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The Week in Art Podcast in a nutshell
The Week in Art podcast is produced by The Art Newspaper, a prominent art industry publication. The podcast is suitable for art enthusiasts, professionals, students, and anyone who wants to look what’s happening behind the scenes in the art world. Weekly episodes (typically on Fridays) of the show are covering the most important developments in the art world, with breaking news and providing insider insights into exhibitions and events around the globe.
The host of this award-winning podcast is Ben Luke. A key element of the podcast are interviews with artists, curators, museum staff, and art historians. In the episodes, a featured work of art is presented in detail in “Work of the Week.”
The Week in Art Podcast details
How often a new episode is released?
Weekly
What is the official Website for the podcast?
Podcast-URL: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/series/the-week-in-art
Who is the podcast by?
The Art Newspaper
The Week in Art – Episode Guide
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| 355 | Louvre heist: the fallout, RoseLee Goldberg on the Performa Biennial, Wayne McGregor on his new installation | 2025-10-23 | It is an event that has shocked the world and prompted a national reckoning in France: the robbery of eight jewels from the Apollo Gallery … |
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| 354 | Frieze in London, Hypha Studios and Renoir’s drawing for The Great Bathers | 2025-10-16 | Amid much debate about the health of the art market, Frieze is back in London, with its two fairs, Frieze London and Frieze Masters. Ben … |
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| 353 | Nigerian Modernism, Tehran’s art scene after the war, Wayne Thiebaud’s Cakes | 2025-10-09 | Tate Modern continues to explore the histories of Modern art beyond the European and North American canons that were once its focus. This week it … |
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| 352 | Who made ancient Egyptian art? Plus, Michaelina Wautier, Robert Rauschenberg’s Bed | 2025-10-02 | A new exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, UK, called Made in Ancient Egypt, reveals untold stories of the people behind a host of … |
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| 351 | Museums and ethics, Fra Angelico in Florence, Cornelia Parker’s PsychoBarn | 2025-09-25 | The Art Newspaper’s chief contributing editor, Gareth Harris, has just published a new book, Towards the Ethical Art Museum, which explores a range of issues … |
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| 350 | Kerry James Marshall, National Gallery expansion, Picasso’s Three Dancers | 2025-09-18 | Kerry James Marshall: The Histories at the Royal Academy of Arts in London is the largest ever European retrospective of the work of the US … |
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| 349 | David Bowie Centre, Bukhara Biennial, Hilton Als on Jean Rhys, Hurvin Anderson and Kara Walker | 2025-09-11 | Earlier this year, we took a tour of the V&A East Storehouse, the Victoria and Albert Museum’s vast new complex in East London. This week, … |
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| 348 | Smithsonian under fire from Trump, Frieze Seoul, Dara Birnbaum and Quantum | 2025-09-04 | Since we were last on air in June, the US government has announced what it calls a comprehensive internal review of activities at eight of … |
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| 347 | Arthur Jafa and Mark Leckey, Cecilia Alemani on SITE Santa Fe, Trisha Brown and Robert Rauschenberg | 2025-06-26 | An exhibition opens this weekend at Conditions, the low-cost studio programme for artists in Croydon, on the outskirts of south London, featuring two of the … |
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| 346 | Art Basel, human remains in Dutch museums, Eva Hesse | 2025-06-19 | The Art Newspaper’s digital editor Alexander Morrison is in Basel for the annual Art Basel fair. He talks to our art market editor, Kabir Jhala, … |
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| 345 | Rachel Jones, Liverpool Biennial, UK Aids Memorial Quilt at Tate Modern | 2025-06-12 | The Dulwich Picture Gallery, the UK’s first purpose-built public art gallery, is hosting an exhibition of one of Britain’s brightest young painting talents, Rachel Jones. … |
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| 344 | London Gallery Weekend, Brazil’s National Museum, Jane Austen at the Morgan | 2025-06-05 | The fifth edition of London Gallery Weekend takes place this weekend, and opens as the global art market is at a low ebb. So what … |
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| 343 | Museum openings: V&A East Storehouse and the Met’s Rockefeller Wing, plus Rachel Whiteread at Goodwood Art Foundation | 2025-05-29 | We visit major museum projects unveiled this week in London and New York: Ben Luke takes a tour of V&A East Storehouse in London’s Queen … |
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| 342 | Jean Tinguely’s 100th anniversary, Fenix Museum, Ben Shahn | 2025-05-22 | A host of exhibitions and events this month and next celebrate the 100th anniversary of the birth of the Swiss artist Jean Tinguely, one of … |
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| 341 | Koyo Kouoh remembered, Queen Elizabeth II memorial, Jasper Johns by Robert Storr | 2025-05-15 | Koyo Kouoh remembered, Queen Elizabeth II memorial, Jasper Johns by Robert Storr Koyo Kouoh, the Cameroon-born curator who was director of Zeitz Mocaa in Cape … |
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| 340 | London: National Gallery refurb and rehang, Tate Modern is 25. Plus, Inge Mahn | 2025-05-08 | This week: after a two-year closure, the National Gallery’s Sainsbury Wing reopens this week, revealing a major overhaul by the architect Annabelle Selldorf. The gallery … |
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| 339 | Frank Auerbach’s Berlin homecoming, human remains and museums, Ian Hamilton Finlay’s ‘Republic’ | 2025-05-01 | During his lifetime, the late artist Frank Auerbach never had an exhibition in Berlin, the city of his birth, which he left for the UK … |
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| 338 | Pope Francis and art, JMW Turner’s 250th birthday, John Singer Sargent’s Madame X | 2025-04-24 | Following the death of Pope Francis on Easter Monday, The Art Newspaper’s managing editor, Louis Jebb, who has written an extensive obituary of the late … |
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| 337 | Christine Sun Kim and Thomas Mader, teamLab in Abu Dhabi, Vermeer’s final painting? | 2025-04-17 | ollowing on from opening her exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art, which continues until August, the US-born, Berlin-based artist Christine Sun Kim this … |
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| 336 | Trump’s assault on museums and libraries, the art market’s 12% fall, Evie Hone and Mainie Jellett | 2025-04-10 | In two-and-a-half months since the inauguration of President Donald Trump, a series of executive orders and other initiatives have attempted systematically to eliminate and defund … |
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| 335 | Museum visitor figures—highs and lows, William Morris mania, Marguerite Matisse, the unsung hero of her father’s art | 2025-04-03 | he Art Newspaper’s annual report on museum visitor figures is out and shows that the slow build-back after the Covid-19 closures is over, and museums … |
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| 334 | The Frick: Annabelle Selldorf interview and our review. Plus, Taiso Yoshitoshi | 2025-03-28 | After a five-year closure, the Frick Collection in New York will reopen to the public on 17 April and this week opened its doors to … |
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| 333 | Jack Whitten at MoMA, New York, Paris Noir at the Pompidou, Arpita Singh at the Serpentine | 2025-03-21 | The largest ever exhibition of the work of Jack Whitten opens this weekend at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York. Ben Luke speaks … |
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| 332 | The big art slowdown, Dutch funding crisis, Bruegel’s Hunters in the Snow | 2025-03-14 | After a challenging year in which international galleries, auction houses and museums have been forced to scale back their operations and make redundancies on an … |
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| 331 | Censorship and Australia’s Venice Biennale pavilion, a controversial AI auction, and Elizabeth Catlett in Washington | 2025-03-07 | It seems absurd that more than a year ahead of the next Venice Biennale, one of the major pavilions in the Giardini might be empty … |
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| 330 | Leigh Bowery at Tate Modern, Ukraine and art—three years on, Max Beckmann and the Gothic Modern | 2025-02-28 | Tate Modern this week opened a vast exhibition exploring the life and work of the maverick Australian-born performance artist, fashion designer and self-styled “club monster”, … |
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| 329 | Gee’s Bend quiltmakers, “Degenerate” Art in Paris, and Mel Bochner remembered | 2025-02-21 | Shows opening in Washington and Dublin this month explore quiltmaking by African American women. Ben Luke talks to Raina Lampkins-Fielder, chief curator for the Souls … |
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| 328 | Anselm Kiefer, Hoor al Qasimi on Sharjah, a Picasso Blue Period mystery | 2025-02-14 | Next month, the German artist Anselm Kiefer will be 80, and the first of a number of shows internationally to mark this landmark moment opened … |
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| 327 | Trump tariffs and Zona Maco in Mexico, India Art Fair, and American photography at the Rijksmuseum | 2025-02-07 | Last weekend, the US President Donald Trump signed executive orders placing 25 percent tariffs on Mexico and Canada, which were due to take effect on … |
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| 326 | Peter Hujar, Gregg Bordowitz and Rotimi Fani-Kayode: art and the Aids struggle | 2025-01-31 | Peter Hujar, Gregg Bordowitz and Rotimi Fani-Kayode are three artists whose work reflects in different ways on the Aids crisis that has devastated communities across … |
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| 325 | Artists in Gaza respond to the ceasefire, Cimabue at the Louvre, a Baroque printmaking family | 2025-01-24 | The Art Newspaper’s correspondent for the Middle East, Sarvy Geranpayeh, has been reporting on the effect of Israel’s military bombardment of Gaza on artists and … |
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| 324 | Los Angeles wildfires, World Monuments Fund’s watch list, Katsushika Hokusai | 2025-01-17 | This week: the Los Angeles wildfires. The Art Newspaper’s West Coast contributing editor in LA, Jori Finkel, tells our associate digital editor, Alexander Morrison, about … |
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| 323 | The Year Ahead 2025: market predictions, the big shows and openings | 2025-01-10 | A 2025 preview: Georgina Adam, our editor-at-large, tells host Ben Luke what might lie ahead for the market. And Ben is joined by Jane Morris, … |
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| 322 | 2024 in review: the biggest stories and the best shows | 2024-12-20 | It is the final episode of 2024 and so, as always, we review the year, looking at the top stories, the big issues and the … | |
| 321 | Carsten Höller, Takashi Murakami, Dia’s Echoes from the Borderlands | 2024-12-13 | This week, three artist interviews: Carsten Höller on his book of games, Takashi Murakami on his new work, and Valeria Luiselli and Leo Heiblum on … |
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| 320 | Art Basel Miami Beach, Notre-Dame reopens in Paris, and Parmigianino’s Vision of St Jerome | 2024-12-06 | The Art Newspaper’s editor, Americas, Ben Sutton, and our art market editor, Kabir Jhala, are in Florida and report on the sales and the mood … |
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| 319 | Art and technology shows in London and Los Angeles, a restored 17th-century cosmic atlas | 2024-11-29 | Two exhibitions have just opened that look at art and tech: in London, Tate Modern’s Electric Dreams: Art and Technology Before the Internet celebrates the … |
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| 318 | The $6.2m banana, Frank Auerbach remembered, Lindokuhle Sobekwa’s photographs of addiction in South Africa | 2024-11-22 | Maurizio Cattelan’s Comedian (2019), the work featuring a banana stuck to a wall with grey duct tape, sold at Sotheby’s in New York, on Wednesday … |
