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Artist-turned-curator looks beyond political messages and record prices for group show in Qatar
As shows of his work open at opposite ends of the US, the nomadic Korean-born artist explains how his coloured cloth installations reflect his transient existence
The conceptual artist pays tribute to his friends and masters–just don’t call him a curator
The UK artist has been doing some soul-searching. He tells us about his latest works, partly inspired by Freud, and his own experiences of psychoanalysis
The Iranian film-maker is showing a photographic series he’s worked on for 20 years at Toronto’s Aga Khan Museum
The artist who once wrapped islands in Biscayne Bay reveals why he is in a hurry to create Floating Piers
Yves Béhar, the Swiss-born, San Francisco-based designer behind Jawbone’s Up fitness tracker and One Laptop Per Child, is the winner of Design Miami’s 2015 Visionary Award
The Turner Prize-winning Scottish artist finds inspiration in the FBI files of the communist composer who spent the 1940s in Hollywood and the Cold War in East Berlin
The artist Trevor Paglen interrogates the world of mass surveillance and its increasing impact on society
The Argentine artist Adrián Villar Rojas talks about his troupe of collaborators and how we are all sculptors—as well as sculptures
As a major exhibition opens at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the US artist reflects on how beauty is “a given” in art—and how, after nearly 60 years, he is still pursuing “the problems of painting”
British artist, who represented Britain at the Venice Biennale of 2013, has much to say about an eclectic selection of art
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”