A 2025 preview: Georgina Adam, our editor-at-large, tells host Ben Luke what might lie ahead for the market. And Ben... more

It is the final episode of 2024 and so, as always, we review the year, looking at the top stories,... more

This week, three artist interviews: Carsten Höller on his book of games, Takashi Murakami on his new work, and Valeria... more

The Art Newspaper’s editor, Americas, Ben Sutton, and our art market editor, Kabir Jhala, are in Florida and report on... more

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

Maurizio Cattelan’s Comedian (2019), the work featuring a banana stuck to a wall with grey duct tape, sold at Sotheby’s... more

UK museums are at a moment of transformation with a new generation of directors taking the helm at several of... more

This week: two exhibitions in London are showing remarkable works made during the Renaissance. At the King’s Gallery, the museum... more

Shortly after the US election on 5 November, the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington opens The Shape of Power:... more

This week: with less than two weeks before the US goes to the polls, and with early voting underway, Ben... more

After descending on London last week, the art world arrived in Paris this week, with the main attraction being the... more

The Frieze London art fair has a new look for 2024 as it looks to keep its freshness amid increased... more

This week: a huge survey of the work of the late linchpin of the Los Angeles contemporary scene Mike Kelley... more

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

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

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

The Week in Art is back. In this first episode of the season: on Tuesday it was reported in the... more

On Thursday 4 July, the UK will hold a general election, with the Labour party currently far ahead in the... more

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

This week: it’s arguably the best loved of the major art fairs among collectors and dealers, but what have we... more

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

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

As the Louvre’s director admits that the Paris museum wants to move its most famous painting away from the crowded... more

We take a tour of Tate Britain’s new exhibition, Now You See Us, featuring more than 100 women artists who... more

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

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

The last painting made by Gustav Klimt, left on his easel when he died in 1918 of illnesses relating to... more

We are back in Venice for the latest edition of the biggest biennial in the world of art. The 60th... more

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

The convicted art fraudster Inigo Philbrick is out of prison and possibly seeking a return to art dealing. How is... more

Richard Serra, one of the greatest artists of the past 50 years, a linchpin of the post-minimalist scene in late... more

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

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

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

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

The exhibition The Time Is Always Now, featuring 22 artists from the African diaspora whose work takes the Black figure... more

A vast survey covering seven decades of art by Yoko Ono has just opened at Tate Modern, and we take... more

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

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

This week: masters week in New York—can the market for historic works be revived? Scott Reyburn, a market reporter for... more

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

In the first episode of 2024 we look ahead to the next 12 months. The Art Newspaper’s acting art market... more

It’s the final episode of 2023 and so, as always, it’s our review of the year. Host Ben Luke is... more

This week: the final big art market event of the year, Art Basel in Miami Beach. The Art Newspaper’s associate... more

The tragic human cost of the bombardment of the Gaza Strip in the Israel-Hamas war is well documented. What is... more

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

This week: the New York auctions. Tim Schneider, The Art Newspaper’s acting art market editor, joins us to discuss two... more

This week: live art and activism. Performance art has long been used as a vehicle for protest and political activism... more

As global political leaders, key figures in the tech industry and academics meet at Bletchley Park in the UK for... more

This week: the first Kyiv Biennial since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine last year is taking place in various locations across... more

This week: it’s the second year of Paris +, the event that has taken over from Fiac as the leading... more

The Frieze art fair has turned 20 this week, and is only growing in its ambitions, having acquired the Armory... more

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

This week: three big London shows, in depth. As Marina Abramović draws huge crowds to the Royal Academy of Arts... more

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

A Unesco conference and archeological summit in Saudi Arabia are the latest examples of the country’s increasing focus on culture... more

It’s our 250th podcast, and in this special episode we focus on the future. We ask leading figures across the... more

In the first episode of this new season of The Week in Art, we talk to Martin Bailey, The Art... more

This week: in the final episode of this season, James Goodwin, a specialist on the art market and its history,... more

