The Week in Art
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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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Nigerian Modernism, Tehran’s art scene after the war, Wayne Thiebaud’s Cakes
Tate Modern continues to explore the histories of Modern art beyond the European and North American canons that were once its focus. This week it open...
Who made ancient Egyptian art? Plus, Michaelina Wautier, Robert Rauschenberg’s Bed
A new exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, UK, called Made in Ancient Egypt, reveals untold stories of the people behind a host of remar...
Museums and ethics, Fra Angelico in Florence, Cornelia Parker’s PsychoBarn
The Art Newspaper’s chief contributing editor, Gareth Harris, has just published a new book, Towards the Ethical Art Museum, which explores a range of...
Kerry James Marshall, National Gallery expansion, Picasso’s Three Dancers
Kerry James Marshall: The Histories at the Royal Academy of Arts in London is the largest ever European retrospective of the work of the US artist and...
David Bowie Centre, Bukhara Biennial, Hilton Als on Jean Rhys, Hurvin Anderson and Kara Walker
Earlier this year, we took a tour of the V&A East Storehouse, the Victoria and Albert Museum’s vast new complex in East London. This week, it opens th...
Smithsonian under fire from Trump, Frieze Seoul, Dara Birnbaum and Quantum
Since we were last on air in June, the US government has announced what it calls a comprehensive internal review of activities at eight of the 21 muse...
Arthur Jafa and Mark Leckey, Cecilia Alemani on SITE Santa Fe, Trisha Brown and Robert Rauschenberg
An exhibition opens this weekend at Conditions, the low-cost studio programme for artists in Croydon, on the outskirts of south London, featuring two...
Art Basel, human remains in Dutch museums, Eva Hesse
The Art Newspaper’s digital editor Alexander Morrison is in Basel for the annual Art Basel fair. He talks to our art market editor, Kabir Jhala, about...
Rachel Jones, Liverpool Biennial, UK Aids Memorial Quilt at Tate Modern
The Dulwich Picture Gallery, the UK’s first purpose-built public art gallery, is hosting an exhibition of one of Britain’s brightest young painting ta...
London Gallery Weekend, Brazil’s National Museum, Jane Austen at the Morgan
The fifth edition of London Gallery Weekend takes place this weekend, and opens as the global art market is at a low ebb. So what can it do to change...
Museum openings: V&A East Storehouse and the Met’s Rockefeller Wing, plus Rachel Whiteread at Goodwood Art Foundation
We visit major museum projects unveiled this week in London and New York: Ben Luke takes a tour of V&A East Storehouse in London’s Queen Elizabeth Oly...
Jean Tinguely’s 100th anniversary, Fenix Museum, Ben Shahn
A host of exhibitions and events this month and next celebrate the 100th anniversary of the birth of the Swiss artist Jean Tinguely, one of the godfat...
Koyo Kouoh remembered, Queen Elizabeth II memorial, Jasper Johns by Robert Storr
Koyo Kouoh remembered, Queen Elizabeth II memorial, Jasper Johns by Robert Storr
Koyo Kouoh, the Cameroon-born curator who was director of Zeitz...
London: National Gallery refurb and rehang, Tate Modern is 25. Plus, Inge Mahn
This week: after a two-year closure, the National Gallery’s Sainsbury Wing reopens this week, revealing a major overhaul by the architect Annabelle Se...
Frank Auerbach’s Berlin homecoming, human remains and museums, Ian Hamilton Finlay’s ‘Republic’
During his lifetime, the late artist Frank Auerbach never had an exhibition in Berlin, the city of his birth, which he left for the UK in 1939 to esca...
Pope Francis and art, JMW Turner’s 250th birthday, John Singer Sargent’s Madame X
Following the death of Pope Francis on Easter Monday, The Art Newspaper’s managing editor, Louis Jebb, who has written an extensive obituary of the la...
Christine Sun Kim and Thomas Mader, teamLab in Abu Dhabi, Vermeer’s final painting?
ollowing on from opening her exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art, which continues until August, the US-born, Berlin-based artist Christin...
Trump’s assault on museums and libraries, the art market’s 12% fall, Evie Hone and Mainie Jellett
In two-and-a-half months since the inauguration of President Donald Trump, a series of executive orders and other initiatives have attempted systemati...
Museum visitor figures—highs and lows, William Morris mania, Marguerite Matisse, the unsung hero of her father’s art
he Art Newspaper’s annual report on museum visitor figures is out and shows that the slow build-back after the Covid-19 closures is over, and museums...
The Frick: Annabelle Selldorf interview and our review. Plus, Taiso Yoshitoshi
After a five-year closure, the Frick Collection in New York will reopen to the public on 17 April and this week opened its doors to the press. The Gil...
