Questionnaire

The General Director of Rijksmuseum on the art that inspires him and why he would have loved to have listened to jazz with Piet Mondrian

Q: What should stay the same? A: The desire to tell stories

Q. What image keeps you company in the space where you work? A. An enormous, airbrushed, lenticular hologram of myself.

Q. What do you like the look of? A. The everyday world: grand and microscopic.

Q: What do you wish you knew? A: I wish I knew less.

Q. What should stay the same? A. A moratorium on gentrification would be good.

Q. What could you imagine doing if you didn’t do what you do? A. Drifting on a boat.

The Director of the Studio Museum in Harlem, discusses the art that inspires her and why she'd like to share a celebratory meal with Alma Thomas

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

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

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

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.

What could you imagine doing if you didn’t do what you do? 

I can’t imagine doing anything other than making art.

Q. What should change? A. Deregulated global financial systems, obviously. Nothing else would have quite the same impact on the prospects of so many people.

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

What should stay the same? Peace and love among the people.

Q. What’s your favourite journey? A. Leaving.

Q. What was the first piece of art that really mattered to you? A. I'm not making art about art. I didn't buy a ticket.

Q. What’s your favourite ritual? A. Morning cups of tea.