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Art attack: Just Stop Oil and iconoclasm; Art Basel’s Paris+ fair; Frank Bowling
This week: we talk to Emma Brown of Just Stop Oil about why the group targeted Vincent Van Gogh’s Sunflowers in the National Gallery, London, for its…
3 years, 11 months ago
Art boom as the UK busts; Cecilia Vicuña; C20th women at Frieze; Modigliani in Philadelphia
This week: Ben Luke talks to Anny Shaw, a contributing editor at The Art Newspaper, about the atmosphere at the Frieze London and Frieze Masters fair…
3 years, 11 months ago
Multimillion Old Master upgrades; Monet and Joan Mitchell; Tudors in New York
This week: Georgina Adam joins Ben Luke to discuss the intriguing story of the bankrupt entrepreneur and art collector, the museum scholar and a host…
3 years, 11 months ago
Lucian Freud special: new perspectives, the artist’s letters and a horse painting
As a host of new exhibitions of the work of Lucian Freud opens across London to mark his centenary, this episode is all about this leading figure in …
4 years ago
Italy’s far right weaponises culture; Carnegie International; Maria Bartuszová
Amid growing support for hard-right parties in Europe, Ben Luke speaks to James Imam, The Art Newspaper’s Italian correspondent, about the far-right …
4 years ago
Art and the British Royal Family; museums’ energy crisis; Fuseli’s The Nightmare
Following the death of Queen Elizabeth II and the proclamation of King Charles III, Ben Luke speaks to the former Surveyor of the Queen’s Pictures, D…
4 years ago
Art and censorship; Diane Arbus; Guggenheim Bilbao at 25
This week: is art censorship on the rise? The Art Newspaper’s chief contributing editor, Gareth Harris, joins Ben Luke to discuss his new book, Censo…
4 years ago
Brazil turns 200; a £50m Reynolds painting; Michael Heizer’s City
Ben Luke talks to Alexander Kellner, the director of the National Museum of Brazil, about how he plans to mark Brazil’s bicentennial and to restore t…
4 years ago
Summer of Seoul: why the South Korean capital is a new art world hub
On 29 June, Frieze announced the details of the first edition of its art fair in Seoul, South Korea. So for this last episode of the current season, …
4 years, 2 months ago
Documenta 15: scandal and legacy. Plus, the Warhol-Prince copyright dispute, and Juan Muñoz
This week: our associate editor, Kabir Jhala, and editor-at-large, Jane Morris, have been in Kassel, Germany, to see Documenta, the quinquennial inte…
4 years, 3 months ago