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The Week in Art

From breaking news and insider insights to exhibitions and events around the world, the team at The Art Newspaper picks apart the art world's big stories with the help of special guests. An award-winning podcast hosted by Ben Luke, The Week in Art is sponsored by Christie's.


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Art Basel in Miami Beach, the all-women museum in Athens, Pesellino’s David panels from 2023-12-08T00:01:37

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 to our acting art market editor, Tim Schn...

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Gaza: damage to historic sites, Emily Kam Kngwarray in Canberra, a Gauguin manuscript from 2023-12-01T00:01:06

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 many historic buildings and sites have also been destroye...

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US museums’ financial woes, Documenta’s new crisis, Kim Lim from 2023-11-24T00:01:13

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 about the economic climate for Am...

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New York auctions, radical Central Eastern European art, Terry Adkins x Grace Wales Bonner from 2023-11-17T00:01:02

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 New York and whether they have calmed a jittery art...

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Protest and performance in New York, UK National Trust row, Hans Holbein from 2023-11-10T00:01:36

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 edition, the Performa Biennial in New York has a new pr...

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Can AI reveal the Herculaneum scrolls? Plus, Venice Biennale political row, Dorothea Lange from 2023-11-03T00:01:59

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 intelligence— discussing in particular the risks o...

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Kyiv Biennial, sound art and migration, Jem Perucchini’s London Tube mural from 2023-10-26T23:01:21

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 as a host of neighbouring European states....

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Paris +, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Marie Laurencin from 2023-10-19T23:01:38

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 Art Basel’s French flagship faring amid geopolitical turmoil and econom...

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Frieze is 20, Hildigunnur Birgisdóttir, Matisse in New York from 2023-10-12T23:01:58

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 and Expo Chicago. So what should we make of Frieze’s continuin...

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The looted Ethiopian icon, AI copyright debate in US, the end of China’s museum boom from 2023-10-05T23:01:38

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 about the Kwer’ata Re’esu, a European ...

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Marina Abramović, Frans Hals, Peter Paul Rubens from 2023-09-28T23:01:21

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 about the exhibition—the first ever dedicated to a wom...

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Unesco controversies; Fernando Botero; Barkley Hendricks in New York from 2023-09-21T23:01:31

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 place in the Saudi Arabian capital, Ri...

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Saudi Arabia’s soft power grab; Julianknxx in London; Michelangelo’s Libyan Sibyl from 2023-09-14T23:01:05


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 so-called Vision 2030 programme. We lo...

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Special 250th episode: what’s next for the visual arts? from 2023-09-07T23:01:08

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 about their hopes and concerns for the visual arts. Among them are...

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British Museum in crisis, Sāo Paulo biennial, Soutine in Düsseldorf from 2023-08-31T23:01:29

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 thefts scandal at the British Museum and its implication...

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Art market and stagflation; Spain’s historical memory; Dürer plate remade by Goldin + Senneby from 2023-06-29T23:01:41

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 inflation and interest rates mean for the art market and w...

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New National Portrait Gallery, William Edmondson, Zinzi Minott’s Windrush film from 2023-06-22T23:01:24

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 revamp. We talk to Nancy Ireson at...

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Afua Hirsch on Africa Rising, Liverpool Biennial, Basquiat in Basel with Jeffrey Deitch from 2023-06-16T07:05:40

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 and art scenes she encountered and what she took away from ...

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Thom Yorke and Stanley Donwood; Wayne McGregor on Carmen Herrera; Whistler’s Mother from 2023-06-08T23:01:04

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 Mother returns to P...

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Hannah Gadsby’s Picasso show; Italy floods; Ellsworth Kelly’s centenary from 2023-06-01T23:01:59

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 curated the show with the Australian comedian...

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Keith Haring in LA; Tate Britain’s rehang; Joan Brown in Pittsburgh from 2023-05-25T23:01:36

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 Is for Everybody at the Broad in Los Angeles. Alex Farquhars...

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New York: Frieze and auctions; Richard Prince copyright case (and Warhol ruling); Sarah Sze in London from 2023-05-18T23:01:31

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 the season’s big auctions, The Art Newspaper’s live edito...

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Artists in Sudan; the Marquis de Sade in Barcelona; Gwen John from 2023-05-11T23:01:54

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 to tell us about the conflict in Sudan and h...

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Charles III’s coronation; Karl Lagerfeld in New York; Marlene Smith’s Good Housekeeping III from 2023-05-04T23:01:27

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 and a former assistant keeper of metalwork at th...

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Artificial Intelligence: the museum perspective, the artist’s view, the photography controversy from 2023-04-27T23:01:46

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 being made using AI technologies and exploring their impact;...

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Hilma af Klint and Piet Mondrian at Tate Modern; Jaune Quick-to-See Smith at the Whitney; the Roman gateway to Britain, reconstructed from 2023-04-20T23:01:43

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. We hear about the two artists’ distinctive contr...

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Expo and the Chicago scene; Northern Ireland’s museums; Sarah Bernhardt in Paris from 2023-04-13T23:01:22

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 market, Americas, discuss the fair, a...

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Art and the banks; hip hop in Baltimore; Juan de Pareja, the artist enslaved by Velázquez from 2023-04-06T23:01:03

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 is acquired by UBS and Deutsche Bank shares fall at o...

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Are visitors returning to museums? Plus, Manet/Degas and Berthe Morisot from 2023-03-30T23:01:34

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 to Charles Saumarez Smith, a former direct...

