Interviews with leading figures from the arts
10 Questions for Artist Yinka Shonibare MBE
Tuesday, 22 April 2014
Yinka Shonibare MBE makes work from a less entrenched position than his many decorations suggest. This Member of the British Empire (he adopted the initials as part of his name after receiving the honour in 2005) is naturally also a Royal Academician, an Honorary Fellow of Goldsmiths, and has an honorary doctorate from the RCA. Shonibare is one of the most celebrated artists around, a fixture as well received as the ship in a bottle which occupied the Fourth Plinth in 2010 and which now has a...
theartsdesk Q&A: The Hilliard Ensemble
Saturday, 19 April 2014
The sophisticated and exquisitely crafted sound of The Hilliard Ensemble has, over the past four decades, become one of the most distinctive pleasures on the choral scene. One of the several pioneers of the medieval and Renaissance repertoire to emerge in the Seventies, The Hilliards have, nonetheless, made this music their own, their glistening sound offering a more contemporary aesthetic than that of historically-specialist period performances. Named after Elizabethan miniaturist Nicholas...
10 Questions for Director Lukas Moodysson
Friday, 18 April 2014
The Swedish writer-director Lukas Moodysson first burst onto the scene in 1998 with the chaotically romantic Show Me Love (original title Fucking...
10 Questions for Director Dmitry Krymov
Thursday, 17 April 2014
Dmitry Krymov (b 1954) is one of Russia’s most groundbreaking and celebrated contemporary theatre directors and set designers. Performances by his “...
Celluloid Man: Preserving the heritage of Indian...
Tuesday, 15 April 2014
This April is proving the kindest month for cinephiles. Hot on the heels of Mark Cousins’ engrossing A Story of Children and Film comes another...
theartsdesk Q&A: Lighting Designer Michael Hulls
Monday, 14 April 2014
Olivier Award-winning genius with light and dance explains his art |
10 Questions for Drummer Billy Cobham
Monday, 14 April 2014
Fusion pioneer on creativity, drummer-bandleaders and the triple effect of a hotter climate |
theartsdesk Q&A: Eels' frontman Mr E
Saturday, 12 April 2014
Enigmatic alt-rocker discusses fun, fitness, parallel worlds, beards, and much else |
10 Questions for Ventriloquist Nina Conti
Tuesday, 08 April 2014
What makes a postmodern vent act tick? |
theartsdesk Q&A: Soprano Nicole Cabell
Monday, 07 April 2014
The outstanding American singer on winning Cardiff, crying in performance and Kate Bush |
10 Questions for Playwright Julian Mitchell
Wednesday, 26 March 2014
The author of Another Country on why it worked then, and still works now |
10 Questions for Zara McFarlane
Monday, 24 March 2014
Rising jazz star discusses reggae, her roots in Jamaican Dagenham, and the desire to write more |
theartsdesk Q&A: Singer Belinda Carlisle
Saturday, 22 March 2014
The Eighties star talks LA punk rock, George Harrison, booze, Orbital, rustic French living and much else |
I Found My Horn: Afterlife of a Book
Monday, 17 March 2014
How a book about the French horn moved on to the next stage. Plus author/actor Q&A |
theartsdesk Q&A: Saxophonist Julian Siegel
Sunday, 16 March 2014
Versatile sax virtuoso on the 95 percent of jazz that's in the collaboration |
theartsdesk Q&A: Choreographer Hofesh Shechter
Saturday, 15 March 2014
Brighton Festival's guest curator on new challenges and politics in art |
10 Questions for Fringe Magnetic's Rory Simmons
Wednesday, 12 March 2014
The genre-straddling bandleader on the dangers of being an electronic nerd, cats and Jamie Cullum |
theartsdesk Q&A: Director Daniel Evans
Saturday, 01 March 2014
The actor turned Sheffield artistic director who has taken The Full Monty to the West End |
10 Questions for Drive-By Truckers' Mike Cooley
Monday, 24 February 2014
The band's songwriter on their 12th album and more |
theartsdesk Q&A: violinist Vadim Repin
Saturday, 22 February 2014
One of the world's great soloists discusses Tchaikovsky, MacMillan and his native Siberia |
Q&A Special: Stranger by the Lake
Monday, 17 February 2014
Actors Pierre Deladonchamps and Christophe Paou on Hitchcock, nudism and very unusual stunt doubles |
theartsdesk Q&A: DJ Kerri Chandler
Saturday, 15 February 2014
A history lesson with the godfather of soulful house |
10 Questions for Director Tom Morris
Tuesday, 04 February 2014
The co-director of 'War Horse' has created 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' with Handspring's puppets. Here's how |
theartsdesk Q&A: Biographer Claire Tomalin on Charles Dickens
Monday, 03 February 2014
As the film of The Invisible Woman opens, its author - and Dickens's biographer - reflects on a very Victorian love affair |
Philip Seymour Hoffman, Best Character Actor
Sunday, 02 February 2014
The great American actor has died aged 46. theartsdesk pays tribute with a major Q&A |
10 Questions for Harry Shearer
Sunday, 26 January 2014
He's been Montgomery Burns and Derek Smalls. Stand back for his President Nixon |
The Resurrection of Conor McPherson
Thursday, 23 January 2014
As The Weir returns to the West End, the ghost of booze no longer haunts the Irish playwright's work |
Tidy: Ruth Jones gets gonged
Wednesday, 01 January 2014
O. What's occurrin' is an MBE for the co-creator of Gavin and Stacey |
theartsdesk Q&A: Borgen creator Adam Price
Saturday, 14 December 2013
The man behind the hit Danish political drama reflects on its unexpected success |
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