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Let loose after lockdown: London’s best gallery shows
This week: after four long months, commercial art galleries are open again in England. We discuss some of the London shows with Louisa Buck, The Art …
5 years, 5 months ago
Can Netflix help solve the Isabella Stewart Gardner art heist?
On this week's podcast: the world’s greatest art heist. As a new Netflix documentary hits our screens, who stole the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum’…
5 years, 5 months ago
Has the drop in visitors changed museums forever?
The Art Newspaper’s annual survey of museum attendance is out: just how many visitors and how much money have museums lost in the pandemic? And how h…
5 years, 5 months ago
Benin bronzes: looted treasures will return to Nigeria at last
This week: Germany announces that its museums will send the Benin bronzes back to Nigeria: will other nations follow? We talk to Catherine Hickley, w…
5 years, 6 months ago
The results are in: the real impact of Covid on the art market
On this week's podcast: the most influential annual art market report has just been published—so what does it tell us about the effects of a year of …
5 years, 6 months ago
UK culture war: how should museums confront colonialism?
This week, we focus on two books: Aimee Dawson talks to Alice Procter about the debate over contested heritage in the UK and her book The Whole Pictu…
5 years, 6 months ago
Old Masters meet Brutalism: inside Frick Madison in New York
This week: the Frick Collection in New York has moved temporarily from its Gilded Age Mansion on Central Park to Marcel Breuer’s 1960s building creat…
5 years, 6 months ago
WTF are NFTs? Why crypto is dominating the art market
This week: NFTs or Non-Fungible Tokens. What are they? Are they a fad or do they represent the future of the art market? We talk to two people in the…
5 years, 7 months ago
'Black grief and white grievance' at New York’s New Museum
This week: the curator Naomi Beckwith and artist Okwui Okpokwasili discuss Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America, a major show at the New …
5 years, 7 months ago
Stonehenge: could a road tunnel ruin the ancient site?
This week: excavations have revealed new archaeological finds at Stonehenge but the UK government has approved a road tunnel through this iconic Worl…
5 years, 7 months ago