Lari Pittman discusses his earliest teachers and influences, as well as the role craft plays in his work.

In this interview, conducted in Los Angeles in 2009, Paul McCarthy discusses his videos, from early productions like Ma Bell (1971) up through later works like Bossy Burger (1991).

What prompted Allan McCollum to become an artist? In this interview, conducted in 2009 at his New York City studio, McCollum reflects on his path and the many different influences along the way, from his famous uncle to post-war mass production to science fiction.

Interviewed in his Queens, New York studio in October 2017, Jack Whitten reflects on his childhood, the inequality he faced as a Black artist, and the necessity of fighting simplistic dichotomies.

In this interview from 2008, conducted at the artist’s Los Angeles studio, Florian Maier-Aichen discusses his beginnings as an artist, the evolution of his hybrid practice, and his respect for nineteenth-century landscape photographers.

Eleanor Antin’s discusses the historical figure Helen of Troy, and how she became the inspiration for photographic works such as Constructing Helen (2007).