Interviews
Contemporary wounds at the heart of TEFAF
The curator of ‘Show your Wound’ discusses his thorny choice of subject and changing ideas
The modern mysteries of Michaël Borremans
The Belgian painter reveres the Old Masters but is ‘ashamed’ by the state of figurative painting today
‘This is what we can do in an encyclopaedic museum’
Sheena Wagstaff on the Met’s ambitious plans for the Breuer building
Christo prepares to walk on water
Christo and his wife and collaborator Jeanne-Claude wanted to walk on water nearly 40 years ago. The Floating Piers project this summer will achieve their dream.
Susan Hiller’s search for the right medium
‘What’s happened to the witch, the German puppet witch?’ Susan Hiller enquires of the waitress…
Omar Kholeif on how the internet transformed art
‘I’ve always been interested in artists who stretch the formal limits of technology’
Ellsworth Kelly (1923–2015)
Remembering the great pioneer of American abstraction, who has died at the age of 92
Hal Foster on art after 1989 and the rise of the zombie
Hal Foster talks to Fatema Ahmed about art after the end of the Cold War, the cultural dominance of zombies, and why he eavesdrops in museums
‘Our Europe is an inclusive Europe’: the Victoria and Albert Museum’s new European Galleries
Lesley Miller, the lead curator of the museum’s new ‘Europe 1600–1815 Galleries’ explains the hard decisions involved in making displays
Solitary Soul: Interview with Lee Ufan
‘My painting is a game, with the canvas as my opponent’
Ugo Rondinone’s love letter to John Giorno
The Swiss artist Ugo Rondinone talks to Imelda Barnard about creating an exhibition dedicated to John Giorno, the American avant-garde poet
‘Watching this chaos unfurl’: Interview with Joanna Kirk
‘There is an element in my work that is a bit like bringing up small children’
Yael Bartana brings controversial new work to Jerusalem Season of Culture
‘It’s one of the most charged locations I’ve ever been to’.
How Edmund de Waal came to love the colour white
The artist is to curate a show about the colour at the Royal Academy
An Art History Lesson from Bridget Riley at the De La Warr Pavilion
‘I was looking at Cézanne along Matisse’s lines’
A Necessary Realism: Interview with Luc Tuymans
‘When I paint I don’t want to think any more.’
Jonathan Ruffer’s grand plans for Auckland Castle
He’s saved the castle’s Zurbarán paintings; now he wants to transform the town into a hub for Spanish art
Black & White: Interview with William Kentridge
For the South African artist William Kentridge, everything begins with printmaking
England’s history in photographs: highlights from ‘Picturing England’
Fascinating photographs from an extraordinary collection
Pablo Bronstein on Chatsworth, the Grand Tour and his love of delft
‘There’s an element of me that’s contrarian’
My Masterpiece Selection: Amanda Levete
From Lloyd Wright’s Guggenheim to ceramics at the V&A: the architect selects her favourite masterpieces
My Masterpiece Selection: Anita Zabludowicz
‘My ultimate masterpiece is the home that I have lived in for 15 years’
Copying the classical: Interview with Salvatore Settis
Classical art is a hidden category of our contemporary culture
Classical and contemporary connections: Interview with Germano Celant
The Prada Foundation has no intention of being an ‘ego-museum’
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Are the art market’s problems being blown out of proportion?