‘Death is already woven into our everyday lives’: Sook Jin Jo – The Art Newspaper
Sook Jin Jo’s sculptures are as monumental as the ideas shaping them are intimate. Jo primarily works with found…
Humans, hybrid creatures and ancient mythology: artist Koen Vanmechelen on the inspirations behind his Venice exhibition – The Art Newspaper
Koen Vanmechelen’s art dissolves boundaries between disciplines, cultures and species, particularly between humans and other animals. His recent…
Lubaina Himid on capturing the ‘uneasiness’ of Britain for her Venice Biennale pavilion – The Art Newspaper
Lubaina Himid has spent more than three decades making work and curating shows devoted to uncovering marginalised histories,…
Lee Ufan: ‘I try to bring together those things which are made and unmade’ – The Art Newspaper
Painter, sculptor, writer and philosopher Lee Ufan came to prominence in the late 1960s as a founding member…
Paul McCarthy: ‘The world is now an extreme absurdity. The work is a reaction to that’ – The Art Newspaper
The US artist Paul McCarthy has been probing the dark underbelly of our contemporary commercialised culture for more…
Rose Wylie: ‘It’s very, very fragile where a painting ends. All the time it sits on a precarious edge’ – The Art Newspaper
The British artist Rose Wylie is known for her giant, exuberant figurative paintings that combine an eclectic and…
Tracey Emin: ‘I’ve done more in my last five years than in the whole rest of my life’ – The Art Newspaper
Tracey Emin is internationally renowned for her coruscatingly confessional art, which for over three decades has chronicled an…
From imps and goblins to the glitchy digital world: Flora Yukhnovich on her ‘cacophony’ of inspirations – The Art Newspaper
Flora Yukhnovich’s signature large-scale, gestural paintings shot the British artist to fame in the past decade. Riding a…
Jenny Saville: ‘You are having a conversation with the paint, as well as with the sitter’ – The Art Newspaper
The British artist Jenny Saville has been exploring, stretching and reinvigorating the possibilities of representing the human form…