Interviews

Graphic designer James Langdon has begun an extensive research project on Potter and his teachings 

Fragmentary fiction and cryptic objects

The Los Angeles-based filmmaker discusses cities, soundtracks and landscapes

British artist David Batchelor talks to Cuban-American painter Carmen Herrera about her 80 years of making art

Franco ‘Bifo’ Berardi and Mark Fisher discuss exhaustion, the financial crisis, aesthetic resistance and the ‘slow cancellation of the future’

Q. What should stay the same? A. Clean air, clean earth, clean water.

This year, the Billy Apple® brand turns 50. The artist formerly known as Barrie Bates talked to Anthony Byrt about a career of collaborations and controversies that has consistently redefined art’s relationships with advertising, science and technology

On the occasion of a major retrospective at M HKA in Antwerp, Jimmie Durham talks to Kirsty Bell about enthusiasm, itinerancy, cities, poetry and Cherokee mythology

Brian Dillon visits art historian and novelist Marina Warner to talk about the art, books and objects that have shaped her thinking

The Director of the National Gallery, London, discusses his favourite writers and paintings, and shares his thoughts on contemporary art

Redmond Entwistle on the making of Walk-Through (2012), a film about Michael Asher’s ‘Post-Studio’ class at CalArts.

For 40 years, Suzanne Lacy has worked collaboratively to create installations, videos and large-scale performances in response to social themes and urban issues

What is art for? Perhaps it’s one of the few things left that allows us to declare that we don’t fit the given standards.

On the occasion of his retrospective at Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Frank Stella talks about illusionism, abstract expressionism and the inevitable mechanics of gesture in painting

Monika Baer talks about her approach to painting’s surfaces, which teeter between anti-illusionism and illusionism, tactile and optical qualities, real holes and key holes

Anselm Reyle on his collaboration with Franz West on their exhibition Stolen Fantasy which took place last spring at the Schinkel Pavillon

in Berlin

For the 7th Berlin Biennale Forget Fear, co-curators Artur Zmijewski and Joanna Warsza invited members from Occupy Movements around the world to take over the ground floor of the Kunst-Werke. How are the members fairing? Berlin-based critic Raimar Stange sat down to talk to Noah Fischer, an artist-activist based in New York. In addition to occupying Forget Fear, Fischer will be participating in this fall's Steirischer Herbst festival in Austria.

On a music festival in Wysing, ‘Thingly Time’, the zigzag wave form of Charlie Brown’s jumper and Bedfordshire

Q: What is art for?

A: It’s a way of resisting the lack of meaning in things, a desperate attempt to make sense of how random and absurd the world is — and it’s also a way of celebrating exactly that.

As a director, writer, artist and, more recently, curator, John Waters has been dealing in taste and transgression for close to 50 years. Here he talks about sex, death, God and the art world