclastic annihilation
InterviewControversies
With demolition of Oslo's Picasso-Nesjar murals imminent, Norwegian sculptor’s daughter speaks out
Carl Nesjar’s daughter talks about the Norwegian sculptor’s long collaboration with the Modern master and shares exclusive images of the pair
InterviewAppointments & departures
'The show must go on': new Rencontres d’Arles director promises 'less is more' approach after pandemic scuppers this year's edition
Head-hunted from Paris Photo, Christoph Wiesner will begin role as Luma Foundation officially opens its headquarters in the French city
InterviewLGBTQ
Art can help the public engage in personal advocacy: Alphonso David, president of the Human Rights Campaign
The nation's largest LGBTQ civil rights organisation recently unveiled a mural by Hank Willis Thomas on its Washington, DC headquarters stating Black Trans Lives Matter
InterviewMusée du Louvre
'I am not too worried by crowd problems': Louvre director predicts visitor numbers will drop by 80%
Jean-Luc Martinez believes that capitalising on the museum's permanent collection will be key to recovery
InterviewArt market
'You need to predict what will be important in tomorrow’s world': Xavier Hufkens on opening another gallery during a pandemic
The art dealer is opening a third space in Brussels today with an exhibition of new works by Sterling Ruby
InterviewBook Club
Q&A | Would Bauhaus artists have loved the iPhone? The writer of a new book called iBauhaus thinks so
Nicholas Fox Weber tells us what inspired his book and which visionary he would not like to spend lockdown with
InterviewMaria Balshaw
London's Tate museums set to open early August—here's how it will work
Director of the Tate, Maria Balshaw, tells us about financial concerns, coordinating openings with other institutions, and how many visitors they are expecting
InterviewChristo
In one of his last interviews, Christo speaks about life in lockdown and wrapping the Arc de Triomphe
The late artist revealed he was too frightened to go out during the pandemic and was "a bit relieved" that his latest project in Paris was delayed
Interviewcoronavirus
Putting our heads together: the three Guggenheim directors size up post-Covid challenges
With museums in Bilbao and Venice poised to reopen, while New York remains in lockdown, Richard Armstrong, Juan Ignacio Vidarte and Karole Vail talk about weathering the financial crisis
InterviewSocial media
The Metropolitan Museum of Art has gained almost 200,000 social media followers since lockdown began—here's how
We speak to the museum's social media manager Claire Lanier about her digital engagement strategies in the age of Covid-19
InterviewA brush with
YouTube, Nietzsche and the Vietnam War: George Condo on his biggest cultural influences
We ask the artist about his favourite art, book and what he has been doing during lockdown
InterviewArt market
'It's a time to do things, not think': Danny Katz on the art of dealing and not overthinking in a pandemic
Ahead of his sale at Sotheby's this month, the London art dealer talks about the obsessive pursuit of knowledge and why he is not interested in contemporary art
InterviewLabour
‘You can’t exactly walk a picket line in a pandemic’: New York union leader Maida Rosenstein on the crisis for museum workers
The president of the main museum union talks to us about what the organisation has been doing to secure jobs in the wake of coronavirus
InterviewMarina Abramovic
‘It is dangerous for artists when the events of the day change their work’: Marina Abramovic on art and the coronavirus pandemic
The performance artist has been in lockdown in Austria and spoke to us exclusively about making work in isolation and following Matisse’s example as a response to the crisis
InterviewArtist interview
Eva and Franco Mattes: ‘Technology does not create the social problems we so often criticise’
As the lockdown forces the art world to migrate online, the Italian duo, who embraced the internet in its infancy, are moving in the opposite direction
InterviewFilms
How a Canadian documentary director got the major players in the Knoedler fakes scandal to speak on camera
Barry Avrich talks to us about his new film Made You Look: A True Story About Fake Art, due to be released in theatres this autumn
InterviewArt in film
Curious how that Rothko ended up on your favourite television show or film? Meet Fanny Pereire
The fine art coordinator's work can be spotted in the current Hulu FX miniseries Mrs. America starring Cate Blanchett and Rose Byrne
InterviewArt & Technology
‘Longevity feels a bit elusive at the moment’: artist Julia Christensen explores upgrade culture in new book and postponed show
The artist has rummaged through e-waste facilities in India, and has envisioned an updated Golden Record with NASA to send into space
InterviewDavid Shrigley
David Shrigley in lockdown: 500 pieces of paper, walking the dog but not drinking 60 bottles of champagne
The British artist tells us what he has been up to since the coronavirus pandemic hit the UK
InterviewZoe Whitley
A brush with... Zoe Whitley
The new director of London's Chisenhale Gallery recommends her favourite book, music, and Instagram account
InterviewArtist interview
'Galleries are not for me’: Imran Perretta on state surveillance and his difficult relationship with art spaces
As his latest film exploring the treatment of young Muslim men tours the UK, opening at Baltic in Gateshead this weekend, Perretta explains how he never wanted to be in the art world
InterviewA brush with
A brush with... Sterling Ruby
We ask the artist about his favourite novels and find out about the Polish song he listens to on repeat
InterviewIn person
In Person | Armory Show director Nicole Berry keeps the show on the road
The director of New York's homegrown art fair says she is ready to make some "radical" shifts following last year's venue upset
InterviewFrieze Los Angeles 2020
'We need to dance our asses off': artist and activist Patrisse Cullors on the joys of Black resistance
The Los Angeles-based artist discusses how dance can bring political power to marginalised communities
InterviewFrieze Los Angeles 2020
Championing African American abstraction: inside the collection of Pamela Joyner
The San Francisco-based philanthropist tells us what she's bought and why
InterviewArtist interview
‘At 99, I’m another person entirely’: Luchita Hurtado on fossil fuels and new challenges ahead
As her touring retrospective arrives in Los Angeles and then heads for Mexico, the nonagenarian artist is excited about showing her new work—and the prospect of making more
InterviewArt dealers
In person | Dealer Susanne Vielmetter on the decline of artist exclusivity and the empty talk around gender parity
The Los Angeles gallery owner explains why she encourages her artists to have galleries in Europe and New York too, and how collaboration is key
InterviewExhibitions
Tschabalala Self: 'what information is needed for one’s body to become gendered and racialised?'