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

As her new series for the BBC, Africa Rising, takes Afua Hirsch to Morocco, Nigeria and South Africa, we talk... more

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

As It’s Pablo-matic: Picasso According to Hannah Gadsby opens at the Brooklyn Museum, New York, we talk to Catherine Morris... more

This week: the first ever museum show of Keith Haring’s work in Los Angeles. We talk to Sarah Loyer, the... more

This week: the Frieze art fair and spring auctions in New York. As the Frieze Art Fair returns to The... more

This week: the Sudan crisis. How are artists responding to another war in the East African country? The photographer Ala... more

This week: the coronation in the UK. As Charles III is crowned at Westminster Abbey this weekend, Anna Somers Cocks,... more

This week: AI and art. We explore some of the key aspects relating to artificial intelligence and its use in... more

This week: we take a tour of Tate Modern’s exhibition that brings together the Swedish painter Hilma af Klint and... more

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

This week: Ben Luke talks to Melanie Gerlis about the recent turbulence in the banking sector, as US banks go... more

The Art Newspaper’s annual report on museum visitor figures around the world has been published. We talk to Lee Cheshire,... more

This week: Art Basel Hong Kong bounces back. After cancellations, delays and two years of restricted fairs, the fair has... more

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

Is the Old Masters market struggling? As Tefaf opens its fair in Maastricht, we look at this major moment in... more

This week: as the Art Dubai fair opens, The Art Newspaper’s acting digital editor Aimee Dawson tells us about this... more

This week: Nigeria heads to the polls this weekend; what are the implications for its museums and art scene? Dolly... more

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

In this special episode, we are in Amsterdam for one of the shows of the year: Vermeer at the Rijksmuseum.... more

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

This week: as robotic figures of the Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama appear in windows of Louis Vuitton stores in New... more

Vincent Van Gogh’s Sunflowers in Tokyo are the subject of a legal claim in the US relating to Nazi loot.... more

In the first episode of the year, we look ahead at the next 12 months. Anny Shaw, the acting art... more

It’s our final podcast of 2022 and so, as ever, we’re looking back at the worlds of art and heritage... more

This week: the Parthenon Marbles; it has emerged that George Osborne, the former UK chancellor and now chair of the... more

As Art Basel returns to Florida for the 20th anniversary of its Miami Beach art fair, Aimee Dawson, the acting... more

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

Ben Luke talks to Hannah McGivern, a correspondent for The Art Newspaper who has just been to Qatar, about the... more

This week: as the UN’s climate emergency summit, Cop27, continues in Egypt, Ben Luke talks to Louisa Buck, The Art... more

This week: uproar over the National Gallery in London’s building plans—is it a sensitive makeover or like “an airport lounge”?... more

This week: the recent opening of Edward Hopper’s New York at the Whitney Museum has reignited a controversy over the... more

This week: we talk to Emma Brown of Just Stop Oil about why the group targeted Vincent Van Gogh’s Sunflowers... more

This week: Ben Luke talks to Anny Shaw, a contributing editor at The Art Newspaper, about the atmosphere at the... more

This week: Georgina Adam joins Ben Luke to discuss the intriguing story of the bankrupt entrepreneur and art collector, the... more

As a host of new exhibitions of the work of Lucian Freud opens across London to mark his centenary, this... more

Amid growing support for hard-right parties in Europe, Ben Luke speaks to James Imam, The Art Newspaper’s Italian correspondent, about... more

Following the death of Queen Elizabeth II and the proclamation of King Charles III, Ben Luke speaks to the former... more

This week: is art censorship on the rise? The Art Newspaper’s chief contributing editor, Gareth Harris, joins Ben Luke to... more

Ben Luke talks to Alexander Kellner, the director of the National Museum of Brazil, about how he plans to mark... more

On 29 June, Frieze announced the details of the first edition of its art fair in Seoul, South Korea. So... more

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

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

We talk to the writer and critic Amy Castor about what effect the tumbling crypto markets might have on the... more

