Interviews

  • Peter Howson in conversation

    Peter Howson grew up in Glasgow in the 1960s and attended Glasgow School of Art from 1975 to 1979. In 1993, he was appointed official British war artist for Bosnia by the Imperial War Museum. Howson, 55, has Asperger’s syndrome…

  • Interview with John Mellencamp

    Lilly Wei: You’ve had two museum shows of your paintings recently, the first at the Tennessee State Museum in Nashville last year and now this one at the Butler. Would you talk a little about your painting? Although less widely…

  • Anita Glesta: interview

    Anita Glesta: Gernika/Guernica Arthur M Sackler Museum of Art and Archaeology, Beijing 27 September – 31 October 2013

  • Interview with Dorothea Rockburne

    Dorothea Rockburne: Drawing Which Makes Itself The Museum of Modern Art, New York City 21 September 2013 – 20 January 2014

  • Jill Spalding talks to American sculptor Alice Aycock

    It … seems possible to imagine a complex which exists in the world as a thing in itself, generating the conditions of its own becoming, and which exists apart from the world as a model for it, exposing the conditions…

  • Janet Cardiff’s Sound Sculpture

    The Forty Part Motet, a sound installation by Canadian artist Janet Cardiff, is not so much a sight to see – despite the magnificence of its current setting – as it is a space to experience

  • Professor Mechal Sobel discusses her research on Bill Traylor

    Mechal Sobel is one of the scholars who has reassessed Traylor’s drawings in light of the social and cultural conditions of the post-civil war south. Sobel is professor emeritus of history at the University of Haifa, Israel, and author of…

  • Taking a transnational picture: an interview with Maryam Najd

    The meeting with Maryam Najd was an encounter of cultures. She, a fascinating artist who left her homeland in Iran and went to Belgium to study, and myself, a Brazilian who has been educated and lives in England. To complete…

  • Understanding the Expansion of Universe. An interview with Ernesto Neto

    Internationally acclaimed for creating immersive installations with his ambient sculptures, the Brazilian artist Ernesto Neto completely transformed the upper floor of the Hayward Gallery in London