The US artist’s colourful, tactile works that mix printmaking, painting and fabric are political without being ponderous
InterviewArt market
In person | Dealer Daniella Luxembourg on taste-making and being stubborn
The gallery owner and art world grande dame explains why the big art fairs are not for her
InterviewAbed Al Kadiri
Capturing the streets: the Lebanese revolution through the eyes of an artist
Three months into the uprising we speak to Abed Al Kadiri about popular unity, state brutality and why he is documenting events through Chinese-style ink drawings
InterviewGillian Wearing
A brush with... Gillian Wearing
We ask the artist about her favourite book, writer and work of art as well her thoughts on the most underrated— and overrated—cultural figures
InterviewExhibitions
‘I mix the paint with rainwater, mud and fish glue': Vivian Suter on being back in the limelight after 30 years in rural Guatemala
She left Switzerland and art-world success behind, but with current and forthcoming shows in New York, London, Liverpool and Madrid, Vivian Suter is much in demand again
InterviewArt Basel in Miami Beach 2019
'I only think of work I can afford': inside the collection of Martin Margulies
As his Miami arts space turns 20, the arts patron discusses Nathalie Djurberg's pink octopus and why takeout would be on the menu at his dinner party
InterviewArt Basel in Miami Beach 2019
Mira Lehr: Still playing with fire
The artist made waves in the 60s by championing women artists; at 85, she is still shaking things up with her use of gunpowder in her work. By Gareth Harris
InterviewArt Basel in Miami Beach 2019
'My Nick Cave sound suit requires a lot of dusting': inside the collection of Mike De Paola
The real estate and entertainment entrepreneur on why he kicks himself daily for not buying a Simone Leigh sculpture
InterviewArt Basel in Miami Beach 2019
Cecilia Vicuña: Tales of text and texture
The first major retrospective of the Chilean-born poet and artist, at MoCA North Miami, truly combines her two practices
InterviewArt Basel in Miami Beach 2019
'My mother placed a Calder mobile above the bathtub': inside the collection of Candia Fisher
The New York-based arts patron on her fascination with maritime artefacts and her regret at missing out on one of Monet's waterlilies
InterviewCollectors
'I have no regrets': inside the collection of Alan Faena
The Argentine real estate developer on installing Alfredo Jaar's electronic billboard on a boat and purchasing his first work at the age of 16
InterviewArtists
'I wanna catch a fish with my bare hands': Laure Prouvost on politics, mythmaking and her 'grandma's' cure-all tipple
The French artist, for whom interviews are treated as a piece of performance art, is showing work in Art Basel's new Meridians section
InterviewArt Basel in Miami Beach 2019
Interview with Pepe Mar on his work safeguarding queer histories
The Mexican-born Miami-based artist is presenting Varla TV, a tribute to the South Beach painter and drag performer Craig Coleman, in Art Basel in Miami Beach’s Meridians show
InterviewArt dealers
‘I just wanted people’s attention’: dealer Mariane Ibrahim on championing young artists of the African diaspora
Ahead of her debut at Art Basel in Miami Beach, the Chicago-based gallerist walks us through her journey from marketing McDonald's to setting up shop in Seattle
InterviewPaula Rego
A brush with... Paula Rego
We ask the artist about her favourite book, writer and work of art as well her thoughts on the most underrated—and overrated—cultural figures
InterviewFrom the archive
From the archive | Louvre pyramid architect I.M. Pei on the church-like museum he designed for the Goulandris collection
In this 1994 interview, he reveals how he likes art to be displayed, such as natural lighting for Impressionists
InterviewArt market
In person | Cheyenne Westphal on swapping the drama of Sotheby’s for the challenge of growing Phillips
The chairman of Phillips explains what it takes to succeed in the auction business
InterviewExhibitions
‘Public art is propaganda, frankly’: Hank Willis Thomas discusses gun violence and the urgent need for alternative memorials
A host of the artist’s exhibitions and public projects open in various locations across the US open this year
InterviewTim Marlow
‘I won’t be bringing in a load of artists’: Tim Marlow on leading the Design Museum
Royal Academy’s artistic director is an unexpected choice
InterviewShirin Neshat
‘This US government looks more like Iran's every day’: Shirin Neshat talks about the power of political satire ahead of LA show
The Iranian artist's major exhibition opens at the Broad museum features new work addressing discrimination in Trump's America
