Artist interview

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

Hosted by Ben Luke. Produced by David Clack
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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

Hosted by Ben Luke. Produced by David Clack
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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

Hosted by Ben Luke. Produced by Aimee Dawson and David Clack
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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

Hosted by Ben Luke. Produced by Aimee Dawson and David Clack
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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

Hosted by Ben Luke. Produced by David Clack and Aimee Dawson
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Doris Salcedointerview

'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

Hosted by Ben Luke. Produced by David Clack and Aimee Dawson
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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

Hosted by Ben Luke. Produced by David Clack and Aimee Dawson
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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

Hosted by Ben Luke. Produced by David Clack and Aimee Dawson
Sponsored byBloomberg Connects

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

Hosted by Ben Luke. Produced by David Clack and Aimee Dawson
Sponsored byBloomberg Connects

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

Hosted by Ben Luke. Produced by David Clack and Aimee Dawson
Sponsored byBloomberg Connects

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

Hosted by Ben Luke. Produced by David Clack and Aimee Dawson
Sponsored byBloomberg Connects
Exhibitionsinterview

‘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

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Ayman Zedani: examining the future of the Gulf—through whale song

We meet the artist nominated for the Richard Mille Art Prize

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Vikram Divecha on his ambitious proposal—a museum of walls

We meet the artist nominated for the Richard Mille Art Prize

In partnership withRichard Mille

Zeinab Alhashemi on bringing camels—and camel breeder culture—into the contemporary art scene

We meet the artist nominated for the Richard Mille Art Prize

In partnership withRichard Mille

Simrin Mehra-Agarwal on how her work as a technical diver inspires her art

We meet the artist nominated for the Richard Mille Art Prize

In partnership withRichard Mille

Rand Abdul Jabbar: 'Iraq is a clay culture—my choice to work with ceramics is linked to that lineage'

We meet the artist nominated for the Richard Mille Art Prize

In partnership withRichard Mille