Interviews

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’

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

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

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

An interview with Michèle Bernstein, novelist and founding member of the Situationist International

Q: What do you like the look of?
A: People’s faces when they are very surprised.

Artist Karin Sander and social scientist Harald Welzer have known each other since Welzer exhibited Sander’s works as a gallerist in Hanover in the 1990s. In his most recent book Selbst denken. Eine Anleitung zum Widerstand (Thinking for Ourselves: a Manual for Resistance, 2013), Welzer calls for a move away from the ideology of economic growth, in light of world­­‑wide economic crises, calling instead for intelligent concepts for a ‘culture of reduction’. Intelligent reduction is exactly what Sander’s art engages with time and again. This conversation between Sander and Welzer, moderated by Jörg Heiser, includes a conceptual intervention by Sander.

Gallerist, collector, curator and director René Block talks to artist Maria Eichhorn about ambition in art, the unexplored diversity of Fluxus and the importance of music in a career spanning 50 years

Choreographer William Forsythe speaks to Astrid Kaminski about ‘wrong’ kinds of comedy, philosophy in dance and brief bouts of weightlessness

An interview between curator Virginie Bobin and artists Libia Castro and Ólafur Ólafsson discussing music, the public and private, national identity, mobility and humour.

Q: What is art for?
A: To escape.

Studio pottery, anti-art, John Fahey and compost

David Levine, whose work embraces theatre, performance and video, discusses acting and identity

John M Armleder and Mai-Thu Perret discuss art making, Switzerland, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge and rowing

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

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

Meret Oppenheim would have celebrated her 100th birthday in October this year. The centenary has prompted a major retrospective in Vienna which will travel to Berlin, and this conversation between former curator of Kunsthaus Zurich Bice Curiger and her successor Cathérine Hug