Damien Hirst

Does Hirst's return to painting (with his own hands) mark a new seriousness or just a midcareer crisis? ArtReview meets the man who "took all the money out of the artworld".

Ed Ruscha

"Maybe my heart is really back in the 1940s." Ed Ruscha speaks to ArtReview on the eve of his retrospective at London's Hayward Gallery.

PLUS

EVERYTHING POPULAR IS WRONG
Part 2 in our series looking at whether artists are just trying to produce artworks that will be well liked.

TAKASHI MURAKAMI
Having spent years "testing the limits of capitalism", Japan's most successful artist tells ArtReview how he plans to operate in a new economic era.

VIDEO EXTRAS
A black 1971 Chevrolet Impala pulls into Tiny Naylor's drive-in… Ed Ruscha in Reyner Banham Loves Los Angeles (1972)