Archive
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Clifford Ross: ‘I indulge in extreme photography’
He is always looking for the fullest expression of his conception and will follow it past any sane point, he says of his astonishingly ambitious exhibition, Landscape Seen & Imagined, now at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art
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Ben Johnson: the making of Patio de los Arrayanes
We visited Ben Johnson in his west London studio over a 12-month period to film him working on a large painting based on the Patio de los Arrayanes (Court of the Myrtles) at the Alhambra Palace in Granada, Spain. “I…
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Kapwani Kiwanga: ‘It is always great to be true to yourself’
Kapwani Kiwanga has been named as the commissioned artist of the Focus Section at the Armory Show 2016, which looks at art from African perspectives. She currently has a solo show at the Galerie Jérôme Poggi in Paris. Here, she…
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Danny Fox – interview: ‘My whole approach to my work can change in a single drawing’
Danny Fox talks about trying to give up drinking, why politicians should force us all to be vegan, getting black dots in his eyes when he visits galleries, and hating art shows
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Cayce Zavaglia: ‘I have always wanted my work to be about the portrait and the process. I strive to keep these two aspects of painting in balance’
The artist talks about painting, embroidery, close relationships and how her studio practice develops through time
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Valera & Natasha Cherkashin: ‘There is no future without understanding our past and our present’
The Russian artist couple talk about the importance of history in their work and the beginnings and development of their multimedia art practice, encompassing photography, performance, video, digital art, painting and drawing
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Sara VanDerBeek: Electric Prisms, Concrete Forms
As the artist returns for her third solo show at The Approach in London, she continues to create three-dimensional photographs, exploring the relationship between image and sculpture
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Thomas Heatherwick: ‘Art is like a hovering cloud of energy and attention that can find itself almost anywhere’
The designer and founder of Heatherwick Studio talks about growing up with Duchamp’s Nude Descending a Staircase outside the loo, sending handmade Christmas cards, and why he wants to apply a sense of specialness to unlikely places
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Ian Cheng: ‘I wanted to make a project that would relax me’
The artist describes his live simulation at Pilar Corrias as the visual alternative to a spa. His initial intention was to create a stress-free piece of work that would relax him and other people who were anxious about life’s unknowns
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Xavier Cha: ‘I’m attracted to manipulating the viewer’s sense of logic, time and perception’
The multimedia artist talks about exploring the physical and psychological relationships between the human body and technology, and why the apparatus and artifice of any human pursuit in contemporary life is of interest to her
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Dutch Design Week
This year’s Dutch Design Week in Eindhoven brought together established and up-and-coming designers, from around the world. They displayed a collaborative work ethic and a lively engagement with real-world issues, from the refugee crisis in Europe to social development in…
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Chelsea Knight: ‘We are all outsiders and insiders’
The artist talks about working at the threshold between video and performance, her interest in language and ethics, and what she sees as her responsibility in her work
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Jefford Horrigan: The Threshold, Own Worst Enemy
In the sitting room of a house in south London, Jefford Horrigan performed The Threshold, part of his trilogy Own Worst Enemy, commissioned by The Collective. This tenderly performed work was a masterpiece of alternative creativity
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The Collective: ‘You grieve for works of art when you don’t have them’
Paul and Midge Tanner, two of the founding members of The Collective, explain how and why they came to set up this collaborative art collectors’ organization
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Soaring Flight: Peter Lanyon’s Gliding Paintings
This tightly focused and coherent exhibition concentrates on the paintings the artist made in response to his experiences as a glider pilot from 1959 until his death five years later, following a bad landing
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Bill Viola: ‘I was always interested in the inner life of the world around me’
Dealing with themes of life and death, human consciousness and emotional expression, the artist’s video art speaks to audiences across the globe. Here, he discusses his current exhibition at Yorkshire Sculpture Park
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Zhan Wang – studio tour
The Beijing-based artist showed Studio International around his studio
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Hideyuki Katsumata: USO de HONTOU
In Dundee, a city known for its video game and comic book heritage, cult artist Hideyuki Katsumata is given his first UK exhibition, drawing crowds with his psychedelic surrealism and intriguing style
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Jon Rafman
The artist draws us into his virtual world with playful installations and video works, as he leads us through his disturbing and gripping interpretations of internet culture
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Frank Stella: A Retrospective
As Stella is the first living artist to be shown at the Whitney Museum’s new downtown space, the exhibition is by definition a mission statement
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Giacometti: Pure Presence
Step into Giacometti’s world of timeless souls rendered in paint and bronze at the National Portrait Gallery’s latest blockbuster exhibition
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Zhan Wang: ‘I have been continually influenced by Michelangelo, Rodin and traditional Chinese sculpture’
The Beijing-based artist is a photographer and video artist, although he is best known for sculpting highly polished stainless steel rocks, a cultural reference to the ‘scholar stones’ loved by the Chinese for their aesthetic appearance
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Grant Clifford: ‘I still feel fear starting a painting’
The artist and psychotherapist discusses the intertwining of his two careers, the importance of loneliness to the creative effort and the fear of facing death
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Ayakamay: ‘I’m a street performer’
Ayakamay is an American-born Japanese artist ‘exploring the interrelationship between photography and performance’
