Category: Interview
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Hayal Pozanti interview: ‘Materials and processes are pushing the boundaries of what constitutes a painting physically’
Hayal Pozanti interview: ‘Materials and processes are pushing the boundaries of what constitutes a painting physically’
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E.V. Day interview: ‘I stiffened 200 thongs to look like jet fighters and strung them in the atrium of Philip Morris’s. That would not have happened in the 70s.’
Best-known for her 3D installations, artist E.V. Day talks about using Barbie dolls, ripped clothing, skulls, monofilament and light to explore sexuality and feminism, and why she’s glad the humour shows in her work
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Piotr Uklański interview: ‘I think of death all the time’
The New York-based Polish artist Piotr Uklański talks about the influence of the second world war on his work, dealing with death as a subject, and his eternal pessimism
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Christian Thompson interview: ‘My work does not need to be read through the optical lens of my race’
Janet McKenzie: Christian, you were born in South Australia, travelled extensively with your family while growing up, but consider your home to be in Queensland, where your great-great-great-grandfather was a senior tribesman of the Bidjara people. Can you describe your…
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Nathaniel Prottas interview: ‘Often museum didactics get in the way of people viewing art’
Nathaniel Prottas, director of education at the Museum of Biblical Art in New York, talks about public programming for its current exhibition, which traces the history of printmaking, through works by Albrecht Dürer, Rembrandt van Rijn, Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo and…
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Michelle Grabner interview: ‘My family is an important part of my life as an artist’
American conceptual artist Michelle Grabner talks about how she combines her roles as artist, curator, teacher and writer, the importance of her family to her art, and why she stays rooted in the Midwest
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Peter Sacks interview: ‘Every painting has its own secret story’
Peter Sacks, a South African expatriate, has a biography that is as rich and varied as the art he practises. Having left his native country at a young age and gone on to become a recognised poet with tenure at…
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John Keane interview: ‘Art shouldn’t be sensationalist, but at the same time it shouldn’t flinch from addressing difficult questions’
John Keane, artist in residence at the University of St Andrews, talks about the political influences behind his painting and his views on the relationship between art, performance and politics
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Natalia Kolodzei interview: ‘My dream is that every American museum has a small collection of Russian art’
Natalia Kolodzei, executive director of the Kolodzei Art Foundation, talks about her family collection of Soviet and Russian art, begun in the 1960s when Nikita Khrushchev’s leadership of the Soviet Union led to slightly more freedom for artists
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Glenn Adamson interview: ‘Webb saw clearly that human connection was the real value to be found in the handmade’
As New York’s Museum of Arts and Design celebrates its founder, Aileen Osborn Webb, with a superb array of 100 objects, including some made by Webb herself, MAD’s director, Glenn Adamson, talks about this indomitable pioneer of foundational craft organisations…
