Chase Hall approaches painting as a form of personal inquiry, using his work to untangle questions of race, identity and class. Photo: Jack Platner Chase Hall speaks like someone who has thought about ...

Katie Hudnall’s interest in woodmaking stems from her childhood hobby of putting things together and taking them apart. “I was not a very good student when I was a kid, but I was good at drawing and ...

After a long hiatus, we are back with another artist on artist interview by Justin Conigliaro of Brooklyn based punk band Up For Nothing/Paper Lanterns. Justin sat down to interview one of the most ...

Satomi Shirai discusses her work in "Portraiture Now: Asian American Portraits of Encounter." Recorded at NPG, September 16, 2011. Interview by Jasmine Fernandez, intern, Smithsonian Asian Pacific ...

“These here are little protective hair buns, or anchoitas,” says the Dominican-born artist Firelei Báez during the last days of summer, pointing to a series of sensuous, inky coiled-hair paintings in ...

Kadyrova's installation “House of Culture” sits atop a mound of dirt, made of found bullet-pierced material and holds a chandelier from a Soviet-era community ...

In my “plush” upstairs office (known to my family as “the closet”), I listen to at least one radio station daily. Periodically, I catch on-air interviews with artists and other notables noticing ...

For Hugo McCloud, there are no definitive instructions for creating art. Known for his use of nontraditional mediums, the 34-year-old designer-turned-artist prefers roofing materials and blowtorches ...

Kimeze wears her own clothing throughout. Photo by Neige Thébault Christina Kimeze opens the door to her studio, situated in a former cardboard box factory in a far-flung part of east London. It is ...

“Those paintings were mostly about backs,” she said to me. “And I thought, Why are they turned away? What are you hiding? Maybe you’re hiding their big tits. I decided to do the opposite of everything ...