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Art Basel Hong Kong bounces back; art censorship online; Brenda L. Croft’s images of First Nations Australian women from 2023-03-24T00:01:19

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 normality. So, as other Asian art ce...

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“Biggest art fraud in history” in Canada; artists’ pay; the Ugly Duchess by Massys (and Leonardo) from 2023-03-17T00:01:39

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 by the First Nations artist Norval Morr...

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Old Masters at Tefaf; Paris’s Institut du Monde Arabe; Rosalba Carriera in Berlin from 2023-03-10T00:01:02

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 it tells us about the strength or otherwise of the marke...

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Art Dubai; MoMA’s political video art show; Lucie Rie from 2023-03-03T00:01:53

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 to displaying the art of the global sout...

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Nigeria’s pivotal election, The Met: a guard’s memoir, Hubert Robert in Stockholm from 2023-02-24T00:01:26

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 Africa gallery in Abuja, reflects on the ca...

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Turkey-Syria: the earthquake and heritage; Alice Neel in London; a Navajo “eye-dazzler” blanket from 2023-02-17T00:01:49

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? We talk to Aparna Tandon from Icc...

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Vermeer special: the man, the show and an attribution debate from 2023-02-10T00:01

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 the 37 surviving Vermeer paintings are gathered in the Dutch ...

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Ukraine museum collections: kept safe or looted? Plus, Okwui Enwezor’s Sharjah Biennial and Ming Smith at MoMA from 2023-02-03T00:01:55

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 of art taken by Russian troops f...

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Kusama x Louis Vuitton: art and luxury. Plus, Michael Rakowitz’s Tate/Iraq gift and photographer Rosy Martin from 2023-01-27T00:01:52

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 Luke talks to Federica Carlotto, a specialist in ar...

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Van Gogh’s Sunflowers legal dispute. Plus, Singapore’s art scene and photographer Grace Lau from 2023-01-20T00:01:09

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 and resident Van Gogh expert Martin Bailey tells...

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The art world in 2023: market predictions, big shows, museum openings from 2023-01-13T00:01:12

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 Newspaper, peers into her crystal ball and tries to predict the fortunes...

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2022’s biggest art stories—and what they mean from 2022-12-16T00:01:09

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. Ben Luke is joined by three members of The Art Newspaper team: Louisa B...

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Parthenon Marbles: breakthrough in sight? Plus, Afghan culture in crisis and Kiki Smith’s New York murals from 2022-12-09T00:01:04

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, has been holding talks with the Greek government ...

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Feast and famine: Miami millions and UK arts cuts. Plus, Ukrainian Modernism in Madrid from 2022-12-02T00:01:58

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 Newspaper, talks to Anny Shaw, the acting art market edit...

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Pussy Riot and Ragnar Kjartansson; Shirin Neshat on Iran; Puerto Rican art after Hurricane Maria from 2022-11-25T00:01:45

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, one of the founding members of Pussy Riot...

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Art at Qatar’s World Cup; New York auctions; Mozambican artist Luis Meque from 2022-11-18T00:01:51

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 projects that will accompany the FIFA Men’s World Cup tha...

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Artists and climate action; US National Gallery of Art’s women artists fund; Paula Modersohn-Becker from 2022-11-11T00:01:02

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 author of our online column ...

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National Gallery building row; contemporary art in Lagos; Chagall’s Falling Angel from 2022-11-04T00:01:23

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 of the National Gallery, Gabriele Finaldi, ...

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Edward Hopper controversy; The Horror Show in London; a masterpiece in Bruges from 2022-10-27T23:01:49

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 works. We talk to the leading Hopper scholar Gail L...

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Art attack: Just Stop Oil and iconoclasm; Art Basel’s Paris+ fair; Frank Bowling from 2022-10-20T23:01:01

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, for its climate emergency protest. Stacy Boldrick, a...

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Art boom as the UK busts; Cecilia Vicuña; C20th women at Frieze; Modigliani in Philadelphia from 2022-10-13T23:01:04

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 fairs amid the UK’s economic struggles and the st...

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Multimillion Old Master upgrades; Monet and Joan Mitchell; Tudors in New York from 2022-10-06T23:01:56

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 of Old Master paintings given new attributio...

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Lucian Freud special: new perspectives, the artist’s letters and a horse painting from 2022-09-29T23:01:22

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 leading figure in post-war British painting. Ben Luke takes a t...

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Italy’s far right weaponises culture; Carnegie International; Maria Bartuszová from 2022-09-22T23:01:04

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 Italy, whose leader Georgia...

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Art and the British Royal Family; museums’ energy crisis; Fuseli’s The Nightmare from 2022-09-15T23:01:57

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, Desmond Shawe-Taylor. They discuss the Royal C...

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Art and censorship; Diane Arbus; Guggenheim Bilbao at 25 from 2022-09-08T23:01:36

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 Art Today. We look at the different ways ...

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Brazil turns 200; a £50m Reynolds painting; Michael Heizer’s City from 2022-09-01T23:01:37

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 the museum in the wake of the devastating 2018 fi...

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Summer of Seoul: why the South Korean capital is a new art world hub from 2022-06-30T23:01:09

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 the current season, we’re exploring the art scene and market in t...

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Documenta 15: scandal and legacy. Plus, the Warhol-Prince copyright dispute, and Juan Muñoz from 2022-06-23T23:01:51

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 review the sho...

