Interview
Sandy Nairne and his life as an undercover negotiator: The ethics of retrieving Tate's Turners
The National Portrait Gallery director had a sensitive, secret role in recovering the stolen paintings
Gian Enzo Sperone: 'The nature of the art market has changed for ever'
The Italian dealer and co-founder of Sperone Westwater spoke to us in 2011 about botany, the difference between European and US galleries and why the "big gallery" systems won't last
Interview with Alessandro Mendini on radical design: “I’m what we Italians call a dilettantissimo”
Alessandro Mendini celebrates his 80th birthday this year—and his approach to design continues to be relevant
Interview with dealer Richard Nagy on Schiele: “It is about sex, it is tense, anxious and emotional”
His new space in London will open with an exhibition on the Austrian painter
“He enabled me to know myself better”: Interview with Giacometti's last surviving muse, Paola Carola
One of the sculptor's models reflects upon his enduring influence and how he changed her life
Interview with dealer Paul Kasmin: “I get a lot of amusement putting what’s downtown, uptown”
The New York-based dealer on his photographic roots and his future plans
Interview with Peter Weibel: Centre for Art and Media Karlsruhe “will be the Louvre of media art”
Peter Weibel, head of ZKM Karlsruhe, on the Moscow Biennale and subverting military technology to create virtual sculpture
Interview with Tate's Penelope Curtis on her vision for the gallery: Avoiding the cliché of combining old and new
Making more of Tate Britain’s building and rehanging the collection
“Actors are playing us, but we might interfere”: Interview with curators Elmgreen and Dragset
Elmgreen and Dragset on splitting up but staying together and why they are putting their lives on stage
Interview with designer Konstantin Grcic: “I love to hear someone cutting cardboard”
For Design Miami’s Designer of the Year, the hands-on approach is still vital to his work
Interview with Christophe Van de Weghe
“At Gagosian, it was understood, ‘Sit there and make money’”
Interview with Steve Martin: "I’ve never met anyone who collects cynically”
The polymath performer has written a novel set in the art world -should every dealer he’s ever met be afraid?
Interview with Sprüth and Magers: “We didn’t want to become bigger, we wanted to become smaller”
Dealers Monika Sprüth and Philomene Magers discuss the benefits of teamwork and the Berlin art scene
Interview with dealer Luca Baroni: “As I get older, I get more demanding, I only want the very best”
The old master dealer on market caution, setting the record straight with Colnaghi, and working for a very private collector
Interview with dealer Andrea Rosen on 20 years in the business: “People are rightfully cautious and focused. I like that”
The pioneer of the resale agreement talks about the recession and what it means for both artists and collectors
“I’ve never installed my work in such an exotic environment”: Interview with Yayoi Kusama
The Japanese artist speaks about her Miami exhibition
Interview with Robert Storr: Most theory has little bearing on art
The critic and curator spoke to The Art Newspaper about the role of art theory, and what advice he is giving to his students in today’s artistic climate.
The most important collectors you’ve never heard of: The Van Otterloos
Next year their collection of Dutch and Flemish 17th-century paintings goes on display for the first time in Europe and the US. The couple gave us their first ever interview
My road to Art Basel 2009: Interview with Alicja Kwade
Alicja Kwade on fleeing Poland, working for other artists and winning prizes
Interview with Achim Borchardt-Hume, new chief curator for Whitechapel
Borchardt-Hume on history, community and leaving the Tate
Manuel Borja-Villel: "Reina Sofía can be a 21st-century leader”
Director Borja-Villel is instituting radical changes to Madrid museum
Interview with Art Basel’s new co-directors Marc Spiegler and Annette Schönholzer on keeping it business as usual
The pair plan to expand the Miami edition, but not much else will change
Interview with Robert Storr, director of the 2007 Venice Biennale: "I would recommend dramatically increasing the number of national pavilions"
In the second part of our interview with Storr, he considers the question of how to make the historic event truly representative of today’s global art world
Interview with Nicholas Penny on his plans for the National Gallery: “It is a real shame that we do not have more American paintings”
In his first interview since taking over, the new director outlines his priorities
In search of purity out of Africa: Interview with collector Jean Pigozzi
“I feel that at the time of the Medici they had my kind of rapport with their artists”
Interview with Sam Keller: “Art Basel is not a shopping mall”
Fair director Sam Keller believes his greatest achievement has been to combine culture with commerce
"It was the world's most important fair before I came, it is now, and it will continue to be after I've left": Interview with Art Basel director Sam Keller
After his intention to step down from Basel goes public, Sam Keller discusses the fair's evolution, his legacy, and pastures new at the Beyeler Foundation
Interview with Ambassador Tuttle and Mrs Tuttle: His favourite artist is Francis Bacon, hers is Agnes Martin
The new US ambassador and his wife on a marriage spent collecting
Interview with His Highness the Aga Khan on Al-Azhar Park and the importance of architecture
In a rare interview, the Aga Khan describes his global approach to helping Islamic communities help themselves, while also restoring their past heritage