"Magic is one of my ongoing interests"

Actress, artist, disco diva, television star, lover of Salvador Dalí and a clutch of rock stars, talks about love, fame, fire and pain

Art, acting, life, and Captain Haddock

French-born painter Balthus, who died in February, rarely gave interviews and maintained that he delighted in being anonymous. His friend of 20 years, the actor Richard Gere, spent a few days at his Swiss home in December last year, where they enjoyed a long discussion, full of twists and turns

He talks to The Art Newspaper ahead of his upcoming show at White Columns

The duo dislike art that only the art world can understand and explain their campaign to be different

Telling universal stories about love, insanity, and death through film and music

How her paintings have the limitations of bodies

Charles Saatchi and Eli Broad both collect him, but only 13 US museums have examples of this artistic rebel’s work

These works of art take a global perspective and are literally geologically based

Disillusioned and sick of heavy-handed art that tries to shock, the artist has now turned to kitsch and sentimental themes

The adventurer, war hero, metalworker, sculptor, and political activist talks about Paris in the 1950s and his work in Mexico

The relationship between the generic and the individual is at the heart of Opie’s digitally produced work

A bank robbery and its portrayal in the film “Dog Day Afternoon” are the materials used by Huyghe to explore how fantasy shapes memory

The Englishman in New York on his latest inventions and why he would have made a rubbish YBA

The US artist on her shift to abstraction and being a happier person

Appropriation, whimsy, balletomania, and anglophilia all go into Kilimnik’s installations

The artist talks about truncation in art and life as his show opens at White Cube2

As the Japan Society presents a retrospective of Yoko Ono’s work, she talks about the avant-garde in the 60s and her latest work

UK Artist Q&A

The group of international, web-based, artists is bringing its witty blend of conceptual, digital and performance art to New York

The upcoming Met exhibition presents the whole career of the photographer famous for his images of the Depression

Kiki Smith responds to recent attacks on her work by Met director Philippe de Montebello

Clement Greenberg said he was “the greatest painter” alive; then in the 70s the world stopped talking about Jules Olitski

The American artist, forty-three, represents the US at the Venice Biennale this year

She sees herself as a sculptor and rejects any links with Arts and Crafts descendant, Bernard Leach