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Francis Bacon: Tate archive controversy; NY photographer Alice Austen; Michel Majerus in Basel from 2022-06-16T23:01:54

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 us about his recent scoop that Tate i...

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Crypto crash: what now for NFTs? Plus, Norway’s mega-museum and a Spanish-American screen from 2022-06-09T23:01:47

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 tokens or NFTs. As Norway’s vast new National ...

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Picasso and the Old Masters; the Queen by Chris Levine; political interference in museums from 2022-06-02T23:01:42

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 talks to Christopher Riopelle (curator of Picasso I...

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The hunt for looted Cambodian heritage; the dark truth of the Marcos family’s extravagance; Ruth Asawa from 2022-05-26T23:01

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 presenter at the BBC Worl...

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New York: Frieze and auction bonanza. Plus, the Albers Foundation in Senegal, and a golden Indian manuscript from 2022-05-19T23:01:24

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 auction sales, we talk to The Art Newspaper’s editor in the Americas, Ben Sutto...

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Saving Ukraine’s heritage; Cezanne blockbuster; Nicola L.’s Gold Femme Commode from 2022-05-12T23:01:24

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 museums and heritage editor, Tom Seymour, who has been to t...

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Philip Guston Now opens, revamped. Plus, Queer Britain museum and Caterina Angela Pierozzi rediscovered from 2022-05-05T23:01:51

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 Kate Nesin and Megan Bernard, two of the four curato...

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French election: what now for the art scene? Plus, Walter Sickert and Gordon Parks from 2022-04-28T23:01:36

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 Anaël Pigeat, editor-at-large at...

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Venice Biennale special: four artist interviews, main show review and a Bellini masterpiece from 2022-04-21T23:01:18

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 to the historic Italian city. We talk to four artists in ...

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Photographer Edward Burtynsky on his Ukrainian heritage; Winslow Homer; China-Russia: a new cultural boycott? from 2022-04-14T23:01:21

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 Photography Awards. He discusses the Russia...

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Whitney Biennial review, Afro-Atlantic Histories in Washington, Raphael's late self-portrait from 2022-04-07T23:01:03

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 Art in New York. The Art Newspaper’s associate editor Tom Sey...

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Has the art market recovered? Plus, surviving the Holocaust and Mondrian’s Victory Boogie Woogie from 2022-03-31T23:01:44

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 Melanie Gerlis, art market columnist for The Art Newspaper and the...

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The Met: Max Hollein’s vision for the future, Beiruti art in the 1960s, Meret Oppenheim from 2022-03-25T00:01:11

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, including the appointment of the architect Frida Esc...

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Donatello in Florence, the Biennale of Sydney and Eduardo Navarro’s seed installation from 2022-03-18T00:01:14

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 a survey of Donatello,...

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Refugees and art, NFTs and more in Dubai, Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s golden curtain from 2022-03-11T00:01:11

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 and creates programmes in a range ...

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Ukraine: the art community and photojournalism. Plus, Chris Burden and F.N. Souza from 2022-03-04T00:01:08

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 her home country, their work s...

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Artists’ studios: the fight for space in New York, the Whitechapel show, photographing Paula Rego at work from 2022-02-25T00:01:05

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 subject. The artist, critic and activist William Powh...

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Warhol and Basquiat on the stage, the Faith Ringgold retrospective and Betye Saar remakes a mural from 2022-02-18T00:01:40

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. It looks at the period between 1...

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Louise Bourgeois, Saudi soft power and Gerhard Richter at 90 from 2022-02-11T00:01:20

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 Basel and New York—we look at the French...

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Venice Biennale, Van Gogh’s self-portraits, Dalí and Freud from 2022-02-04T00:01:39

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 of Dreams. She discusses the story by the Surrealist arti...

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Bacon and beasts, Botticelli in New York, gender in Asian art in San Francisco from 2022-01-28T00:01:57

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 about to open. The RA’s director, Axel Rüger sheds light on Bac...

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Artists’ monuments, the €471m Caravaggio villa auction flop, Michael Armitage on Sane Wadu from 2022-01-21T00:01:03

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 proposals that ponder the idea of t...

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The art world in 2022: big shows and market predictions from 2022-01-14T00:00:57

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 preview the year’s biennials, exh...

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2021's biggest art world stories—and what they mean from 2021-12-17T00:00:19

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 are three members of The Art Newspaper team: Martin Bailey, a corre...

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Walt Disney at The Met. Plus, Matisse in Baltimore and Josef Albers's lithographs from 2021-12-10T00:00:48

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 Albers’s prints.


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Art Basel in Miami Beach and the story of art fairs. Plus, Caribbean-British art, and Marco Brambilla's VR work from 2021-12-03T00:01:36

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 Gerlis, art market columnist at the Financial Times and edi...

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Fraud: how corrupt is the art world? Plus, Warhol’s Catholicism and Moscow’s new museums from 2021-11-26T00:00:02

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: is the art world, as his attorney claimed, “corrupt from top to botto...

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New York auctions: big money, new collectors. Plus, Fabergé in London and a rediscovered Dürer from 2021-11-19T00:01:59

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 two weeks, and what they tell us about the market and the worl...

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Is M+ in Hong Kong censoring its displays? Plus, the Courtauld Gallery and Black American Portraits in LA from 2021-11-12T00:01:42

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 to tell us about her visit to the museum. The Co...

