The Art Newspaper
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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Jun 25, 2026
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Tracey Emin on mourning and #MeToo; George Shaw on realism and Rembrandt 08.02.2019 1:00:04
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 Museum after its stint at the Yale Center for British Art in the US. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Mapplethorpe at the Guggenheim, Bill Viola at the Royal Academy 25.01.2019 49:23
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 Academy of Arts in London, while Nancy Kenney talks to the curator of the new Robert Mapplethorpe show at the Guggenheim. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Female old masters — prominence at last. Plus, Condo 18.01.2019 57:19
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 gallery exhibition programme Condo London. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2019: Market predictions and the best events 11.01.2019 1:23:21
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 director of the Frieze fairs, Francis Outred, the former head of postwar and contemporary art at Christie’s, and the art dealer Thaddaeus Ropac. Then, our correspondents Louisa Buck and Jane Morris join our...
The Year in Review 21.12.2018 1:15:14
Our London and New York teams ponder 2018's biggest art stories Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Should looted African art be returned? 14.12.2018 1:02:51
In the wake of the Savoy-Sarr report commissioned by French President Emmanuel Macron, we discuss the pros and cons of returning colonial artefacts to Africa with the campaigner Vicky Ngari-Wilson and Nicholas Thomas, Director, Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge. Curator of African art at the Cleveland Museum of Art Ugochukwu-Smooth Nzewi tells us about his innovative solutions. Hos...
Olafur Eliasson on climate change and the threat to heritage. Plus, Art Basel in Miami Beach 07.12.2018 55:09
We talk to the Danish-Icelandic artist about the urgent threat to the environment as his work Ice Watch, featuring chunks of glacier, go on show outside Tate Modern and Bloomberg’s HQ in London. We also discuss the potentially catastrophic effects of sea level rise to Mediterranean and European heritage with Anna Somers Cocks. And we talk to David Castillo, the Miami gallerist, as Art Basel makes...
Edmund de Waal exclusive interview, plus Roma persecution 30.11.2018 45:19
We speak to Edmund de Waal, the ceramic artist and author of the Hare with Amber Eyes, about the incredible journey of his netsuke collection and the current state of nazi-loot restitution. Plus, on occasion of his show in London, artist Krzysztof Gil describes the tragic history of “Roma hunting” and the continued plight of the community today. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more info...
The Beatles' White Album: the band, the artist, the dealer. Plus, art in Dubai 23.11.2018 1:00:52
We talk to Andrew Wilson at the Tate and Harriet Vyner, Robert Fraser's biographer about one of the greatest albums, and album covers, of all time. And we visit the new Jameel Arts Centre in Dubai. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
David Hockney: exclusive interview with the world's most expensive living artist 16.11.2018 44:51
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 personal heartbreak behind the painting with Lawrence Weschler and analyse the trends of the New York auctions so far with Melanie Gerlis. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Warhol (part two): Jeremy Deller and Shadows 13.11.2018 43:29
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 of the Shadow paintings (1978-79): are they "disco decor” as Warhol remarked, or one of the central bodies of work in his career, unifying many key themes and strands? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/pri...
Warhol (part one): the Whitney retrospective, in depth 09.11.2018 53:58
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 as a commercial artist through his 1960s Pop art breakthrough and his films and celebrity portraits, to his late appropriations of Leonardo’s Last Supper and the catholicism that underpinned his interest...
Don’t call me a woman artist: overlooked Surrealists. Plus, Klimt/Schiele 02.11.2018 45:49
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 artists. Meanwhile, in New York, we discuss how Klimt and Schiele compare, with curator and art dealer Jane Kallir, as a spate of shows open in Europe and the US. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for mor...
Bruce Nauman’s New York takeover. Plus, the British Museum’s new Islamic art galleries 26.10.2018 36:09
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-filled spaces. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
The Gainsborough murders. Plus, RoseLee Goldberg on performance 19.10.2018 43:03
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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Banksy self destructs at Sotheby’s, plus Bauhaus pioneer Anni Albers 12.10.2018 1:08:32
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 retrospective with its curator Briony Fer, speak to her biographer Charles Darwent and the head of the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, Nicholas Fox Weber. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more infor...
Frieze special: the fair and the top shows, with Doris Salcedo and Ragnar Kjartansson 05.10.2018 1:03:48
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 Gioni about Strange Days, the New Museum’s video-art pop-up in London, and to the artist Ipek Duben about Social Work, Frieze London’s radical new section. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for mor...
Special: the rise and rise of contemporary African art 28.09.2018 1:03:09
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 of a continent. Produced in association with Bonhams, auctioneers since 1793. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Courtauld’s Impressionists. Plus, Armenian treasures at the Met 21.09.2018 43:59
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 association with Bonhams, auctioneers since 1793. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Van Gogh in the asylum. Plus, Christian Marclay on The Clock 14.09.2018 47:56
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, southern France. He is joined by the art historian Martin Gayford, author of the Yellow House, a book on Van Gogh’s time in Arles. Later, Christian Marclay tells us about his ground-breaking work The Clock r...
Episode 39: All about biennials 06.07.2018 39:23
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 discuss whether we’ve reached “peak biennial”. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episode 38: Marina Abramovic and Michael Jackson 29.06.2018 31:13
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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episode 37: Art and football plus John Akomfrah interview 22.06.2018 37:51
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 exhibition at the New Museum, New York. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episode 36: Berlin Biennale and Art Basel 15.06.2018 34:43
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 Melanie Gerlis, writer for the Financial Times and The Art Newspaper, on the line from Basel. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episode 35: Freud, Bacon, Hockney and the post-war London scene; and Signals gallery 08.06.2018 41:32
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 celebrating the Signals gallery, where Latin American and European avant-gardes converged. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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