The Week in Art

Kyiv Biennial, sound art and migration, Jem Perucchini’s London Tube mural

26 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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 w...

Paris +, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Marie Laurencin

19 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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 flag...

Frieze is 20, Hildigunnur Birgisdóttir, Matisse in New York

12 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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. ...

The looted Ethiopian icon, AI copyright debate in US, the end of China’s museum boom

05 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The looted Ethiopian icon, AI copyright debate in US, the end of China’s museum boomThis week: The Art Newspaper’s London correspondent Martin Bai...

Marina Abramović, Frans Hals, Peter Paul Rubens

28 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Unesco controversies; Fernando Botero; Barkley Hendricks in New York

21 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week: the latest controversies prompted by the Unesco World Heritage Committee. As we mentioned last week, the 45th session of the committee is t...

Saudi Arabia’s soft power grab; Julianknxx in London; Michelangelo’s Libyan Sibyl

14 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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-...

Special 250th episode: what’s next for the visual arts?

07 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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...

British Museum in crisis, Sāo Paulo biennial, Soutine in Düsseldorf

31 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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 sca...

Art market and stagflation; Spain’s historical memory; Dürer plate remade by Goldin + Senneby

29 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

New National Portrait Gallery, William Edmondson, Zinzi Minott’s Windrush film

22 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The Art Newspaper’s editor, Alison Cole, and London correspondent, Martin Bailey, join our host Ben Luke to review the National Portrait Gallery aft...

Afua Hirsch on Africa Rising, Liverpool Biennial, Basquiat in Basel with Jeffrey Deitch

16 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Thom Yorke and Stanley Donwood; Wayne McGregor on Carmen Herrera; Whistler’s Mother

08 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week: Thom Yorke and Stanley Donwood on their collaborative art, Wayne McGregor on his new choreographic work—a collaboration with the late Car...

Hannah Gadsby’s Picasso show; Italy floods; Ellsworth Kelly’s centenary

01 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Keith Haring in LA; Tate Britain’s rehang; Joan Brown in Pittsburgh

25 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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 Everybo...

New York: Frieze and auctions; Richard Prince copyright case (and Warhol ruling); Sarah Sze in London

18 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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’...

Artists in Sudan; the Marquis de Sade in Barcelona; Gwen John

11 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Charles III’s coronation; Karl Lagerfeld in New York; Marlene Smith’s Good Housekeeping III

04 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Artificial Intelligence: the museum perspective, the artist’s view, the photography controversy

27 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Hilma af Klint and Piet Mondrian at Tate Modern; Jaune Quick-to-See Smith at the Whitney; the Roman gateway to Britain, reconstructed

20 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Expo and the Chicago scene; Northern Ireland’s museums; Sarah Bernhardt in Paris

13 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week: Expo Chicago and the art scene in the Windy City. Ben Sutton, The Art Newspaper’s editor, Americas, and Carlie Porterfield, associate edi...

Art and the banks; hip hop in Baltimore; Juan de Pareja, the artist enslaved by Velázquez

06 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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 acquir...

Are visitors returning to museums? Plus, Manet/Degas and Berthe Morisot

30 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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, ...

Art Basel Hong Kong bounces back; art censorship online; Brenda L. Croft’s images of First Nations Australian women

24 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week: Art Basel Hong Kong bounces back. After cancellations, delays and two years of restricted fairs, the fair has returned to something like pr...

“Biggest art fraud in history” in Canada; artists’ pay; the Ugly Duchess by Massys (and Leonardo)

17 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week: the extraordinary story behind what Canadian police have called “the biggest art fraud in history”. More than 1,000 fake works purporti...

Old Masters at Tefaf; Paris’s Institut du Monde Arabe; Rosalba Carriera in Berlin

10 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Art Dubai; MoMA’s political video art show; Lucie Rie

03 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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 commi...

Nigeria’s pivotal election, The Met: a guard’s memoir, Hubert Robert in Stockholm

24 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Turkey-Syria: the earthquake and heritage; Alice Neel in London; a Navajo “eye-dazzler” blanket

17 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week: Turkey and Syria. As the countries reel from the devastation of the 6 February earthquake, how can communities and agencies protect damaged...

Vermeer special: the man, the show and an attribution debate

10 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Ukraine museum collections: kept safe or looted? Plus, Okwui Enwezor’s Sharjah Biennial and Ming Smith at MoMA

03 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

As we approach the first anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, The Art Newspaper has published an investigation that raises serious concerns...

Kusama x Louis Vuitton: art and luxury. Plus, Michael Rakowitz’s Tate/Iraq gift and photographer Rosy Martin

27 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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 ta...