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Cop26: how can the art world respond? Plus, the Depot: storage as spectacle, and Fragonard's The Swing from 2021-11-05T00:00:36

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 justice and how the art world can go ...

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Art among the Egyptian pyramids. Plus, the New Museum Triennial and Édouard Manet from 2021-10-28T23:00:13

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 international artists are shown along a trail around the Giz...

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Is Paris on the rise? Plus, Marlene Dumas at the Musée d'Orsay and Christian Boltanksi remembered from 2021-10-21T23:00:43

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 opens there, we ask Melanie G...

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Rothko’s late paintings, galleries respond to the climate crisis and Nicolas Poussin from 2021-10-14T23:01:25

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 view at Pace’s new space in the British capital, with ...

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Jasper Johns: the retrospective in depth. Plus, Venice's tourism problem and Finnish artist Outi Heiskanen from 2021-10-07T23:00:49

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 Luke about their simultaneous shows of the 91-year...

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The rise of private museums. Plus, the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures and Renaissance portraits at the Rijksmuseum from 2021-09-30T23:00:36

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 her new book, T...

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Art Basel: are the buyers back? Plus, Mary Beard on images of power, and Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s L’Arc de Triomphe, Wrapped from 2021-09-23T23:00:08

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 editor-at-large at The Art Newspaper, about the art on show and ...

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Uyghurs: human rights abuses in China; Van Gogh's final months and death; master printer Kenneth Tyler on Helen Frankenthaler from 2021-09-16T23:00:54

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, galleries and other cultural institutions wor...

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Painting special: artists Doron Langberg, Mohammed Sami and Vivien Zhang, art advisor Lisa Schiff, Vermeer’s cupid from 2021-09-09T23:00

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 suited to exploring the complexity of our...

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Afghanistan: the threat to its artists and heritage. Plus, artist Bill Fontana records Notre Dame's bells from 2021-09-03T07:07:01

We're back with a new season of The Week in Art, which takes us right up to the holidays.


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Great women in art history make a comeback: the New Woman at the Met and Aware in Paris from 2021-07-01T23:01:01

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 opening at the Metropolitan Museum of ...

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Activists protest Shell museum sponsorship. Plus, artists Michael Landy and Shahzia Sikander from 2021-06-24T23:01:12

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 of the UK Student Climate Network, who held a pro...

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Activists protest Shell museum sponsorship. Plus, artists Michael Landy and Shahzia Sikander from 2021-06-24T23:01:12

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 of the UK Student Climate Network, who held a pro...

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Slavery at the Rijksmuseum, Leonora Carrington and a Rubens Reunion from 2021-06-18T06:00:39

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 and the curators of the ex...

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Guerrilla Girls: corrupt museum boards, the female nude and NFTs from 2021-06-11T06:00:42

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 new billboards for Art Night, while Ben Luke disc...

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Mary Beard on Roman emperor Nero from 2021-06-04T05:20:03

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 Rome burned, or has he been a victim of spin and myth?&...

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Viking-age treasure: new insights into life 1,000 years ago from 2021-05-28T05:51:19

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 Viking age, its people, its art and its internat...

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"Art is our spiritual oxygen": new shows in London and New York from 2021-05-21T08:12

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 Adams, two very different artists explori...

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New York auctions: has the art market roared back to life? from 2021-05-14T09:58:31

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 big sales and notable trends at Christie’s ...

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Climate disaster: Richard Mosse on environmental crime in the Amazon from 2021-05-07T07:50:48

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 Shainman Gallery in New York, the artist Ri...

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Return to La La Land: art is back in California from 2021-04-30T06:00:31

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 California so long? We talk to Jori Finkel about LA's ...

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Kusama-rama: Yayoi in London, New York and Berlin from 2021-04-23T06:00:43

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 as shows open in New York, Washington, Lo...

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Let loose after lockdown: London’s best gallery shows from 2021-04-16T06:00:30

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 Art Newspaper’s contemporary art correspondent, and ...

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Can Netflix help solve the Isabella Stewart Gardner art heist? from 2021-04-09T06:00:30

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 by Rembrandt, Vermeer and Manet, amo...

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Has the drop in visitors changed museums forever? from 2021-04-02T06:00:49

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 how have digital initiatives helped?

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Benin bronzes: looted treasures will return to Nigeria at last from 2021-03-26T09:24:26

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 broke the story of Germany’s planned restitut...

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The results are in: the real impact of Covid on the art market from 2021-03-19T07:00:24

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 year of Covid-19 on the market? We talk to Clare McAn...

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UK culture war: how should museums confront colonialism? from 2021-03-12T07:00:19

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 The Whole Picture, a strident call for colonial histor...

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Old Masters meet Brutalism: inside Frick Madison in New York from 2021-03-05T07:00:48

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 for the Whitney Museum. So what happens wh...

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WTF are NFTs? Why crypto is dominating the art market from 2021-02-26T08:00:37

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 to two people in the world of crypto commodities about the explosion...

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'Black grief and white grievance' at New York’s New Museum from 2021-02-19T08:00:06

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 Museum in New York—the final project co...

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Stonehenge: could a road tunnel ruin the ancient site? from 2021-02-12T07:00:22

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 it ruin it? We talk to...

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The fight against Putin: artists on the frontline from 2021-02-05T12:22:57

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 museums to re-write the history of the country...