InterviewArt dealers
In person: Pilar Ordovas on playing hard to get and striking out on her own
The Spanish-born independent dealer discusses working with Larry Gagosian and why she won't do art fairs
InterviewMark Bradford
Mark Bradford addresses modern-day xenophobia through Greek mythology and a Motown classic
US artist talks on The Art Newspaper Podcast about his London exhibition Cerberus at Hauser & Wirth
InterviewPhotography
The media industry 'has changed beyond all recognition': Magnum's new CEO on adapting to the digital landscape
Caitlin Hughes has also promised to “bring the voices of its members together” as the photo agency targets a "more nimble" approach to client partnerships
InterviewMark Leckey
Mark Leckey on using Victorian techniques to evoke magical memories
For his new Tate Britain show, the artist used illusion to recreate his childhood experience beneath a motorway
InterviewCollector's Eye
'I wish I had bought a Banksy': inside the collection of Mark Hix
The restauranteur tells us about his unusual Bridget Riley work and displaying his art on his new boat
InterviewCollector's Eye
‘I have works under every couch and chair’: inside the collection of Alia Al-Senussi
The art patron and consultant tells us about her special Robert Mapplethorpe gift and her love for her mother's ivory
InterviewCollector's Eye
'I have a work made of mortadella': inside the collection of Gemma De Angelis Testa
The private collector tells us about her dreams for her own museum and the difficulty of maintaining her food art
InterviewArtist interview
'I'm drawn to contradictions': Danh Vo on why his London show includes work by the professor who told him to give up art
For his sprawling exhibition at South London Gallery the Vietnam-born, Danish artist salutes those who have influenced him
InterviewCollector's Eye
'Issy Wood is one to watch': inside the collection of Raimund Berthold
We talk to the fashion designer about lending a work to the Old Vic theatre and how he dreams of buying the Beyeler's entire Stingel show
InterviewFrieze London 2019
Elizabeth Peyton on Kurt Cobain, the Twilight films and painting a museum director in his shorts
In her new solo show at London's National Portrait Gallery, the artist connects the past with the present
Interview
South African dealer Liza Essers on refusing to give in to legal browbeating
Goodman gallery director discusses being taken to court by President Zuma and acknowledging her privilege
InterviewTrevor Paglen
Trevor Paglen on questioning the intelligence of AI
US artist’s new show at the Barbican continues his exploration into how artificial intelligence is shaping how organisations control us
InterviewThomas Struth
Thomas Struth on being taught by Gerhard Richter and how he almost cancelled his Guggenheim Bilbao show
A retrospective of the German photographer opens this week and includes more than 130 works spanning four decades
InterviewUK politics
'A democratic vote swayed by lies is not democracy'—Mary Beard on what antiquity can teach us about political spin
The recipient of the 2019 J. Paul Getty Medal discusses how understanding Cicero can help decipher the rise of populism
InterviewSantiago X
Native American artist Santiago X on rebuilding Indigenous cities, one mound at a time
The forgotten history of Indigenous mound building will be reclaimed at this year’s Chicago Architecture Biennial
InterviewMaurizio Cattelan
'Art's most high-profile provocateur' Maurizio Cattelan on his new Blenheim Palace show
Known for this dangling horse and gold toilet, the Italian artist's exhibition is in the unlikely setting of Winston Churchill's birthplace
InterviewPolitics
Drawing with the ashes of Isis-ravaged buildings: Piers Secunda on the art of destruction
Artist’s works on iconoclasm in Mosul are currently on show at the Imperial War Museum in London
InterviewDealers
Michael Findlay: 'You don’t make art good by making it expensive’
A fixture of New York’s art scene since the 1960s, dealer Michael Findlay mourns the loss of the city’s local market and fears that the cost of real estate will destroy innovation
InterviewFrom the archive
In search of art out of Africa: an interview with Jean Pigozzi
“I feel that at the time of the Medici they had my kind of rapport with their artists”
InterviewPublic art
Fluxus in the air: Doug Aitken's hot air balloon sails above Massachusetts
The project aims to evoke the mythology of the American road trip
InterviewJewellery
Wakanda comes to Washington
Douriean Fletcher, who made the jewellery for Black Panther, speaks at the National Museum of Women in the Arts
InterviewLawrence Abu Hamdan