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| 317 | Episode 300! British Museum, Tate Modern and V&A East directors in discussion | 2024-11-15 | UK museums are at a moment of transformation with a new generation of directors taking the helm at several of the major national institutions in … |
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| 316 | Renaissance special: Michelangelo, Leonardo and Raphael in Florence, drawings and tapestries | 2024-11-08 | This week: two exhibitions in London are showing remarkable works made during the Renaissance. At the King’s Gallery, the museum that is part of Buckingham … |
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| 315 | American sculpture—race and racism, Warsaw’s Museum of Modern Art, Jusepe de Ribera in Paris | 2024-11-01 | Shortly after the US election on 5 November, the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington opens The Shape of Power: Stories of Race and American … |
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| 314 | US election, the glory of Siena, Gabrielle Goliath | 2024-10-24 | This week: with less than two weeks before the US goes to the polls, and with early voting underway, Ben Luke talks to The Art … |
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| 313 | Paris: Art Basel at the Grand Palais and Guillermo Kuitca at Musée Picasso, plus Małgorzata Mirga-Tas at Tate St Ives | 2024-10-17 | After descending on London last week, the art world arrived in Paris this week, with the main attraction being the Art Basel Paris art fair—now … |
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| 312 | Frieze, UK critics The White Pube, Giuseppe Penone and Arte Povera | 2024-10-11 | The Frieze London art fair has a new look for 2024 as it looks to keep its freshness amid increased competition with the new kid … |
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| 311 | Mike Kelley, a pivotal period of contemporary Indian art, Raoul Dufy and Berthe Weill | 2024-10-03 | This week: a huge survey of the work of the late linchpin of the Los Angeles contemporary scene Mike Kelley has arrived at Tate Modern … |
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| 310 | Monet in London, Matisse in Basel, Frankenthaler in Florence | 2024-09-26 | This week, three major international shows: Claude Monet’s Thames views in London, the Henri Matisse retrospective in Basel and Helen Frankenthaler in Florence. An exhibition … |
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| 309 | Glenn Ligon in Cambridge, new Gauguin biography, Teresa Margolles’s Fourth Plinth commission | 2024-09-19 | This week: the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, UK, has invited the US artist Glenn Ligon to explore its history and collections, and his interventions are … |
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| 308 | Van Gogh blockbuster, the birth of Impressionism, Juan Pablo Echeverri | 2024-09-12 | This week: the Van Gogh blockbuster in London, a new book on the birth of Impressionism, and Juan Pablo Echeverri’s performative self-portraits. As the exhibition Van … |
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| 307 | The art market slump, the artist freed in the US-Russia prisoner swap, Max Ernst and Surrealism in Paris | 2024-09-05 | The Week in Art is back. In this first episode of the season: on Tuesday it was reported in the Financial Times that Sotheby’s core … |
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| 306 | Arts and the UK election, ex-Uffizi head fails in Florence mayoral bid, Hank Willis Thomas at Glastonbury | 2024-06-27 | On Thursday 4 July, the UK will hold a general election, with the Labour party currently far ahead in the opinion polls. Dale Berning Sawa, … |
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| 305 | Just Stop Oil’s Stonehenge protest, Tavares Strachan, Louise Bourgeois at the Galleria Borghese | 2024-06-20 | This week: Just Stop Oil’s Stonehenge protest. On Wednesday, two activists sprayed orange powder paint made from cornflour on to three of the boulders at … |
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| 304 | Art Basel: fireworks and nuance, Lynn Barber on her artist interviews, Guillaume Lethière at the Clark | 2024-06-13 | This week: it’s arguably the best loved of the major art fairs among collectors and dealers, but what have we learned about the art market … |
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| 303 | Georgia O’Keeffe’s New York, Studio Voltaire at 30, Martha Jungwirth responds to Goya | 2024-06-06 | This week: we explore the Art Institute of Chicago’s exhibition dedicated to what Georgia O’Keeffe called her New Yorks—paintings of skyscrapers and views from one … |
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| 302 | Art’s AI reckoning, the rise of comic art, and Degas’ Miss La La | 2024-05-30 | The publication in April of Stanford University’s Artificial Intelligence Index Annual Report has provided the art world with much food for thought. We look at … |
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| 301 | The Mona Lisa's endless, and problematic, allure; Judy Chicago; Christian Schad and the New Objectivity | 2024-05-23 | As the Louvre’s director admits that the Paris museum wants to move its most famous painting away from the crowded gallery in which it is … |
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| 300 | Tate’s historic women artists show, Dia at 50, Martin Wong’s record-breaking painting | 2024-05-16 | We take a tour of Tate Britain’s new exhibition, Now You See Us, featuring more than 100 women artists who worked between the 16th and … |
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| 299 | Gaza: artists’ stories, Frank Stella remembered, Vanessa Bell’s garden view | 2024-05-09 | We talk to The Art Newspaper’s reporter Sarvy Geranpayeh about her conversations with six Palestinian artists about their daily lives amid Israel’s ongoing military offensive … |
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| 298 | Should UK museums charge for entry? Plus, Michelangelo’s last decades and Maria Blanchard | 2024-05-02 | After years of decreasing public funding, the lingering effects of the Covid pandemic and enduring questions around the ethics of corporate sponsorship, UK museums are … |
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| 297 | Klimt’s last picture sells for €35m, Rebecca Horn, a Cézanne restored | 2024-04-25 | The last painting made by Gustav Klimt, left on his easel when he died in 1918 of illnesses relating to the Spanish flu epidemic of … |
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| 296 | Venice Biennale special | 2024-04-18 | We are back in Venice for the latest edition of the biggest biennial in the world of art. The 60th Venice Biennale comprises an international … |
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| 295 | Marlborough Gallery closes, Rose B. Simpson in New York, Caravaggio’s final painting | 2024-04-11 | This week: after 80 years in business, Marlborough Gallery, one of the most historic commercial galleries in London, New York and beyond, has announced that … |
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| 294 | Inigo Philbrick and art world fraud, Hong Kong’s new security law, a Maharaja’s sword | 2024-04-04 | The convicted art fraudster Inigo Philbrick is out of prison and possibly seeking a return to art dealing. How is that possible? Tim Schneider, The … |
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| 293 | Richard Serra remembered. Plus, expressionist art special: Käthe Kollwitz at MoMA and the Blue Rider at Tate Modern | 2024-03-29 | Richard Serra, one of the greatest artists of the past 50 years, a linchpin of the post-minimalist scene in late 1960s and early 1970s New … |
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| 292 | Whitney Biennial reviewed, museum visits back to normal, Pieter Bruegel the Elder | 2024-03-22 | This week: the Whitney Biennial reviewed. Host Ben Luke discusses the show with Ben Sutton, The Art Newspaper’s editor, Americas, and the critic Annabel Keenan. … |
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| 291 | Tate’s racist mural—Keith Piper’s response, the Art Basel & UBS Art Market Report, Anni Albers | 2024-03-15 | Four years after Tate Britain closed its restaurant because Rex Whistler’s murals on its walls contained racist imagery, it has unveiled the work it commissioned … |
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| 290 | Photography and feminist activism, Jacob Rothschild remembered, Robert Ryman | 2024-03-08 | To coincide with International Women’s Day on 8 March, the South London Gallery is opening the exhibition Acts of Resistance: Photography, Feminisms and the Art … |
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| 289 | Los Angeles and Frieze, Angelica Kauffman, Matthew Wong and Van Gogh | 2024-03-01 | As Frieze Los Angeles opens its fifth iteration, The Art Newspaper’s associate digital editor, Alexander Morrison, talks to our correspondent in LA, Jori Finkel about … |
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| 288 | Black figuration, Surrealism is 100, Tonita Peña’s Eagle Dance mural | 2024-02-23 | The exhibition The Time Is Always Now, featuring 22 artists from the African diaspora whose work takes the Black figure as its starting point, is … |
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| 287 | Yoko Ono at Tate Modern, Elton John’s collection, a Roman colossus remade | 2024-02-16 | A vast survey covering seven decades of art by Yoko Ono has just opened at Tate Modern, and we take a tour of the show … |
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| 286 | Tania Bruguera on censorship, Frank Auerbach, an Indian painting from Howard Hodgkin’s collection | 2024-02-09 | As she stages a non-stop reading of Hannah Arendt’s The Origins of Totalitarianism for five days at the Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin, Tania Bruguera reflects … |
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| 285 | Venice Biennale, the immersive art explosion, Barbara Kruger by Hans Ulrich Obrist | 2024-02-02 | This week: Adriano Pedrosa, the artistic director of the 60th Venice Biennale, on his exhibition, Foreigners Everywhere. As he announces the themes, concepts and the … |
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| 284 | The masters market, India’s controversial Hindu temple, Honoré Daumier | 2024-01-26 | This week: masters week in New York—can the market for historic works be revived? Scott Reyburn, a market reporter for The Art Newspaper, has for … |
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| 283 | An oligarch vs Sotheby’s in a New York court, Singapore Art Week, Zanele Muholi | 2024-01-19 | This week: the astonishing civil trial in Manhattan between a Russian oligarch and Sotheby’s. The Art Newspaper’s acting art market editor, Tim Schneider, witnessed the … |
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| 282 | 2024: market predictions and the big shows | 2024-01-12 | In the first episode of 2024 we look ahead to the next 12 months. The Art Newspaper’s acting art market editor Tim Schneider peers into … |
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| 281 | 2023: the biggest stories and the best shows | 2023-12-15 | It’s the final episode of 2023 and so, as always, it’s our review of the year. Host Ben Luke is joined by Louisa Buck, The … | |
| 280 | Art Basel in Miami Beach, the all-women museum in Athens, Pesellino’s David panels | 2023-12-08 | This week: the final big art market event of the year, Art Basel in Miami Beach. The Art Newspaper’s associate digital editor, Alexander Morrison, talks … |
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| 279 | Gaza: damage to historic sites, Emily Kam Kngwarray in Canberra, a Gauguin manuscript | 2023-12-01 | The tragic human cost of the bombardment of the Gaza Strip in the Israel-Hamas war is well documented. What is now becoming clear is how … |
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| 278 | US museums’ financial woes, Documenta’s new crisis, Kim Lim | 2023-11-24 | This week: The Art Newspaper’s editor, Americas, Ben Sutton discusses redundancies and ticket price-hikes at several museums across the US, and what it tells us … |
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| 277 | New York auctions, radical Central Eastern European art, Terry Adkins x Grace Wales Bonner | 2023-11-17 | This week: the New York auctions. Tim Schneider, The Art Newspaper’s acting art market editor, joins us to discuss two weeks of major sales in … |
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| 276 | Protest and performance in New York, UK National Trust row, Hans Holbein | 2023-11-10 | This week: live art and activism. Performance art has long been used as a vehicle for protest and political activism and now, in its tenth … |
