Archive
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Michael Buthe
Combining elements of Christian iconography and ritual with artefacts from North African and oriental culture, Buthe created entrancing and immersive installations, at once meditative and full of energy
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William Kentridge: Thick Time
This remarkable show offers six of the South African artist’s most potent installations – and six chances to enter Kentridge’s shivering monochrome universe
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Ed Moses: Painting as Process
In the still eye of the swirl of the happening art that opens Manhattan’s autumn season stands a small, beautiful and defining exhibition that makes a case for process as mantra, manifesto and trophy
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The EY Exhibition: Wifredo Lam
He fought in the Spanish civil war, was exiled from France by the Nazis and returned to his native Cuba to find it utterly changed. His genius was to turn his experiences into a unique portrait of his time and…
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Douglas Kotwall: ‘We want to incubate young, contemporary Chinese artists and curators’
Kotwall, a senior member of the K11 Art Foundation, talks about the ethos and goals of the organisation, which seeks to promote young Chinese artists, open up cross-cultural dialogues, and make art more accessible to the Chinese public
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Guan Xiao: ‘I am learning about humour. It is a precious quality’
The artist talks about how the digital revolution has influenced her work, the roles of text and humour, and her dislike of being labelled
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Nan Goldin: The Ballad of Sexual Dependency
The record, begun in the 1970s, of a 15-year period in Goldin’s life, is grounded in a specific place and culture, yet it is a hauntingly universal and deeply affecting work and, decades on, it has lost none of its…
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Peter Cain
This retrospective exhibition displays Cain’s huge, forensic paintings of cars, strangely truncated yet irresistibly seductive
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Amy Franceschini: ‘It’s kind of simple: I want to be alive and I want to breathe’
The artist talks about her upbringing in the breadbasket of America, and how this taught her about the interplay of power and politics and the importance of farming and our environment
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Sean Scully: ‘The stripe can do anything in any direction, and since it is so common, it corresponds to everything around us’
The abstract artist talks about why he changed his style so radically in the 1980s, the influence of Ireland, the UK and the US on his work, and why he is so popular in China
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Conrad Shawcross: ‘It’s created a skin for the surface of this building’
The artist explains his use of the moiré effect in designing an optical cloak for a tall industrial building on the Greenwich Peninsula in south-east London
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Jess Johnson: ‘My work is a visual stew’
The fantastical world of Jess Johnson has arrived in Edinburgh, in the artist’s first solo exhibition in Europe. She talks about translating her intensely detailed drawings into virtual reality
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Clare Jarrett: ‘It’s almost as though the work is already there somewhere and just wants to come out’
The Norwich-based artist talks about her recent residency at the Barbershop in Norwich, and her practice
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Cyril de Commarque: ‘I believe in a new renaissance of thinking’
The French artist has converted a grain barge into an artwork to sail the Thames, blasting out a soundtrack of revolution and hosting conferences with leading thinkers on philosophy, economics and nanotechnology. He welcomed Studio International on board
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Forest of Expression: Art as a Communal Act
Eight projects explore how art and expressing ideas and emotions can help those on the fringes of society, with the aim of bringing art to those who often find it inaccessible
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History Machines by Donovan & Siegel
Toronto-based artist couple Matt Donavan and Hallie Siegel explore the history of changes in communication technology in their multilayered artworks derived from research and conversation.
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Jeffrey Gibson: ‘I was so angry I washed my canvases in the laundromat’
The artist talks about being any angry young artist, his earlier determination not to be viewed as an American Indian artist, and the practice he has evolved over the years, which combines traditional Native American art with contemporary styles
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Mårten Lange: ‘I wanted to make a story about something beyond the reach of the camera’
The photographer talks about his lifelong fascination with prehistory and his latest photobook, Chicxulub, and the difficulties of capturing lost worlds
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Paul Carter: ‘There’s an invitation that only takes you so far’
Entering the gallery, visitors enter a new world – a liminal space, with an empty lift, piss-stained walls, and a municipal blue hotel sign on a cracked concrete wall. The artist explains his interest in civic architecture as social sculpture…
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Li Huasheng: ‘A line is nothing. When I paint a vase, its outline does not exist, it is imagined’
The Chinese artist is admired for his abstract ink paintings. Here, he explains how a visit to the US changed his art and his life, and why he has ‘stopped communicating with most people’
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The Ars Electronica Festival 2016: Radical Atoms and the Alchemists of our Time
This year’s festival includes more than 30 exhibitions, around 20 concerts and visual art and sound performances each day, an open-air drone show, plus symposiums, lectures and workshops
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Megan Rooney – interview: ‘My mother taught me how to be a maker’
The artist talks about working with clay, birdseed, lipstick and papier-mache and about excess, draught snakes and the domestic sublime
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Judith Wechsler: ‘Film allows, even invites, inclusivity of media. It’s one of the reasons I love making films’
The American film-maker and art historian discusses her remarkable body of documentaries on art, including her latest project, a suggestively melancholy portrait of Aby Warburg
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Regine Bartsch: ‘I’m drawn to these places where many people have lived before’
In her studio in southern Ireland, the German-born artist spoke about her recent exhibition and residency at David Parr House in Cambridge, Buddhism and the childhood experiences in Finland and Syria that continue to influence her practice
