Interviews

Rashid Johnson talks to Tom Morton about fiction, humour and homage

A conversation between Ed Atkins and Matthew De Abaitua about the intertwining of art and technology

Q. What do you wish you knew? A. How to answer questions in a complex, honest and clever way.

Films and sculptures about ambiguity and materiality

Q: What was the first poem you remember reading? A: Beowulf, at school. 

Tobias Madison talks to Elvia Wilk about the liberating effects of alienation, running an education department for MoMA PS1, New York this summer and why art should be a hobby

Berlin-based musician Jam Rostron aka Planningtorock tells Jan Kedves why US comedian Melissa McCarthy is a feminist icon

On the 20th anniversary of Derek Jarman’s death, Paul Schütze speaks to Simon Fisher Turner about composing music for his friend’s movies

Puncturing fantasies: exhausted images and the ‘me’ generation

Daniel Pflumm was a central figure in the cultural scene of 1990s Berlin. Pflumm rarely gives interviews. Jan Kedves and Dominikus Müller spoke with him

Actor and theatre director Herbert Fritsch on his love of art – from Jackson Pollock to Dieter Roth – and not using scripts

Dan Fox talks to Michael Smith about minimalism, comedy and failure

Tension, translation and improvisation

Reading as information control: the poet Tan Lin talks to Sam Thorne

Q. What is art for? A. To keep our scepticism alive.

For this regular series, artist Michaela Meise discusses her affinity to architect Ferdinand Kramer

Rita McBride explains her ten-point manifesto for the Dusseldorf Art Academy

An interview with Alejandro Jodorowsky

Films about place and ‘denatured nature’

Q. If you could live with only one piece of art, what would it be? A. Why should I live with an art work?