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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Episodes (389)
Frank Auerbach’s Berlin homecoming, human remains and museums, Ian Hamilton Finl...
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Pope Francis and art, JMW Turner’s 250th birthday, John Singer Sargent’s Madame...
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Christine Sun Kim and Thomas Mader, teamLab in Abu Dhabi, Vermeer’s final painti...
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Trump’s assault on museums and libraries, the art market’s 12% fall, Evie Hone a...
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Museum visitor figures—highs and lows, William Morris mania, Marguerite Matisse,...
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The Frick: Annabelle Selldorf interview and our review. Plus, Taiso Yoshitoshi
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Jack Whitten at MoMA, New York, Paris Noir at the Pompidou, Arpita Singh at the...
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The big art slowdown, Dutch funding crisis, Bruegel’s Hunters in the Snow
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Censorship and Australia’s Venice Biennale pavilion, a controversial AI auction,...
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Leigh Bowery at Tate Modern, Ukraine and art—three years on, Max Beckmann and th...
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Gee’s Bend quiltmakers, “Degenerate” Art in Paris, and Mel Bochner remembered
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Anselm Kiefer, Hoor al Qasimi on Sharjah, a Picasso Blue Period mystery
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Trump tariffs and Zona Maco in Mexico, India Art Fair, and American photography...
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Peter Hujar, Gregg Bordowitz and Rotimi Fani-Kayode: art and the Aids struggle
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Artists in Gaza respond to the ceasefire, Cimabue at the Louvre, a Baroque print...
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Los Angeles wildfires, World Monuments Fund’s watch list, Katsushika Hokusai
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The Year Ahead 2025: market predictions, the big shows and openings
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2024 in review: the biggest stories and the best shows
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Carsten Höller, Takashi Murakami, Dia’s Echoes from the Borderlands
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Art Basel Miami Beach, Notre-Dame reopens in Paris, and Parmigianino’s Vision of...
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Art and technology shows in London and Los Angeles, a restored 17th-century cosm...
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The $6.2m banana, Frank Auerbach remembered, Lindokuhle Sobekwa’s photographs of...
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Episode 300! British Museum, Tate Modern and V&A East directors in discussion
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Renaissance special: Michelangelo, Leonardo and Raphael in Florence, drawings an...
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American sculpture—race and racism, Warsaw’s Museum of Modern Art, Jusepe de Rib...
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US election, the glory of Siena, Gabrielle Goliath
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Paris: Art Basel at the Grand Palais and Guillermo Kuitca at Musée Picasso, plus...
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Frieze, UK critics The White Pube, Giuseppe Penone and Arte Povera
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Mike Kelley, a pivotal period of contemporary Indian art, Raoul Dufy and Berthe...
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Monet in London, Matisse in Basel, Frankenthaler in Florence
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Glenn Ligon in Cambridge, new Gauguin biography, Teresa Margolles’s Fourth Plint...
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Van Gogh blockbuster, the birth of Impressionism, Juan Pablo Echeverri
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The art market slump, the artist freed in the US-Russia prisoner swap, Max Ernst...
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Arts and the UK election, ex-Uffizi head fails in Florence mayoral bid, Hank Wil...
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Just Stop Oil’s Stonehenge protest, Tavares Strachan, Louise Bourgeois at the Ga...
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Art Basel: fireworks and nuance, Lynn Barber on her artist interviews, Guillaume...
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Georgia O’Keeffe’s New York, Studio Voltaire at 30, Martha Jungwirth responds to...
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Art’s AI reckoning, the rise of comic art, and Degas’ Miss La La
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The Mona Lisa's endless, and problematic, allure; Judy Chicago; Christian Schad...
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Tate’s historic women artists show, Dia at 50, Martin Wong’s record-breaking pai...
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Gaza: artists’ stories, Frank Stella remembered, Vanessa Bell’s garden view
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Should UK museums charge for entry? Plus, Michelangelo’s last decades and Maria...
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Klimt’s last picture sells for €35m, Rebecca Horn, a Cézanne restored
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Venice Biennale special
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Marlborough Gallery closes, Rose B. Simpson in New York, Caravaggio’s final pain...
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Inigo Philbrick and art world fraud, Hong Kong’s new security law, a Maharaja’s...
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Richard Serra remembered. Plus, expressionist art special: Käthe Kollwitz at MoM...
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Whitney Biennial reviewed, museum visits back to normal, Pieter Bruegel the Elde...
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Tate’s racist mural—Keith Piper’s response, the Art Basel & UBS Art Market Repor...
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Photography and feminist activism, Jacob Rothschild remembered, Robert Ryman
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