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Botticelli and Leonardo: the new normal for Old Masters from 2021-01-29T07:00:51

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 York and new research, including a study using artificial i...

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What will Biden-Harris do for the visual arts? from 2021-01-22T08:33:11

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 do for the visual arts? We talk to Jori Finkel, a...

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The white supremacist art in the US Capitol from 2021-01-15T09:00:43

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 record-breaking auction sale of a Batman comic. 


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2020: The year in review from 2020-12-18T10:30:59

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 in the art world. And what a year it’s been. Host Ben Luke was joined by three...

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Brexit: how will it change the art market? from 2020-12-11T07:00:06

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 the art trade? We asked the writer and a...

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Contemporary public art: who is it for? from 2020-12-04T09:15

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 does it continue to provoke such strong reactions? Host Ben ...

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Is the future of museums in Africa? from 2020-11-27T09:13:53

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 the 19th-century looting of the Benin Bronzes and what it tells...

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Rewriting the Thanksgiving myth: the Mayflower and the Wampanoag, 400 years on from 2020-11-20T08:30:26

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 ship that landed in Plymouth Bay, Massachusetts, ...

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Where art fairs still happen: the Shanghai buzz from 2020-11-13T08:00:54

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 we look at a rare museum event opening in Europe: Tate Bri...

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US election: How Trump’s presidency has affected the arts from 2020-11-06T08:17

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 economics and the response of artists and art communities over the last ...

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Has coronavirus helped unmask the real prices of art? from 2020-10-30T08:00:38

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 any more transparent? Do we know any more about the actual price of ar...

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The great museum sell-off: should public collections deaccession to survive Covid-19? from 2020-10-23T07:09:44

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 to stay afloat. We speak to Christophe...

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What does the Philip Guston delay tell us about museums and race? from 2020-10-16T07:00:25

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 the National Gallery of Art in Washington, the...

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Frieze: the show goes on. Plus, Theaster Gates from 2020-10-09T07:30:25

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?


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Artemisia and Frida: great art, turbulent lives from 2020-10-02T06:00:18

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 tour with its curator Letizia Treves, and picking ...

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Sell the Michelangelo or lose 150 staff? The RA’s Covid-19 conundrum from 2020-09-25T09:00:38

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 emerged in recent days that some Royal Academician...

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Grayson Perry on race and class in the US; Philip Guston; Jacolby Satterwhite on Manet from 2020-09-18T07:30:52

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 us about the faultlines in American culture? ...

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Berlin: still a magnet for artists? from 2020-09-11T07:00:45

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 capital. But is Berlin still the thriving art centre it’s been ...

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Cancelled: should good artists pay for bad behaviour? from 2020-09-04T08:00

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 on immoral artists...

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Trailer: The Week in Art from 2020-09-02T12:50:45

The Week in Art, sponsored by Christie’s, is The Art Newspaper’s topical news podcast, released every Friday.

 

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New series in September. Meanwhile… from 2020-08-07T06:00:26

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 and much more. In the meantime, why not subscribe to ...

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Ready to see some art? The top exhibitions of the summer from 2020-07-31T10:00:38

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 the US, with Anna Brady and Gareth Harris joining Ben Luke in London, ...

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What will culture be like in the next decade? from 2020-07-24T09:30:35

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 era? We t...

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Staff cuts: are museums protecting their workers? from 2020-07-17T09:00:04

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 ask: are museums doing all they can to sa...

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Hong Kong: has the new law "destroyed" the art scene? from 2020-07-10T07:00:16

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 expression? We look at the effects on artists and the wider art ...

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The destruction of Australia’s Aboriginal heritage from 2020-07-03T07:58:31

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 Ouzman, an archeologist and activist at the University of Wes...

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Art and social media: do museums need memes? from 2020-06-26T07:00:53

Plus, artist Rita Keegan on her postponed show and Julia Peyton-Jones on Leonardo


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What to do about problematic statues? from 2020-06-19T09:00:30

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 claim or a long overdue corrective to historic preju...

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How to visit a gallery during a pandemic from 2020-06-12T09:57:02

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?

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Let’s talk about race: museums and the battle against white privilege from 2020-06-05T10:00:19

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 art world can respond to this latest tragedy. As protests grow thr...

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Houston, do we have a problem? from 2020-05-29T09:00:01

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, the publisher of the Texas-based art publication Glasst...

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Raphael: as great as Leonardo and Michelangelo? from 2020-05-22T06:56:14

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 three days before being close...

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Is the future of the art market online? from 2020-05-15T09:30:59

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, been postponed. But are collectors ...

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Exclusive: Marina Abramovic interview from 2020-05-08T09:00:49

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 eases in Germany, we ask Catherine H...

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Can tech recreate the hand of an Old Master? from 2020-05-01T08:04:06

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 to Adam Lowe of the Factum Founda...

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The end of the blockbuster? Museums in a post-pandemic world from 2020-04-24T08:01:59

This week, we look at museums in different parts of the globe: what’s their future in a world changed by the coronavirus?


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Donald Judd 101: the great artist in depth from 2020-04-17T11:00:36

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 of three exhibitions in New York this spring, D...

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Art theft: are museums safe under lockdown? from 2020-04-10T08:20:16

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 Martin Bailey about the recent theft of a Van Gogh in the Nether...

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Can the art market weather the coronavirus storm? from 2020-04-03T10:13:28

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 Economics, in the Netherlands, who specialises...