This week, Picasso and the Old Masters: as shows pairing the Spaniard with Ingres and El Greco open in London... more

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

This week, as Frieze New York takes place at The Shed in Hudson Yards, and we come to the end... more

This week: is heritage in Ukraine being attacked and looted, and what can be done to protect it? Ben Luke... more

This week, Philip Guston Now is unveiled at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston after its controversial postponement in... more

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

A Venice Biennale special: we give you a flavour of the 59th edition of the Biennale which, as ever, brings... more

This week: Tom Seymour talks to the photographer Edward Burtynsky as he is recognised for his Outstanding Contribution to his... more

This week: Quiet as It’s Kept, the 80th edition of the Whitney Biennial, is now open to the public at... more

This week: the Art Basel and UBS Global Art Market Report 2022 is out—is the market’s recovery as good as... more

We talk to Max Hollein, director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, about the new plans for the museum’s wing... more

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

This week: as more than two million refugees leave war-torn Ukraine, what can the arts do? Counterpoints Arts is a charity... more

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

As an exhibition opens at the Whitechapel Gallery in London focusing on artists’ studios over the last century, we take... more

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

As a show looking at Louise Bourgeois’s late-career obsession with textiles opens at the Hayward Gallery in London—ahead of other... more

This week, we talk to Cecilia Alemani, the artistic director of the Venice Biennale for art, which opens in April,... more

This week, we visit the Royal Academy in London, where a new show looking at Francis Bacon’s use of animal... more

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

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

It’s the final episode of 2021 and so, as always, it’s our review of the year. Joining Ben Luke to... more

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

This week, as Art Basel in Miami Beach opens, we discuss a new book, The Art Fair Story: A Rollercoaster... more

This week, we look at the case of the art dealer Inigo Philbrick, who pleaded guilty to fraud in a... more

This week, record-breaking auction sales in New York—are we in a new boom? Anna Brady discusses the big lots in... more

In Hong Kong, the long-awaited M+ Museum opens this week, amid accusations of censorship by the Chinese artist Ai Weiwei.... more

This week, as talks continue at Cop26, the UN’s climate charge conference in Glasgow, we talk to Lucia Pietroiusti of... more

This week, Aimee Dawson, deputy digital editor at The Art Newspaper, is in Giza in Egypt for Forever is Now,... more

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

This week, as the Frieze art fairs open and the international art world descends on London, we talk about Mark... more

This week: Jasper Johns. Carlos Basualdo of the Philadelphia Museum of Art and Scott Rothkopf of the Whitney Museum of... more

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

This week: the Art Basel fair has opened in Switzerland, but are the collectors back and are they buying? We... more

This week: as a tribunal in London hears of human rights atrocities against the Uyghur community and other Muslim groups... more

As a huge survey of contemporary painting opens at the Hayward Gallery in London, we ask: is the time-honoured medium of... more

We're back with a new season of The Week in Art, which takes us right up to the holidays.In this... more

It's an all-woman line-up on this week's podcast. Nancy Kenney speaks to Andrea Nelson, the curator of The New Woman... more

This week: should the Science Museum in London stop taking money from the oil company Shell? We talk to a... more

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

This week: two festivals of art. Aimee Dawson talks to Frida Kahlo and Kathe Kollwitz of the Guerrilla Girls about... more

This week: Mary Beard on Nero, one of the most infamous Roman emperors. Was he the sadistic murderer of legend,... more

This week: Viking-age treasures—what the medieval gold, silver, textiles and even dirt in a hoard found in 2014 in Scotland... more

Ben Luke talks to Ralph Rugoff, artistic director of the last Venice Biennale and director of the Hayward Gallery, London,... more

It's a big week in the New York salerooms: Scott Reyburn, art market expert for The Art Newspaper and The... more

This week: ecocide in Brazil. In a special in-depth interview marking a retrospective at Fondazione MAST in Bologna, Italy, and... more

This week: Los Angeles has finally opened its museums after more than a year. When New York's galleries have been... more

