Painting

Wayne Thiebaud in conversation with Thomas Demand

Ken Okiishi: painting in the age of Instagram

How living in the Kent countryside for four decades has influenced the British artist’s paintings

Experimental fiction, speculative portraits and shifting contexts

The surreal, oddly familiar world of Nicole Eisenman

The hermetic, inventive world of Thomas Scheibitz

Painting as performance in recent exhibitions

Sylvia Sleigh’s extraordinary ‘history pictures’

At a time of revolution in digital technologies, when making extraordinary images has never been technically easier, painting persists. Jennifer Higgie asked eight artists to share their thoughts on the whys and wherefores of figurative painting

Visibility, identity and black people on Mars – Kerry James Marshall in conversation with Ellen Mara De Wachter

frieze visits artist Tala Madani at her Los Angeles studio, where she speaks about her painting and animation

Accompanying his essay in frieze d/e, issue 6, Mark Prince selects his top 10 texts (and film) about painting.

Frank Bowling talks about improvisation, ‘poured painting’ and getting advice from Clement Greenberg

The fictitious portraits of Lynette Yiadom-Boakye

Bodily incursions, surgical violence and an ‘uncommon sense of objecthood’

Eastside Projects, Birmingham, UK

Five contemporary painters, from Charline von Heyl to Tauba Auerbach, discuss the role of abstraction

Moving between concealment and display, the artist treads a fine line between seduction and deception

The psychologically charged paintings of 16th-century artist Lorenzo Lotto explore hermeticism and the ‘pure profane’

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