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Saving the art world’s self-employed from 2020-03-27T11:37:09

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. We hear about the support p...

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Coronavirus: dispatches from Italy and China from 2020-03-20T07:00:14

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. We hear about their experiences of lockdown, the respons...

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Titian’s poesie: an in-depth tour of “the most beautiful pictures in the world" from 2020-03-13T11:00:34

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, Gabriele Finaldi, about making a once impos...

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Remembering Ulay from 2020-03-06T07:00:37

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, Tate Modern’s senior curator of perfor...

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Surrealism: what was Britain's role? from 2020-02-28T09:32:13

Plus, Independent Art Fair's director on the New York's changing gallery landscape


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Who owns the Parthenon Marbles? from 2020-02-21T07:00:38

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 with the UK about the post-Brexit relationship suggest...

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Does Los Angeles want a big art fair? from 2020-02-14T09:51:26

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 art-market juggernaut? We also pay tribute to the late LA-ba...

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Tschabalala Self and radical figurative painting from 2020-02-07T07:00

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 to one of the ten artists, Tschabalala Self. A...

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A fake Gauguin at the Getty from 2020-01-31T07:00:02

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 Museum in Los Angeles is actually not by...

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2020: art market issues and big shows from 2020-01-24T07:00:27

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.


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2019: the Year in Review from 2019-12-20T07:00:33

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Bananaman: who is Maurizio Cattelan? Plus, art and comedy from 2019-12-13T08:19:10

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 week, with the critic and broadcaster Ben Lewis...

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Turner Prize shocker: what next? Plus, Teresita Fernández in Miami from 2019-12-06T10:44:58

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 the winner of the Turner Prize. We talk to Louisa Buck about the...

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Troy: the show and the problem with BP sponsorship from 2019-11-29T07:00:23

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 Worth of Culture Unstained about ongoing protests relating to ...

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Dora Maar and Jann Haworth: acclaim at last from 2019-11-22T07:00:23

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, Maar is escaping the shadow of her lover between 1936 and 1945, Pabl...

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Anselm Kiefer interview. Plus, New York auction "gigaweek" from 2019-11-15T07:50:11

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 context of his art over several decades. And we explore the results of ...

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Tutankhamun in London: Tutmania returns. Plus, Duchamp in the US from 2019-11-08T07:15:56

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 from Tutankhamun’s tomb, 100 more than the B...

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Fireworks! Picturing pyrotechnics with professor Simon Werrett from 2019-11-05T07:00:12

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 wider visual culture. We talk to Simon Werrett, the author of the boo...

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Dread Scott’s slave revolt reenactment. Plus, Pre-Raphaelite Sisters from 2019-11-01T07:00:22

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 a slave rebellion from 1811. A...

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Leonardo at the Louvre: the spectacular show and the Salvator Mundi no-show from 2019-10-25T06:00:22

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 Delieuvin, the co-curator, tells us about the 13 years he h...

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MoMA special: the verdict on the museum opening of the year from 2019-10-18T06:00:22

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 October with 47,000 sq ft of additional gallery space an...

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Agnes Denes: environmental art pioneer. Plus, Rembrandt-Velázquez and De Hooch from 2019-10-11T00:00

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 landfill in Lower Manhattan, as the Shed opens a ret...

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Frieze week: Ai Weiwei, Mark Bradford, Peter Doig, Melanie Gerlis, Hettie Judah from 2019-10-04T00:00

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 Frieze art fairs: Ai Weiwei at Lisson Gallery, Mark Bradfo...

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Special: is art education in crisis? Featuring Bob and Roberta Smith from 2019-09-27T00:00

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 Bob and Roberta Smith, about his campaign for art’s place at the ...

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Museum ethics. Plus, the Chicago Architecture Biennial from 2019-09-20T00:00

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 latest edition of the Chicago Architecture Biennial, wh...

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Tate's William Blake blockbuster. Plus, Pace and the New York gallery boom from 2019-09-13T00:00

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 complex visionary. And in New York, we talk to Marc Glimcher abo...

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Tim Spall plays Lowry, artists in movies, Chris Ofili and Jasmine Thomas-Girvan from 2019-09-06T00:00

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 closely with Spall as an art consultant on Mike Leigh's Mr Turne...

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Top of the Pods: David Hockney and other modern British mavericks from 2019-08-30T00:00

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 and Van Gogh. Plus, Martin Gayford sets Hoc...

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Top of the Pods: The best of the Venice Biennale from 2019-08-23T00:00

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 Interesting Times, the main event at this...

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Top of the Pods: Leonardo—the Salvator Mundi saga from 2019-08-16T00:00

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 Tully tells us about the atmosphere at Christie's as the Sal...

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Top of the Pods: video art in the spotlight from 2019-08-09T00:00

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 video art: Ragnar Kjartansson, John Akomfrah and Ch...

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Top of the Pods: Artemisia Gentileschi and the forgotten female Old Masters from 2019-08-02T00:00

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 the National Gallery in London and Lavinia Fontana and S...

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In Memoriam: Karsten Schubert in conversation with Michael Landy from 2019-08-01T00:00

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. The artist Michael Landy spoke to Kars...

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Top of the Pods: climate crisis with Olafur Eliasson, Justin Brice Guariglia and Anna Somers Cocks from 2019-07-26T00:00

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, we look back on three interviews, from 2018 and earl...

