Top 10 art and culture interviews of 2024
St. Vincent to Antony Gormley, art & culture editor Hannah Silver’s favourite conversations
| | Top ten art and culture interviews of 2024From Laura Marling to Antony Gormley, Mickalene Thomas and St. Vincent – this year we have criss-crossed the worlds of art and culture to speak to the best in the business. Here, art & culture editor Hannah Silver highlights some of our favourite conversations
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| | 01. ‘I don’t know what art is, but we have to make these things to understand ourselves’: Antony Gormley in New YorkWallpaper* met the artist ahead of his exhibition, ‘Aerial’, at White Cube New York |
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| | 02. ‘We kept getting drawn to the work of artists who were in the midst of a plague’: Vincent and Alex Da Corte on making the dark and uncanny world of All Born ScreamingThe shape-shifting musician deliberates with her long-time collaborator, conceptual artist Alex Da Corte, about the merry dance with chaos that is a creative’s path |
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| | 03. Artist Mickalene Thomas wrestles with notions of Black beauty, female empowerment and love‘All About Love’, a touring exhibition now on view in LA and heading to Philadelphia and London later in 2025, considers Black female representation |
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| | 04. ‘Anything I put out into the world, I want to be a prayer’: musician Laura Marling on eschewing traditional merch for tarot-inspired printsAs Marling released her eighth album, Patterns in Repeat, Craig McLean learned about another artistic pursuit that occupies her time |
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| | 05. ‘Dreams are boring. Delusions are more more powerful’: artist Olivia Erlanger on her dystopian exploration of suburban AmericaA preoccupation with the American dream ran through the artist’s first US solo show, ‘If Today Were Tomorrow’, in Houston |
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| | 06. ‘My work represents a meeting between two cultures’: Kenia Almaraz Murillo, the artist rethinking weavingThe Bolivian-born textile artist, who learned to weave in Paris, drew upon the new and the traditional in her exhibition ‘Andean Cosmovision’ at London's Waddington Custot |
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| | 07. ‘It’s very emotional for me to have a show in Miami’: artist Rachel Feinstein on the collision of extremes that defines her hometownA major exhibition spanning almost three decades of the artist’s work took place in Miami, a city she told is ‘key’ to her work |
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| | 08. ‘Connecting dance to the wider world’: Wayne McGregor and Max Richter on turning a post-apocalyptic Margaret Atwood trilogy into a three-act balletThe choreographer and the composer speak about creating the ballet MaddAddam, the latest project in their 16-year partnership
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| | 09. ‘There is a long way to go in redefining masculine roles’: Elmgreen & Dragset consider contemporary masculinity in ParisWe visited the artists at their Berlin studio ahead of their ongoing exhibition ‘L’Addition’, at Paris’ Musée d’Orsay, a subversive take on the classical form |
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| | 10. ‘A lot of what I want to say involves trying to pull people into positions of listening’: John Akomfrah explores the sonic in VeniceThe artist told us what to expect ahead of his British Pavilion at the 60th Venice Biennale |
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