Interview: Lawrence Abu Hamdan—a self-styled 'private ear'
Your voice reveals much more about you than you think—and the Turner Prize nominee and Parcours artist is listening
InterviewCollector's Eye
Collector's Eye: Markus Hannebauer
The Berlin software entrepreneur tells us what he's bought and why he loves it
InterviewAndrea Bowers
Interview: Andrea Bowers discusses power dynamics post #MeToo
The artist, whose work is causing a stir at Art Basel, aims to keep alive conversations on the toxic nature of power that sparked the feminist social movement
InterviewCollector's Eye
Collector's Eye: Hubert Bonnet
The Belgian art collector tells us what he's bought and why he loves it
InterviewWilliam Kentridge
Interview: William Kentridge on his life lessons
Self-interrogation is central to the work of the South African artist, whose latest piece on show at the Kunstmuseum Basel poses a series of questions that get half-answered
InterviewCollector's Eye
Collector's Eye: Mario von Kelterborn
The German collector tells us what he's bought and why he loves it
InterviewCheryl Pope
Cheryl Pope on love, representation and the comfort of textile art
The artist is showing a new series of wool roving nudes at Monique Meloche Gallery in Chicago
InterviewArt Basel 2019
Interview: Pauline Boudry and Renate Lorenz on dancing in the Swiss pavilion
The duo explain why their Venice Biennale presentation Moving Backwards is actually a step forward
InterviewCollector's Eye
Collector’s Eye: Bérengère Primat
The French collector tells us about her new foundation of Aboriginal art and why she resists the collecting mentality
InterviewFaith Ringgold
Faith Ringgold discusses civil rights and children's books in solo London show
Acclaimed for her paintings and quilts, which weave in stories of the Civil Rights movement from a black female perspective, Faith Ringgold is about to open a solo show at the Serpentine Gallery, London—her first in a European institution.
InterviewChina
An artist’s memories of Tiananmen Square
The Bay Area artist Stella Zhang was a senior at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing during the student-led protests. She has created a new work based on those memories—and the government’s efforts to silence them
InterviewCommercial galleries
Dominique Lévy: ‘I just don’t think big is better’
She started off as an apprentice clown and did a stint as a currency trader, but it’s as a dealer in works of art in the vanguard of social change that Dominique Lévy has found her true calling
InterviewAdrian Ghenie
Painting is more important than politics: Adrian Ghenie on his Trump-inspired portraits in Venice
Romanian artist, whose show is open at the Palazzo Cini during the Biennale, compares his art market ascendancy to working in porn
InterviewFrieze New York 2019
Confessions of a dealer: Esther Kim Varet
We talk to Esther Kim Varet, the founder of the Los Angeles (and now, Seoul) gallery Various Small Fires about the art world, a pet peeve and the next big thing
InterviewFrieze New York 2019
Collector's Eye: Alejandra Castro Rioseco on collecting the work of female artists
Latin American artists feature prominently in the collection of the Chilean supporter of women's rights
InterviewFrieze New York 2019
Harold Ancart on the art of handball
The Belgian artist's Brooklyn project is all play —and lots of work
InterviewDamien Hirst
Blossoming artist: Damien Hirst on returning to the studio, fluorescent florals and the 'muppets' in government
Hirst has spent the past 18 months in his London studio painting cherry blossom and now, in an exclusive interview, he explains why this new body of work is a matter of life and death
InterviewFrieze New York 2019
Confessions of a dealer: Sam Gordon
We talk to Sam Gordon, co-founder of the New York gallery Gordon Robichaux, about his art-world enthusiasms and words to live by
InterviewFrieze New York 2019
Collector's Eye: an interview with Bernard Lumpkin, a 'black art ambassador'
Art lovers tell us what they’ve bought and why
InterviewFrieze New York 2019
Lauren Halsey brings the spirit of South Central LA to Frieze New York
Artist dedicates installation to Nipsey Hussle, the slain rapper and neighbourhood activist
InterviewArt market
Tefaf chairman Nanne Dekking speaks out about sexual abuse at Amsterdam 'cult'
Opening up about his traumatic experiences as a young man, he says the industry must act to improve transparency and diversity
InterviewVenice Biennale 2019
Ralph Rugoff on why the 2019 Venice Biennale has a 'split personality'
The artistic director speaks to The Art Newspaper as he puts the finishing touches to the exhibition that he has divided between the Arsenale and Giardini’s central pavilion