Interviews

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?

An interview with Gerhard Rühm

Lucie Stahl talks scanners, fluids and non sequiturs

Author Helene Hegemann recalls dancing with Hamburg-based musician Malakoff Kowalski

Jennifer Doyle discusses her new book, Hold it Against Me: Difficulty and Emotion in Contemporary Art

Dutch artist Germaine Kruip discusses her attempt to capture phenomenological events and affects through installations and performances via modernist abstraction

Film director Nicolas Roeg talks to his friend, the artist John Stezaker, about collage, editing and memory, and film’s ability to ‘trap shadows’

Collagist John Stezaker and writer-curator David Campany discuss the legacy of Surrealist encounters with photography

The Director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, discusses his favourite art works and how he would like to have dinner with Rubens

Q. What image keeps you company in the space where you work? A. The window.

T.J. Wilcox talks to Kirsty Bell about his latest video project, In the Air, which opens at the Whitney Museum in September

The image of ‘work’ and the relation between art and labour