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| 275 | Can AI reveal the Herculaneum scrolls? Plus, Venice Biennale political row, Dorothea Lange | 2023-11-03 | As global political leaders, key figures in the tech industry and academics meet at Bletchley Park in the UK for a two-day summit on artificial … |
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| 274 | Kyiv Biennial, sound art and migration, Jem Perucchini’s London Tube mural | 2023-10-26 | This week: the first Kyiv Biennial since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine last year is taking place in various locations across the wartorn country as well … |
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| 273 | Paris +, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Marie Laurencin | 2023-10-19 | This week: it’s the second year of Paris +, the event that has taken over from Fiac as the leading French art fair. How is … |
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| 272 | Frieze is 20, Hildigunnur Birgisdóttir, Matisse in New York | 2023-10-12 | The Frieze art fair has turned 20 this week, and is only growing in its ambitions, having acquired the Armory Show fair in New York … |
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| 271 | The looted Ethiopian icon, AI copyright debate in US, the end of China’s museum boom | 2023-10-05 | The looted Ethiopian icon, AI copyright debate in US, the end of China’s museum boomThis week: The Art Newspaper’s London correspondent Martin Bailey tells us … | |
| 270 | Marina Abramović, Frans Hals, Peter Paul Rubens | 2023-09-28 | This week: three big London shows, in depth. As Marina Abramović draws huge crowds to the Royal Academy of Arts in London, we interview her … |
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| 269 | Unesco controversies; Fernando Botero; Barkley Hendricks in New York | 2023-09-21 | This week: the latest controversies prompted by the Unesco World Heritage Committee. As we mentioned last week, the 45th session of the committee is taking … |
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| 268 | Saudi Arabia’s soft power grab; Julianknxx in London; Michelangelo’s Libyan Sibyl | 2023-09-14 | A Unesco conference and archeological summit in Saudi Arabia are the latest examples of the country’s increasing focus on culture as part of the … |
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| 267 | Special 250th episode: what’s next for the visual arts? | 2023-09-07 | It’s our 250th podcast, and in this special episode we focus on the future. We ask leading figures across the art world to tell us … | |
| 266 | British Museum in crisis, Sāo Paulo biennial, Soutine in Düsseldorf | 2023-08-31 | In the first episode of this new season of The Week in Art, we talk to Martin Bailey, The Art Newspaper’s London correspondent, about the … |
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| 265 | Art market and stagflation; Spain’s historical memory; Dürer plate remade by Goldin + Senneby | 2023-06-29 | This week: in the final episode of this season, James Goodwin, a specialist on the art market and its history, tells us about what high … |
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| 264 | New National Portrait Gallery, William Edmondson, Zinzi Minott’s Windrush film | 2023-06-22 | The Art Newspaper’s editor, Alison Cole, and London correspondent, Martin Bailey, join our host Ben Luke to review the National Portrait Gallery after its £41m … |
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| 263 | Afua Hirsch on Africa Rising, Liverpool Biennial, Basquiat in Basel with Jeffrey Deitch | 2023-06-16 | As her new series for the BBC, Africa Rising, takes Afua Hirsch to Morocco, Nigeria and South Africa, we talk to her about the artists … |
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| 262 | Thom Yorke and Stanley Donwood; Wayne McGregor on Carmen Herrera; Whistler’s Mother | 2023-06-08 | This week: Thom Yorke and Stanley Donwood on their collaborative art, Wayne McGregor on his new choreographic work—a collaboration with the late Carmen Herrera—and Whistler’s … |
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| 261 | Hannah Gadsby’s Picasso show; Italy floods; Ellsworth Kelly’s centenary | 2023-06-01 | As It’s Pablo-matic: Picasso According to Hannah Gadsby opens at the Brooklyn Museum, New York, we talk to Catherine Morris and Lisa Small, who have … |
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| 260 | Keith Haring in LA; Tate Britain’s rehang; Joan Brown in Pittsburgh | 2023-05-25 | This week: the first ever museum show of Keith Haring’s work in Los Angeles. We talk to Sarah Loyer, the curator of Keith Haring: Art … |
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| 259 | New York: Frieze and auctions; Richard Prince copyright case (and Warhol ruling); Sarah Sze in London | 2023-05-18 | This week: the Frieze art fair and spring auctions in New York. As the Frieze Art Fair returns to The Shed in Manhattan, coinciding with … |
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| 258 | Artists in Sudan; the Marquis de Sade in Barcelona; Gwen John | 2023-05-11 | This week: the Sudan crisis. How are artists responding to another war in the East African country? The photographer Ala Kheir joins us from Khartoum … |
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| 257 | Charles III’s coronation; Karl Lagerfeld in New York; Marlene Smith’s Good Housekeeping III | 2023-05-04 | This week: the coronation in the UK. As Charles III is crowned at Westminster Abbey this weekend, Anna Somers Cocks, founder of The Art Newspaper … |
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| 256 | Artificial Intelligence: the museum perspective, the artist’s view, the photography controversy | 2023-04-27 | This week: AI and art. We explore some of the key aspects relating to artificial intelligence and its use in the art world: the works … |
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| 255 | Hilma af Klint and Piet Mondrian at Tate Modern; Jaune Quick-to-See Smith at the Whitney; the Roman gateway to Britain, reconstructed | 2023-04-20 | This week: we take a tour of Tate Modern’s exhibition that brings together the Swedish painter Hilma af Klint and the Dutch artist Piet Mondrian. … |
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| 254 | Expo and the Chicago scene; Northern Ireland’s museums; Sarah Bernhardt in Paris | 2023-04-13 | This week: Expo Chicago and the art scene in the Windy City. Ben Sutton, The Art Newspaper’s editor, Americas, and Carlie Porterfield, associate editor, art … |
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| 253 | Art and the banks; hip hop in Baltimore; Juan de Pareja, the artist enslaved by Velázquez | 2023-04-06 | This week: Ben Luke talks to Melanie Gerlis about the recent turbulence in the banking sector, as US banks go under, an ailing Credit Suisse … |
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| 252 | Are visitors returning to museums? Plus, Manet/Degas and Berthe Morisot | 2023-03-30 | The Art Newspaper’s annual report on museum visitor figures around the world has been published. We talk to Lee Cheshire, who co-edited the report, and … |
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| 251 | Art Basel Hong Kong bounces back; art censorship online; Brenda L. Croft’s images of First Nations Australian women | 2023-03-24 | This week: Art Basel Hong Kong bounces back. After cancellations, delays and two years of restricted fairs, the fair has returned to something like pre-Covid … |
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| 250 | “Biggest art fraud in history” in Canada; artists’ pay; the Ugly Duchess by Massys (and Leonardo) | 2023-03-17 | This week: the extraordinary story behind what Canadian police have called “the biggest art fraud in history”. More than 1,000 fake works purporting to be … |
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| 249 | Old Masters at Tefaf; Paris’s Institut du Monde Arabe; Rosalba Carriera in Berlin | 2023-03-10 | Is the Old Masters market struggling? As Tefaf opens its fair in Maastricht, we look at this major moment in the market calendar and what … |
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| 248 | Art Dubai; MoMA’s political video art show; Lucie Rie | 2023-03-03 | This week: as the Art Dubai fair opens, The Art Newspaper’s acting digital editor Aimee Dawson tells us about this latest edition, its ongoing commitment … |
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| 247 | Nigeria’s pivotal election, The Met: a guard’s memoir, Hubert Robert in Stockholm | 2023-02-24 | This week: Nigeria heads to the polls this weekend; what are the implications for its museums and art scene? Dolly Kola-Balogun, director of the Retro … |
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| 246 | Turkey-Syria: the earthquake and heritage; Alice Neel in London; a Navajo “eye-dazzler” blanket | 2023-02-17 | This week: Turkey and Syria. As the countries reel from the devastation of the 6 February earthquake, how can communities and agencies protect damaged heritage? … |
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| 245 | Vermeer special: the man, the show and an attribution debate | 2023-02-10 | In this special episode, we are in Amsterdam for one of the shows of the year: Vermeer at the Rijksmuseum. As an unprecedented 28 of … |
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| 244 | Ukraine museum collections: kept safe or looted? Plus, Okwui Enwezor’s Sharjah Biennial and Ming Smith at MoMA | 2023-02-03 | As we approach the first anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, The Art Newspaper has published an investigation that raises serious concerns that works … |
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| 243 | Kusama x Louis Vuitton: art and luxury. Plus, Michael Rakowitz’s Tate/Iraq gift and photographer Rosy Martin | 2023-01-27 | This week: as robotic figures of the Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama appear in windows of Louis Vuitton stores in New York, London and Tokyo, Ben … |
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| 242 | Van Gogh’s Sunflowers legal dispute. Plus, Singapore’s art scene and photographer Grace Lau | 2023-01-20 | Vincent Van Gogh’s Sunflowers in Tokyo are the subject of a legal claim in the US relating to Nazi loot. The Art Newspaper’s London correspondent … |
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| 241 | The art world in 2023: market predictions, big shows, museum openings | 2023-01-13 | In the first episode of the year, we look ahead at the next 12 months. Anny Shaw, the acting art market editor at The Art … |
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| 240 | 2022’s biggest art stories—and what they mean | 2022-12-16 | It’s our final podcast of 2022 and so, as ever, we’re looking back at the worlds of art and heritage over the past 12 months. … | |
| 239 | Parthenon Marbles: breakthrough in sight? Plus, Afghan culture in crisis and Kiki Smith’s New York murals | 2022-12-09 | This week: the Parthenon Marbles; it has emerged that George Osborne, the former UK chancellor and now chair of the trustees of the British Museum, … | |
| 238 | Feast and famine: Miami millions and UK arts cuts. Plus, Ukrainian Modernism in Madrid | 2022-12-02 | As Art Basel returns to Florida for the 20th anniversary of its Miami Beach art fair, Aimee Dawson, the acting digital editor at The Art … |
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| 237 | Pussy Riot and Ragnar Kjartansson; Shirin Neshat on Iran; Puerto Rican art after Hurricane Maria | 2022-11-25 | This week: as the exhibition Velvet Terrorism: Pussy Riot’s Russia opens at the Kling & Bang gallery in Reykjavik, Ben Luke talks to Masha Alekhina, … |
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| 236 | Art at Qatar’s World Cup; New York auctions; Mozambican artist Luis Meque | 2022-11-18 | Ben Luke talks to Hannah McGivern, a correspondent for The Art Newspaper who has just been to Qatar, about the vast number of public art … |
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| 235 | Artists and climate action; US National Gallery of Art’s women artists fund; Paula Modersohn-Becker | 2022-11-11 | This week: as the UN’s climate emergency summit, Cop27, continues in Egypt, Ben Luke talks to Louisa Buck, The Art Newspaper’s contemporary art correspondent—and the … |
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| 234 | National Gallery building row; contemporary art in Lagos; Chagall’s Falling Angel | 2022-11-04 | This week: uproar over the National Gallery in London’s building plans—is it a sensitive makeover or like “an airport lounge”? We talk to the director … |