This week on the now award-winning The Week in Art: Kusamarama. We take a deep dive into Yayoi Kusama’s polka... more

This week: after four long months, commercial art galleries are open again in England. We discuss some of the London... more

On this week's podcast: the world’s greatest art heist. As a new Netflix documentary hits our screens, who stole the... more

The Art Newspaper’s annual survey of museum attendance is out: just how many visitors and how much money have museums... more

This week: Germany announces that its museums will send the Benin bronzes back to Nigeria: will other nations follow? We... more

On this week's podcast: the most influential annual art market report has just been published—so what does it tell us... more

This week, we focus on two books: Aimee Dawson talks to Alice Procter about the debate over contested heritage in... more

This week: the Frick Collection in New York has moved temporarily from its Gilded Age Mansion on Central Park to... more

This week: NFTs or Non-Fungible Tokens. What are they? Are they a fad or do they represent the future of... more

This week: the curator Naomi Beckwith and artist Okwui Okpokwasili discuss Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America, a... more

This week: excavations have revealed new archaeological finds at Stonehenge but the UK government has approved a road tunnel through... more

On this week's podcast: the artist-activists at the heart of Russia’s biggest protests in a decade and how the Indian... more

This week, the Old Masters in the digital age. We look at the $92m live-streamed auction sale (with fees) of... more

This week: as Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are sworn in as the president and vice president of the United... more

This week, we look at white supremacist art in the Capitol in Washington and discuss the legacy of Hannah Arendt.... more

It’s the final episode of 2020 and so, as we always do as the year comes to an end, we’re... more

The Brexit deadline is imminent and the UK and the European Union are desperately seeking an agreement. But what are... more

This week, we look at contemporary public art, as debate has raged about various works in recent weeks. Who is... more

This week we look at museums and Africa: we explore the future of museums and African institutions’ central role in... more

It’s Thanksgiving on 26 November, so this week, we look at the myths behind this American holiday, and particularly the... more

This week: we speak to our China correspondent Lisa Movius in Shanghai about the fairs and other events opening in... more

As the ramifications of the US election are set to continue for weeks, where do we stand in the art... more

This week: like the rest of the art world, the market has been upended by the pandemic. But has the... more

Following a historic relaxation of deaccessioning laws in the US, we probe the moral quandaries faced by museums forced to... more

This week, we talk to the critics and curators Barry Schwabsky and Aindrea Emelife about the four-year delay to the... more

It’s Frieze Week in London, yet there’s no big art fair at its heart. Can galleries create the usual excitement—and... more

This week, we look at two great women artists: at last, we visit the postponed Artemisia exhibition at the National... more

With UK museums and galleries in crisis, might the Royal Academy of Arts be forced to sell its Michelangelo? We look... more

This week: the artist Grayson Perry has a new exhibition and documentary series about the United States. What can a... more

It’s Berlin Art Week, and unusually for 2020, art fairs, a biennale, and a range of exhibitions are all opening... more

In this first episode of the new season, we talk to Erich Hatala Matthes, associate professor of philosophy at Wellesley College,... more

The Week in Art, sponsored by Christie’s, is The Art Newspaper’s topical news podcast, released every Friday. Each week, we look... more

A new series of The Week in Art podcast will begin on 4 September; expect all the latest art world... more

This week, in our last episode of this series, we look at the top exhibitions you can see this summer... more

We explore the Serpentine Galleries’ new report into Future Art Ecosystems: with existing art industry models under threat, can new... more

This week, as the effects of the coronavirus pandemic and the lockdown hit museums, we’re seeing unprecedented layoffs on both... more

What is the future of the art world in Hong Kong now that a new national security law curbs human... more

This week, we look at the destruction on 24 May of sacred Aboriginal sites in Western Australia by a mining... more

Plus, artist Rita Keegan on her postponed show and Julia Peyton-Jones on Leonardo Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more... more

This week we address the toppling of statues around the world amid the Black Lives Matter protests: is this an... more

