Interviews

What do you like the
look of?
Powder-coated anything. 

Following a major commission from the Louvre, Taiwanese director Tsai Ming-liang talks about how music, his father and the responsibilities of filmmaking have informed his 20-year career

An extensive interview with the British film-maker, writer and lecturer, about the Robinson trilogy and much more

Q. What do you wish you knew? Q. French, the cure for AIDS, and how to deal with male pattern baldness.

Dan Fox talks to Simon Critchley about community, avant-garde rituals and being ‘religious without religion’

Do you believe in the existence of the soul? I believe in the existence of some kind of astral wildlife. I do not believe in the soul though.

Christopher Williams and Willem de Rooij discuss whether referentiality in art, if once polemical, has become an orthodoxy and if so, is there is a way out?

With his current show at the Royal Academy (until 13 December), Ai Weiwei’s answers to the frieze ‘Questionnaire’, from Issue 134, October 2010

New York-based artist Amy Sillman talks with Matt Saunders about dandyism, comedy and the legacy of Abstract Expressionism

What could you imagine doing if you didn’t do what you do? Being in a boy band

The British author and musician discusses Vermeer, Virginia Woolf and his new book Sinister Resonance

Composer Nico Muhly talks to Dan Fox about his relationship to music, cooking and collaboration

What do you like the look of? Waves breaking: little ones and big ones

The Berlin-based artist discusses her Iranian-Armenian background; political art; and her current exhibition with sculptor Phyllida Barlow

As influenced by haute couture as he is by experimental filmmakers, Vincent Fecteau discusses his new sculptures with Bruce Hainley

What should change? The notion of beauty

The work of Cyprien Gaillard connects the ruins of Modernist urbanism with the monuments of ancient civilisations

What do you wish you knew? Why I like photography

An interview with American artist Sharon Hayes

What do you like the look of? Raw cosmetics