We sat down with the late artist earlier this year to discuss her cultural experiences and greatest influences, from Louise Nevelson to Fyodor Dostoevsky

The president and chief executive of the International African American Museum in Charleston, United States also talks about her experiences of Japan and the power of a Lucille Clifton poem

An in-depth interview with the artist on his cultural experiences and greatest influences, from Marcel Duchamp to Ben Okri

An in-depth interview with the artist on his cultural experiences and greatest influences, from Francis Bacon to J.G. Ballard

An in-depth interview with the artist on his cultural experiences and greatest influences, from Jean-Michel Basquiat to Gwen John

An in-depth interview with the artist on her cultural experiences and greatest influences, from Maria Lassnig to Gertrude Stein

An in-depth interview with the artist on her cultural experiences and greatest influences, from the writer Jorge Luis Borges to her life-changing visit to Iceland

An in-depth interview with the artist on his cultural experiences and greatest influences, from Salvador Dalí to the Royal Academy's Sensation

An in-depth interview with the artist on her cultural experiences and greatest influences, from Henri Matisse to W.G. Sebald

An in-depth interview with the artist on her cultural experiences and greatest influences, from Gordon Matta-Clark to Leonardo da Vinci

An in-depth interview with the artist on his cultural experiences and greatest influences, from Elsa Schiaparelli to Parliament/Funkadelic.

An in-depth interview with the artist on her cultural experiences and greatest influences, from Robert Rauschenberg to Roland Barthes

An in-depth interview with the artist on his cultural experiences and greatest influences, from Agnes Martin to Frankie Knuckles

An in-depth interview with the artist on his cultural experiences and greatest influences, from Jackson Pollock to Virginia Woolf

An in-depth interview with the artist on his cultural experiences and greatest influences from Joan Jonas to Julius Eastman

An in-depth interview with the artist on his cultural experiences and greatest influences, from John Cage to Marcel Duchamp

An in-depth interview with the artist on her cultural experiences and greatest influences, from Lee Bul to Ursula K. Le Guin

An in-depth interview with the artist on her cultural experiences and greatest influences, from Maxine Kumin to Henry Moore

An in-depth interview with the artist on her cultural experiences and greatest influences, from Gustave Moreau to Peter Pan

An in-depth interview with the artist on her cultural experiences and greatest influences, from Sassetta to Klimt

An in-depth interview with the artist on his cultural experiences and greatest influences, from Agnes Martin to Samuel Beckett

An in-depth interview with the artist on his greatest cultural influences, from The Staples Singers to Piero Manzoni

An in-depth interview with the artist on her cultural experiences and greatest influences, from Noam Chomsky to Bernini

An in-depth interview with the artist on his cultural experiences and greatest influences, from Mike Kelley to the Mexican Muralists

An in-depth interview with the artist on his cultural experiences and greatest influences, from Donna Haraway to David Hockney

An in-depth interview with the artist on his cultural experiences and greatest influences, from Marcel Duchamp to ancient Chinese ceramics—and why Romanticism is not for him

An in-depth interview with the artist on her cultural experiences and greatest influences, from Degas to British sports radio

An in-depth interview on the artist's cultural experiences and influences, from Anthony Caro to Huckleberry Finn

An in-depth interview on the artist's influences and cultural experiences, from the poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke to being photographed by her mother

An in-depth interview on the artist's influences and cultural experiences, from Richard Dyer to John Singer Sargent