The Week in Art

New Museum extension opens, NextGen collectors, a Wardian Case in Oxford

20 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

The New Museum in New York opens its new extension, designed by Shohei Shigematsu and Rem Koolhaas of the architectural practice OMA, this week. Ben L...

Iran war: art communities and heritage in Iran, moderate recovery in the art market, Cannupa Hanska Luger at the Sydney Biennale

13 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

As the war in the Middle East continues to rage, Ben Luke speaks to The Art Newspaper’s reporter on Iran and other countries in the region, Sarvy Ge...

Iran war and culture in the Gulf, the Whitney Biennial, Rembrandt discovery

06 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

As the war against Iran instigated last week by Israel and the United States continues to spread through the Middle East, we explore how it affects to...

Venice Biennale details revealed, Beatriz González, Tracey Emin

27 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Following the tragic death of Koyo Kouoh last May, the details of her final project—In Minor Keys, the international exhibition of the 2026 Venice B...

National Gallery’s deficit bombshell, Simon Schama on birds and art, Vilhelm Hammershøi

20 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

After opening a major building project in May last year and announcing the details of another in September, which is due to open in the early 2030s, t...

The US struggles with history, Stephen Friedman Gallery closes, Tudor Heart pendant acquired by the British Museum

13 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

On 4 July 2026 the US will mark the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, the nation’s founding document. But huge divisions in US s...

Art Basel Qatar, Dürer portrait debate, Paula Modersohn-Becker and Edvard Munch

06 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

The first Art Basel Qatar art fair is now open in Qatar’s capital, Doha, and The Art Newspaper’s art market editor, Kabir Jhala, joins Ben Luke to...

Venice Biennale: South African pavilion scandal, Marian Goodman remembered, Paul Cezanne in Basel

30 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

The South African culture minister, the right-wing populist Gayton McKenzie, is attempting to cancel the project for South Africa’s pavilion at the ...

Smithsonian’s African LGBTQ+ exhibition, art and the Iran crisis, Louise Nevelson at the Pompidou Metz

23 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art in Washington, D.C. this week opens Here: Pride and Belonging in African Art, a new exhibition focu...

Hawai’i at the British Museum, a Venice palazzo for sale, Joseph Beuys’s Bathtub

16 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

As the British Museum opens Hawaiʻi: a kingdom crossing oceans, Ben Luke takes a tour of the exhibition with the museum’s head of Oceania, Ali...

The Year Ahead 2026: the big shows and the key openings

09 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

It is the first episode of 2026. So we look ahead at the next 12 months with a guide to big museum openings, biennials and exhibitions. Ben Luke is jo...

2025: our review of the year

19 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

As always, the final episode of The Week in Art of the year is a review of the past 12 months. To look at the top stories, the big issues and the best...

Frank Gehry remembered, Serpentine and FLAG Art Foundation prize, Joan Semmel

12 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Frank Gehry, the architect behind the Guggenheim Bilbao, Geffen Contemporary at MoCA, Los Angeles, and the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris, among oth...

Art Basel Miami Beach, Louvre crisis deepens, Helene Schjerfbeck

05 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The Art Newspaper’s editor-in-chief, Americas, Ben Sutton, and art market editor, Kabir Jhala, are in Miami Beach for Art Basel’s latest edition a...

The US Venice Biennale saga, Queer Islamic art in Oslo, Duane Linklater in Ottawa

28 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

After a delayed application process and an aborted initial commission, the US has at last appointed its artist for next year’s Venice Biennale: the ...

The $236m Klimt, Cop 30 and the art world, Caravaggio’s Victorious Cupid

21 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Gustav Klimt’s Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer (1914-16) sold for the second highest price ever realised at auction at Sotheby’s in New York on Tues...

Studio Museum in Harlem, Grand Egyptian Museum, Stanley Spencer

14 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Studio Museum in Harlem, Grand Egyptian Museum, Stanley SpencerAs the Studio Museum in Harlem opens in its first ever purpose-built space, a new build...

MFA Boston returns enslaved artist’s work to his heirs, Wifredo Lam, Ghirlandaio’s Adoration of the Magi

07 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) in Boston, US, has agreed to return two works from 1857 by the enslaved 19th-century potter David Drake to his present-d...

