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Writer Kiran Desai: How Long Before You Are Allowed to Belong

”It took me 20 years to write this book.” We spoke with Indian writer Kiran Desai about her novel The Loneliness of Sonia...

Balkrishna Doshi asks: Is architecture alive?

Balkrishna Doshi (1927-2023) was an Indian architect, who is considered a pioneer of modernist and brutalist architecture in India. Doshi has realized a wide...

A painting is more than a picture according to artist Alejandro Cardenas

Alejandro Cardenas (born 1977, Santiago, Chile) is a contemporary artist whose paintings and sculptures envision a post-human world in which human forms and their...

Artist Annegret Soltau: Making Art with Her Own Body

In this personal interview, pioneering German artist Annegret Soltau reflects on a life and career that have unfolded side by side. Soltau describes how...

Artist Alejandro Cardenas is painting between dreams and reality

“I never accepted reality as I saw it.” We visited Chilean-Peruvian artist Alejandro Cardenas in his Madrid studio and entered a space in...

Writer Anne Carson, 2026 Nobel Laureate, on the Art of Paying Attention

To celebrate the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2026, Anne Carson, we share this rare interview with the renowned Canadian poet and...

Elizabeth Strout on writing without judging your characters

“Through literature is the only time we really get to experience what it might be like to be inside somebody else’s head.” American writer...

“Nature is my guide.” – Hayley Barker, Artist

Hayley Barker was born in Oregon in 1973. She received her BA from the University of Oregon, and her MA & MFA in Intermedia...

“One has to set traps for oneself.” – Danh Vo, Artist

Danh Vo (b. 1975) is a Danish-Vietnamese artist. Vo has presented solo shows at several prominent art institutions, including The Royal Academy of Arts...