Interviews
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Lynette Yiadom-Boakye: ‘Maybe I’m not as interested in people as I thought I was’
The artist, whose latest exhibition, Verses After Dusk, is on at the Serpentine Gallery, London, talks about how she makes her paintings timeless and placeless, and her interest in the nature of painting itself and what that does to the…
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Cecily Brown: ‘In a way you can see things more clearly when they’re small’
The artist talks about her latest exhibition, The English Garden, explains why it is a lot harder to make a small painting than a big one, why the surface of a painting is so important for her, and how she…
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Jake Chapman: ‘Show me a Hitler and I’ll draw on it’
Having unveiled the sinister Sturm und Drang at Ekebergparken Sculpture Park, Oslo, one half of artistic duo the Chapman Brothers discusses the merits of artistic thievery, the definition of beauty, and Adolf Hitler
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Rafaël Rozendaal: ‘I see the same intensification of reality in Mondrian and Mickey Mouse’
The artist, who now has hundreds of websites to his name, talks about using the internet as his canvas, uploading our minds, and why he makes moving images that have no beginning or end
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Rachel Maclean: ‘I’m taking and contributing to the weird recycled ecosystem of the internet’
The artist talks about taking her inspiration from YouTube and LolCats to Britney Spears and Scottishness to explore gender, class and nationality, and explains how she transforms herself to play every role and model in her videos
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BGL: ‘In our installation, people play with money, and we like this game’
Canadian art collective BGL makes art that is playful and provocative, parodying everyday objects to comment on our material passions and obsessions with consumerism. Studio International spoke to them at the 56th Venice Biennale
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Michal Rovner: ‘I don’t want to tell a story, I’m looking for something underneath the story’
The Israeli artist discusses the work in her current exhibition Panorama, life split between New York and Israel, her use of modern technology to present her work, and how the gap between reality and what the news presents to us…
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Theaster Gates: ‘How do you get people to see things that to them are invisible?’
In his latest exhibition at London’s White Cube Gallery, Artes Mundi prize-winner and social practice artist Theaster Gates assesses the multiple definitions of assembly, from the political and the artistic to the working-class
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Roxana Halls: ‘I often equate painting with performance’
The artist talks about her new show, Unknown Women, in which she explores concealment of identity, the different ways in which she creates a painting, and how she loves to mix and match things
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Shirin Neshat: ‘Nothing is more powerful than human expression’
The artist talks about her latest exhibition, for which she photographed ordinary people in Azerbaijan, how she incorporates poetry into her work, and her feelings about being so close to her own birthplace, Iran, which she has not visited for…
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Reni Gower and Jorge Benitez: ‘Nothing can be reduced to black and white’
Reni Gower and Jorge Benitez talk about their cross-cultural project Geometric Aljamía, which aimed to bring together visual arts as seen in Islamic and western cultures
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Lydia Gifford: ‘I’m learning how to let go. At times it feels like something’s being wrenched from you’
The British artist says her work is a continually generating material mass that is more about trying to catch movement than trying to make work
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Jonn Herschend: ‘We can use humour seriously in art to push agendas forward’
Film-maker and experimental publisher Jonn Herschend explains why Don Quixote has been such a major influence on him, why he relishes making films to show in galleries, and how growing up in an 1880s theme park shaped his work
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Frances Walker: ‘For me, art is all about being able to communicate with someone I haven’t even met’
The Scottish painter Frances Walker, now in her 80s, talks about her time as an art teacher, her fascination with Pieter Bruegel, and visiting Antarctica
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NS Harsha: ‘I am like a cook. I love to make a dish, offer it to the people, and wait for a reaction’
The Indian artist NS Harsha on how his latest paintings embody the notion of ascent, an idea he says has been hijacked by religion, why he prefers flatness to perspective, and why he has a duty to be mad
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Penny Slinger: ‘Being different is just who you are. What you do with it is up to you’
Penny Slinger on how Tantric art changed her life, dealing with sexual identity in art, using her body as both subject and object in her work, and a lifetime of crossing boundaries
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Diana Thater: ‘When someone walks in, they are part of the work. They’re inside the work of art’
US new media artist Diana Thater explains what drew her to the subject of her latest work, the monkeys of the Galtaji Temple in Jaipur
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Allora & Calzadilla: Intervals
In this exhibition of new and recent projects, Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla explore the history and origins of human music not only as a means to define the boundaries between man and animal, but also to communicate across their…
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Daniel Zolli: ‘Competition was in the air these sculptors breathed. It could be a fight to the death, artistically speaking’
As the Museum of Biblical Art hosts this momentous exhibition of renaissance masterpieces, co-curator Daniel Zolli explains why Florence Cathedral’s sculptural embellishments are such masterful and enduring treasures
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Paul Chan: ‘Times have changed, and I have changed, and I wanted something else’
Paul Chan is a versatile artist and writer, working in video, installation, publishing and the internet, whose work probes our assumptions about the nature of visuality and visual art
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Hadieh Shafie: ‘I take things from my culture and marry them to my western art education’
Hadieh Shafie makes transformative objects that hover between painting and sculpture, integrating her roots in Persian culture and her training in the west
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Marisa Williamson: ‘I want to make history alive in people’s worlds’
The performance artist talks about leaving Los Angeles to start a course at the Whitney Museum in New York, and her latest project, in which she takes on the role of Sally Hemings, slave and mistress to President Thomas Jefferson
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Ilana Halperin: ‘Drawing is a trace fossil of a moment, an idea, proof of life’
The artist, whose work is bound up with geological phenomena, explains the excitement of holding a meteorite older than the Earth, her obsession with the Eldfell volcano, and why gallstones are important to her art
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Kehinde Wiley: ‘I think ideas are just as important as the material practice of painting’
African-American artist Kehinde Wiley talks about the practice of painting as a conceptual tool to express his worldview and ideas that inspire him
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