Venice Biennale Special 2026
It’s Venice Biennale opening week and so, as ever, this episode is our Venice special. The Biennale comprises many aspects: an international...
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20 of 381 episodesZurbarán in London, the Carnegie International, Walter Sickert’s Ennui
The largest career survey of the great 17th-century Spanish master Francisco de Zurbarán since the 1980s opens this weekend at the National...
Chernobyl 40 years on, Paula Rego at Munch in Oslo, Gluck’s flower painting
This Sunday, 26 April, marks the 40th anniversary of the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear reactor in Soviet Ukraine. It is the most serious...
Museum openings: V&A East and Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Plus, William Blake in Dublin
Two museum openings feature on this week’s podcast—V&A East in London and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. In our 300th episode in 2024...
Marcel Duchamp at MoMA, Dorothea Tanning book, Leonora Carrington at the Freud Museum, London
Three artists who in different ways connect to the Surrealist movement are the subject of this week’s podcast. At the Museum of Modern Art i...
Should English museums charge tourists? Plus, Raphael at the Met and Senga Nengudi at the Whitechapel Gallery
The UK government last week issued a response to a report ostensibly exploring the future of the funding body Arts Council England but conta...
Matisse’s explosive finale and a new chapter for Hong Kong? Plus, Schiaparelli and Dalí
The Grand Palais in Paris this week unveiled an enormous exhibition focusing on the final 13 years of Henri Matisse’s life and work, a proje...
New Museum extension opens, NextGen collectors, a Wardian Case in Oxford
The New Museum in New York opens its new extension, designed by Shohei Shigematsu and Rem Koolhaas of the architectural practice OMA, this w...
Iran war: art communities and heritage in Iran, moderate recovery in the art market, Cannupa Hanska Luger at the Sydney Biennale
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,...
Iran war and culture in the Gulf, the Whitney Biennial, Rembrandt discovery
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...
Venice Biennale details revealed, Beatriz González, Tracey Emin
Following the tragic death of Koyo Kouoh last May, the details of her final project—In Minor Keys, the international exhibition of the 2026...
National Gallery’s deficit bombshell, Simon Schama on birds and art, Vilhelm Hammershøi
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 earl...
The US struggles with history, Stephen Friedman Gallery closes, Tudor Heart pendant acquired by the British Museum
On 4 July 2026 the US will mark the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, the nation’s founding document. But huge divisions...
Art Basel Qatar, Dürer portrait debate, Paula Modersohn-Becker and Edvard Munch
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 L...
Venice Biennale: South African pavilion scandal, Marian Goodman remembered, Paul Cezanne in Basel
The South African culture minister, the right-wing populist Gayton McKenzie, is attempting to cancel the project for South Africa’s pavilion...
Smithsonian’s African LGBTQ+ exhibition, art and the Iran crisis, Louise Nevelson at the Pompidou Metz
The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art in Washington, D.C. this week opens Here: Pride and Belonging in African Art, a new exhibit...
Hawai’i at the British Museum, a Venice palazzo for sale, Joseph Beuys’s Bathtub
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,...
The Year Ahead 2026: the big shows and the key openings
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...
2025: our review of the year
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 an...
Frank Gehry remembered, Serpentine and FLAG Art Foundation prize, Joan Semmel
Frank Gehry, the architect behind the Guggenheim Bilbao, Geffen Contemporary at MoCA, Los Angeles, and the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris,...