The Week in Art
From breaking news and insider insights to exhibitions and events around the world, the team at The Art Newspaper picks apart the art world’s big stories with the help of special guests. An award-winning podcast hosted by Ben Luke, The Week in Art is sponsored by Christie’s.
What’s behind the row engulfing the UK’s National Trust?
Plus, a protest-themed tenth edition of the Performa Biennial and a restored portrait by Hans Holbein the Younger
Kyiv Biennial 2023: a cross-European event put together ‘against all odds’
Plus, a project exploring the sounds of migration and Jem Perucchini’s Art on the Underground commission
Paris+: is the French capital still on the rise as a cultural hub?
Plus, Hiroshi Sugimoto at the Hayward Gallery in London and Marie Laurencin's 'La femme-cheval'
Frieze turns 20: what's next for the popular art fair?
Plus, we speak to the artist Hildigunnur Birgisdóttir, who will be representing Iceland in Venice next year, and pick a work from the Matisse show at the Metropolitan Museum in New York
Kwer'ata Re'esu: the astonishing story of Ethiopia's most treasured icon
Plus, the AI copyright debate in the US and the end of China’s museum boom
Marina Abramović: the artist on her ‘best ever show’
Plus, Frans Hals at London's National Gallery and a Peter Paul Rubens painting inspired by Ovid's Metamorphoses
What happens when Unesco becomes the enemy?
Plus, remembering Fernando Botero and a pioneering Barkley L. Hendricks portrait
Is Saudi Arabia the next big cultural powerhouse?
Plus, Michelangelo at the Albertina in Vienna and Julianknxx at the Barbican in London
The Week in Art | Special 250th episode: what’s next for the visual arts?
We ask leading art world figures about their hopes and concerns, and discuss what the future has in store for museums, the art market and artists with our long-term contributors Cristina Ruiz, Georgina Adam and Louisa Buck
The Week in Art: The British Museum in crisis—an in-depth look
Plus, the Sāo Paulo biennial and Chaïm Soutine in Düsseldorf
How will the art market cope with stagflation?
Plus, Spain’s historical memory and a Dürer plate remade by Goldin + Senneby
London's National Portrait Gallery's revamp: the review
Plus, William Edmondson in Philadelphia and Zinzi Minott's Windrush 75 film in London
Africa rising: the TV show capturing a continent of creativity
Plus, the Liverpool Biennial, and Basquiat in Basel with Jeffrey Deitch
A Radiohead special: we speak to Thom Yorke and Stanley Donwood about their upcoming art show
Plus, choreographer Wayne McGregor performance piece at London's Royal Opera House and Whistler's Mother returns to Philadelphia
Picasso—questioned, but not cancelled: we speak to the curators of the Brooklyn Museum show
Plus, the damage to heritage in Italy following the devastating floods and Ellsworth Kelly's Spectrum work
Keith Haring's first time in Los Angeles: we talk to the curator of the Broad's landmark show
Plus, Tate Britain rehangs its collection and Work of the Week is a Joan Brown painting
New York's Spring art bonanza: the shows, the sales, the fairs
Plus, the Richard Prince copyright case and Sarah Sze in London
Looting, arrests and violence: an artist's perspective on the Sudan crisis
The Marquis de Sade's legacy explored in Barcelona show and Gwen John's self portrait in a Parisian interior
Charles III’s coronation: the ceremonial objects explained
Plus, Karl Lagerfeld in New York and Marlene Smith’s Good Housekeeping III
Art world AI-nxiety: what is artificial intelligence and how are artists using it?
Plus, the AI photography scandal at the Sony World Photography Awards
The mystic and the Modernist: Hilma af Klint and Piet Mondrian
We explore the Tate Modern exhibition. Plus, the Whitney's Jaune Quick-to-See Smith retrospective and a reconstructed Roman gateway in England
Art in the Windy City: Expo Chicago fair and beyond
Plus, how Northern Ireland's museums are marking 25 years since the Good Friday Agreement and an extravagant portrait of a 19th century French actor
Art market wobble: what happens if banks go bust?
Plus, hip hop in Baltimore and Juan de Pareja, the artist enslaved by Velázquez
Are visitors finally returning to museums? We dive into our latest visitor figures survey
Plus, the Manet/Degas rivalry in Paris and one of the most significant female Impressionists
Hong Kong is back with bang: Art Basel returns and M+ museum makes waves
Plus, art censorship online and Brenda L. Croft's photos of fellow First Nations Australian women
Inside the 'biggest art fraud in history': what the alleged mass forgery tells us about the market for First Nations art in Canada
Plus worryingly low artists’ pay in the UK and an Ugly Duchess
Old Masters in Maastricht: What does Tefaf tell us about the market for historic art?
Plus, the Institut du Monde Arabe's major gift and expansion plans and an unflinching self-portrait by a Rococo woman artist
NFTs crashed last year—does Art Dubai fair show signs of a ‘Crypto Spring’?
Plus, How Video Transformed the World at MoMA and the art of modernist ceramics
Nigeria’s pivotal election: what's the future of art and culture in the country?
Plus, the Met: a guard’s memoir and Hubert Robert at Stockholm's Nationalmuseum
Turkey-Syria earthquake: the race to save damaged heritage sites
Plus, Alice Neel's largest UK show and a dazzling turn-of-the-century blanket