Van Gogh’s Sunflowers legal dispute. Plus, Singapore’s art scene and photographer Grace Lau

20 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

The art world in 2023: market predictions, big shows, museum openings

13 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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 cr...

2022’s biggest art stories—and what they mean

16 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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 b...

Parthenon Marbles: breakthrough in sight? Plus, Afghan culture in crisis and Kiki Smith’s New York murals

09 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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, ha...

Feast and famine: Miami millions and UK arts cuts. Plus, Ukrainian Modernism in Madrid

02 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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, ta...

Pussy Riot and Ragnar Kjartansson; Shirin Neshat on Iran; Puerto Rican art after Hurricane Maria

25 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week: as the exhibition Velvet Terrorism: Pussy Riot’s Russia opens at the Kling & Bang gallery in Reykjavik, Ben Luke talks to Masha Alekh...

Art at Qatar’s World Cup; New York auctions; Mozambican artist Luis Meque

18 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Artists and climate action; US National Gallery of Art’s women artists fund; Paula Modersohn-Becker

11 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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 co...

National Gallery building row; contemporary art in Lagos; Chagall’s Falling Angel

04 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Edward Hopper controversy; The Horror Show in London; a masterpiece in Bruges

27 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Art attack: Just Stop Oil and iconoclasm; Art Basel’s Paris+ fair; Frank Bowling

20 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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 it...

Art boom as the UK busts; Cecilia Vicuña; C20th women at Frieze; Modigliani in Philadelphia

13 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Multimillion Old Master upgrades; Monet and Joan Mitchell; Tudors in New York

06 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Lucian Freud special: new perspectives, the artist’s letters and a horse painting

29 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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 p...

Italy’s far right weaponises culture; Carnegie International; Maria Bartuszová

22 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Art and the British Royal Family; museums’ energy crisis; Fuseli’s The Nightmare

15 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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, ...

Art and censorship; Diane Arbus; Guggenheim Bilbao at 25

08 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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, Cens...

Brazil turns 200; a £50m Reynolds painting; Michael Heizer’s City

01 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Summer of Seoul: why the South Korean capital is a new art world hub

30 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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, w...

Documenta 15: scandal and legacy. Plus, the Warhol-Prince copyright dispute, and Juan Muñoz

23 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week: our associate editor, Kabir Jhala, and editor-at-large, Jane Morris, have been in Kassel, Germany, to see Documenta, the quinquennial inter...

Francis Bacon: Tate archive controversy; NY photographer Alice Austen; Michel Majerus in Basel

16 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week: why is Tate rejecting an archive of material relating to Francis Bacon, 18 years after acquiring it? Our London correspondent Martin Bailey...

Crypto crash: what now for NFTs? Plus, Norway’s mega-museum and a Spanish-American screen

09 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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 to...

Picasso and the Old Masters; the Queen by Chris Levine; political interference in museums

02 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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 t...

The hunt for looted Cambodian heritage; the dark truth of the Marcos family’s extravagance; Ruth Asawa

26 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week: are stolen Cambodian statues hidden in the world’s great public collections? We discuss Cambodia’s looted heritage with Celia Hatton, A...

New York: Frieze and auction bonanza. Plus, the Albers Foundation in Senegal, and a golden Indian manuscript

19 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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 N...

Saving Ukraine’s heritage; Cezanne blockbuster; Nicola L.’s Gold Femme Commode

12 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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 h...

Philip Guston Now opens, revamped. Plus, Queer Britain museum and Caterina Angela Pierozzi rediscovered

05 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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 Nes...

French election: what now for the art scene? Plus, Walter Sickert and Gordon Parks

28 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week, now that the pro-European centrist Emmanuel Macron has defeated the far-right candidate Marine Le Pen in the French presidential election, ...

Venice Biennale special: four artist interviews, main show review and a Bellini masterpiece

21 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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 histor...

Photographer Edward Burtynsky on his Ukrainian heritage; Winslow Homer; China-Russia: a new cultural boycott?

14 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Whitney Biennial review, Afro-Atlantic Histories in Washington, Raphael's late self-portrait

07 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Has the art market recovered? Plus, surviving the Holocaust and Mondrian’s Victory Boogie Woogie

31 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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, ar...

The Met: Max Hollein’s vision for the future, Beiruti art in the 1960s, Meret Oppenheim

25 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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, includ...

Donatello in Florence, the Biennale of Sydney and Eduardo Navarro’s seed installation

18 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Donatello in Florence, the Biennale of Sydney and Eduardo Navarro’s seed installationThis week, as the Palazzo Strozzi and Museo Nazionale del Barge...

