Artist interview
Anna Maria Maiolino: ‘My body speaks to me and I’ve been listening to it since I was really young’
She won the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at Venice last year, but the Italian-born, Brazil-based artist is not slowing down. Her retrospective at the Musée Picasso in Paris contains new works, including a labour-intensive commission in clay
A brush with… Lubaina Himid — podcast
Lubaina Himid talks to Ben Luke about her influences—from writers to musicians, film-makers and, of course, other artists—and the cultural experiences that have shaped her life and work
A brush with… Huma Bhabha — podcast
Ben Luke talks to Huma Bhabha about her influences—from writers to musicians, film-makers and, of course, other artists—and the cultural experiences that have shaped her life and work
Che Onejoon: ‘The AfroAsia collective is now more important to me than my personal art’
Meet the artist who has been selected for this year's Korean Artists Today
Sun Woo: ‘I’m interested in how the body navigates unfamiliar territory’
Meet the artist who has been selected for this year's Korean Artists Today
Choi Goen: ‘My work always begins with discovering a material’
Meet the artist who has been selected for this year's Korean Artists Today
Jewyo Rhii: ‘If you don’t die today, you get another opportunity to live’
Meet the artist who has been selected for this year's Korean Artists Today
ikkibawiKrrr: ‘We spend a lot of time visiting sites and being with people’
Meet the artists who have been selected for this year's Korean Artists Today
Min ha Park: ‘I think about creating situations where things don’t immediately explain themselves’
Meet the artist who has been selected for this year's Korean Artists Today
Byungjun Kwon: ‘I want to break away from the passive, one-sided way of experiencing performances’
Meet the artist who has been selected for this year's Korean Artists Today
Dexter Dalwood: ‘If we want art history to change, we need to include artists in creating shows’
The Bristol-born artist has been back in the UK to co-curate a show at the National Gallery dedicated to José María Velasco, a painter well known in Dalwood’s adopted home, Mexico, but virtually unheard of here
‘We are all part of this intergalactic universe’: Saya Woolfalk’s solo show immerses viewers in her “Empathic Universe”
The artist’s exhibition at the Museum of Arts and Design features works spanning more than 20 years of her world-building practice
‘I see hidden codes within the everyday’: Sandra Poulson’s first museum exhibition explores material histories of global exchange
In the Angolan artist’s show at MoMA PS1, she uses wooden sculpture and found furniture to question the legacies of postcolonialism and globalisation
A brush with… Salman Toor — podcast
Salman Toor talks to Ben Luke about his influences—from writers to musicians, film-makers and, of course, other artists—and the cultural experiences that have shaped his life and work
Wafaa Bilal: ‘I see democracy slowly eroding now’
On the occasion of his solo exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, the Iraqi American artist reflects on how his work grapples with the personal impact of political power
'These strings are connective tissues between points and cultures': Jennie C. Jones on her sonic sculptures on the Metropolitan Museum's roof
The artist's installation on the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Roof Garden explores the outer limits of sound and form
A brush with… Kent Monkman — podcast
Kent Monkman talks to Ben Luke about his influences—from writers to musicians, film-makers and, of course, other artists—and the cultural experiences that have shaped his life and work
Imran Qureshi’s site-specific work in Dubai reimagines traditional forms from his native Pakistan
The artist, who teaches miniature painting in Lahore, is showing his new work at Concrete gallery during Art Dubai
‘The violence hasn’t stopped, it has just learned to behave’: Maurizio Cattelan on why his new works chime with the times
The art world provocateur's latest works have been unveiled at Gagosian gallery, London
A brush with… Ed Atkins — podcast
Ed Atkins talks to Ben Luke about his influences—from writers to musicians, film-makers and, of course, other artists—and the cultural experiences that have shaped his life and work
Steven Shearer: ‘I started to think of the internet as a kind of sarcophagus’
Inspired by religious figuration, the Canadian artist’s latest series uses images of people sourced online that he has enlarged to create painterly canvases exploring the vulnerability and universality of sleep
A brush with… Celia Paul — podcast
In this first episode of the new series of A brush with…, Ben Luke talks to the painter Celia Paul about her influences—including writers as well as contemporary and historic artists—and the cultural experiences that have shaped her life and work
Richard Wright: ‘When I open a can of paint, I just love how it looks; I almost want to drink it’
The Turner Prize winner, who is having his first UK institutional exhibition in two decades, explains his process, the interplay of time and space within his work, and why he had a brief career as a sign painter
Louise Giovanelli: ‘Because of the curtains and tinsel, people think I grew up with working men’s clubs’
The UK painter’s first major museum show, at the Hepworth Wakefield, offers recognition of a talent whose ambiguous works can shift between the humdrum of the ordinary and the ecstasy of revelation
'America gives me no shortage of subject matter': Vincent Valdez on making art that connects communities
The artist's first major museum survey, "Vincent Valdez: Just a Dream..." at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, tracks 20 years of his identity-driven photorealism
'It's like playing jazz': Carl Cheng reflects on his ecological investigations at the ICA in Philadelphia
The Post-Minimalist art outlaw is the subject of his first major museum survey
Nick Cave: My manager was like, ‘What the fuck are you doing?’ I’m like, ‘I’m going into the ceramics business’
The rock star’s Staffordshire-style figurines, on show at the Museum Voorlinden, tell the story of the devil and have helped Cave make sense of his own life—and personal tragedy—in a way that his songs cannot
A brush with… Renée Green — podcast
Renée, known for her installations, video pieces and texts, reflects on the nature of ideas, on subjectivity and perception, and on memory—personal and collective
Julieta Aranda: '¿Cuál es el tiempo de soñar?'
La exposición de la artista nacida en la Ciudad de México en el Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo examina sus proyectos relacionados con el tiempo y el trabajo
Julieta Aranda: ‘What is the time of dreaming?’
The Mexico City-born artist’s show at Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo surveys her projects related to time and labour