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12/06/2026

Louise Bourgeois turning over a question that ran through her whole life's work: whether any artist truly grows out of being a child. For Bourgeois the answer was practically built into her practice — she mined her own childhood relentlessly, the family home, her father's betrayal, her mother rendered as the great protective spider of Maman. The past wasn't behind her; it was the raw material she kept returning to into her nineties.

The thought lands as more than personal confession. It suggests that making art depends on keeping a channel open to the child's way of seeing. Growing up, in her telling, is partly learning to armour over that; the artist is the one who never quite manages to, and turns it into work instead.

05/06/2026

Robert Rauschenberg was an American artist whose combines assemblages of painting, sculpture and found objects helped bridge Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art in the 1950s and 60s. He was endlessly inventive across painting, printmaking, photography, performance and sculpture and remained one of the most playful and experimental figures in postwar art.

In this clip he talks about why he has never been able to separate art from play, and why the studio is the one place he feels least self-conscious. For Rauschenberg, making art was not a solemn act. It was where seriousness and play stopped being opposites, and where he was most fully himself precisely because he had stopped watching himself.

02/06/2026

Marcel Duchamp one of the most consequential figures of the 20th-century avant-garde. A founder of Dada, a precursor to Conceptual Art, and the man who placed a urinal in a gallery and called it a readymade, he produced a relatively small body of work across his lifetime.

In this clip he reflects on his relationship to painting: that he never thought of himself as a professional painter. For Duchamp, the decision to ultimately stop painting altogether - which he effectively did in his early thirties - was not a failure or a loss. It was the logical conclusion of what he believed.

01/06/2026

Harry Dean Stanton was an American actor whose decades-long career spanned 'Paris, Texas', 'Alien', and much of the work of filmmaker and artist David Lynch, who cast him repeatedly in his movies. Stanton played outsiders, drifters, men at the edge of themselves.

'Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction' (2012) is the only feature documentary ever made about him. In this scene, his friend David Lynch sits across from him and asks a series of simple questions.

28/05/2026

Orson Welles was an American filmmaker, actor and writer whose debut feature ‘Citizen Kane’ is still regularly cited as the greatest film ever…

‘F for Fake’ was his final completed film, a freewheeling essay on the art forger Elmyr de Hory, the nature of authorship and the line between authenticity and illusion. In this closing passage, Welles steps out from behind the trickery to deliver what is, in effect, his last word on art and mortality.

27/05/2026

David Foster Wallace was widely regarded as one of the most influential literary voices of his generation. His novel ‘Infinite Jest’ is among the most studied works of late-20th-century American fiction.

In this clip he speaks about what separates the great artists from the merely competent. For Wallace, technique can be taught and influence can be borrowed, but the thing that actually makes work land is something else entirely. It is the unmistakable presence of a specific person on the other side of it.

01/05/2026

Hans Richter was a German artist, filmmaker and theorist who was present at the founding of Dada in Zurich in 1916 — one of the few people alive who could say they had been there at the beginning of one of modern art's most radical reinvention.

Over the following six decades he worked across painting, film and sculpture, and remained close to virtually every major avant-garde movement of the 20th century: from Dada and Constructivism through Surrealism to Fluxus.

In this clip, filmed late in his life, Richter speaks about chance as a method. The Dadaists had understood that the conscious mind was the enemy of the new, and that relinquishing control was not weakness but discipline.

"Chance is the most important thing. It is more intelligent than we are."

28/04/2026

Joseph Beuys was a German artist and one of the most influential figures in postwar European art. A former Luftwaffe pilot, he claimed to have been shot down over Crimea in 1943 and rescued by Tatars who packed his body in fat and felt to keep him alive. This experience would became the foundation of his entire artistic practice.

By 1974, when this dialogue was filmed in New York, Beuys had already staged some of the most provocative actions in art history, including lecturing to a dead hare, spending three days locked in a gallery with a wild coyote, and filling a room with 500 kilograms of fat.

For Beuys, creativity was not a gift reserved for artists. It was a political right that belongs to everyone.

24/04/2026

Jackson Po***ck was an American painter and a central figure in the Abstract Expressionist movement. Born in Wyoming, he spent most of his working life in New York and later in Springs, East Hampton, where he developed the drip technique that made him famous — pouring and flinging paint onto canvas laid flat on the floor, moving around and across it, working from all four sides.

He gave almost no interviews, and was notoriously difficult to draw out on the subject of his own work, making this clip a rarity.

"When I am in my painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It's only after a sort of 'get acquainted' period that I see what I have been about."

21/04/2026

Jean-Michel Basquiat was a New York-born artist who rose from painting graffiti on the streets of Lower Manhattan to showing in the world's most prestigious galleries - all within the space of a few years. He was 27 when this interview was filmed. He died the following year.

State of the Art was a Channel 4 documentary series from 1987. In this clip, Basquiat speaks about the lack of Black representation in art history. Throughout his career Basquiat spoke openly about experiencing racism within the very art world that was making him rich -- being followed by security guards in galleries that were selling his work, and feeling that his Blackness was being exoticised rather than his talent being taken seriously.

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