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| 233 | Edward Hopper controversy; The Horror Show in London; a masterpiece in Bruges | 2022-10-27 | This week: the recent opening of Edward Hopper’s New York at the Whitney Museum has reignited a controversy over the provenance of some of his … |
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| 232 | Art attack: Just Stop Oil and iconoclasm; Art Basel’s Paris+ fair; Frank Bowling | 2022-10-20 | This week: we talk to Emma Brown of Just Stop Oil about why the group targeted Vincent Van Gogh’s Sunflowers in the National Gallery, London, … |
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| 231 | Art boom as the UK busts; Cecilia Vicuña; C20th women at Frieze; Modigliani in Philadelphia | 2022-10-13 | This week: Ben Luke talks to Anny Shaw, a contributing editor at The Art Newspaper, about the atmosphere at the Frieze London and Frieze Masters … |
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| 230 | Multimillion Old Master upgrades; Monet and Joan Mitchell; Tudors in New York | 2022-10-06 | This week: Georgina Adam joins Ben Luke to discuss the intriguing story of the bankrupt entrepreneur and art collector, the museum scholar and a host … |
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| 229 | Lucian Freud special: new perspectives, the artist’s letters and a horse painting | 2022-09-29 | As a host of new exhibitions of the work of Lucian Freud opens across London to mark his centenary, this episode is all about this … |
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| 228 | Italy’s far right weaponises culture; Carnegie International; Maria Bartuszová | 2022-09-22 | Amid growing support for hard-right parties in Europe, Ben Luke speaks to James Imam, The Art Newspaper’s Italian correspondent, about the far-right party Brothers of … |
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| 227 | Art and the British Royal Family; museums’ energy crisis; Fuseli’s The Nightmare | 2022-09-15 | Following the death of Queen Elizabeth II and the proclamation of King Charles III, Ben Luke speaks to the former Surveyor of the Queen’s Pictures, … |
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| 226 | Art and censorship; Diane Arbus; Guggenheim Bilbao at 25 | 2022-09-08 | This week: is art censorship on the rise? The Art Newspaper’s chief contributing editor, Gareth Harris, joins Ben Luke to discuss his new book, Censored … |
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| 225 | Brazil turns 200; a £50m Reynolds painting; Michael Heizer’s City | 2022-09-01 | Ben Luke talks to Alexander Kellner, the director of the National Museum of Brazil, about how he plans to mark Brazil’s bicentennial and to restore … | |
| 224 | Summer of Seoul: why the South Korean capital is a new art world hub | 2022-06-30 | On 29 June, Frieze announced the details of the first edition of its art fair in Seoul, South Korea. So for this last episode of … |
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| 223 | Documenta 15: scandal and legacy. Plus, the Warhol-Prince copyright dispute, and Juan Muñoz | 2022-06-23 | This week: our associate editor, Kabir Jhala, and editor-at-large, Jane Morris, have been in Kassel, Germany, to see Documenta, the quinquennial international art exhibition. They … |
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| 222 | Francis Bacon: Tate archive controversy; NY photographer Alice Austen; Michel Majerus in Basel | 2022-06-16 | This week: why is Tate rejecting an archive of material relating to Francis Bacon, 18 years after acquiring it? Our London correspondent Martin Bailey tells … |
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| 221 | Crypto crash: what now for NFTs? Plus, Norway’s mega-museum and a Spanish-American screen | 2022-06-09 | We talk to the writer and critic Amy Castor about what effect the tumbling crypto markets might have on the until-now booming world of non-fungible … |
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| 220 | Picasso and the Old Masters; the Queen by Chris Levine; political interference in museums | 2022-06-02 | This week, Picasso and the Old Masters: as shows pairing the Spaniard with Ingres and El Greco open in London and Basel respectively, Ben Luke … |
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| 219 | The hunt for looted Cambodian heritage; the dark truth of the Marcos family’s extravagance; Ruth Asawa | 2022-05-26 | This week: are stolen Cambodian statues hidden in the world’s great public collections? We discuss Cambodia’s looted heritage with Celia Hatton, Asia Pacific editor and … |
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| 218 | New York: Frieze and auction bonanza. Plus, the Albers Foundation in Senegal, and a golden Indian manuscript | 2022-05-19 | This week, as Frieze New York takes place at The Shed in Hudson Yards, and we come to the end of two weeks of huge … |
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| 217 | Saving Ukraine’s heritage; Cezanne blockbuster; Nicola L.’s Gold Femme Commode | 2022-05-12 | This week: is heritage in Ukraine being attacked and looted, and what can be done to protect it? Ben Luke talks to The Art Newspaper’s … |
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| 216 | Philip Guston Now opens, revamped. Plus, Queer Britain museum and Caterina Angela Pierozzi rediscovered | 2022-05-05 | This week, Philip Guston Now is unveiled at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston after its controversial postponement in 2020; Ben Luke talks to … |
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| 215 | French election: what now for the art scene? Plus, Walter Sickert and Gordon Parks | 2022-04-28 | This week, now that the pro-European centrist Emmanuel Macron has defeated the far-right candidate Marine Le Pen in the French presidential election, we speak to … |
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| 214 | Venice Biennale special: four artist interviews, main show review and a Bellini masterpiece | 2022-04-21 | A Venice Biennale special: we give you a flavour of the 59th edition of the Biennale which, as ever, brings a deluge of contemporary art … |
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| 213 | Photographer Edward Burtynsky on his Ukrainian heritage; Winslow Homer; China-Russia: a new cultural boycott? | 2022-04-14 | This week: Tom Seymour talks to the photographer Edward Burtynsky as he is recognised for his Outstanding Contribution to his medium in the Sony World … |
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| 212 | Whitney Biennial review, Afro-Atlantic Histories in Washington, Raphael's late self-portrait | 2022-04-07 | This week: Quiet as It’s Kept, the 80th edition of the Whitney Biennial, is now open to the public at the Whitney Museum of American … |
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| 211 | Has the art market recovered? Plus, surviving the Holocaust and Mondrian’s Victory Boogie Woogie | 2022-03-31 | This week: the Art Basel and UBS Global Art Market Report 2022 is out—is the market’s recovery as good as it sounds? We talk to … |
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| 210 | The Met: Max Hollein’s vision for the future, Beiruti art in the 1960s, Meret Oppenheim | 2022-03-25 | We talk to Max Hollein, director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, about the new plans for the museum’s wing of modern and contemporary art, … |
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| 209 | Donatello in Florence, the Biennale of Sydney and Eduardo Navarro’s seed installation | 2022-03-18 | Donatello in Florence, the Biennale of Sydney and Eduardo Navarro’s seed installationThis week, as the Palazzo Strozzi and Museo Nazionale del Bargello in Florence present … |
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| 208 | Refugees and art, NFTs and more in Dubai, Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s golden curtain | 2022-03-11 | This week: as more than two million refugees leave war-torn Ukraine, what can the arts do? Counterpoints Arts is a charity that works with refugee artists … |
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| 207 | Ukraine: the art community and photojournalism. Plus, Chris Burden and F.N. Souza | 2022-03-04 | This week: following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, we talk to Svitlana Biedarieva, a Ukrainian art historian, artist and curator, about the community of artists in … |
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| 206 | Artists’ studios: the fight for space in New York, the Whitechapel show, photographing Paula Rego at work | 2022-02-25 | As an exhibition opens at the Whitechapel Gallery in London focusing on artists’ studios over the last century, we take an in-depth look at the … | |
| 205 | Warhol and Basquiat on the stage, the Faith Ringgold retrospective and Betye Saar remakes a mural | 2022-02-18 | This week: The Collaboration, a new play dramatising the relationship between Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat has opened at the Young Vic theatre in London. … |
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| 204 | Louise Bourgeois, Saudi soft power and Gerhard Richter at 90 | 2022-02-11 | As a show looking at Louise Bourgeois’s late-career obsession with textiles opens at the Hayward Gallery in London—ahead of other exhibitions of her work in … | |
| 203 | Venice Biennale, Van Gogh’s self-portraits, Dalí and Freud | 2022-02-04 | This week, we talk to Cecilia Alemani, the artistic director of the Venice Biennale for art, which opens in April, about her show, The Milk … | |
| 202 | Bacon and beasts, Botticelli in New York, gender in Asian art in San Francisco | 2022-01-28 | This week, we visit the Royal Academy in London, where a new show looking at Francis Bacon’s use of animal imagery, Man and Beast, is … | |
| 201 | Artists’ monuments, the €471m Caravaggio villa auction flop, Michael Armitage on Sane Wadu | 2022-01-21 | This week, our contemporary art correspondent Louisa Buck visits the exhibition Testament at Goldsmiths CCA in London, where 47 artists have been invited to make … | |
| 200 | The art world in 2022: big shows and market predictions | 2022-01-14 | In this first episode of 2022, The Art Newspaper’s contemporary art correspondent Louisa Buck and the novelist and columnist at The Art Newspaper Chibundu Onuzo … |
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| 199 | 2021's biggest art world stories—and what they mean | 2021-12-17 | It’s the final episode of 2021 and so, as always, it’s our review of the year. Joining Ben Luke to look at 2021’s biggest stories … | |
| 198 | Walt Disney at The Met. Plus, Matisse in Baltimore and Josef Albers's lithographs | 2021-12-10 | This week: the French decorative art that inspired Walt Disney, Henri Matisse’s collaboration over 40 years with the Baltimore art collector Etta Cone, and Josef … |
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| 197 | Art Basel in Miami Beach and the story of art fairs. Plus, Caribbean-British art, and Marco Brambilla's VR work | 2021-12-03 | This week, as Art Basel in Miami Beach opens, we discuss a new book, The Art Fair Story: A Rollercoaster Ride, with its author Melanie … |
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| 196 | Fraud: how corrupt is the art world? Plus, Warhol’s Catholicism and Moscow’s new museums | 2021-11-26 | This week, we look at the case of the art dealer Inigo Philbrick, who pleaded guilty to fraud in a New York court last week: … |
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| 195 | New York auctions: big money, new collectors. Plus, Fabergé in London and a rediscovered Dürer | 2021-11-19 | This week, record-breaking auction sales in New York—are we in a new boom? Anna Brady discusses the big lots in New York over the last … | |
| 194 | Is M+ in Hong Kong censoring its displays? Plus, the Courtauld Gallery and Black American Portraits in LA | 2021-11-12 | In Hong Kong, the long-awaited M+ Museum opens this week, amid accusations of censorship by the Chinese artist Ai Weiwei. Ilaria Maria Sala joins us … | |
| 193 | Cop26: how can the art world respond? Plus, the Depot: storage as spectacle, and Fragonard's The Swing | 2021-11-05 | This week, as talks continue at Cop26, the UN’s climate charge conference in Glasgow, we talk to Lucia Pietroiusti of the Serpentine Galleries about climate … |
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| 192 | Art among the Egyptian pyramids. Plus, the New Museum Triennial and Édouard Manet | 2021-10-28 | This week, Aimee Dawson, deputy digital editor at The Art Newspaper, is in Giza in Egypt for Forever is Now, where works by Egyptian and … | |
| 191 | Is Paris on the rise? Plus, Marlene Dumas at the Musée d'Orsay and Christian Boltanksi remembered | 2021-10-21 | This week, Paris’s resurgence: is the French capital stealing London’s thunder? As established and up-and-coming galleries open branches in Paris and the Fiac art fair … | |
