The Week in Art
Episodes
Return to La La Land: art is back in California
30 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week: Los Angeles has finally opened its museums after more than a year. When New York's galleries have been open since August, what took Califor...
Kusama-rama: Yayoi in London, New York and Berlin
23 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week on the now award-winning The Week in Art: Kusamarama. We take a deep dive into Yayoi Kusama’s polka dots, pumpkins and infinity rooms as s...
Let loose after lockdown: London’s best gallery shows
16 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week: after four long months, commercial art galleries are open again in England. We discuss some of the London shows with Louisa Buck, The Art N...
Can Netflix help solve the Isabella Stewart Gardner art heist?
09 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On this week's podcast: the world’s greatest art heist. As a new Netflix documentary hits our screens, who stole the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum...
Has the drop in visitors changed museums forever?
02 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Art Newspaper’s annual survey of museum attendance is out: just how many visitors and how much money have museums lost in the pandemic? And how ...
Benin bronzes: looted treasures will return to Nigeria at last
26 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week: Germany announces that its museums will send the Benin bronzes back to Nigeria: will other nations follow? We talk to Catherine Hickley, wh...
The results are in: the real impact of Covid on the art market
19 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On this week's podcast: the most influential annual art market report has just been published—so what does it tell us about the effects of a year of...
UK culture war: how should museums confront colonialism?
12 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we focus on two books: Aimee Dawson talks to Alice Procter about the debate over contested heritage in the UK and her book The Whole Pictur...
Old Masters meet Brutalism: inside Frick Madison in New York
05 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week: the Frick Collection in New York has moved temporarily from its Gilded Age Mansion on Central Park to Marcel Breuer’s 1960s building crea...
WTF are NFTs? Why crypto is dominating the art market
26 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week: NFTs or Non-Fungible Tokens. What are they? Are they a fad or do they represent the future of the art market? We talk to two people in the ...
'Black grief and white grievance' at New York’s New Museum
19 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week: the curator Naomi Beckwith and artist Okwui Okpokwasili discuss Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America, a major show at the New M...
Stonehenge: could a road tunnel ruin the ancient site?
12 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week: excavations have revealed new archaeological finds at Stonehenge but the UK government has approved a road tunnel through this iconic World...
The fight against Putin: artists on the frontline
05 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On this week's podcast: the artist-activists at the heart of Russia’s biggest protests in a decade and how the Indian government is using heritage a...
Botticelli and Leonardo: the new normal for Old Masters
29 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week, the Old Masters in the digital age. We look at the $92m live-streamed auction sale (with fees) of a major Botticelli in New York and new re...
What will Biden-Harris do for the visual arts?
22 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week: as Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are sworn in as the president and vice president of the United States, what might their administration do fo...
The white supremacist art in the US Capitol
15 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we look at white supremacist art in the Capitol in Washington and discuss the legacy of Hannah Arendt. Plus, we look at a record-breaking a...
2020: The year in review
18 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
It’s the final episode of 2020 and so, as we always do as the year comes to an end, we’re reviewing the last 12 months in the art world. And what ...
Brexit: how will it change the art market?
11 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The Brexit deadline is imminent and the UK and the European Union are desperately seeking an agreement. But what are the implications either way for t...
Contemporary public art: who is it for?
04 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we look at contemporary public art, as debate has raged about various works in recent weeks. Who is public art for and why does it continue...
Is the future of museums in Africa?
27 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week we look at museums and Africa: we explore the future of museums and African institutions’ central role in it and we look at the 19th-centu...
Rewriting the Thanksgiving myth: the Mayflower and the Wampanoag, 400 years on
20 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
It’s Thanksgiving on 26 November, so this week, we look at the myths behind this American holiday, and particularly the story of the Mayflower, the ...
Where art fairs still happen: the Shanghai buzz
13 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week: we speak to our China correspondent Lisa Movius in Shanghai about the fairs and other events opening in the city this week. And we look at ...
US election: How Trump’s presidency has affected the arts
06 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
As the ramifications of the US election are set to continue for weeks, where do we stand in the art world? We look at the economics and the response o...
Has coronavirus helped unmask the real prices of art?
30 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week: like the rest of the art world, the market has been upended by the pandemic. But has the turmoil forced it to be any more transparent? Do w...
The great museum sell-off: should public collections deaccession to survive Covid-19?
23 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Following a historic relaxation of deaccessioning laws in the US, we probe the moral quandaries faced by museums forced to sell-off parts of their col...
What does the Philip Guston delay tell us about museums and race?
16 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we talk to the critics and curators Barry Schwabsky and Aindrea Emelife about the four-year delay to the show Philip Guston Now at the Nati...
Frieze: the show goes on. Plus, Theaster Gates
09 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
It’s Frieze Week in London, yet there’s no big art fair at its heart. Can galleries create the usual excitement—and is anyone still buying?There...
