Category: Interview
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Jane Irish: ‘There is a critical strain about the anti-war movement that I want to commemorate, so I really think of my work as history painting’
For the first time in its 200-year history, a mansion in Philadelphia is transformed into a major public art project by American artist Jane Irish. She talks about a career spent exploring anti-war activism
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Harriet Middleton-Baker: ‘I enjoy the potential for opera to be seriously extreme’
The artist talks about unpicking the story of William Hogarth’s A Harlot’s Progress and using her latest opera to explore architectural form, power distribution and the ambivalence of feminism in a corporate climate
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Fergus McCaffrey Gallery opens in Japan
Since founding his New York gallery in 2006, Fergus McCaffrey has been instrumental in introducing postwar Japanese art to a western audience. He talks about his deep attachment to Japanese art and craft and his hopes for his new gallery…
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Ettore Spalletti: ‘A yellow can lead me so far away into the light that I don’t even know whether I’m an abstract or figurative painter’
On the opening of his exhibition at the Galerie Marian Goodman, the Italian artist recounts his ritualistic process, the elusiveness of colour and why paintings should be like churches
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Chila Kumari Burman: ‘I scribble and make a mess in my studio. My whole studio is one big drawing’
Burman talks about the inspirations for her intricate, multilayered works, including her latest commissions for the Science Museum and an exhibition honouring suffragettes – and why she bought a tuk-tuk
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Paul Maheke: ‘Michael Jackson is the reason I dance. And Felix Gonzalez-Torres is the reason I still believe in the political potency of making art’
Through installation, sound, film and dance, Paul Maheke’s work explores gender and racial stereotypes, articulating the restrictions placed around black, male and queer identities. For his first major solo show, at the Chisenhale Gallery, he has stepped out of the…
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Neil Gall: ‘As an artist, you are almost trying to find a new kind of beauty’
For his current show at the Henry Moore Institute, Gall has played around with old copies of The Studio magazine to make new cover versions. He talks about how he came across the old issues and what they mean to…
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Zuzanna Czebatul: ‘People have to talk and dance with each other’
The artist talks about tigers, tarot cards, the vast carpet she made for this year’s Art Cologne and what it means to be the hired critic
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Joan Jonas: ‘I often went to magic shows as a child, and the idea of magic and sleight of hand had a big effect on me’
Joan Jonas talks about her multidisciplinary installation works currently on show at Tate Modern and the live performances undertaken for the 2018 Tate Live Exhibition: Ten Days Six Nights programme
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Inti Guerrero – interview: ‘I am trying not to fall into the cultural production and consumption of difference’
The curator of this year’s EVA International, Ireland’s biennial, talks about how the country’s history and heritage and, in particular, the forthcoming referendum on abortion have shaped his thinking behind the event