| 190 | Rothko’s late paintings, galleries respond to the climate crisis and Nicolas Poussin | 2021-10-14 | This week, as the Frieze art fairs open and the international art world descends on London, we talk about Mark Rothko’s late paintings, now on … | |
| 189 | Jasper Johns: the retrospective in depth. Plus, Venice's tourism problem and Finnish artist Outi Heiskanen | 2021-10-07 | This week: Jasper Johns. Carlos Basualdo of the Philadelphia Museum of Art and Scott Rothkopf of the Whitney Museum of American Art talk to Ben … |
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| 188 | The rise of private museums. Plus, the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures and Renaissance portraits at the Rijksmuseum | 2021-09-30 | This week: is the burgeoning phenomenon of private museums, founded by billionaires and corporations, undermining our public cultural institutions? We talk to Georgina Adam about … |
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| 187 | Art Basel: are the buyers back? Plus, Mary Beard on images of power, and Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s L’Arc de Triomphe, Wrapped | 2021-09-23 | This week: the Art Basel fair has opened in Switzerland, but are the collectors back and are they buying? We talk to Jane Morris, an … | |
| 186 | Uyghurs: human rights abuses in China; Van Gogh's final months and death; master printer Kenneth Tyler on Helen Frankenthaler | 2021-09-16 | This week: as a tribunal in London hears of human rights atrocities against the Uyghur community and other Muslim groups in China, how will museums, … |
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| 185 | Painting special: artists Doron Langberg, Mohammed Sami and Vivien Zhang, art advisor Lisa Schiff, Vermeer’s cupid | 2021-09-09 | As a huge survey of contemporary painting opens at the Hayward Gallery in London, we ask: is the time-honoured medium of painting the art form best … |
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| 184 | Afghanistan: the threat to its artists and heritage. Plus, artist Bill Fontana records Notre Dame's bells | 2021-09-03 | We're back with a new season of The Week in Art, which takes us right up to the holidays. In this episode, we reflect on … |
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| 183 | Great women in art history make a comeback: the New Woman at the Met and Aware in Paris | 2021-07-01 | It's an all-woman line-up on this week's podcast. Nancy Kenney speaks to Andrea Nelson, the curator of The New Woman Behind the Camera, an exhibition … | |
| 182 | Activists protest Shell museum sponsorship. Plus, artists Michael Landy and Shahzia Sikander | 2021-06-24 | This week: should the Science Museum in London stop taking money from the oil company Shell? We talk to a student activist, Anya Nanning Ramamurthy … | |
| 181 | Slavery at the Rijksmuseum, Leonora Carrington and a Rubens Reunion | 2021-06-18 | This week, we look at a much anticipated exhibition, Slavery at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. The Rijksmuseum is the Netherlands’ national art and history museum … | |
| 180 | Guerrilla Girls: corrupt museum boards, the female nude and NFTs | 2021-06-11 | This week: two festivals of art. Aimee Dawson talks to Frida Kahlo and Kathe Kollwitz of the Guerrilla Girls about their ongoing activism and their … | |
| 179 | Mary Beard on Roman emperor Nero | 2021-06-04 | This week: Mary Beard on Nero, one of the most infamous Roman emperors. Was he the sadistic murderer of legend, the emperor who fiddled as … |
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| 178 | Viking-age treasure: new insights into life 1,000 years ago | 2021-05-28 | This week: Viking-age treasures—what the medieval gold, silver, textiles and even dirt in a hoard found in 2014 in Scotland can tell us about the … |
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| 177 | Art is our spiritual oxygen": new shows in London and New York | 2021-05-21 | Ben Luke talks to Ralph Rugoff, artistic director of the last Venice Biennale and director of the Hayward Gallery, London, about Matthew Barney and Igshaan … | |
| 176 | New York auctions: has the art market roared back to life? | 2021-05-14 | It's a big week in the New York salerooms: Scott Reyburn, art market expert for The Art Newspaper and The New York Times, discusses the … | |
| 175 | Climate disaster: Richard Mosse on environmental crime in the Amazon | 2021-05-07 | This week: ecocide in Brazil. In a special in-depth interview marking a retrospective at Fondazione MAST in Bologna, Italy, and an exhibition at the Jack … | |
| 174 | Return to La La Land: art is back in California | 2021-04-30 | This week: Los Angeles has finally opened its museums after more than a year. When New York's galleries have been open since August, what took … | |
| 173 | Kusama-rama: Yayoi in London, New York and Berlin | 2021-04-23 | This week on the now award-winning The Week in Art: Kusamarama. We take a deep dive into Yayoi Kusama’s polka dots, pumpkins and infinity rooms … |
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| 172 | Let loose after lockdown: London’s best gallery shows | 2021-04-16 | This week: after four long months, commercial art galleries are open again in England. We discuss some of the London shows with Louisa Buck, The … | |
| 171 | Can Netflix help solve the Isabella Stewart Gardner art heist? | 2021-04-09 | On this week's podcast: the world’s greatest art heist. As a new Netflix documentary hits our screens, who stole the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum’s paintings … | |
| 170 | Has the drop in visitors changed museums forever? | 2021-04-02 | The Art Newspaper’s annual survey of museum attendance is out: just how many visitors and how much money have museums lost in the pandemic? And … |
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| 169 | Benin bronzes: looted treasures will return to Nigeria at last | 2021-03-26 | This week: Germany announces that its museums will send the Benin bronzes back to Nigeria: will other nations follow? We talk to Catherine Hickley, who … | |
| 168 | The results are in: the real impact of Covid on the art market | 2021-03-19 | On this week's podcast: the most influential annual art market report has just been published—so what does it tell us about the effects of a … |
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| 167 | UK culture war: how should museums confront colonialism? | 2021-03-12 | This week, we focus on two books: Aimee Dawson talks to Alice Procter about the debate over contested heritage in the UK and her book … | |
| 166 | Old Masters meet Brutalism: inside Frick Madison in New York | 2021-03-05 | This week: the Frick Collection in New York has moved temporarily from its Gilded Age Mansion on Central Park to Marcel Breuer’s 1960s building created … |
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| 165 | WTF are NFTs? Why crypto is dominating the art market | 2021-02-26 | This week: NFTs or Non-Fungible Tokens. What are they? Are they a fad or do they represent the future of the art market? We talk … | |
| 164 | 'Black grief and white grievance' at New York’s New Museum | 2021-02-19 | This week: the curator Naomi Beckwith and artist Okwui Okpokwasili discuss Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America, a major show at the New … | |
| 163 | Stonehenge: could a road tunnel ruin the ancient site? | 2021-02-12 | This week: excavations have revealed new archaeological finds at Stonehenge but the UK government has approved a road tunnel through this iconic World Heritage Site—will … | |
| 162 | The fight against Putin: artists on the frontline | 2021-02-05 | On this week's podcast: the artist-activists at the heart of Russia’s biggest protests in a decade and how the Indian government is using heritage and … | |
| 161 | Botticelli and Leonardo: the new normal for Old Masters | 2021-01-29 | This week, the Old Masters in the digital age. We look at the $92m live-streamed auction sale (with fees) of a major Botticelli in New … |
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| 160 | What will Biden-Harris do for the visual arts? | 2021-01-22 | This week: as Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are sworn in as the president and vice president of the United States, what might their administration … |
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| 159 | The white supremacist art in the US Capitol | 2021-01-15 | This week, we look at white supremacist art in the Capitol in Washington and discuss the legacy of Hannah Arendt. Plus, we look at a … |
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| 158 | 2020: The year in review | 2020-12-18 | It’s the final episode of 2020 and so, as we always do as the year comes to an end, we’re reviewing the last 12 months … | |
| 157 | Brexit: how will it change the art market? | 2020-12-11 | The Brexit deadline is imminent and the UK and the European Union are desperately seeking an agreement. But what are the implications either way for … |
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| 156 | Contemporary public art: who is it for? | 2020-12-04 | This week, we look at contemporary public art, as debate has raged about various works in recent weeks. Who is public art for and why … |
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| 155 | Is the future of museums in Africa? | 2020-11-27 | This week we look at museums and Africa: we explore the future of museums and African institutions’ central role in it and we look at … | |
| 154 | Rewriting the Thanksgiving myth: the Mayflower and the Wampanoag, 400 years on | 2020-11-20 | It’s Thanksgiving on 26 November, so this week, we look at the myths behind this American holiday, and particularly the story of the Mayflower, the … | |
| 153 | Where art fairs still happen: the Shanghai buzz | 2020-11-13 | This week: we speak to our China correspondent Lisa Movius in Shanghai about the fairs and other events opening in the city this week. And … | |
| 152 | US election: How Trump’s presidency has affected the arts | 2020-11-06 | As the ramifications of the US election are set to continue for weeks, where do we stand in the art world? We look at the … |
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| 151 | Has coronavirus helped unmask the real prices of art? | 2020-10-30 | This week: like the rest of the art world, the market has been upended by the pandemic. But has the turmoil forced it to be … |
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| 150 | The great museum sell-off: should public collections deaccession to survive Covid-19? | 2020-10-23 | Following a historic relaxation of deaccessioning laws in the US, we probe the moral quandaries faced by museums forced to sell-off parts of their collections … | |
| 149 | What does the Philip Guston delay tell us about museums and race? | 2020-10-16 | This week, we talk to the critics and curators Barry Schwabsky and Aindrea Emelife about the four-year delay to the show Philip Guston Now at … | |
| 148 | Frieze: the show goes on. Plus, Theaster Gates | 2020-10-09 | It’s Frieze Week in London, yet there’s no big art fair at its heart. Can galleries create the usual excitement—and is anyone still buying? There’s … |
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| 147 | Artemisia and Frida: great art, turbulent lives | 2020-10-02 | This week, we look at two great women artists: at last, we visit the postponed Artemisia exhibition at the National Gallery in London, taking a … |
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| 146 | Sell the Michelangelo or lose 150 staff? The RA’s Covid-19 conundrum | 2020-09-25 | With UK museums and galleries in crisis, might the Royal Academy of Arts be forced to sell its Michelangelo? We look at the story that has … |
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| 145 | Grayson Perry on race and class in the US; Philip Guston; Jacolby Satterwhite on Manet | 2020-09-18 | This week: the artist Grayson Perry has a new exhibition and documentary series about the United States. What can a British artist and broadcaster tell … | |
| 144 | Berlin: still a magnet for artists? | 2020-09-11 | It’s Berlin Art Week, and unusually for 2020, art fairs, a biennale, and a range of exhibitions are all opening at once in the German … | |
| 143 | Cancelled: should good artists pay for bad behaviour? | 2020-09-04 | In this first episode of the new season, we talk to Erich Hatala Matthes, associate professor of philosophy at Wellesley College, Massachusetts, US—who’s writing a book … | |
| 142 | Trailer: The Week in Art | 2020-09-02 | The Week in Art, sponsored by Christie’s, is The Art Newspaper’s topical news podcast, released every Friday.