Artemisia and Frida: great art, turbulent lives
02 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we look at two great women artists: at last, we visit the postponed Artemisia exhibition at the National Gallery in London, taking a tour w...
Sell the Michelangelo or lose 150 staff? The RA’s Covid-19 conundrum
25 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
With UK museums and galleries in crisis, might the Royal Academy of Arts be forced to sell its Michelangelo? We look at the story that has emerge...
Grayson Perry on race and class in the US; Philip Guston; Jacolby Satterwhite on Manet
18 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week: the artist Grayson Perry has a new exhibition and documentary series about the United States. What can a British artist and broadcaster tel...
Berlin: still a magnet for artists?
11 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
It’s Berlin Art Week, and unusually for 2020, art fairs, a biennale, and a range of exhibitions are all opening at once in the German capital. But i...
Cancelled: should good artists pay for bad behaviour?
04 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this first episode of the new season, we talk to Erich Hatala Matthes, associate professor of philosophy at Wellesley College, Massachusetts, ...
Trailer: The Week in Art
02 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The Week in Art, sponsored by Christie’s, is The Art Newspaper’s topical news podcast, released every Friday. Each week, we look at the big s...
New series in September. Meanwhile…
07 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A new series of The Week in Art podcast will begin on 4 September; expect all the latest art world news, exclusive interviews, exhibition tours and mu...
Ready to see some art? The top exhibitions of the summer
31 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week, in our last episode of this series, we look at the top exhibitions you can see this summer in the UK, Europe and the US, with Anna Brady an...
What will culture be like in the next decade?
24 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We explore the Serpentine Galleries’ new report into Future Art Ecosystems: with existing art industry models under threat, can new ones emerge in t...
Staff cuts: are museums protecting their workers?
17 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week, as the effects of the coronavirus pandemic and the lockdown hit museums, we’re seeing unprecedented layoffs on both sides of the Atlantic...
Hong Kong: has the new law "destroyed" the art scene?
10 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What is the future of the art world in Hong Kong now that a new national security law curbs human rights and threatens freedom of expression? We look ...
The destruction of Australia’s Aboriginal heritage
03 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we look at the destruction on 24 May of sacred Aboriginal sites in Western Australia by a mining company. We talk to Sven Ouzman, an archeo...
Art and social media: do museums need memes?
26 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Plus, artist Rita Keegan on her postponed show and Julia Peyton-Jones on Leonardo Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
What to do about problematic statues?
19 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week we address the toppling of statues around the world amid the Black Lives Matter protests: is this an airbrushing of history as some claim or...
How to visit a gallery during a pandemic
12 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
On this week's podcast, as galleries in London re-open amid a pandemic, we ask: what does the new normal look like for the art world?Ben Luke takes hi...
Let’s talk about race: museums and the battle against white privilege
05 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week, in the aftermath of the killing of George Floyd, we talk about the history of black resistance in the US and how the art world can respond ...
Houston, do we have a problem?
29 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
As cultural institutions across the world are faced with deciding if and when to re-open, we look at two extremes: we hear from Brandon Zech, the publ...
Raphael: as great as Leonardo and Michelangelo?
22 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This episode begins by celebrating good news: that the once-in-a-lifetime exhibition of works by Raphael at the Scuderie del Quirinale in Rome—which...
Is the future of the art market online?
15 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week would have been so-called "gigaweek", with the major auctions of Impressionist, Modern and contemporary art in New York. The events have, of...
Exclusive: Marina Abramovic interview
08 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we have an exclusive interview with Marina Abramovic: what's the future of performance in the post-pandemic art world? Also, as the lockdow...
Can tech recreate the hand of an Old Master?
01 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we look at how technologies like digital scanning and artificial intelligence (AI) are being used to create facsimiles of historic painting...
The end of the blockbuster? Museums in a post-pandemic world
24 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we look at museums in different parts of the globe: what’s their future in a world changed by the coronavirus?The doors of museums have s...
Donald Judd 101: the great artist in depth
17 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A veritable Juddaganza: we focus on an artist who, before the coronavirus (Covid-19) forced museums and galleries to close, was set to be the subject ...
Art theft: are museums safe under lockdown?
10 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We explore how safe museums are from theft now that they are closed and cities are under lockdown due to the coronavirus. We talk to Martin Bailey abo...
Can the art market weather the coronavirus storm?
03 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We discuss the present and future of the art market, first with Rachel Pownall, a Professor of Finance at Maastricht University School of Business and...
Saving the art world’s self-employed
27 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we explore the devastating effects of the coronavirus (Covid-19) on art communities, and particularly the wealth of self-employed workers i...