Gauguin “fake” is real, Mrinalini Mukherjee and her circle, Franz Xaver Messerschmidt’s head piece

31 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The authenticity of the final self-portrait by Paul Gauguin, made in 1903 and housed in the Kunstmuseum in Basel, was earlier this year called into qu...

Louvre heist: the fallout, RoseLee Goldberg on the Performa Biennial, Wayne McGregor on his new installation

23 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

It is an event that has shocked the world and prompted a national reckoning in France: the robbery of eight jewels from the Apollo Gallery of the Louv...

Frieze in London, Hypha Studios and Renoir’s drawing for The Great Bathers

16 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Amid much debate about the health of the art market, Frieze is back in London, with its two fairs, Frieze London and Frieze Masters. Ben Luke talks to...

Nigerian Modernism, Tehran’s art scene after the war, Wayne Thiebaud’s Cakes

09 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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

02 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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

25 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The Art Newspaper’s chief contributing editor, Gareth Harris, has just published a new book, Towards the Ethical Art Museum, which explores a range ...

Kerry James Marshall, National Gallery expansion, Picasso’s Three Dancers

18 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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

11 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 op...

Smithsonian under fire from Trump, Frieze Seoul, Dara Birnbaum and Quantum

04 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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

26 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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

19 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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, abo...

Rachel Jones, Liverpool Biennial, UK Aids Memorial Quilt at Tate Modern

12 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The Dulwich Picture Gallery, the UK’s first purpose-built public art gallery, is hosting an exhibition of one of Britain’s brightest young paintin...

London Gallery Weekend, Brazil’s National Museum, Jane Austen at the Morgan

05 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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

29 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 Elizabe...

Jean Tinguely’s 100th anniversary, Fenix Museum, Ben Shahn

22 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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

15 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Koyo Kouoh remembered, Queen Elizabeth II memorial, Jasper Johns by Robert StorrKoyo Kouoh, the Cameroon-born curator who was director of Zeitz Mocaa ...

London: National Gallery refurb and rehang, Tate Modern is 25. Plus, Inge Mahn

08 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This week: after a two-year closure, the National Gallery’s Sainsbury Wing reopens this week, revealing a major overhaul by the architect Annabelle ...

Frank Auerbach’s Berlin homecoming, human remains and museums, Ian Hamilton Finlay’s ‘Republic’

01 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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

24 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Christine Sun Kim and Thomas Mader, teamLab in Abu Dhabi, Vermeer’s final painting?

17 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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

10 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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

03 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 museum...

The Frick: Annabelle Selldorf interview and our review. Plus, Taiso Yoshitoshi

28 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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

21 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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

14 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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

07 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 e...

Leigh Bowery at Tate Modern, Ukraine and art—three years on, Max Beckmann and the Gothic Modern

28 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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

21 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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

14 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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

07 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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

31 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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

24 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The Art Newspaper’s correspondent for the Middle East, Sarvy Geranpayeh, has been reporting on the effect of Israel’s military bombardment of Gaza...

Los Angeles wildfires, World Monuments Fund’s watch list, Katsushika Hokusai

17 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This week: the Los Angeles wildfires. The Art Newspaper’s West Coast contributing editor in LA, Jori Finkel, tells our associate digital editor, Ale...

The Year Ahead 2025: market predictions, the big shows and openings

10 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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

20 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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

13 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 th...

Art Basel Miami Beach, Notre-Dame reopens in Paris, and Parmigianino’s Vision of St Jerome

06 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Art and technology shows in London and Los Angeles, a restored 17th-century cosmic atlas

29 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Two exhibitions have just opened that look at art and tech: in London, Tate Modern’s Electric Dreams: Art and Technology Before the Internet celebra...

The $6.2m banana, Frank Auerbach remembered, Lindokuhle Sobekwa’s photographs of addiction in South Africa

22 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Episode 300! British Museum, Tate Modern and V&A East directors in discussion

15 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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

08 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 Buc...

American sculpture—race and racism, Warsaw’s Museum of Modern Art, Jusepe de Ribera in Paris

01 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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

24 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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, A...