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| 141 | New series in September. Meanwhile… | 2020-08-07 | A new series of The Week in Art podcast will begin on 4 September; expect all the latest art world news, exclusive interviews, exhibition tours … | |
| 140 | Ready to see some art? The top exhibitions of the summer | 2020-07-31 | This week, in our last episode of this series, we look at the top exhibitions you can see this summer in the UK, Europe and … |
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| 139 | What will culture be like in the next decade? | 2020-07-24 | We explore the Serpentine Galleries’ new report into Future Art Ecosystems: with existing art industry models under threat, can new ones emerge in the post-coronavirus … |
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| 138 | Staff cuts: are museums protecting their workers? | 2020-07-17 | This week, as the effects of the coronavirus pandemic and the lockdown hit museums, we’re seeing unprecedented layoffs on both sides of the Atlantic. We … |
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| 137 | Hong Kong: has the new law "destroyed" the art scene? | 2020-07-10 | What is the future of the art world in Hong Kong now that a new national security law curbs human rights and threatens freedom of … |
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| 136 | The destruction of Australia’s Aboriginal heritage | 2020-07-03 | This week, we look at the destruction on 24 May of sacred Aboriginal sites in Western Australia by a mining company. We talk to Sven … |
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| 135 | Art and social media: do museums need memes? | 2020-06-26 | Plus, artist Rita Keegan on her postponed show and Julia Peyton-Jones on Leonardo | |
| 134 | What to do about problematic statues? | 2020-06-19 | This week we address the toppling of statues around the world amid the Black Lives Matter protests: is this an airbrushing of history as some … |
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| 133 | How to visit a gallery during a pandemic | 2020-06-12 | On this week's podcast, as galleries in London re-open amid a pandemic, we ask: what does the new normal look like for the art world? Ben … |
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| 132 | Let’s talk about race: museums and the battle against white privilege | 2020-06-05 | This week, in the aftermath of the killing of George Floyd, we talk about the history of black resistance in the US and how the … |
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| 131 | Houston, do we have a problem? | 2020-05-29 | As cultural institutions across the world are faced with deciding if and when to re-open, we look at two extremes: we hear from Brandon Zech, … | |
| 130 | Raphael: as great as Leonardo and Michelangelo? | 2020-05-22 | This episode begins by celebrating good news: that the once-in-a-lifetime exhibition of works by Raphael at the Scuderie del Quirinale in Rome—which only opened for … |
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| 129 | Is the future of the art market online? | 2020-05-15 | This week would have been so-called "gigaweek", with the major auctions of Impressionist, Modern and contemporary art in New York. The events have, of course, … |
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| 128 | Exclusive: Marina Abramovic interview | 2020-05-08 | This week, we have an exclusive interview with Marina Abramovic: what's the future of performance in the post-pandemic art world? Also, as the lockdown steadily … | |
| 127 | Can tech recreate the hand of an Old Master? | 2020-05-01 | This week, we look at how technologies like digital scanning and artificial intelligence (AI) are being used to create facsimiles of historic paintings. We talk … |
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| 126 | The end of the blockbuster? Museums in a post-pandemic world | 2020-04-24 | This week, we look at museums in different parts of the globe: what’s their future in a world changed by the coronavirus? The doors of … |
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| 125 | Donald Judd 101: the great artist in depth | 2020-04-17 | A veritable Juddaganza: we focus on an artist who, before the coronavirus (Covid-19) forced museums and galleries to close, was set to be the subject … | |
| 124 | Art theft: are museums safe under lockdown? | 2020-04-10 | We explore how safe museums are from theft now that they are closed and cities are under lockdown due to the coronavirus. We talk to … | |
| 123 | Can the art market weather the coronavirus storm? | 2020-04-03 | We discuss the present and future of the art market, first with Rachel Pownall, a Professor of Finance at Maastricht University School of Business and … | |
| 122 | Saving the art world’s self-employed | 2020-03-27 | This week, we explore the devastating effects of the coronavirus (Covid-19) on art communities, and particularly the wealth of self-employed workers in the art world. … |
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| 121 | Coronavirus: dispatches from Italy and China | 2020-03-20 | We speak to our journalists in the two epicentres of the Covid-19 pandemic thus far: Anna Somers Cocks in Italy and Lisa Movius in China. … |
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| 120 | Titian’s poesie: an in-depth tour of “the most beautiful pictures in the world" | 2020-03-13 | As the National Gallery opens its show dedicated to Titian's great mythological paintings made for Philip II of Spain, we talk to the gallery's director, … | |
| 119 | Remembering Ulay | 2020-03-06 | We pay tribute to the performance art trailblazer Ulay, who died on 2 March—and discuss his years of collaboration with Marina Abramović— with Catherine Wood, … | |
| 118 | Surrealism: what was Britain's role? | 2020-02-28 | Plus, Independent Art Fair's director on the New York's changing gallery landscape | |
| 117 | Who owns the Parthenon Marbles? | 2020-02-21 | Is the dispute between Greece and the British Museum about the Parthenon Marbles about to escalate? A leaked draft of the EU mandate for talks … | |
| 116 | Does Los Angeles want a big art fair? | 2020-02-14 | As Frieze Los Angeles opens, we look at the LA art scene, its artist-run galleries and grassroots spaces and ask: does the city need the … | |
| 115 | Tschabalala Self and radical figurative painting | 2020-02-07 | We visit the Whitechapel Gallery in London to explore their show Radical Figures: Painting in the New Millennium, with the curator Lydia Yee, and talk … | |
| 114 | A fake Gauguin at the Getty | 2020-01-31 | We look at the story behind the front-page article in our February issue: the discovery that a multi-million dollar Gauguin sculpture purchased by the Getty … | |
| 113 | 2020: art market issues and big shows | 2020-01-24 | We look at the year ahead for galleries, art fairs and auctions, and seek out the big shows in the UK, Europe and the US. | |
| 112 | 2019: the Year in Review | 2019-12-20 | 2019: the Year in Review by The Art Newspaper Podcasts | |
| 111 | Bananaman: who is Maurizio Cattelan? Plus, art and comedy | 2019-12-13 | We take an in-depth look at Maurizio Cattelan, the creator of the banana-and-duct-tape work which caused a sensation at Art Basel in Miami Beach last … | |
| 110 | Turner Prize shocker: what next? Plus, Teresita Fernández in Miami | 2019-12-06 | The art world has been up in arms this week as Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Helen Cammock, Oscar Murillo and Tai Shani were all announced as … | |
| 109 | Troy: the show and the problem with BP sponsorship | 2019-11-29 | We talk to Lesley Fitton, the co-curator of the British Museum's blockbuster show on the myth and reality of Troy. And we talk to Jess … | |
| 108 | Dora Maar and Jann Haworth: acclaim at last | 2019-11-22 | As a huge exhibition of Dora Maar's work opens at Tate Modern, we take a tour of the show with the curator, Emma Lewis. Finally, … | |
| 107 | Anselm Kiefer interview. Plus, New York auction "gigaweek" | 2019-11-15 | As he opens a new show at London's White Cube gallery, we talk to the German artist about the themes of the exhibition in the … | |
| 106 | Tutankhamun in London: Tutmania returns. Plus, Duchamp in the US | 2019-11-08 | This week, we review Tutankhamun: Treasures of the Golden Pharaoh, which has just opened at the Saatchi Gallery in London. The show includes 150 objects … | |
| 105 | Fireworks! Picturing pyrotechnics with professor Simon Werrett | 2019-11-05 | To mark Bonfire Night in the UK, this bonus episode of The Art Newspaper takes a look at the history of pyrotechnics in art and … | |
| 104 | Dread Scott’s slave revolt reenactment. Plus, Pre-Raphaelite Sisters | 2019-11-01 | We talk to the artist Dread Scott about his extraordinarily ambitious two-day performance in Louisiana where he and 500 Louisianans in 19th-century dress will reenact … | |
| 103 | Leonardo at the Louvre: the spectacular show and the Salvator Mundi no-show | 2019-10-25 | As the exhibition of the year opens at the Louvre, we talk to Ben Lewis about the latest developments in the Salvator Mundi saga. Vincent … | |
| 102 | MoMA special: the verdict on the museum opening of the year | 2019-10-18 | After a $450m expansion overseen by the architects Diller, Scofidio and Renfro, the Museum of Modern Art in New York reopens its doors on 21 … | |
| 101 | Agnes Denes: environmental art pioneer. Plus, Rembrandt-Velázquez and De Hooch | 2019-10-11 | We talk to Agnes Denes, best known for her extraordinary Wheatfield, a two-acre field of wheat that she planted, tended and harvested in 1982 on … | |
| 100 | Frieze week: Ai Weiwei, Mark Bradford, Peter Doig, Melanie Gerlis, Hettie Judah | 2019-10-04 | In this bumper edition of the podcast we interview three of the world's leading artists, all of whom have shows timed to coincide with the … | |
| 99 | Special: is art education in crisis? Featuring Bob and Roberta Smith | 2019-09-27 | As art schools start their new term in the UK, this week’s episode is an education special. We talk to the artist Patrick Brill, or … | |
| 98 | Museum ethics. Plus, the Chicago Architecture Biennial | 2019-09-20 | We discuss the dilemmas facing museums as the focus intensifies on ethical sponsorship and governance in the UK and US. And we hear about the … | |
| 97 | Tate's William Blake blockbuster. Plus, Pace and the New York gallery boom | 2019-09-13 | We take an in-depth tour of the huge new William Blake exhibition at Tate Britain and explore the life and art of this brilliant yet … | |
| 96 | Tim Spall plays Lowry, artists in movies, Chris Ofili and Jasmine Thomas-Girvan | 2019-09-06 | New season! In this first episode, we talk to Timothy Spall about the new film Mrs Lowry and Son and to Jacqueline Riding who worked … | |