On this week's podcast, as galleries in London re-open amid a pandemic, we ask: what does the new normal look... more

This week, in the aftermath of the killing of George Floyd, we talk about the history of black resistance in... more

As cultural institutions across the world are faced with deciding if and when to re-open, we look at two extremes:... more

This episode begins by celebrating good news: that the once-in-a-lifetime exhibition of works by Raphael at the Scuderie del Quirinale... more

This week would have been so-called "gigaweek", with the major auctions of Impressionist, Modern and contemporary art in New York.... more

This week, we have an exclusive interview with Marina Abramovic: what's the future of performance in the post-pandemic art world?... more

This week, we look at how technologies like digital scanning and artificial intelligence (AI) are being used to create facsimiles... more

This week, we look at museums in different parts of the globe: what’s their future in a world changed by... more

A veritable Juddaganza: we focus on an artist who, before the coronavirus (Covid-19) forced museums and galleries to close, was... more

We explore how safe museums are from theft now that they are closed and cities are under lockdown due to... more

We discuss the present and future of the art market, first with Rachel Pownall, a Professor of Finance at Maastricht... more

This week, we explore the devastating effects of the coronavirus (Covid-19) on art communities, and particularly the wealth of self-employed... more

We speak to our journalists in the two epicentres of the Covid-19 pandemic thus far: Anna Somers Cocks in Italy... more

As the National Gallery opens its show dedicated to Titian's great mythological paintings made for Philip II of Spain, we... more

We pay tribute to the performance art trailblazer Ulay, who died on 2 March—and discuss his years of collaboration with... more

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Is the dispute between Greece and the British Museum about the Parthenon Marbles about to escalate? A leaked draft of... more

As Frieze Los Angeles opens, we look at the LA art scene, its artist-run galleries and grassroots spaces and ask:... more

We visit the Whitechapel Gallery in London to explore their show Radical Figures: Painting in the New Millennium, with the... more

We look at the story behind the front-page article in our February issue: the discovery that a multi-million dollar Gauguin... more

We look at the year ahead for galleries, art fairs and auctions, and seek out the big shows in the... more

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We take an in-depth look at Maurizio Cattelan, the creator of the banana-and-duct-tape work which caused a sensation at Art... more

The art world has been up in arms this week as Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Helen Cammock, Oscar Murillo and Tai... more

We talk to Lesley Fitton, the co-curator of the British Museum's blockbuster show on the myth and reality of Troy.... more

As a huge exhibition of Dora Maar's work opens at Tate Modern, we take a tour of the show with... more

As he opens a new show at London's White Cube gallery, we talk to the German artist about the themes... more

This week, we review Tutankhamun: Treasures of the Golden Pharaoh, which has just opened at the Saatchi Gallery in London.... more

To mark Bonfire Night in the UK, this bonus episode of The Art Newspaper takes a look at the history... more

We talk to the artist Dread Scott about his extraordinarily ambitious two-day performance in Louisiana where he and 500 Louisianans... more

As the exhibition of the year opens at the Louvre, we talk to Ben Lewis about the latest developments in... more

After a $450m expansion overseen by the architects Diller, Scofidio and Renfro, the Museum of Modern Art in New York... more

We talk to Agnes Denes, best known for her extraordinary Wheatfield, a two-acre field of wheat that she planted, tended... more

In this bumper edition of the podcast we interview three of the world's leading artists, all of whom have shows... more

As art schools start their new term in the UK, this week’s episode is an education special. We talk to... more

We discuss the dilemmas facing museums as the focus intensifies on ethical sponsorship and governance in the UK and US.... more

We take an in-depth tour of the huge new William Blake exhibition at Tate Britain and explore the life and... more

New season! In this first episode, we talk to Timothy Spall about the new film Mrs Lowry and Son and... more

In the last of our summer series of podcasts looking back over 200 interviews, we talk to David Hockney about... more

In the latest podcast featuring highlights from our first 200 interviews on The Art Newspaper podcast, we feature three conversations... more