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Podcast episode 36: Berlin Biennale and Art Basel
We explore the two big European art world events of the past week: Arsalan Mohammad is in Berlin with the curator Serubiri Moses and the critic and curator Annika von Taube, and Ben Luke speaks to Melanie Gerlis, writer for the Financial Times and The Art Newspaper, on the line from Basel.
FeatureArt Basel 2018
Artists as cryptofinanciers: welcome to the blockchain
Curious new relationships between art and capital are being enabled by cryptofinance, which places “monetary value” at the heart of the creative process
InterviewArt Basel 2018
Lynn Hershman Leeson: Cool Science
The US pioneer of digital art discusses her passion for cutting-edge biology and its influence on her new multimedia exhibition, Anti-Bodies
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Podcast episode 35: Freud, Bacon, Hockney and the post-war London scene; and Signals gallery
We talk to Martin Gayford about his book Modernists and Mavericks and sitting for portraits by Freud and Hockney. And we explore a show celebrating the Signals gallery, where Latin American and European avant-gardes converged.
FeatureMarcel Duchamp
What was it like to conduct Marcel Duchamp's only live television interview?
Fifty years on, Joan Bakewell remembers speaking to the pioneering artist for the BBC, shortly before his death
ReviewHoward Hodgkin
A great send-off: Howard Hodgkin's extraordinary final paintings go on show at Gagosian
Late artist completed six paintings in five weeks, all of which are included in London gallery exhibition
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Podcast episode 34: Venice Architecture Biennale, and the Brutalist social housing debate
Edwin Heathcote of the Financial Times reviews the Biennale, and Christopher Turner on his controversial exhibition focusing on Alison and Peter Smithson’s Robin Hood Gardens housing estate.
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Podcast episode 33: Absent friends—Howard Hodgkin's final paintings; Robert Indiana remembered
We talk to Antony Peattie, the music writer and partner of the late Howard Hodgkin and to Barbara Haskell, curator of Robert Indiana's 2013 retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
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Podcast episode 32: David Chipperfield on the new Royal Academy
The Academy’s £56m project opens, with subtle additions and revamps by the British architect. Chipperfield talks about the subtleties of architecture, the RA’s chief executive Charles Saumarez Smith discusses funding and the quirks of the institution and we review the buildings and its displays with Jane Morris.
FeatureRoyal Academy
How the Royal Academy Schools shook off their fusty image
Once seen as a bastion of tradition ignored by young artists, the institution's postgraduate fine art course has become the most desirable in London
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Podcast episode 31: The $646m Rockefeller sale. Plus: should big galleries subsidise smaller ones?
We drill down into the big numbers from the Post-Impressionist and Modern sale in New York with Georgina Adam, talk to Professor Rachel Pownall about the wider market and look at a small gallery housed in Piccadilly Circus Tube station.
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Podcast episode 30: All about Berlin
Our guest host Arsalan Mohammad takes us behind the scenes of the explosion of shows during Gallery Weekend Berlin and beyond, speaking to dealers and artists about the changing face and enduring appeal of one of the world's most creative cities
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Podcast episode 29: Taryn Simon on grief and mourning
We talk to the US artist about her acclaimed work An Occupation of Loss staged in New York and now London. We hear from a curator and conservator at the Met about resurrecting Moretto da Brescia’s final great painting, and appraise the Turner Prize shortlist.
CommentTurner Prize
Who should win, who will win, and how smartphones dominate Turner Prize shortlist
Art critic Ben Luke gives us his take on this year's nominees
NewsThree to see
Three to see: London
From the high emotions of Taryn Simon’s professional mourners to photography galore at Somerset House and the Hayward Gallery
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Podcast episode 28: the battle over Ethiopia's treasures
Martin Bailey speaks to Hailemichael Aberra Afework, Ethiopia’s ambassador to the UK, about the artefacts seized by the British army at Maqdala, go behind the scenes of the Sony World Photography Awards with judge Gareth Harris and ask Richard Parry about his plans for Glasgow International
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Podcast episode 27: the enduring appeal of enigmatic Beuys. Plus, lost masterpieces reborn
We hear from Adam Lowe of Factum Arte about a new TV series in which seven lost paintings are recreated. And speak to Norman Rosenthal and Thaddaeus Ropac about the great German artist.