| 95 | Top of the Pods: David Hockney and other modern British mavericks | 2019-08-30 | In the last of our summer series of podcasts looking back over 200 interviews, we talk to David Hockney about a record-breaking auction sale, printmaking … | |
| 94 | Top of the Pods: The best of the Venice Biennale | 2019-08-23 | In the latest podcast featuring highlights from our first 200 interviews on The Art Newspaper podcast, we feature three conversations about May You Live in … | |
| 93 | Top of the Pods: Leonardo—the Salvator Mundi saga | 2019-08-16 | We look back at three interviews about the most expensive painting ever sold at auction. In a short clip from a November 2017 chat, Judd … | |
| 92 | Top of the Pods: video art in the spotlight | 2019-08-09 | In this latest episode looking back at the 200 interviews we've done over the past two years, we bring together discussions with three masters of … | |
| 91 | Top of the Pods: Artemisia Gentileschi and the forgotten female Old Masters | 2019-08-02 | In our latest look back at the 200 interviews we've done over the past two years, we focus on Artemisia Gentileschi with Letizia Treves from … | |
| 90 | In Memoriam: Karsten Schubert in conversation with Michael Landy | 2019-08-01 | In this special podcast, we publish an archive interview with the London-based dealer and publisher Karsten Schubert, who died this week after a long illness. … | |
| 89 | Top of the Pods: climate crisis with Olafur Eliasson, Justin Brice Guariglia and Anna Somers Cocks | 2019-07-26 | As many parts of the world record their highest ever temperatures, and the art world begins to take more urgent action on the climate emergency, … | |
| 88 | Top of the Pods: the world of Warhol as told by Jeremy Deller and Donna De Salvo | 2019-07-19 | In the second episode of our summer season of curated podcasts, it's all about Andy. With the major retrospective of the Pop artist on at … | |
| 87 | Top of the Pods: experts on Van Gogh in the asylum and his early life | 2019-07-12 | While we're on our summer break, we're looking back over the 200 interviews we've done for the podcast and putting together highlights in a weekly … | |
| 86 | Ibrahim Mahama's ghosts of Ghana. Plus, China's epic Picasso show | 2019-07-05 | We speak to the leading Ghanaian artist as he unveils a major new commission about the forgotten history of his homeland, on show at the … | |
| 85 | Vermeer's hidden cupid, the Prado's Dutch-Spanish show, plus Helen Cammock | 2019-06-28 | We hear about how a painting of Cupid in one of Vermeer's greatest masterpieces, in Dresden, was long thought to have overpainted by the master … | |
| 84 | David Smith in Yorkshire. Plus, the works that inspired leading artists | 2019-06-21 | The great American sculptor's work comes to Yorkshire Sculpture Park as part of the Yorkshire Sculpture International festival, and we talk to Clare Lilley, the … | |
| 83 | Art Basel and William Kentridge | 2019-06-13 | As his show opens at the Kunstmuseum Basel to coincide with the Art Basel fair, we talk to the South African artist about his latest … | |
| 82 | Painting, identity and injustice: Howardena Pindell and Oscar Murillo | 2019-06-07 | We talk to two artists of different generations as they open new London shows. Howardena Pindell discusses the use of the circle in her abstract … | |
| 81 | The rise of the mega-dealers, plus artists take over the Guggenheim | 2019-05-31 | We talk to Michael Shnayerson about his book Boom, following the big art dealers from the 1940s to now. Plus, we speak to Nancy Spector, … | |
| 80 | Manga and Camp: the art of going over the top | 2019-05-24 | We talk to Nicole Coolidge Rousmaniere of the British Museum about Manga, the museum's huge new show exploring the Japanese cultural phenomenon. And we explore … | |
| 79 | Should museums sell works of art? Plus, activism at the Whitney Biennial | 2019-05-17 | As a Mark Rothko painting is sold by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, we talk to Christopher Bedford from the Baltimore Museum of … | |
| 78 | Venice Biennale special: our review plus, how much longer will the city survive? | 2019-05-10 | Ben Luke and Jane Morris review the main exhibition and we speak to the artists Laure Prouvost and Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster about their works in the … | |
| 77 | Ralph Rugoff on his Venice Biennale concept. Plus, Bernar Venet and Berlin Gallery Weekend | 2019-05-03 | The artistic director of this year's main show at the Biennale tells us how he is creating two playful but serious shows in one, each … | |
| 76 | How did Salvator Mundi go from $1000 to $450m? Plus, the tragic story of Van Gogh’s only love | 2019-04-26 | We talk to Ben Lewis about his book The Last Leonardo, the story of the world’s most expensive painting. And Martin Bailey tells us about … | |
| 75 | The Notre Dame fire and Cold War Steve | 2019-04-18 | We talk to Jonathan Foyle about the effects of the fire at Notre Dame, the building’s history, including moments of neglect, and what happens next. … | |
| 74 | Edvard Munch and The Shed | 2019-04-12 | We talk to Giulia Bartram at the British Museum about her exhibition of Munch’s prints, Love and Angst. And we look at the new shapeshifting … | |
| 73 | Sackler sponsorship: take it or leave it? Plus, museum attendance | 2019-04-05 | We examine the growing unease amongst British museums to accept money from Sackler family members involved in the sale of the opioid painkiller OxyContin, and … | |
| 72 | Art Basel Hong Kong, Richard Lin and the Met’s World Between Empires | 2019-03-29 | We talk to Marc Spiegler, global director of Art Basel, about the latest fair in Hong Kong, the Asian market and supporting smaller galleries. We … | |
| 71 | David Bailey in focus, plus John Richardson remembered | 2019-03-22 | We meet David Bailey at his London studio to discuss his new book: the latest SUMO from Taschen. And we remember the Picasso biographer John … | |
| 70 | Wham! The George Michael auction and the YBA market. Plus, Shezad Dawood | 2019-03-15 | As George Michael's collection of contemporary art, dominated by Young British Artists, goes under the hammer in London, we speak to Paola Saracino Fendi from … | |
| 69 | Carolee Schneemann, the Armory Show and Venice Biennale curators | 2019-03-08 | We pay tribute to the pioneering painter, performance artist and film-maker, ask what on earth is going on with the New York fairs this week, … | |
| 68 | Ruskin and Gombrich: revisiting two art historical heavyweights | 2019-03-01 | Amid a wealth of events celebrating the bicentenary of John Ruskin’s birth we reconsider the breadth of this Victorian polymath’s achievements, and we talk to … | |
| 67 | Rembrandt special: the complete artist | 2019-03-01 | As numerous exhibitions open marking the 350th anniversary of the Old Master's death, we speak to Taco Dibbits, the director of the Rijksmuseum about the … | |
| 66 | Bonus podcast: Dorothea Tanning at Tate Modern | 2019-02-26 | As the female Surrealist’s exhibition arrives in London following its stint in Madrid, this is the full, unedited discussion from last year with Alyce Mahon, … | |
| 65 | Antony Gormley at the Uffizi, plus portrait miniatures | 2019-02-22 | We talk to the British artist as he shows his sculptures with ancient works in the Florentine museum, and we zoom in on the tiny … | |
| 64 | Can artists live off art alone? Plus, Los Angeles | 2019-02-15 | Two-thirds of artists in the UK earn less than £5,000 per year from their art, according to a new survey. We speak to the art … | |
| 63 | Tracey Emin on mourning and #MeToo; George Shaw on realism and Rembrandt | 2019-02-08 | We talk to Tracey Emin as A Fortnight of Tears, her exhibition at White Cube, opens. And we visit Bath to talk to George Shaw, … | |
| 62 | Mapplethorpe at the Guggenheim, Bill Viola at the Royal Academy | 2019-01-25 | We talk to the people behind major exhibitions on both sides of the Atlantic: Ben Luke meets Kira Perov, Bill Viola's wife and collaborator, at … | |
| 61 | Female old masters — prominence at last. Plus, Condo | 2019-01-18 | We speak to curators Letizia Treves and Jordana Pomeroy about the growing trend to bring historical female artists to the fore. Plus, Kate MacGarry tells … | |
| 60 | 2019: Market predictions and the best events | 2019-01-11 | A bumper podcast featuring two roundtable discussions. First, art market specialist Georgina Adam ponders the current situation in the market and considers its future with … | |
| 59 | The Year in Review | 2018-12-21 | Our London and New York teams ponder 2018's biggest art stories | |
| 58 | Should looted African art be returned? | 2018-12-14 | In the wake of the Savoy-Sarr report commissioned by French President Emmanuel Macron, we discuss the pros and cons of returning colonial artefacts to Africa … | |
| 57 | Olafur Eliasson on climate change and the threat to heritage. Plus, Art Basel in Miami Beach | 2018-12-07 | We talk to the Danish-Icelandic artist about the urgent threat to the environment as his work Ice Watch, featuring chunks of glacier, go on show … | |
| 56 | Edmund de Waal exclusive interview, plus Roma persecution | 2018-11-30 | We speak to Edmund de Waal, the ceramic artist and author of the Hare with Amber Eyes, about the incredible journey of his netsuke collection … | |
| 55 | The Beatles' White Album: the band, the artist, the dealer. Plus, art in Dubai | 2018-11-23 | We talk to Andrew Wilson at the Tate and Harriet Vyner, Robert Fraser's biographer about one of the greatest albums, and album covers, of all … | |
| 54 | David Hockney: exclusive interview with the world's most expensive living artist | 2018-11-16 | We talk to Hockney about Van Gogh, printmaking and the Bayeaux Tapestry but also about Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures), which broke … | |
| 53 | Warhol (part two): Jeremy Deller and Shadows | 2018-11-13 | In the second part of our Andy Warhol special, we talk to the British artist about meeting Warhol, his life-changing trip to the Factory and … | |
| 52 | Warhol (part one): the Whitney retrospective, in depth | 2018-11-09 | An in-depth interview with Donna De Salvo, organiser of the vast Andy Warhol show at the Whitney Museum of American Art. De Salvo takes us … | |
| 51 | Don’t call me a woman artist: overlooked Surrealists. Plus, Klimt/Schiele | 2018-11-02 | We talk to Alyce Mahon, the curator of the Dorothea Tanning exhibition now in Madrid, and curatorial adviser for the Leonor Fini show in New … | |
| 50 | Bruce Nauman’s New York takeover. Plus, the British Museum’s new Islamic art galleries | 2018-10-26 | We discuss the vast Bruce Nauman retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art and MoMA PS1 New York and chart the British Museum's Islamic collection's … | |
| 49 | The Gainsborough murders. Plus, RoseLee Goldberg on performance | 2018-10-19 | We talk to the researchers who uncovered the grisly murders in the family of the young Thomas Gainsborough. Plus, RoseLee Goldberg tells us all about … | |