Paris: Art Basel at the Grand Palais and Guillermo Kuitca at Musée Picasso, plus Małgorzata Mirga-Tas at Tate St Ives

17 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

After descending on London last week, the art world arrived in Paris this week, with the main attraction being the Art Basel Paris art fair—now stag...

Frieze, UK critics The White Pube, Giuseppe Penone and Arte Povera

11 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The Frieze London art fair has a new look for 2024 as it looks to keep its freshness amid increased competition with the new kid on the art fair block...

Mike Kelley, a pivotal period of contemporary Indian art, Raoul Dufy and Berthe Weill

03 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week: a huge survey of the work of the late linchpin of the Los Angeles contemporary scene Mike Kelley has arrived at Tate Modern in London. We s...

Monet in London, Matisse in Basel, Frankenthaler in Florence

26 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week, three major international shows: Claude Monet’s Thames views in London, the Henri Matisse retrospective in Basel and Helen Frankenthaler ...

Glenn Ligon in Cambridge, new Gauguin biography, Teresa Margolles’s Fourth Plinth commission

19 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week: the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, UK, has invited the US artist Glenn Ligon to explore its history and collections, and his intervention...

Van Gogh blockbuster, the birth of Impressionism, Juan Pablo Echeverri

12 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week: the Van Gogh blockbuster in London, a new book on the birth of Impressionism, and Juan Pablo Echeverri’s performative self-portraits. As ...

The art market slump, the artist freed in the US-Russia prisoner swap, Max Ernst and Surrealism in Paris

05 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The Week in Art is back. In this first episode of the season: on Tuesday it was reported in the Financial Times that Sotheby’s core earnings are dow...

Arts and the UK election, ex-Uffizi head fails in Florence mayoral bid, Hank Willis Thomas at Glastonbury

27 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

On Thursday 4 July, the UK will hold a general election, with the Labour party currently far ahead in the opinion polls. Dale Berning Sawa, a contribu...

Just Stop Oil’s Stonehenge protest, Tavares Strachan, Louise Bourgeois at the Galleria Borghese

20 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week: Just Stop Oil’s Stonehenge protest. On Wednesday, two activists sprayed orange powder paint made from cornflour on to three of the boulde...

Art Basel: fireworks and nuance, Lynn Barber on her artist interviews, Guillaume Lethière at the Clark

13 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week: it’s arguably the best loved of the major art fairs among collectors and dealers, but what have we learned about the art market at this y...

Georgia O’Keeffe’s New York, Studio Voltaire at 30, Martha Jungwirth responds to Goya

06 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week: we explore the Art Institute of Chicago’s exhibition dedicated to what Georgia O’Keeffe called her New Yorks—paintings of skyscrapers...

Art’s AI reckoning, the rise of comic art, and Degas’ Miss La La

30 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The publication in April of Stanford University’s Artificial Intelligence Index Annual Report has provided the art world with much food for thought....

The Mona Lisa's endless, and problematic, allure; Judy Chicago; Christian Schad and the New Objectivity

23 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

As the Louvre’s director admits that the Paris museum wants to move its most famous painting away from the crowded gallery in which it is currently ...

Tate’s historic women artists show, Dia at 50, Martin Wong’s record-breaking painting

16 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We take a tour of Tate Britain’s new exhibition, Now You See Us, featuring more than 100 women artists who worked between the 16th and 20th centurie...

Gaza: artists’ stories, Frank Stella remembered, Vanessa Bell’s garden view

09 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We talk to The Art Newspaper’s reporter Sarvy Geranpayeh about her conversations with six Palestinian artists about their daily lives amid Israel’...

Should UK museums charge for entry? Plus, Michelangelo’s last decades and Maria Blanchard

02 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

After years of decreasing public funding, the lingering effects of the Covid pandemic and enduring questions around the ethics of corporate sponsorshi...

Klimt’s last picture sells for €35m, Rebecca Horn, a Cézanne restored

25 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The last painting made by Gustav Klimt, left on his easel when he died in 1918 of illnesses relating to the Spanish flu epidemic of that year, has sol...

Venice Biennale special

18 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We are back in Venice for the latest edition of the biggest biennial in the world of art. The 60th Venice Biennale comprises an international exhibiti...

