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London-based artist deals in desire, and his love affair with the Barbican has resulted in his biggest show yet
The artist’s installation shows how the foxes and mice of Regent’s Park experience the fair
Mexican artist living symbol of human resourcefulness opens at Tate Modern
In a rare interview, the Italian artist spoke frankly about keeping the prices high for his work, saying: “I can always be a doctor instead”
As he prepares for his biggest exhibition to date, the British artist reflects on how his performances, paintings and other works “push what people consider to be OK”
Art must change if humanity is to survive, says this Iraqi artist, who has cast a bell from the melted-down armaments of Middle Eastern wars for a standout work in this year’s Venice Biennale exhibition
Doris Salcedo is devoted to making art about political violence in a world saturated with images of death and destruction. As a show opens at the Guggenheim, she says she hopes her elegiac sculptures might re-sensitise us
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