Coronavirus: dispatches from Italy and China
20 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We speak to our journalists in the two epicentres of the Covid-19 pandemic thus far: Anna Somers Cocks in Italy and Lisa Movius in China. We hear abou...
Titian’s poesie: an in-depth tour of “the most beautiful pictures in the world"
13 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
As the National Gallery opens its show dedicated to Titian's great mythological paintings made for Philip II of Spain, we talk to the gallery's direct...
Remembering Ulay
06 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We pay tribute to the performance art trailblazer Ulay, who died on 2 March—and discuss his years of collaboration with Marina Abramović— with Ca...
Surrealism: what was Britain's role?
28 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Plus, Independent Art Fair's director on the New York's changing gallery landscape Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Who owns the Parthenon Marbles?
21 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Is the dispute between Greece and the British Museum about the Parthenon Marbles about to escalate? A leaked draft of the EU mandate for talks with th...
Does Los Angeles want a big art fair?
14 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
As Frieze Los Angeles opens, we look at the LA art scene, its artist-run galleries and grassroots spaces and ask: does the city need the art-market ju...
Tschabalala Self and radical figurative painting
07 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We visit the Whitechapel Gallery in London to explore their show Radical Figures: Painting in the New Millennium, with the curator Lydia Yee, and talk...
A fake Gauguin at the Getty
31 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We look at the story behind the front-page article in our February issue: the discovery that a multi-million dollar Gauguin sculpture purchased by the...
2020: art market issues and big shows
24 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We look at the year ahead for galleries, art fairs and auctions, and seek out the big shows in the UK, Europe and the US. Hosted on Acast. See acast.c...
2019: the Year in Review
20 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
2019: the Year in Review by The Art Newspaper Podcasts Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Bananaman: who is Maurizio Cattelan? Plus, art and comedy
13 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
We take an in-depth look at Maurizio Cattelan, the creator of the banana-and-duct-tape work which caused a sensation at Art Basel in Miami Beach last ...
Turner Prize shocker: what next? Plus, Teresita Fernández in Miami
06 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The art world has been up in arms this week as Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Helen Cammock, Oscar Murillo and Tai Shani were all announced as the winner of the...
Troy: the show and the problem with BP sponsorship
29 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
We talk to Lesley Fitton, the co-curator of the British Museum's blockbuster show on the myth and reality of Troy. And we talk to Jess Worth of Cultur...
Dora Maar and Jann Haworth: acclaim at last
22 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
As a huge exhibition of Dora Maar's work opens at Tate Modern, we take a tour of the show with the curator, Emma Lewis. Finally, Maar is escaping the ...
Anselm Kiefer interview. Plus, New York auction "gigaweek"
15 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
As he opens a new show at London's White Cube gallery, we talk to the German artist about the themes of the exhibition in the context of his art over ...
Tutankhamun in London: Tutmania returns. Plus, Duchamp in the US
08 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we review Tutankhamun: Treasures of the Golden Pharaoh, which has just opened at the Saatchi Gallery in London. The show includes 150 objec...
Fireworks! Picturing pyrotechnics with professor Simon Werrett
05 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
To mark Bonfire Night in the UK, this bonus episode of The Art Newspaper takes a look at the history of pyrotechnics in art and wider visual culture. ...
Dread Scott’s slave revolt reenactment. Plus, Pre-Raphaelite Sisters
01 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
We talk to the artist Dread Scott about his extraordinarily ambitious two-day performance in Louisiana where he and 500 Louisianans in 19th-century dr...
Leonardo at the Louvre: the spectacular show and the Salvator Mundi no-show
25 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
As the exhibition of the year opens at the Louvre, we talk to Ben Lewis about the latest developments in the Salvator Mundi saga. Vincent Delieuvin, t...
MoMA special: the verdict on the museum opening of the year
18 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
After a $450m expansion overseen by the architects Diller, Scofidio and Renfro, the Museum of Modern Art in New York reopens its doors on 21 October w...
Agnes Denes: environmental art pioneer. Plus, Rembrandt-Velázquez and De Hooch
11 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
We talk to Agnes Denes, best known for her extraordinary Wheatfield, a two-acre field of wheat that she planted, tended and harvested in 1982 on landf...
Frieze week: Ai Weiwei, Mark Bradford, Peter Doig, Melanie Gerlis, Hettie Judah
04 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this bumper edition of the podcast we interview three of the world's leading artists, all of whom have shows timed to coincide with the Frieze art ...
Special: is art education in crisis? Featuring Bob and Roberta Smith
27 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
As art schools start their new term in the UK, this week’s episode is an education special. We talk to the artist Patrick Brill, or Bob and Roberta ...
Museum ethics. Plus, the Chicago Architecture Biennial
20 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
We discuss the dilemmas facing museums as the focus intensifies on ethical sponsorship and governance in the UK and US. And we hear about the latest e...
