Interviews

The Swiss artist Ugo Rondinone talks to Imelda Barnard about creating an exhibition dedicated to John Giorno, the American avant-garde poet

‘There is an element in my work that is a bit like bringing up small children’

‘It’s one of the most charged locations I’ve ever been to’.

‘I was looking at Cézanne along Matisse’s lines’

‘When I paint I don’t want to think any more.’

He’s saved the castle’s Zurbarán paintings; now he wants to transform the town into a hub for Spanish art

For the South African artist William Kentridge, everything begins with printmaking

Fascinating photographs from an extraordinary collection

‘There’s an element of me that’s contrarian’

From Lloyd Wright’s Guggenheim to ceramics at the V&A: the architect selects her favourite masterpieces

‘My ultimate masterpiece is the home that I have lived in for 15 years’

The artist on his appreciation of Cy Twombly, the Rothko Room, and a particularly delicious dal

Julian Raby, director of the Smithsonian’s Freer and Sackler galleries, speaks to Apollo

‘I have selected some objects that both resonate with me and also with one another’

‘I never feel accomplished’

Boris Vervoordt on living with art and ‘leaping into the void’

Doug Fishbone hid a cheap Chinese replica in the Dulwich Picture Gallery and hardly anybody noticed

When people talk about the ‘avant-garde’, they don’t normally have television in mind