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Doris Salcedo’s timely retrospective remembers victims of political violence
Mona Hatoum returns to the Centre Pompidou this week, 20 years after it held her first solo museum show. The Lebanese-born, London-based artist looks back on her daring early performances and her openness to working in different media<br> <br>
The Californian on Darwin, DNA, Ruscha’s cactus omelettes and never having enough time
Artist’s response to looting of Egyptian Museum puts widespread cultural destruction and political violence into sharp focus
Marlene Dumas warns that you’ll miss a lot if you search for too much autobiography in her paintings
Robin Meier’s immersive installation is the Swiss watchmaker Audemars Piguet’s first commission
As she prepares for a major exhibition opening in London this month, the British artist reflects on getting messy with paint, creating fictional characters and drawing on multiple sources to “play God”
Tania Bruguera, who has had her passport confiscated after planning a free-speech performance in Revolution Square, is due to host a 100-hour reading of the book The Origins of Totalitarianism ahead of the city's biennial
As a major retrospective opens in Washington, DC, the artist reflects on 20 years of challenging Western stereotypes of Iran
She talks to The Art Newspaper about the natural world, working with children, the relationship between cooking and art, and why standing for a nation is always problematic
Soon to turn 70, the Irish-born painter has been on the move since the age of four. With major shows opening in Venice and other cities, he tells how travelling the world helps him stay “in an active situation”
Tania Bruguera speaks to The Art Newspaper about life in Cuba after her arrest and the calls for a boycott of the Havana biennial in May
The artist speaks briefly of her favourite Miami activities
The artist is taking part in Manifesta 10, despite the country’s anti-gay laws
Since retiring from teaching at the Slade school after 40 years, the sculptor has found her large, site-specific works in great demand—not least at Tate Britain
Shaking off the "continental" label has been a lifetime's work
In the late 1960s, the former poet became a photographer, video and performance artist, using his own body as a subject
A glassblower’s take on a Florida utopia
“The work has no metaphor: it is what it is”
After introducing film to Fiac and battling to get fair prices for film-makers’ works, Pip Chodorov made his own history of experimental cinema—and now he is celebrating the work of a pioneering artist in a forthcoming Serpentine Gallery show.
Five artists describe how the ideas and techniques of the artists of the past have informed their work
Rising art star and activist Theaster Gates is transforming his Chicago neighbourhood, one building at a time
Artist Oscar Tuazon on his Public Art Fund project for Brooklyn Bridge Park
Visitors to Parreno’s Beyeler show get a copy of his “black garden” film. The DVD will expire but the plants live on
The artist’s solo show at the Beyeler this month includes new films starring a black garden and a robotic Marilyn Monroe
Ackroyd & Harvey have fused nature and engineering to mark London 2012’s legacy and the Olympic Park’s hidden history
A major survey of R. Crumb’s countercultural cartoons opened in Paris last month, but he remains mystified by the attention
The art collaboration that rose to fame in the 1980s is holding its first public workshop for youngsters at Frieze New York
On the eve of his Palazzo Grassi retrospective, the artist talks about how journalists have misinterpreted his work
From mock guided tours to a sexual encounter with a collector, the US artist's work is a unique form of institutional critique