Podcast Episodes

David Bowie Centre, Bukhara Biennial, Hilton Als on Jean Rhys, Hurvin Anderson and Kara Walker

Earlier this year, we took a tour of the V&A East Storehouse, the Victoria and Albert Museum’s vast new complex in East London. This week, it opens the David Bowie Centre, a dedicated space to the mu…

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Smithsonian under fire from Trump, Frieze Seoul, Dara Birnbaum and Quantum

Since we were last on air in June, the US government has announced what it calls a comprehensive internal review of activities at eight of the 21 museums under the umbrella of the Smithsonian Institu…

Published on 1 week ago

Arthur Jafa and Mark Leckey, Cecilia Alemani on SITE Santa Fe, Trisha Brown and Robert Rauschenberg

An exhibition opens this weekend at Conditions, the low-cost studio programme for artists in Croydon, on the outskirts of south London, featuring two of the great works of art of recent decades: Mark…

Published on 2 months, 2 weeks ago

Art Basel, human remains in Dutch museums, Eva Hesse

The Art Newspaper’s digital editor Alexander Morrison is in Basel for the annual Art Basel fair. He talks to our art market editor, Kabir Jhala, about the atmosphere at the fair after a long downturn…

Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago

Rachel Jones, Liverpool Biennial, UK Aids Memorial Quilt at Tate Modern

The Dulwich Picture Gallery, the UK’s first purpose-built public art gallery, is hosting an exhibition of one of Britain’s brightest young painting talents, Rachel Jones. Ben Luke visits the gallery …

Published on 2 months, 4 weeks ago

London Gallery Weekend, Brazil’s National Museum, Jane Austen at the Morgan

The fifth edition of London Gallery Weekend takes place this weekend, and opens as the global art market is at a low ebb. So what can it do to change the mood? Ben Luke speaks to Ananya Mukhopadhyay,…

Published on 3 months ago

Museum openings: V&A East Storehouse and the Met’s Rockefeller Wing, plus Rachel Whiteread at Goodwood Art Foundation

We visit major museum projects unveiled this week in London and New York: Ben Luke takes a tour of V&A East Storehouse in London’s Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, which offers unprecedented access to t…

Published on 3 months, 1 week ago

Jean Tinguely’s 100th anniversary, Fenix Museum, Ben Shahn

A host of exhibitions and events this month and next celebrate the 100th anniversary of the birth of the Swiss artist Jean Tinguely, one of the godfathers of kinetic and auto-destructive art. Ben Luk…

Published on 3 months, 2 weeks ago

Koyo Kouoh remembered, Queen Elizabeth II memorial, Jasper Johns by Robert Storr

Koyo Kouoh remembered, Queen Elizabeth II memorial, Jasper Johns by Robert Storr

Koyo Kouoh, the Cameroon-born curator who was director of Zeitz Mocaa in Cape Town and had been invited to curate next …

Published on 3 months, 3 weeks ago

London: National Gallery refurb and rehang, Tate Modern is 25. Plus, Inge Mahn

This week: after a two-year closure, the National Gallery’s Sainsbury Wing reopens this week, revealing a major overhaul by the architect Annabelle Selldorf. The gallery has also rehung its entire co…

Published on 4 months ago