Tate's William Blake blockbuster. Plus, Pace and the New York gallery boom
13 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
We take an in-depth tour of the huge new William Blake exhibition at Tate Britain and explore the life and art of this brilliant yet complex visionary...
Tim Spall plays Lowry, artists in movies, Chris Ofili and Jasmine Thomas-Girvan
06 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
New season! In this first episode, we talk to Timothy Spall about the new film Mrs Lowry and Son and to Jacqueline Riding who worked closely with Spal...
Top of the Pods: David Hockney and other modern British mavericks
30 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In the last of our summer series of podcasts looking back over 200 interviews, we talk to David Hockney about a record-breaking auction sale, printmak...
Top of the Pods: The best of the Venice Biennale
23 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In the latest podcast featuring highlights from our first 200 interviews on The Art Newspaper podcast, we feature three conversations about May You Li...
Top of the Pods: Leonardo—the Salvator Mundi saga
16 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
We look back at three interviews about the most expensive painting ever sold at auction. In a short clip from a November 2017 chat, Judd Tully tells u...
Top of the Pods: video art in the spotlight
09 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this latest episode looking back at the 200 interviews we've done over the past two years, we bring together discussions with three masters of vide...
Top of the Pods: Artemisia Gentileschi and the forgotten female Old Masters
02 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In our latest look back at the 200 interviews we've done over the past two years, we focus on Artemisia Gentileschi with Letizia Treves from the Natio...
In Memoriam: Karsten Schubert in conversation with Michael Landy
01 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this special podcast, we publish an archive interview with the London-based dealer and publisher Karsten Schubert, who died this week after a long ...
Top of the Pods: climate crisis with Olafur Eliasson, Justin Brice Guariglia and Anna Somers Cocks
26 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
As many parts of the world record their highest ever temperatures, and the art world begins to take more urgent action on the climate emergency, we lo...
Top of the Pods: the world of Warhol as told by Jeremy Deller and Donna De Salvo
19 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In the second episode of our summer season of curated podcasts, it's all about Andy. With the major retrospective of the Pop artist on at the San Fran...
Top of the Pods: experts on Van Gogh in the asylum and his early life
12 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
While we're on our summer break, we're looking back over the 200 interviews we've done for the podcast and putting together highlights in a weekly the...
Ibrahim Mahama's ghosts of Ghana. Plus, China's epic Picasso show
05 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
We speak to the leading Ghanaian artist as he unveils a major new commission about the forgotten history of his homeland, on show at the Whitworth as ...
Vermeer's hidden cupid, the Prado's Dutch-Spanish show, plus Helen Cammock
28 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
We hear about how a painting of Cupid in one of Vermeer's greatest masterpieces, in Dresden, was long thought to have overpainted by the master himsel...
David Smith in Yorkshire. Plus, the works that inspired leading artists
21 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The great American sculptor's work comes to Yorkshire Sculpture Park as part of the Yorkshire Sculpture International festival, and we talk to Clare L...
Art Basel and William Kentridge
13 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
As his show opens at the Kunstmuseum Basel to coincide with the Art Basel fair, we talk to the South African artist about his latest works, his comple...
Painting, identity and injustice: Howardena Pindell and Oscar Murillo
07 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
We talk to two artists of different generations as they open new London shows. Howardena Pindell discusses the use of the circle in her abstract paint...
The rise of the mega-dealers, plus artists take over the Guggenheim
31 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
We talk to Michael Shnayerson about his book Boom, following the big art dealers from the 1940s to now. Plus, we speak to Nancy Spector, the organiser...
Manga and Camp: the art of going over the top
24 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
We talk to Nicole Coolidge Rousmaniere of the British Museum about Manga, the museum's huge new show exploring the Japanese cultural phenomenon. And w...
Should museums sell works of art? Plus, activism at the Whitney Biennial
17 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
As a Mark Rothko painting is sold by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, we talk to Christopher Bedford from the Baltimore Museum of Art about dea...
Venice Biennale special: our review plus, how much longer will the city survive?
10 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Ben Luke and Jane Morris review the main exhibition and we speak to the artists Laure Prouvost and Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster about their works in th...
Ralph Rugoff on his Venice Biennale concept. Plus, Bernar Venet and Berlin Gallery Weekend
03 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The artistic director of this year's main show at the Biennale tells us how he is creating two playful but serious shows in one, each featuring the sa...
How did Salvator Mundi go from $1000 to $450m? Plus, the tragic story of Van Gogh’s only love
26 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
We talk to Ben Lewis about his book The Last Leonardo, the story of the world’s most expensive painting. And Martin Bailey tells us about his latest...
The Notre Dame fire and Cold War Steve
18 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
We talk to Jonathan Foyle about the effects of the fire at Notre Dame, the building’s history, including moments of neglect, and what happens next. ...