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Podcast episode 26: Wrap star Christo and the most popular shows of 2017
We speak to the Bulgarian-born artist about his grand project for the Serpentine, and look at our annual survey of visitor figures
NewsConservation
The Met resurrects Italian Old Master’s Entombment
Museum’s restoration lifts “grey veil” from final commission by the Renaissance artist Moretto da Brescia
NewsThree to see
Three to see: London
From Michael Rakowitz’s winged bull soaring above Trafalgar Square to the last chance to have a swing at Tate Modern
InterviewSonia Boyce
‘At the heart of all this is the question of power’: Sonia Boyce on the notorious Hylas and the Nymphs takedown
The artist reveals the story behind the headlines and the film she made about the painting's removal
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Podcast episode 25: Living with Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo specialist Martin Kemp on decades spent in the company of the Renaissance master, plus, we celebrate the 300th edition of The Art Newspaper
NewsFourth Plinth
London's Fourth Plinth unveiled: Michael Rakowitz’s winged bull sculpture made from date syrup cans
Iraqi-American artist has recreated Assyrian lamassu destroyed by Islamic State
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Podcast episode 24: Mural-gazing with the Dalai Lama, plus Michael Rakowitz
We speak to Thomas Laird about his new book on the murals of Tibet and to Michael Rakowitz about his fourth plinth commission unveiled next week
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Podcast episode 23: The death of Venice?
Salvatore Settis on the moral revival that could save Italy's sinking city, plus Tacita Dean on her three major London shows
NewsConservation
How much of conservators’ work should be visible and how much should be hidden?
The release of a pre-conservation image of Leonardo’s $450m Salvator Mundi reignites debate over the transparency of conservators’ interventions
NewsThree to see
Three to see: London
From Picasso's year of masterpieces at Tate Modern to his fellow Spaniard Murillo's portraits at the National Gallery
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Podcast episode 22: the genius of Picasso
We take a tour of Tate Modern's blockbuster and explore the strength of Picasso's market
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Podcast episode 21: Photography special—from Victorian pioneers to 2018 prize contenders
We meet the men and women behind three fascinating but very different exhibitions of lens-based art
PreviewExhibitions
Dreaming to drowning: a year in the life of Picasso
Tate Modern’s major new show focuses on 1932, a period of turbulent creativity that gave rise to some of the artist’s greatest work
FeatureMedia & broadcast
Civilisations: how the BBC's new series takes on Kenneth Clark's legacy
Documentary breaks with many of the assumptions in the art historian’s seminal series, but it also owes a great deal to it
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Podcast episode 20: Yes to Picasso, no to Van Gogh—inside the Rockefellers’ collection
We talk to the American dynasty’s historian about David and Peggy Rockefeller’s tastes, and explore the funding crisis at Glasgow’s Transmission Gallery
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Podcast episode 19: celebrating Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele on the centenary of their deaths
A look at the life and art of the two Austrian greats as shows open marking their 100th anniversary. And the New Museum Triennial is reviewed.
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Podcast episode 18: What's the future for ivory antiques?
We explore what new ivory regulations will mean for the art world and meet the 2017 Election Artist Cornelia Parker
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Podcast episode 17: Real or fake? The suspicious Russian avant-garde show in Ghent
Expert on Russian art Simon Hewitt discusses developments in The Art Newspaper's current cover story, plus we explore an unusual collaboration at Hauser & Wirth Somerset
PreviewArtist interview
Lydia Ourahmane on why she made a work about her grandfather pulling all his teeth
The Algerian-British artist explores her family’s experiences living in the shadow of colonialism
CommentAndy Warhol
Andy Warhol goes to church
Why the pop artist—a lifelong, closeted Catholic—deserves to be shown at The Vatican
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Podcast episode 16: Charles I at the Royal Academy—an exhibition fit for a king
We pick apart the latest smash hit show to open in London with art historian Bendor Grosvenor, then complete our 2018 preview with a look at the big exhibitions coming to the US this year
The Hayward Gallery
In pictures: the Hayward Gallery opens with Andreas Gursky
Highlights of the upcoming photography exhibition by the German photographer
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Podcast episode 15: What will 2018 hold for the art world?
