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Art Talks is an insight into the works of some of our favourite artists, as seen by them

  • The Once and Future Queens

    Art Talks | Simone Lueck: The Once and Future Queens

    Today, Liverpool's Open Eye Gallery sees the opening of a new exhibition celebrating and questioning the mutating nature of fame, curated by Martin Parr,...

  • Brit Marling in Another Earth, 2011

    Art Talks | Brit Marling on Another Earth

    Young and beautiful, it would be easy to dismiss actress Brit Marling as yet another Hollywood starlet striding headlong to box office success on the back of...

  • Still from Surviving Life by Jan Švankmajer

    Art Talks | Jan Švankmajer on Surviving Life

    The legendary surrealist filmmaker Jan Švankmajer is peerless – revered by animation legends such as Terry Gilliam and The Quay Brothers, his oeuvre over the...

  • Excerpt from Chapter VI, A Living Man Declared Dead and Other Chapters

    Art Talks | Taryn Simon

    The New York photographer Taryn Simon has been shooting work for over a decade that explores the blurred edges of existence. Taking in shadowy worlds behind...

  • 60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero screening

    Art Talks | 60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero

    Down at Tallinn’s port a crowd gathered several days before Christmas for the once-only screening of 60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero, the brainchild of...

  • Adam Dix in his studio

    Art Talks | Adam Dix – Science Fiction Futures?

    Stemming from a lifelong obsession with printed matter dating back to the 1950s, Adam Dix seeks to encapsulate the conflict between the fervent desire for new...

  • The Illusionist, 2011

    Art Talks | Vladimir Ovchinnikov

    Vladimir Ovchinnikov is a veteran of the Soviet era and a key figure in the nonconformist movement, which rebelled against the state aesthetic of Socialist...

  • 10

    Art Talks | Toyin Ibidapo: Cult of Boys

    Creating raw, honest images that document the authenticity of youth, photographer Toyin Ibidapo's latest book, The Cult of Boys, is, in her own way, a diary of...

  • Air Hostess, 2007

    Art Talks | Boo Ritson

    Boo Ritson paints people, literally. Utilising the body as a canvas she applies a vivid colour palette of thick household emulsion across her sitters’ hair,...

  • Purple Beacon, 2011

    Art Talks | Ryan McGinley Wandering Comma

    On the occasion of Ryan McGinley Wandering Comma, his first exhibition in London since his stunning Moonmilk series, he has put together seven new photographs,...

  • From the American Power series

    Art Talks | Mitch Epstein, American Power

    It’s safe to say that the legendary American photographer Mitch Epstein has devoted much of his life to visually documenting the moral and social complexities...

  • Christopher Makos and Paul Solberg, Montevideo, Uruguay, 2010

    Art Talks | The Hilton Brothers

    The Hilton Brothers are the American photographic duo of Christopher Makos and Paul Solberg. A student of Man Ray, Makos is perhaps most widely recognised for...