The 4 Best The Week in Art Podcast Episodes
1) David Hockney: exclusive interview with the world's most expensive living artist
We talk to Hockney about Van Gogh, printmaking and the Bayeaux Tapestry but also about Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures), which broke auction record this week. We also look at the personal...Show More
2) The hunt for looted Cambodian heritage; the dark truth of the Marcos family’s extravagance; Ruth Asawa
This week: are stolen Cambodian statues hidden in the world’s great public collections? We discuss Cambodia’s looted heritage with Celia Hatton, Asia Pacific editor and presenter at the BBC World Serv...Show More
3) 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 history museum and the curators of the exhibition sta...Show More
Slavery at the Rijksmuseum, Leonora Carrington and a Rubens Reunion
1:00:13 | Jun 18th, 2021
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4) 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 world of crypto commodities about the explosion of...Show More
5) The Year Ahead 2026: the big shows and the key openings
It is the first episode of 2026. So we look ahead at the next 12 months with a guide to big museum openings, biennials and exhibitions. Ben Luke is joined by Jane Morris, editor-at-large at The Art Ne...Show More
6) 2025: our review of the year
As always, the final episode of The Week in Art of the year is a review of the past 12 months. To look at the top stories, the big issues and the best art in 2025, host Ben Luke is joined by The Art N...Show More
7) Frank Gehry remembered, Serpentine and FLAG Art Foundation prize, Joan Semmel
Frank Gehry, the architect behind the Guggenheim Bilbao, Geffen Contemporary at MoCA, Los Angeles, and the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris, among other museums and art spaces, died last Friday at his...Show More
Frank Gehry remembered, Serpentine and FLAG Art Foundation prize, Joan Semmel
56:51 | Dec 12th, 2025
8) Art Basel Miami Beach, Louvre crisis deepens, Helene Schjerfbeck
The Art Newspaper’s editor-in-chief, Americas, Ben Sutton, and art market editor, Kabir Jhala, are in Miami Beach for Art Basel’s latest edition and discuss the top sales and the wider mood at the fai...Show More
9) The US Venice Biennale saga, Queer Islamic art in Oslo, Duane Linklater in Ottawa
After a delayed application process and an aborted initial commission, the US has at last appointed its artist for next year’s Venice Biennale: the Utah-born, Mexico-based artist Alma Allen. The Art N...Show More
The US Venice Biennale saga, Queer Islamic art in Oslo, Duane Linklater in Ottawa
56:28 | Nov 28th, 2025
10) The $236m Klimt, Cop 30 and the art world, Caravaggio’s Victorious Cupid
Gustav Klimt’s Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer (1914-16) sold for the second highest price ever realised at auction at Sotheby’s in New York on Tuesday. It was the most notable of several big sales in t...Show More