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Art Garfunkel

September 2026

  • Portrait of Art Garfunkel in black jumper and baseball cap

    ‘Why not try to be the best in the world, just for the fun of it?’ Art Garfunkel on a rich, restless life – and reconciling with Paul Simon

    He taught maths and walked across Europe, trying to leave his demons behind. As he goes back on tour aged 84, the folk-pop legend explains how he came back to singing

January 2026

  • Liza Minnelli performing in the Dominican Republic in 2010.

    Liza Minnelli uses AI to release first new music in 13 years

    Singing legend heralds ‘new tools in service of expression’, on compilation that also features an Art Garfunkel song using AI-generated piano backing

November 2024

  • Bridge over troubled water indeed … Simon & Garfunkel in their heyday.

    ‘I was a fool’: Art Garfunkel describes tearful reunion with Paul Simon

    Singer describes recent meeting where Simon said he was offended by an old interview, and pair reconciled

October 2024

  • Two different types of bad hair … Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel in the studio.

    In Restless Dreams: The Music of Paul Simon review – heartfelt portrait of a generational talent

    From his era-defining work with Art Garfunkel to the sometimes problematic legacy of 80s hit Graceland, Alex Gibney’s documentary strikes a pure and personal note

November 2023

  • Your kiss is not on my list … Hall & Oates in 1984.

    ‘He’s a man with a fork in a world of soup’: the bitterest music-duo spats

    With Hall & Oates now saying ‘no can do’ to their partnership, we look at the other pop pairs who fell out of harmony

March 2019

  • A class act ... Hal Blaine.

    Be My Baby to Bridge Over Troubled Water: Hal Blaine's greatest performances

    Hal Blaine, one of pop’s most prolific drummers, has died. Whether it was raw garage rock or jazz experimentation, he was seemingly capable of anything

July 2017

  • ‘Singing is an addiction’ … Art Garfunkel.

    Art Garfunkel review – a ravaged yet ravishing trip down memory lane

    The 75-year-old singer is in full reminiscence mode, and always poignant even when his voice threatens to miss the mark

February 2017

  • Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel.

    10 of the best
    Simon and Garfunkel – 10 of the best

    Their friendship hit troubled waters at the height of their fame, but from The Sound of Silence to Mrs Robinson they created some of the most memorable music in the pop canon

June 2016

  • The vigil for the victims of the Orlando shootings in Old Compton Street, London.

    London Gay Men's Chorus releases vigil song in aid of Orlando shooting fund

    Choir releases Bridge Over Troubled Water to help Orlando victims and families fund after vigil performance is widely viewed

November 2015

  • hand erasing equations on a blackboard.

    Flash Fridays by Tin House Magazine
    Flash fiction: Simon and Mr Garfunkel

    In a new short story, as featured in Tin House magazine’s Flash Fridays, Art Garfunkel reinvents himself as a maths teacher

June 2015

  • Art Garfunkel

    30 minutes with …
    Art Garfunkel: 'Weird is a fair word for me'

    Art Garfunkel on his relationship with Paul Simon, what he really thinks of David Bowie – and being a superstar who taught maths

May 2015

  • Pop musicians Simon and Garfunkel, circa 1965

    From Rock's Backpages
    Simon and Garfunkel: 'To a degree, our hostility is a setup' – a classic interview from the vaults

  • Art Garfunkel and Paul Simon

    Pass notes
    Feelin' grumpy: why Art Garfunkel just can't get along with Paul Simon

September 2014

  • Art Garfunkel

    Art Garfunkel review – glorious return from one of pop’s most famous voices

    Back onstage after losing his voice, Garfunkel coughs, croaks and beautifully sings his way through a truly special night, writes Dave Simpson

December 2013

  • Rockstar Doodles

    Rock, paper, crayons: famous musicians' drawings – in pictures

    When asked for a doodle, famous musicians – from Leonard Cohen to Meat Loaf, and Randy Newman to Bryan Ferry – produced some surprisingly revealing artwork. Richard Williams looks at the results

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August 2013

  • Film and Television

    The World Is Ever Changing by Nicolas Roeg – review

    Genius he may be, but film-maker Nicolas Roeg's memoir largely falls flat, writes Christopher Bray

February 2013

  • simon and garfunkel imagine watch this

    Art Garfunkel implicates film director Mike Nichols in split with Paul Simon

    Garfunkel says the director's decision to drop Simon from the film of Catch-22 contributed to their parting in 1970

December 2012

  • Simon and Garfunkel

    Old music
    Old music: Simon & Garfunkel – A Most Peculiar Man

    Paul Simon's English period produced some of Simon & Garfunkel's best-loved work – including this understated song inspired by four lines in a London newspaper.

May 2012

  • Simon & Garfunkel

    Shortcuts
    Real rock stars refuse to re-form

    After multiple reunions Paul Simon says that he won't get back together with Art Garfunkel again. But some bands are even better at staying apart

December 2011

  • Simon and Garfunkel

    Art Garfunkel: 'Singing is always an act of faith'

    More than 40 years since his last studio album with Paul Simon and having just both turned 70, Art Garfunkel tells Tim Adams about the split and the thrill of their legacy
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