Archive
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Joey Holder: ‘I’d like to see a lot more collaboration between the sciences and the arts’
The artist shows Studio International around her ‘futuristic medical room’ installation and explains how what, at first, might seem like science fiction, is pretty much science fact
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Simon Starling: ‘A little knowledge is a powerful thing, and too much knowledge can stifle creativity’
The Turner Prize-winning conceptual artist underscores his first institutional show in New York with a meticulously researched multimedia installation based around WB Yeats’s 1916 play At the Hawk’s Well and Noh theatre
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Tom Ellis: ‘Defining yourself in opposition to something else is always going to be self-defeating’
The British artist talks about context, subversion and what it means to build a career in the middle
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Peter Liversidge: ‘My work is solely about engagement’
The artist talks about the significance of his “proposals”, and discusses his recent project at Tate Modern involving a 500-strong choral performance, and his two new shows in the US
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Susan Webster and Stuart Kestenbaum: interview
Maine’s poet laureate Stuart Kestenbaum and artist Susan Webster talk about their recent collaborative cross-disciplinary work
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Michelangelo Pistoletto: ‘The mirror is always part of one unique mirror. There is only one mirror that is fragmented in various moments and places’
In the startlingly altered states of Blenheim Palace, the multifarious Michelangelo Pistoletto spoke to Studio International about the history of time as captured in his Mirror Paintings, his rejection of the concept of a signature style, and the conviction that…
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Visual Wit and Social Critique. Satire from Goya to Grosz
With three centuries’ worth of satire, this exhibition offers an overview of things that have changed and, perhaps more engagingly, things that have not, through an artist’s eye view of society
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Oscar Murillo: through patches of corn, wheat and mud
Canvases appear abandoned on the floor and wet paint suggest a state of un-finish, but the compositions are complex, and the overlaid marks, prints, and repeated brushstrokes, a result of a prolonged process and experimentation
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Simon Lewty: ‘I draw only from the imagination’
Lewty, whose work combines fantastic images with text, talks about where his inspiration comes from, the music he listens to while working, and the artists who have influenced him over his lifetime
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Tacita Dean: LA Exuberance
New lithographs, slate drawings and a film of David Hockney, all done by Dean when she was in Los Angeles, are being shown alongside her acclaimed 2015 film Event for a Stage
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Sofia Borges: ‘Photography can be used as a tool to mould our sense of reality’
The artist subverts photography, as she strives to ‘rub out meaning’. Instead, she explains, she is interested in the things that are lost, denied and corrupted in the transposition from object into image, and from image into reality, and from…
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Abstract Expressionism
The towering canvases of abstract expressionism crowd the main galleries of the Royal Academy in this monumental exhibition
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Zhao Zhao: ‘You cannot separate art from politics’
A prominent member of the post-1980s generation of Chinese artists and a former assistant of Ai Wewei, the Beijing artist talks about his visually stunning, anti-authoritarian and provocative work. Lilly Wei talked to the artist in his Beijing studio in…
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Inside: Artists and Writers in Reading Prison
Since it was founded in 1985, cultural organisation Artangel has made a name for itself staging exhibitions in headline-grabbing locations. Its latest show brings a cast of literary and art-world heavyweights to the cells, corridors and chapel of HM Prison…
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Surreal Encounters Collecting the Marvellous
A fantastic range of Surrealist works and ephemera displayed in this exhibition shows the mutifaceted nature of the surrealist art movement, encountered through four different collections of Surrealist art
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Rashid Johnson: Fly Away
This is Johnson at his best. Mirrors, branded wood, black soap, shea butter, cut-up photography – his trademark materials are all here in this vast gallery, as he draws visitors in to contemplate his themes of anxiety and race
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Karin Schneider: Situational Diagram
Restricting herself to the abstract and the monochrome, referencing Ad Reinhardt, Mark Rothko and Barnett Newman, and setting rules for the sale of her work, Schneider questions the central relationships in art – between artist and antecedent, gallerist and buyer
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Elpida Hadzi-Vasileva: ‘I am driven by making the impossible possible’
The artist, who makes beautiful works of art using waste products from the meat industry talks about God, gastroenterology and pigs’ guts
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Shezad Dawood: Kalimpong
From yeti expeditions to spy shenanigans, the Himalayan hotel in Kalimpong has seen it all. Now, a new virtual reality work – along with its accompanying exhibition and publication – invites you to step back in time and explore
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Robert Mapplethorpe: Objects
An enlightening and enriching insight into the juvenilia of the controversial photographer, showing 12 rarely seen collage and assemblage works, in which he develops motifs and themes that continue throughout his career
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James Richards: Requests and Antisongs
Sensory stimulation is privileged over semantics in this tripartite installation of new works by the Turner Prize-nominated sound and video artist
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Meet the designers doing good this autumn in London
More than 400 events and installations from high-profile designers and rising stars were included in this year’s London Design Festival, while the city’s inaugural design biennale showcased the works of 37 countries at Somerset House
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Karen Guthrie: ‘Family history is a hidden pain with lots of people. A film can bring those things to the surface’
The film-maker talks about her incredibly successful and amazingly raw and personal documentary of her family history, The Closer We Get
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Dialogue with Trees: Five Stories of Rebirth and Renewal
To celebrate its 90th birthday, the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum is staging an exhibition of works in wood, from vast installations to finely chiselled pieces, by five contemporary Japanese artists
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