Author: Jonathan Griffin | Apollo Magazine

The man with the fantastic light machines

In designing his eccentric inventions, the mid-century artist Thomas Wilfred created a whole new genre of art, the influence of which can still be felt today

Jonathan Griffin

20 Nov 2024

Interviews

‘It’s about what’s in your heart and soul. Technology’s just some tool’ – an interview with Bill Viola (1951–2024)

The pioneering video artist has died at the age of 73. In this interview from our March 2014 issue, he talked to Apollo about how his work grapples with some of life’s biggest questions

Jonathan Griffin

15 Jul 2024

Features

On the road with Ed Ruscha

The artist laureate of Los Angeles also draws on the everyday junk of Southern California to embellish the myth of a city nestled between the ocean and the desert

Jonathan Griffin

1 Jul 2024

Interviews

Robert Irwin (1928–2023)

In 2015, the Californian artist spoke to Jonathan Griffin about the light and space installations that span his 60-year career

Jonathan Griffin

26 Oct 2023

Photography

Anna Atkins, queen of cyan

It was the pioneering photogapher’s dedication to botany that made her determined to record her samples in such memorable fashion

Jonathan Griffin

15 Sep 2023

Features

The creative curating of Walter Hopps

The Menil Collection in Houston looks at the groundbreaking work of a curator who brought a new generation of American artists into museums

Jonathan Griffin

27 Apr 2023

Features

The irresistible cool of Bernice Bing

The Asian Art Museum is reviving interest in a painter who was at the heart of San Francisco’s arts scene in her lifetime, but all too quickly forgotten after her death

Jonathan Griffin

26 Sep 2022

Reviews

How Duchamp got himself out of the doldrums

The artist was at something of a standstill before a French critic came along with the idea for a book that gained him a host of new admirers

Jonathan Griffin

6 Sep 2022

Features

Charles Ray and the art of keeping body and soul together

The sculptor may work with many different materials but the main ingredient in his art, he says, is time

Jonathan Griffin

28 Feb 2022

Interviews

Still from ‘Free, White and 21’ (1980), Howardena Pindell. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Full circle – Howardena Pindell comes into her own

The artist talks about her long career of painting and protest – and the points where they overlap

Jonathan Griffin

4 Feb 2022

Features

Watercolor. No. 5 (1942), Raymond Jonson. Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento.

The artists who wanted to rise above it all

The Transcendental Painting Group in New Mexico was sidelined for its esoteric beliefs, but its members are slowly entering the mainstream

Jonathan Griffin

20 Nov 2021

Interviews

Lisa Yuskavage photographed at her studio in December 2020.

For Lisa Yuskavage, art isn’t about being right or wrong – it’s the freedom to do what you want

She may paint Penthouse pin-ups, but Lisa Yuskavage’s work is far more compassionate than some critics allow – not that she makes art with morality in mind

Jonathan Griffin

22 Feb 2021

Interviews