We are at the London Art Fair speaking to Georgina Adam about her art market predictions and to Louisa Buck about the top shows and artists to keep on your radar this year
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Podcast episode 14: the top stories of 2017
From Louvre Abu Dhabi to Leonardo, Documenta to Trump, we look back at the year with our journalists Louisa Buck, Gareth Harris and Anny Shaw
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Podcast episode 13: the dark side of the art market
Former editor of the The Art Newspaper Jane Morris speaks to Georgina Adam about her new book Dark Side of the Boom and the art world's less savoury side
AnalysisThe Year In Review
From VR masterpieces to PR disasters: 2017's ups and downs
The Art Newspaper team assesses the art world's fortunes in a turbulent year
FeatureArt Basel in Miami Beach
As waters rise, artists answer a call to action
Florida is on the frontline of global warming—a crisis that demands creative thinking
Old Masters
Podcast episode 12: Old Masters after the Leonardo and Art Basel in Miami Beach
We talk Titian, Constable, Veneziano, Wright of Derby, Van Dyck and, yes, Leonardo, with art historian Bendor Grosvenor. And we get Judd Tully’s views on Miami’s annual art fair.
CommentTurner Prize
Lubaina Himid's win is richly deserved but raises questions about the future of the Turner Prize
It may be impossible for juries to give the award to younger artists ahead of long deserving ones
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Podcast epsiode ten: restoring Iraq’s heritage, plus the complex politics of First Nations art
John Darlington of the World Monuments Fund discusses projects to train local people in craft traditions and the curator Victor Wang on the work of Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun, whose first European solo show opens in London next week
NewsExhibitions
Camille Henrot speaks about her major new show at Palais de Tokyo
French artist has filled the 13,000 sq. m space in Paris with an exhibition based on the days of the week
FeatureFrieze 2017
Artists and the end of truth
Frieze London’s talks programme focuses on the rise of alt-facts and artifice—a realm historically the remit of artists
NewsThree to see
Three to see: London
From Rachel Whiteread’s mummified air to the burial rituals of the mysterious Scythians
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Howard Hodgkin’s 50 years of travels to India revealed in Hepworth Wakefield show
Paintings include one that was thought to have been lost and one of his final works
NewsArt Basel 2017
Kasper König: in praise of an artists’ curator
The artistic director of Skulptur Projekte will be in conversation at Art Basel, celebrating five decades as a champion of public art
NewsArt Basel 2017
Pierre Huyghe creates sci-fi landscape in Münster
French artist’s four galleries chip in for spectacular project in ice rink that could cost more than €1m
NewsExhibitions
Trust and risk: why Documenta and Münster are the artists’ favourite shows
This year’s German exhibitions may come round far less frequently than the biennials, but their influence on artists is immeasurably greater
NewsExhibitions
Münster: reflective art in a neo-Medieval Disneyland
The fifth edition of the sculpture show, held every ten years, corrects a gender imbalance but continues a melancholy tradition, according to its chief curator
NewsVenice Biennale 2017
Rachel Maclean uses Pinocchio to reflect on post-truth politics in Venice
The Scottish artist’s new film was inspired by the Italian fairy tale and Venice’s Baroque glitter
NewsVenice Biennale 2017
Memories from the director’s chair: five curators look back on their Venice Biennale shows
Selecting dozens of artists, dealing with a quirky organisation and navigating an idiosyncratic city—all under the gaze of a rapt art world—make curating the greatest art show on earth a test. Here, the five most recent artistic directors recall their experiences
Comment
Why try to fix the Turner Prize when it ain’t broke?
There is a downside to dropping the age limit of 50 for qualifying artists
NewsObituaries
Howard Hodgkin dies aged 84
British painter, described as one of the greatest colourists of his generation, won the Turner Prize in 1985 and exhibited widely including at the Met and Reina Sofia
NewsExhibitions
Nathan Coley sets fire to (a tiny) Tate Modern for London show
Glaswegian artist's works gain pertinence at a time when cultural institutions are being targeted by extremists
NewsExhibitions
Hadid’s paintings take on a life of their own
Virtual-reality experience is the result of a collaboration between the late architect’s studio, the Serpentine and Google
News
National Gallery finally takes the Fourth Plinth to its heart
London museum embraces proposals for the works on this year’s plinth as opportunity to engage the public
CommentPhoto London
Artists show their power to effect change
In the visual arts, a greater sense of activism is possible, and it’s being helped by the absorption of a broader range of disciplines and media into the canon
Ben Luke