Marlborough Gallery closes, Rose B. Simpson in New York, Caravaggio’s final painting

11 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week: after 80 years in business, Marlborough Gallery, one of the most historic commercial galleries in London, New York and beyond, has announce...

Inigo Philbrick and art world fraud, Hong Kong’s new security law, a Maharaja’s sword

04 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The convicted art fraudster Inigo Philbrick is out of prison and possibly seeking a return to art dealing. How is that possible? Tim Schneider, The Ar...

Richard Serra remembered. Plus, expressionist art special: Käthe Kollwitz at MoMA and the Blue Rider at Tate Modern

29 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Richard Serra, one of the greatest artists of the past 50 years, a linchpin of the post-minimalist scene in late 1960s and early 1970s New York and la...

Whitney Biennial reviewed, museum visits back to normal, Pieter Bruegel the Elder

22 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week: the Whitney Biennial reviewed. Host Ben Luke discusses the show with Ben Sutton, The Art Newspaper’s editor, Americas, and the critic Ann...

Tate’s racist mural—Keith Piper’s response, the Art Basel & UBS Art Market Report, Anni Albers

15 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Four years after Tate Britain closed its restaurant because Rex Whistler’s murals on its walls contained racist imagery, it has unveiled the work it...

Photography and feminist activism, Jacob Rothschild remembered, Robert Ryman

08 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

To coincide with International Women’s Day on 8 March, the South London Gallery is opening the exhibition Acts of Resistance: Photography, Feminisms...

Los Angeles and Frieze, Angelica Kauffman, Matthew Wong and Van Gogh

01 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

As Frieze Los Angeles opens its fifth iteration, The Art Newspaper’s associate digital editor, Alexander Morrison, talks to our correspondent in LA,...

Black figuration, Surrealism is 100, Tonita Peña’s Eagle Dance mural

23 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The exhibition The Time Is Always Now, featuring 22 artists from the African diaspora whose work takes the Black figure as its starting point, is now ...

Yoko Ono at Tate Modern, Elton John’s collection, a Roman colossus remade

16 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

A vast survey covering seven decades of art by Yoko Ono has just opened at Tate Modern, and we take a tour of the show with Juliet Bingham, its curato...

Tania Bruguera on censorship, Frank Auerbach, an Indian painting from Howard Hodgkin’s collection

09 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

As she stages a non-stop reading of Hannah Arendt’s The Origins of Totalitarianism for five days at the Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin, Tania Bruguera ...

Venice Biennale, the immersive art explosion, Barbara Kruger by Hans Ulrich Obrist

02 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week: Adriano Pedrosa, the artistic director of the 60th Venice Biennale, on his exhibition, Foreigners Everywhere. As he announces the themes, c...

The masters market, India’s controversial Hindu temple, Honoré Daumier

26 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week: masters week in New York—can the market for historic works be revived? Scott Reyburn, a market reporter for The Art Newspaper, has for so...

An oligarch vs Sotheby’s in a New York court, Singapore Art Week, Zanele Muholi

19 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week: the astonishing civil trial in Manhattan between a Russian oligarch and Sotheby’s. The Art Newspaper’s acting art market editor, Tim Sc...

2024: market predictions and the big shows

12 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In the first episode of 2024 we look ahead to the next 12 months. The Art Newspaper’s acting art market editor Tim Schneider peers into his crystal ...

2023: the biggest stories and the best shows

15 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

It’s the final episode of 2023 and so, as always, it’s our review of the year. Host Ben Luke is joined by Louisa Buck, The Art Newspaper’s conte...

Art Basel in Miami Beach, the all-women museum in Athens, Pesellino’s David panels

08 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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, t...

Gaza: damage to historic sites, Emily Kam Kngwarray in Canberra, a Gauguin manuscript

01 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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...

US museums’ financial woes, Documenta’s new crisis, Kim Lim

24 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week: The Art Newspaper’s editor, Americas, Ben Sutton discusses redundancies and ticket price-hikes at several museums across the US, and what...

New York auctions, radical Central Eastern European art, Terry Adkins x Grace Wales Bonner

17 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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 Y...

Protest and performance in New York, UK National Trust row, Hans Holbein

10 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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, th...

Can AI reveal the Herculaneum scrolls? Plus, Venice Biennale political row, Dorothea Lange

03 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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 intell...