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US election: How Trump’s presidency has affected the arts
As the ramifications of the US election are set to continue for weeks, where do we stand in the art world? We look at the economics and the response …
5 years, 10 months ago
Has coronavirus helped unmask the real prices of art?
This week: like the rest of the art world, the market has been upended by the pandemic. But has the turmoil forced it to be any more transparent? Do …
5 years, 10 months ago
The great museum sell-off: should public collections deaccession to survive Covid-19?
Following a historic relaxation of deaccessioning laws in the US, we probe the moral quandaries faced by museums forced to sell-off parts of their co…
5 years, 11 months ago
What does the Philip Guston delay tell us about museums and race?
This week, we talk to the critics and curators Barry Schwabsky and Aindrea Emelife about the four-year delay to the show Philip Guston Now at the Nat…
5 years, 11 months ago
Frieze: the show goes on. Plus, Theaster Gates
It’s Frieze Week in London, yet there’s no big art fair at its heart. Can galleries create the usual excitement—and is anyone still buying?
There’s no…
5 years, 11 months ago
Artemisia and Frida: great art, turbulent lives
This week, we look at two great women artists: at last, we visit the postponed Artemisia exhibition at the National Gallery in London, taking a tour …
5 years, 11 months ago
Sell the Michelangelo or lose 150 staff? The RA’s Covid-19 conundrum
With UK museums and galleries in crisis, might the Royal Academy of Arts be forced to sell its Michelangelo? We look at the story that has emerged in…
6 years ago
Grayson Perry on race and class in the US; Philip Guston; Jacolby Satterwhite on Manet
This week: the artist Grayson Perry has a new exhibition and documentary series about the United States. What can a British artist and broadcaster te…
6 years ago
Berlin: still a magnet for artists?
It’s Berlin Art Week, and unusually for 2020, art fairs, a biennale, and a range of exhibitions are all opening at once in the German capital. But is…
6 years ago
Cancelled: should good artists pay for bad behaviour?
In this first episode of the new season, we talk to Erich Hatala Matthes, associate professor of philosophy at Wellesley College, Massachusetts, US—w…
6 years ago