Interviews

  • José Roca: interview

    Waterweavers: The River in Contemporary Colombian Visual and Material Culture, curated by José Roca Bard Graduate Center Gallery, New York City 11 April – 10 August 2014

  • Meg Hitchcock: interview

    Hitchcock spoke about her work to Kate Tiernan from her studio in Brooklyn. The following is an excerpt from a longer conversation.

  • Kaoruko: interview

    Her paintings are striking in their subtle combination of tradition and innovation: even though she uses centuries-old Japanese styles with their emphatic geometricity and flatness to arrange the pictorial space, her subjects are arrestingly contemporary and appealing in their carefully…

  • Alice Hope: interview

    Alice Hope: Tab Ricco/Maresca Gallery, New York City 3 April – 24 May 2014

  • Michael Rush: interview

    Lilly Wei talks to the director of Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University The Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University, designed by the innovative and often controversial architect Zaha Hadid, opened in…

  • Alfredo Jaar: interview

    Jaar, an internationally renowned artist and film-maker, is the recipient of numerous awards, including Spain’s Premio Extremadura a la Creación (2006), a John D and Catherine T MacArthur Foundation award (2000); and a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial…

  • Tim Rollins and KOS’s Angel Abreu and Rick Savinon: interview

    Eventually, they began to work directly onto the pages of the books they read, cut out and arranged in a grid over canvas, thus creating the unmistakable style of what was to become the long-running, highly visible, paradigmatic collaborative known…

  • Anna Raimondo: interview

    Anna Raimondo is an Italian artist based in Brussels and working internationally. She describes herself as an artist working with listening. She used to call herself a radio artist, but now her practice has expanded to work with sound and…

  • Esme Toler and Olì Bonzanigo: interview

    Esme Toler and Olì Bonzanigo are the creators of 13th Hour (2014), a sculpture on the roof of L’Blassa, a 19th-century French colonial apartment block in Gueliz, the new city of Marrakech. Up a spiral stone staircase and through apartments,…

  • Liliane Lijn: interview

    When Liliane Lijn (b1939) invites us to her studio in north London, on one of the wettest and windiest days of the year, we come bundled up in jumpers, expecting a large, cold, warehouse-type setting, but, instead, we are met…

  • Xu Bing: interview

    Xu Bing, the internationally acclaimed Chinese conceptual artist who works in a variety of disciplines and materials, in particular printmaking, ink painting, calligraphy, text and installation, and has also worked with silk worms and pigs, has just completed a major…

  • Artists Anonymous: interview

    As the name suggests, the artists behind the works prefer to keep their identities hidden. They do, however, have a spokesperson: founding member, Maya van Malden. Studio International met up with her at Art 14 in London.

  • Agnes Denes: interview

    Agnes Denes: Work 1967-2013 Firstsite, Colchester 23 November 2013 – 9 March 2014

  • Ryan Mosley: interview

    Alison Jacques Gallery, London 21 February – 15 March 2014

  • Martin Creed: interview

    Martin Creed: What’s the point of it? Hayward Gallery, London 29 January – 27 April 2014

  • Interview with Mark Fox

    The multimedia artist Mark Fox has a selection of his recent work on display at the Robert Miller Gallery in New York. Fox, who trained as a painter, was brought up as a Catholic, and he creates amazingly intricate visual…

  • Peter Howson in conversation

    Peter Howson grew up in Glasgow in the 1960s and attended Glasgow School of Art from 1975 to 1979. In 1993, he was appointed official British war artist for Bosnia by the Imperial War Museum. Howson, 55, has Asperger’s syndrome…

  • Interview with John Mellencamp

    Lilly Wei: You’ve had two museum shows of your paintings recently, the first at the Tennessee State Museum in Nashville last year and now this one at the Butler. Would you talk a little about your painting? Although less widely…

  • Anita Glesta: interview

    Anita Glesta: Gernika/Guernica Arthur M Sackler Museum of Art and Archaeology, Beijing 27 September – 31 October 2013

  • Interview with Dorothea Rockburne

    Dorothea Rockburne: Drawing Which Makes Itself The Museum of Modern Art, New York City 21 September 2013 – 20 January 2014

  • Jill Spalding talks to American sculptor Alice Aycock

    It … seems possible to imagine a complex which exists in the world as a thing in itself, generating the conditions of its own becoming, and which exists apart from the world as a model for it, exposing the conditions…

  • Janet Cardiff’s Sound Sculpture

    The Forty Part Motet, a sound installation by Canadian artist Janet Cardiff, is not so much a sight to see – despite the magnificence of its current setting – as it is a space to experience

  • Professor Mechal Sobel discusses her research on Bill Traylor

    Mechal Sobel is one of the scholars who has reassessed Traylor’s drawings in light of the social and cultural conditions of the post-civil war south. Sobel is professor emeritus of history at the University of Haifa, Israel, and author of…

  • Taking a transnational picture: an interview with Maryam Najd

    The meeting with Maryam Najd was an encounter of cultures. She, a fascinating artist who left her homeland in Iran and went to Belgium to study, and myself, a Brazilian who has been educated and lives in England. To complete…