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) Smithsonian under fire from Trump, Frieze Seoul, Dara Birnbaum and Quantum
Since we were last on air in June, the US government has announced what it calls a comprehensive internal review of activities at eight of the 21 museums under the umbrella of the Smithsonian Institut...Show More
6) Arthur Jafa and Mark Leckey, Cecilia Alemani on SITE Santa Fe, Trisha Brown and Robert Rauschenberg
An exhibition opens this weekend at Conditions, the low-cost studio programme for artists in Croydon, on the outskirts of south London, featuring two of the great works of art of recent decades: Mark ...Show More
7) Art Basel, human remains in Dutch museums, Eva Hesse
The Art Newspaper’s digital editor Alexander Morrison is in Basel for the annual Art Basel fair. He talks to our art market editor, Kabir Jhala, about the atmosphere at the fair after a long downturn ...Show More
8) Rachel Jones, Liverpool Biennial, UK Aids Memorial Quilt at Tate Modern
The Dulwich Picture Gallery, the UK’s first purpose-built public art gallery, is hosting an exhibition of one of Britain’s brightest young painting talents, Rachel Jones. Ben Luke visits the gallery t...Show More
9) London Gallery Weekend, Brazil’s National Museum, Jane Austen at the Morgan
The fifth edition of London Gallery Weekend takes place this weekend, and opens as the global art market is at a low ebb. So what can it do to change the mood? Ben Luke speaks to Ananya Mukhopadhyay, ...Show More
10) Museum openings: V&A East Storehouse and the Met’s Rockefeller Wing, plus Rachel Whiteread at Goodwood Art Foundation
We visit major museum projects unveiled this week in London and New York: Ben Luke takes a tour of V&A East Storehouse in London’s Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, which offers unprecedented access to th...Show More