Refugees and art, NFTs and more in Dubai, Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s golden curtain

11 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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 refuge...

Ukraine: the art community and photojournalism. Plus, Chris Burden and F.N. Souza

04 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week: following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, we talk to Svitlana Biedarieva, a Ukrainian art historian, artist and curator, about the communit...

Artists’ studios: the fight for space in New York, the Whitechapel show, photographing Paula Rego at work

25 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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 subj...

Warhol and Basquiat on the stage, the Faith Ringgold retrospective and Betye Saar remakes a mural

18 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week: The Collaboration, a new play dramatising the relationship between Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat has opened at the Young Vic theatre...

Louise Bourgeois, Saudi soft power and Gerhard Richter at 90

11 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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 h...

Venice Biennale, Van Gogh’s self-portraits, Dalí and Freud

04 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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....

Bacon and beasts, Botticelli in New York, gender in Asian art in San Francisco

28 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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....

Artists’ monuments, the €471m Caravaggio villa auction flop, Michael Armitage on Sane Wadu

21 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week, our contemporary art correspondent Louisa Buck visits the exhibition Testament at Goldsmiths CCA in London, where 47 artists have been invi...

The art world in 2022: big shows and market predictions

14 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this first episode of 2022, The Art Newspaper’s contemporary art correspondent Louisa Buck and the novelist and columnist at The Art Newspaper Ch...

2021's biggest art world stories—and what they mean

17 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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 memb...

Walt Disney at The Met. Plus, Matisse in Baltimore and Josef Albers's lithographs

10 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week: the French decorative art that inspired Walt Disney, Henri Matisse’s collaboration over 40 years with the Baltimore art collector Etta Co...

Art Basel in Miami Beach and the story of art fairs. Plus, Caribbean-British art, and Marco Brambilla's VR work

03 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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 mar...

Fraud: how corrupt is the art world? Plus, Warhol’s Catholicism and Moscow’s new museums

26 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

New York auctions: big money, new collectors. Plus, Fabergé in London and a rediscovered Dürer

19 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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, an...

Is M+ in Hong Kong censoring its displays? Plus, the Courtauld Gallery and Black American Portraits in LA

12 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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 t...

Cop26: how can the art world respond? Plus, the Depot: storage as spectacle, and Fragonard's The Swing

05 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Art among the Egyptian pyramids. Plus, the New Museum Triennial and Édouard Manet

28 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Is Paris on the rise? Plus, Marlene Dumas at the Musée d'Orsay and Christian Boltanksi remembered

21 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Paris’s resurgence: is the French capital stealing London’s thunder? As established and up-and-coming galleries open branches in Paris ...

Rothko’s late paintings, galleries respond to the climate crisis and Nicolas Poussin

14 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Jasper Johns: the retrospective in depth. Plus, Venice's tourism problem and Finnish artist Outi Heiskanen

07 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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 a...

The rise of private museums. Plus, the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures and Renaissance portraits at the Rijksmuseum

30 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week: is the burgeoning phenomenon of private museums, founded by billionaires and corporations, undermining our public cultural institutions? We...

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

23 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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 a...

Uyghurs: human rights abuses in China; Van Gogh's final months and death; master printer Kenneth Tyler on Helen Frankenthaler

16 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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, g...

Painting special: artists Doron Langberg, Mohammed Sami and Vivien Zhang, art advisor Lisa Schiff, Vermeer’s cupid

09 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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 be...

Afghanistan: the threat to its artists and heritage. Plus, artist Bill Fontana records Notre Dame's bells

03 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

We're back with a new season of The Week in Art, which takes us right up to the holidays.In this episode, we reflect on events in Afghanistan in recen...

Great women in art history make a comeback: the New Woman at the Met and Aware in Paris

01 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Activists protest Shell museum sponsorship. Plus, artists Michael Landy and Shahzia Sikander

24 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Slavery at the Rijksmuseum, Leonora Carrington and a Rubens Reunion

18 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week, we look at a much anticipated exhibition, Slavery at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. The Rijksmuseum is the Netherlands’ national art and h...

Guerrilla Girls: corrupt museum boards, the female nude and NFTs

11 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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 ne...

Mary Beard on Roman emperor Nero

04 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Viking-age treasure: new insights into life 1,000 years ago

28 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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 Vi...

"Art is our spiritual oxygen": new shows in London and New York

21 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Ben Luke talks to Ralph Rugoff, artistic director of the last Venice Biennale and director of the Hayward Gallery, London, about Matthew Barney and Ig...

New York auctions: has the art market roared back to life?

14 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Climate disaster: Richard Mosse on environmental crime in the Amazon

07 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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 J...