Artist interview
A brush with... Claudette Johnson
An in-depth interview with the artist on her cultural experiences and greatest influences, from Toni Morrison's writings to Picasso's Les Demoiselles d’Avignon
A brush with... Yinka Shonibare
An in-depth interview with the artist on his cultural experiences and greatest influences, from William Hogarth to the "total artwork" of opera
Takashi Murakami: the pop artist on cartoons, capitalism and what he learnt from Star Wars
The Japanese artist, whose latest show opens in San Francisco this month, explains the connection between his colourful aesthetic and darker influences, including natural disasters and the pandemic
A brush with… Analia Saban
An in-depth interview with the artist on her cultural experiences and greatest influences, from the writings of Julia Kristeva to her epiphanic visit to New York
A brush with... Alvaro Barrington
An in-depth interview with the artist on his cultural experiences and greatest influences, from Johannes Vermeer to Tupac Shakur
A brush with... Mandy El-Sayegh
An in-depth interview with the artist on her cultural experiences and greatest influences, from Albrecht Dürer to Theresa Hak Kyung Cha
A brush with... Larry Achiampong
An in-depth interview with the artist on his cultural experiences and greatest influences, from Adrian Piper to The Legend of Zelda video game
'I'm receiving messages from a parallel universe': Naudline Pierre on the ecstatic world of her works on paper
Pierre discusses her latest exhibition at the Drawing Center in New York
Grayson Perry: the newly knighted potter on the power of accessibility and why he’s making a musical
Ahead of a retrospective in Edinburgh, the Turner Prize-winning artist, who inspired a nation of makers during the Covid-19 pandemic, explains why he never wants to stop learning
A brush with... Jeremy Deller
An in-depth interview with the artist on his cultural experiences and greatest influences, from Francis Bacon to Mike Kelley
Sin Wai Kin's films challenge gender binaries and fascist Italian architecture
The Turner Prize-nominated artist-filmmaker discusses their current solo show in Rome and award-winning solo stand at Art Basel
Pianos, asparagus and shame: Andrea Büttner mines philosophy and art history in Kunstmuseum Basel show
The Heart of Relations is the German artist’s largest solo exhibition so far, with almost 90 works from the past 15 years
A brush with... Jacqueline Humphries
An in-depth interview with the artist on her cultural experiences and greatest influences, from Caravaggio to early-2000s video games
'Feelings and emotions are dirty words in art': Doris Salcedo on her unflinching works that confront global crises
As her major retrospective opens in Basel, we talk to the artist about her gentle but brutal artworks
A brush with... Gary Simmons
An in-depth interview with the artist on his cultural experiences and greatest influences, from David Hammons to 1980s punk rock
Carrie Mae Weems: the photographer recreating and reframing famous historical moments
Ahead of her largest European show to date, the artist tells us why her early work focused on her family and how she grew to embrace large-scale installation
A brush with… Phyllida Barlow
We sat down with the late artist earlier this year to discuss her cultural experiences and greatest influences, from Louise Nevelson to Fyodor Dostoevsky
Joe Tilson: the Pop artist who dodged Hitler’s torpedoes and life on a building site
The nonagenarian talks about why Italy is more welcoming to artists, how meaning is always in the eye of the beholder, and his displeasure in learning that Boris Johnson is a fan
‘My work holds a mirror to one’s perspective’: Nicholas Galanin on his new public sculpture made of border wall steel
The Indigenous artist used steel destined for construction of the US’s southern border fence to make a large text art piece in Brooklyn
Artist Aliza Nisenbaum on colour, Queens and how she makes her paintings 'glow'
The Mexico City-born painter has an exhibition at New York's Queens Museum as well as a new commission for LaGuardia Airport
Sarah Sze: the artist creating complex immersive worlds from everyday objects
The US artist discusses her solo show at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York and her upcoming Artangel project in an abandoned London train station waiting room
‘Western Chinese restaurants are magical realist places’: Lap-See Lam on her first US solo exhibition
The artist’s video installation extrapolates a fantastical narrative from the kind of Chinese restaurant her own parents ran
A brush with... Alfredo Jaar
An in-depth interview with the artist on his cultural experiences and greatest influences, from Marcel Duchamp to Ben Okri
A brush with... Marguerite Humeau
An in-depth interview with the artist on her cultural experiences and greatest influences, from Marlene Dumas to Nina Simone
A brush with... Mike Nelson
An in-depth interview with the artist on his cultural experiences and greatest influences, from Francis Bacon to J.G. Ballard
A brush with... Matthew Krishanu
An in-depth interview with the artist on his cultural experiences and greatest influences, from Jean-Michel Basquiat to Gwen John
‘I painted and painted and painted, and I refound myself’: Sharon Stone on her first solo show
The actor returned to painting during pandemic lockdowns and used her practice to process difficult periods in her personal life and professional career
Yuki Kihara: the photographer upending the cultural legacy of Paul Gauguin’s Tahitian paintings
Ahead of her show at Sydney's Powerhouse Ultimo, the Japanese-Samoan artist tells us about the importance of exhibiting at the Venice Biennale and how she created a third-gender paradise
Crop circles: Shaikha Al Mazrou's focus on materials and man-made marks
We meet the artist nominated for the Richard Mille Art Prize
Ayman Zedani: examining the future of the Gulf—through whale song
We meet the artist nominated for the Richard Mille Art Prize