| 48 | Banksy self destructs at Sotheby’s, plus Bauhaus pioneer Anni Albers | 2018-10-12 | We go behind the scenes of one of the most publicised stunts in auction history with our correspondent Anny Shaw, who was there that evening. … | |
| 47 | Frieze special: the fair and the top shows, with Doris Salcedo and Ragnar Kjartansson | 2018-10-05 | We talk to the art market specialist Melanie Gerlis about Frieze London and Frieze Masters, to Doris Salcedo about her White Cube show, to the … | |
| 46 | Special: the rise and rise of contemporary African art | 2018-09-28 | On the eve of the 1-54 fair for contemporary African art, we talk to an artist, a curator, an art fair founder, a gallerist and … | |
| 45 | Courtauld’s Impressionists. Plus, Armenian treasures at the Met | 2018-09-21 | How Samuel Courtauld’s collection ignited Britain’s passion for Impressionists. Plus, New York’s Metropolitan Museum looks at Armenia, the first country to convert to Christianity. Produced … | |
| 44 | Van Gogh in the asylum. Plus, Christian Marclay on The Clock | 2018-09-14 | We speak to our long-standing correspondent and expert on Van Gogh Martin Bailey on his new book, which tells the story of the artist’s life … | |
| 43 | Episode 39: All about biennials | 2018-07-06 | We talk to Sally Tallant, the artistic director of the Liverpool Biennial, about the 10th edition, which opens next week. And Jane Morris, an editor-at-large … | |
| 42 | Episode 38: Marina Abramovic and Michael Jackson | 2018-06-29 | We speak to the queen of performance art about casting herself in stone and to the National Portrait Gallery’s director Nicholas Cullinan about the king … | |
| 41 | Episode 37: Art and football plus John Akomfrah interview | 2018-06-22 | With the World Cup in full swing, we look at a London show exploring football as a cultural phenomenon with its co-curator Eddy Frankel, and … | |
| 40 | Episode 36: Berlin Biennale and Art Basel | 2018-06-15 | We explore the two big European art world events of the past week: Arsalan Mohammad is in Berlin with the curator Serubiri Moses and the … | |
| 39 | Episode 35: Freud, Bacon, Hockney and the post-war London scene; and Signals gallery | 2018-06-08 | We talk to Martin Gayford about his book Modernists and Mavericks and sitting for portraits by Freud and Hockney. And we explore Kurimanzutto and Thomas … | |
| 38 | Episode 34: Venice Biennale for architecture, and the Brutalist social housing debate | 2018-06-01 | Edwin Heathcote of the Financial Times reviews the Biennale, and Christopher Turner on his controversial exhibition focusing on Alison and Peter Smithson’s Robin Hood Gardens … | |
| 37 | Episode 33: Absent friends: Howard Hodgkin's final paintings; Robert Indiana remembered | 2018-05-25 | We talk to Antony Peattie, the music writer and partner of the late Howard Hodgkin and to Barbara Haskell, curator of Robert Indiana's 2013 retrospective … | |
| 36 | Episode 32: The Royal Academy’s new project unveiled: David Chipperfield interview | 2018-05-18 | The Academy’s £56m project opens, with subtle additions and revamps by the British architect. Chipperfield talks about the subtleties of architecture, the RA’s chief executive … | |
| 35 | Episode 31: The $646m Rockefeller sale. Plus: should big galleries subsidise smaller ones? | 2018-05-11 | We drill down into the big numbers from the Post-Impressionist and Modern sale in New York, talk to Professor Rachel Pownall about the wider market … | |
| 34 | Episode 30: All about Berlin | 2018-05-04 | Our guest host Arsalan Mohammad takes us behind the scenes of Gallery Weekend Berlin and beyond, speaking to dealers and artists about the changing face … | |
| 33 | Episode 29: Taryn Simon interview, and restoring a Renaissance masterpiece at the Met | 2018-04-27 | We talk to the American artist about her acclaimed work staged in New York and now London, An Occupation of Loss. We hear from a … | |
| 32 | Episode 28: The battle over Ethiopia’s treasures | 2018-04-20 | We speak to Hailemichael Aberra Afework, Ethiopia’s ambassador to the UK, about the treasures looted by the British army at Maqdala, go behind the scenes … | |
| 31 | Episode 27: The enduring appeal of enigmatic Beuys. Plus, lost masterpieces reborn | 2018-04-13 | We hear from Adam Lowe of Factum Arte about a new TV series in which seven lost paintings are recreated using digital means, and speak … | |
| 30 | Episode 26: Christo interview, plus museum visitor figures | 2018-04-06 | We speak to the Bulgarian-born artist about his grand project for the Serpentine, and look at our annual survey of visitor figures … | |
| 29 | Episode 25: Living with Leonardo da Vinci | 2018-03-28 | Leonardo specialist Martin Kemp on decades spent in the company of the Renaissance master, plus the 300th edition of The Art Newspaper … | |
| 28 | Episode 24: Mural-gazing with the Dalai Lama, plus Michael Rakowitz | 2018-03-23 | We speak to Thomas Laird about his new sumo-sized book on Tibetan murals, and to the artist creating the new work for the Fourth Plinth … | |
| 27 | Episode 23: The death of Venice? | 2018-03-16 | Salvatore Settis talks about his new book, plus Tacita Dean on her three London shows … | |
| 26 | Episode 22: The genius of Picasso | 2018-03-09 | We take a tour of Tate Modern's blockbuster and explore the strength of Picasso's market … | |
| 25 | Episode 21: Photography special: from Victorian pioneers to 2018 prize contenders | 2018-03-02 | We meet the men and women behind three fascinating but very different exhibitions of lens-based art … | |
| 24 | Episode 20: Yes to Picasso, no to Van Gogh: the Rockefellers’ collection | 2018-02-23 | We talk to the American dynasty’s historian about David and Peggy Rockefeller’s tastes, and explore the funding crisis at Glasgow’s Transmission Gallery … | |
| 23 | Episode 19: Klimt and Schiele plus Songs for Sabotage | 2018-02-16 | A look at the life and art of the two Austrian greats as shows open marking the 100th anniversary of their deaths. And the New … | |
| 22 | Episode 18: Talking politics with Cornelia Parker and the future of ivory | 2018-02-09 | We meet the 2017 Election Artist. Plus, what do new ivory regulations mean for the art world? … | |
| 21 | Episode 17: Real or fake? The suspicious Russian avant-garde show in Ghent | 2018-02-02 | Expert on Russian art Simon Hewitt discusses developments in The Art Newspaper's current cover story, plus we explore an unusual collaboration at Hauser & Wirth … | |
| 20 | Episode 16: Charles I at the Royal Academy—an exhibition fit for a king | 2018-01-26 | We pick apart the latest smash hit show to open in London with art historian Bendor Grosvenor, then complete our 2018 preview with a look … | |
| 19 | Episode 15: What will 2018 hold for the art world? | 2018-01-19 | We are at the London Art Fair speaking to Georgina Adam about her art market predictions and to Louisa Buck about the top shows and … | |
| 18 | Episode 14: The top stories of 2017 | 2017-12-22 | From Louvre Abu Dhabi to Leonardo, Documenta to Trump, we look back at the year in art with our journalists Louisa Buck, Gareth Harris and … | |
| 17 | Episode 13: The dark side of the art market | 2017-12-15 | Former editor of the The Art Newspaper Jane Morris speaks to Georgina Adam about her new book Dark Side of the Boom and the art … | |
| 16 | Episode 12: Old Masters after the Leonardo and Art Basel Miami Beach | 2017-12-08 | We talk Titian, Constable, Veneziano, Wright of Derby, Van Dyck and, yes, Leonardo, with art historian Bendor Grosvenor. And our deputy art market editor Anna … | |
| 15 | Episode 11: Antiquities now and Rose Wylie | 2017-12-01 | How is the antiquities trade coping with increased focus on Middle East looting and new approaches to collecting? And Rose Wylie on the pleasures and … | |
| 14 | Episode 10: Restoring Iraq’s heritage, plus the complex politics of First Nations art | 2017-11-24 | John Darlington of the World Monuments Fund discusses projects to train local people in craft traditions and the curator Victor Wang on the work of … | |
| 13 | Episode 9: $450m! The Leonardo breaks all records | 2017-11-17 | How the art sale of the century happened, with Judd Tully, our man in the salesroom. Plus, a new museum in Indonesia. … | |
| 12 | Abu Dhabi Focus episode two: How Saudi artists are driving political change | 2017-11-10 | As Abu Dhabi Art fair opens, we speak to the Saudi artists Manal Al Dowayan and Ahmed Mater about their role in recent changes to … | |
| 11 | Abu Dhabi Focus episode three: How the UAE art scene became a force to be reckoned with | 2017-11-10 | Art dealer Thaddaeus Ropac and curator Maya Allison tell us how the nation’s creative ambitions have blossomed. Plus: Silver Lion-winning musician and artist Hassan Khan … | |
| 10 | Abu Dhabi Focus episode one: Louvre Abu Dhabi and Abu Dhabi Art | 2017-11-08 | With all eyes on Abu Dhabi this week, we speak to the architect Jean Nouvel on designing the Arab world's first universal museum. Plus: a … | |
| 9 | Episode 8: How hackers are attacking the art world | 2017-11-03 | Galleries are losing huge sums to cybercrime, what makes them vulnerable? Plus: the dubious restoration along the Camino di Santiago. … | |
| 8 | Episode 7: The Tale of an Old Master forgery scandal | 2017-10-27 | The 'masterpieces' that fooled the art world. Plus: a review of London's latest shows, from Cezanne to Soutine. … | |
| 7 | Episode 6: Trouble at Unesco, plus Art and Terror | 2017-10-20 | Why did the US and Israel pull out of the organisation and what will happen next? Plus: 9/11 and its impact on art is explored … | |
| 6 | Episode 5: What’s the story behind the $100m Leonardo? | 2017-10-13 | As the only painting in private hands by the Renaissance master heads to auction, The Art Newspaper's founder wonders what might happen to it. Plus, … | |
| 5 | Episode 4: Frieze special with Peter Blake | 2017-10-06 | As the art world descends on London, we take the pulse of the city's art scene with an art market specialist, a collector and two … | |
| 4 | Episode 3: How the Getty is shaping southern California’s art scene | 2017-09-29 | The story behind Pacific Standard Time in Los Angeles; Ming Wong on the historic queer art show in Taipei. Plus: an exclusive audio work by … | |
| 3 | Episode 2: Zeitz Mocaa and London autumn preview | 2017-09-22 | The lowdown on the new Thomas Heatherwick-designed museum in Cape Town, plus a look at some of the most enticing shows opening in London around … | |
| 2 | Episode 1: Nazi Loot and Rachel Whiteread | 2017-09-15 | Nazi-loot conference at London’s National Gallery and how The Art Newspaper’s journalist returned a stolen treasure to its cathedral. Plus: Rachel Whiteread on “mummifying the … | |
| 1 | The Art Newspaper Weekly – coming soon! | 2017-09-07 | Introducing The Art Newspaper Weekly – a new podcast in which the team at The Art Newspaper pick apart the art world's big stories, with … |