Jack Whitten at MoMA, New York, Paris Noir at the Pompidou, Arpita Singh at the Serpentine
The largest ever exhibition of the work of Jack Whitten opens this weekend at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York. Ben Luke speaks to Michelle K...
The big art slowdown, Dutch funding crisis, Bruegel’s Hunters in the Snow
After a challenging year in which international galleries, auction houses and museums have been forced to scale back their operations and make redunda...
Censorship and Australia’s Venice Biennale pavilion, a controversial AI auction, and Elizabeth Catlett in Washington
It seems absurd that more than a year ahead of the next Venice Biennale, one of the major pavilions in the Giardini might be empty for next year’s eve...
Leigh Bowery at Tate Modern, Ukraine and art—three years on, Max Beckmann and the Gothic Modern
Tate Modern this week opened a vast exhibition exploring the life and work of the maverick Australian-born performance artist, fashion designer and se...
Gee’s Bend quiltmakers, “Degenerate” Art in Paris, and Mel Bochner remembered
Shows opening in Washington and Dublin this month explore quiltmaking by African American women. Ben Luke talks to Raina Lampkins-Fielder, chief curat...
Anselm Kiefer, Hoor al Qasimi on Sharjah, a Picasso Blue Period mystery
Next month, the German artist Anselm Kiefer will be 80, and the first of a number of shows internationally to mark this landmark moment opened this we...
Trump tariffs and Zona Maco in Mexico, India Art Fair, and American photography at the Rijksmuseum
Last weekend, the US President Donald Trump signed executive orders placing 25 percent tariffs on Mexico and Canada, which were due to take effect on...
Peter Hujar, Gregg Bordowitz and Rotimi Fani-Kayode: art and the Aids struggle
Peter Hujar, Gregg Bordowitz and Rotimi Fani-Kayode are three artists whose work reflects in different ways on the Aids crisis that has devastated com...
Artists in Gaza respond to the ceasefire, Cimabue at the Louvre, a Baroque printmaking family
The Art Newspaper’s correspondent for the Middle East, Sarvy Geranpayeh, has been reporting on the effect of Israel’s military bombardment of Gaza on...
Los Angeles wildfires, World Monuments Fund’s watch list, Katsushika Hokusai
This week: the Los Angeles wildfires. The Art Newspaper’s West Coast contributing editor in LA, Jori Finkel, tells our associate digital editor, Alexa...
The Year Ahead 2025: market predictions, the big shows and openings
A 2025 preview: Georgina Adam, our editor-at-large, tells host Ben Luke what might lie ahead for the market. And Ben is joined by Jane Morris, editor-...
2024 in review: the biggest stories and the best shows
It is the final episode of 2024 and so, as always, we review the year, looking at the top stories, the big issues and the best art. Host Ben Luke is j...
Carsten Höller, Takashi Murakami, Dia’s Echoes from the Borderlands
This week, three artist interviews: Carsten Höller on his book of games, Takashi Murakami on his new work, and Valeria Luiselli and Leo Heiblum on the...
Art Basel Miami Beach, Notre-Dame reopens in Paris, and Parmigianino’s Vision of St Jerome
The Art Newspaper’s editor, Americas, Ben Sutton, and our art market editor, Kabir Jhala, are in Florida and report on the sales and the mood on the f...
Art and technology shows in London and Los Angeles, a restored 17th-century cosmic atlas
Two exhibitions have just opened that look at art and tech: in London, Tate Modern’s Electric Dreams: Art and Technology Before the Internet celebrate...
The $6.2m banana, Frank Auerbach remembered, Lindokuhle Sobekwa’s photographs of addiction in South Africa
Maurizio Cattelan’s Comedian (2019), the work featuring a banana stuck to a wall with grey duct tape, sold at Sotheby’s in New York, on Wednesday for...
Episode 300! British Museum, Tate Modern and V&A East directors in discussion
UK museums are at a moment of transformation with a new generation of directors taking the helm at several of the major national institutions in Londo...
Renaissance special: Michelangelo, Leonardo and Raphael in Florence, drawings and tapestries
This week: two exhibitions in London are showing remarkable works made during the Renaissance. At the King’s Gallery, the museum that is part of Bucki...
American sculpture—race and racism, Warsaw’s Museum of Modern Art, Jusepe de Ribera in Paris
Shortly after the US election on 5 November, the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington opens The Shape of Power: Stories of Race and American...
US election, the glory of Siena, Gabrielle Goliath
This week: with less than two weeks before the US goes to the polls, and with early voting underway, Ben Luke talks to The Art Newspaper’s editor, Ame...