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Top of the Pods: the world of Warhol as told by Jeremy Deller and Donna De Salvo from 2019-07-19T00:00

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 the San Francisco Museum of Modern art, we bring together t...

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Top of the Pods: experts on Van Gogh in the asylum and his early life from 2019-07-12T00:00

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 themed episode. First up are two conversations abo...

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Ibrahim Mahama's ghosts of Ghana. Plus, China's epic Picasso show from 2019-07-05T00:00

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 Whitworth as part of the Manchester International Festival. ...

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Vermeer's hidden cupid, the Prado's Dutch-Spanish show, plus Helen Cammock from 2019-06-28T00:00

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 himself, but was in fact covered by a later artist. I...

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David Smith in Yorkshire. Plus, the works that inspired leading artists from 2019-06-21T00:00

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 park's director, and to Smith's daug...

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Art Basel and William Kentridge from 2019-06-13T00:00

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 works, his complex methods and his extraordinary family history....

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Painting, identity and injustice: Howardena Pindell and Oscar Murillo from 2019-06-07T00:00

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 paintings, its origins in segregation in the US and ...

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The rise of the mega-dealers, plus artists take over the Guggenheim from 2019-05-31T00:00

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, the organiser of Guggenheim in New York’s Artistic Licence: ...

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Manga and Camp: the art of going over the top from 2019-05-24T00:00

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 the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Camp...

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Should museums sell works of art? Plus, activism at the Whitney Biennial from 2019-05-17T09:25:23

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 Art about deaccessioning works by white male artists in orde...

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Venice Biennale special: our review plus, how much longer will the city survive? from 2019-05-10T00:00

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 show. Plus, we talk about climate change and ...

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Ralph Rugoff on his Venice Biennale concept. Plus, Bernar Venet and Berlin Gallery Weekend from 2019-05-03T00:00

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 featuring the same 79 artists. We then talk to Venet, the veter...

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How did Salvator Mundi go from $1000 to $450m? Plus, the tragic story of Van Gogh’s only love from 2019-04-26T00:00

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 his latest book Living with Vincent Van Gogh, exploring the...

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The Notre Dame fire and Cold War Steve from 2019-04-18T00:00

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. And as a book of his photomontages is published, ...

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Edvard Munch and The Shed from 2019-04-12T00:00

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 cultural centre in New York, The Shed.


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Sackler sponsorship: take it or leave it? Plus, museum attendance from 2019-04-05T00:00

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 look at 2018's most visited shows and ...

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Art Basel Hong Kong, Richard Lin and the Met’s World Between Empires from 2019-03-29T00:00

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 look at Bonhams’s show in Hong Kong of Richard Lin’...

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David Bailey in focus, plus John Richardson remembered from 2019-03-22T00:00

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 Richardson, who died aged 95 last week, with Gijs van He...

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Wham! The George Michael auction and the YBA market. Plus, Shezad Dawood from 2019-03-15T00:00

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 Christie's about the collection and th...

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Carolee Schneemann, the Armory Show and Venice Biennale curators from 2019-03-08T00:00

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, and discuss what it’s like to curate a Venice Biennale ...

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Ruskin and Gombrich: revisiting two art historical heavyweights from 2019-03-01T00:00

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 two experts in E.H. Gombrich, writer o...

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Rembrandt special: the complete artist from 2019-03-01T00:00

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 museum's blockbuster shows and its imminent...

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Bonus podcast: Dorothea Tanning at Tate Modern from 2019-02-26T00:00

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, the show’s curator. Contains previously...

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Antony Gormley at the Uffizi, plus portrait miniatures from 2019-02-22T00:00

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 art works made in Elizabethan and Jacobean times that are the subjec...

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Can artists live off art alone? Plus, Los Angeles from 2019-02-15T00:00

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 advisor James Doeser who worked on the study and the artist Tai Shani a...

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Tracey Emin on mourning and #MeToo; George Shaw on realism and Rembrandt from 2019-02-08T00:00

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, whose show A Corner of a Foreign Field has arrived at the Holborne Mus...

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Mapplethorpe at the Guggenheim, Bill Viola at the Royal Academy from 2019-01-25T00:00

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 the Bill Viola / Michelangelo show at the Royal Acade...

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Female old masters — prominence at last. Plus, Condo from 2019-01-18T00:00

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 us about participating in the collaborative...

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2019: Market predictions and the best events from 2019-01-11T00:00

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 Victoria Siddall, the dir...

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David Hockney: exclusive interview with the world's most expensive living artist from 2018-11-16T00:00

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 auction record this week. We also look at the perso...

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Warhol (part two): Jeremy Deller and Shadows from 2018-11-13T00:00

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 Warhol’s legacy. We also discuss Dia’s vast installation...

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Warhol (part one): the Whitney retrospective, in depth from 2018-11-09T07:00:18

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 through all the key Warhol landmarks, from his early life ...

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Don’t call me a woman artist: overlooked Surrealists. Plus, Klimt/Schiele from 2018-11-02T00:00

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 York about the art and life of the two surrealist artist...

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Bruce Nauman’s New York takeover. Plus, the British Museum’s new Islamic art galleries from 2018-10-26T00:00

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 journey from dusty back rooms to grand light-fil...

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The Gainsborough murders. Plus, RoseLee Goldberg on performance from 2018-10-19T00:00

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 her new book on performance art.


