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Activists protest Shell museum sponsorship. Plus, artists Michael Landy and Shahzia Sikander
This week: should the Science Museum in London stop taking money from the oil company Shell? We talk to a student activist, Anya Nanning Ramamurthy o…
5 years, 3 months ago
Slavery at the Rijksmuseum, Leonora Carrington and a Rubens Reunion
This week, we look at a much anticipated exhibition, Slavery at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. The Rijksmuseum is the Netherlands’ national art and hi…
5 years, 3 months ago
Guerrilla Girls: corrupt museum boards, the female nude and NFTs
This week: two festivals of art. Aimee Dawson talks to Frida Kahlo and Kathe Kollwitz of the Guerrilla Girls about their ongoing activism and their n…
5 years, 3 months ago
Mary Beard on Roman emperor Nero
This week: Mary Beard on Nero, one of the most infamous Roman emperors. Was he the sadistic murderer of legend, the emperor who fiddled as Rome burne…
5 years, 3 months ago
Viking-age treasure: new insights into life 1,000 years ago
This week: Viking-age treasures—what the medieval gold, silver, textiles and even dirt in a hoard found in 2014 in Scotland can tell us about the Vik…
5 years, 4 months ago
"Art is our spiritual oxygen": new shows in London and New York
Ben Luke talks to Ralph Rugoff, artistic director of the last Venice Biennale and director of the Hayward Gallery, London, about Matthew Barney and I…
5 years, 4 months ago
New York auctions: has the art market roared back to life?
It's a big week in the New York salerooms: Scott Reyburn, art market expert for The Art Newspaper and The New York Times, discusses the big sales and…
5 years, 4 months ago
Climate disaster: Richard Mosse on environmental crime in the Amazon
This week: ecocide in Brazil. In a special in-depth interview marking a retrospective at Fondazione MAST in Bologna, Italy, and an exhibition at the …
5 years, 4 months ago
Return to La La Land: art is back in California
This week: Los Angeles has finally opened its museums after more than a year. When New York's galleries have been open since August, what took Califo…
5 years, 5 months ago
Kusama-rama: Yayoi in London, New York and Berlin
This week on the now award-winning The Week in Art: Kusamarama. We take a deep dive into Yayoi Kusama’s polka dots, pumpkins and infinity rooms as sh…
5 years, 5 months ago