The New York Times takes a look at the lunch habits of various artists in their studios, examining the communal eating time for artists and their assistants, particularly those of Urs Fischer, Cai Guo-Qiang and Marianne Vitale.  “What makes me sad,” Fischer says, “is when people have these lunches where they all go out individually, and then have plastic containers of salads, and sit in front of computers.” (more…)

Peter Doig sits down with the Financial Times this week for the newspaper’s Lunch with the FT segment, and discusses his life as a painter, as well as his childhood split between Trinidad, Canada and the UK.  “My thinking is always between places. Something I would like to achieve in my paintings is a place in between places.” (more…)

Brothers Jake and Dinos Chapman are the subject of the Financial Times’ ongoing “Lunch with the FT” series, talking about their early work, and response to criticism that their work has scarcely changed in the past years.  “But it’s the same criticism you could level at Mark Rothko,” The brothers collectively ask. “Is it imperative for the artist to be novel?” (more…)