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Banksy self destructs at Sotheby’s, plus Bauhaus pioneer Anni Albers from 2018-10-12T00:00

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. Then we get a tour of Tate Modern's Anni Albers retrosp...

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Frieze special: the fair and the top shows, with Doris Salcedo and Ragnar Kjartansson from 2018-10-05T00:00

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 artist Ragnar Kjartansson and the curator Massimiliano...

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Special: the rise and rise of contemporary African art from 2018-09-28T00:00

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 an auctioneer about the long overdue recognition of the diverse art o...

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Courtauld’s Impressionists. Plus, Armenian treasures at the Met from 2018-09-21T00:00

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 in asso...

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Van Gogh in the asylum. Plus, Christian Marclay on The Clock from 2018-09-14T00:00

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 at the asylum at Saint-Paul-de-Mausole in Provence, sout...

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Episode 39: All about biennials from 2018-07-06T00:00

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 of The Art Newspaper, joins Ben Luke to...

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Episode 38: Marina Abramovic and Michael Jackson from 2018-06-29T00:00

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 of pop’s influence on artists.


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Episode 37: Art and football plus John Akomfrah interview from 2018-06-22T00:00

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 talk to the British film-maker John Akomfrah about his e...

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Episode 36: Berlin Biennale and Art Basel from 2018-06-15T00:00

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 critic and curator Annika von Taube, and Ben Luke speaks to ...

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Episode 35: Freud, Bacon, Hockney and the post-war London scene; and Signals gallery from 2018-06-08T00:00

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 Dane Gallery’s collaboration on a show celeb...

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Episode 34: Venice Biennale for architecture, and the Brutalist social housing debate from 2018-06-01T00:00

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 housing estate.
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Episode 33: Absent friends: Howard Hodgkin's final paintings; Robert Indiana remembered from 2018-05-25T00:00

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 at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New ...

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Episode 32: The Royal Academy’s new project unveiled: David Chipperfield interview from 2018-05-18T00:00

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 Charles Saumarez Smit...

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Episode 31: The $646m Rockefeller sale. Plus: should big galleries subsidise smaller ones? from 2018-05-11T00:00

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 and look at a small gallery housed in Piccadilly ...

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Episode 30: All about Berlin from 2018-05-04T00:00

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 and enduring appeal of one of the world's mo...

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Episode 29: Taryn Simon interview, and restoring a Renaissance masterpiece at the Met from 2018-04-27T00:00

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 curator and conservator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art about resu...

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Episode 28: The battle over Ethiopia’s treasures from 2018-04-20T00:00

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 of the Sony Photography Award with judge Ga...

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Episode 27: The enduring appeal of enigmatic Beuys. Plus, lost masterpieces reborn from 2018-04-13T00:00

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 to Norman Rosenthal and Thaddaeus Ropac about the enigmatic Ge...

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Episode 26: Christo interview, plus museum visitor figures from 2018-04-06T00:00

We speak to the Bulgarian-born artist about his grand project for the Serpentine, and look at our annual survey of visitor figures


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Episode 25: Living with Leonardo da Vinci from 2018-03-28T00:00

Leonardo specialist Martin Kemp on decades spent in the company of the Renaissance master, plus the 300th edition of The Art Newspaper


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Episode 24: Mural-gazing with the Dalai Lama, plus Michael Rakowitz from 2018-03-23T00:00

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 commission in London's Trafalgar Square.


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Episode 22: The genius of Picasso from 2018-03-09T00:00

We take a tour of Tate Modern's blockbuster and explore the strength of Picasso's market


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Episode 20: Yes to Picasso, no to Van Gogh: the Rockefellers’ collection from 2018-02-23T00:00

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


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Episode 18: Talking politics with Cornelia Parker and the future of ivory from 2018-02-09T00:00

We meet the 2017 Election Artist. Plus, what do new ivory regulations mean for the art world?


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Episode 14: The top stories of 2017 from 2017-12-22T00:00

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 Anny Shaw



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Episode 10: Restoring Iraq’s heritage, plus the complex politics of First Nations art from 2017-11-24T00:00

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 Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun, whose first European s...

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Episode 9: $450m! The Leonardo breaks all records from 2017-11-17T00:00

How the art sale of the century happened, with Judd Tully, our man in the salesroom. Plus, a new museum in Indonesia.


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Abu Dhabi Focus episode three: How the UAE art scene became a force to be reckoned with from 2017-11-10T00:00

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 on his Abu Dhabi Art perfor...

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Abu Dhabi Focus episode two: How Saudi artists are driving political change from 2017-11-10T00:00

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 their society. Plus: Iraq's Dia Azzawi on creating the Arab world's...

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Abu Dhabi Focus episode one: Louvre Abu Dhabi and Abu Dhabi Art from 2017-11-08T00:00

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 preview of Abu Dhabi Art fair.


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Episode 7: The Tale of an Old Master forgery scandal from 2017-10-27T00:00

The 'masterpieces' that fooled the art world. Plus: a review of London's latest shows, from Cezanne to Soutine.


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Episode 5: What’s the story behind the $100m Leonardo? from 2017-10-13T00:00

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, we speak to the people behind the New Museum's b...

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Episode 4: Frieze special with Peter Blake from 2017-10-06T00:00

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 artists, Peter Blake and Ed Fornieles.


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Episode 2: Zeitz Mocaa and London autumn preview from 2017-09-22T00:00

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 the Frieze art fairs.


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