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About The Week in Art
From breaking news and insider insights to exhibitions and events around the world, the team at The Art Newspaper picks apart the art world's big stories with the help of special guests. An award-winning podcast hosted by Ben Luke
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Summer of Seoul: why the South Korean capital is a new art world hub
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Special 250th episode: what’s next for the visual arts?
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Just Stop Oil’s Stonehenge protest, Tavares Strachan, Louise Bourgeois at the Galleria Borghese
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Paris: Art Basel at the Grand Palais and Guillermo Kuitca at Musée Picasso, plus Małgorzata Mirga-Tas at Tate St Ives
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Anselm Kiefer, Hoor al Qasimi on Sharjah, a Picasso Blue Period mystery
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Multimillion Old Master upgrades; Monet and Joan Mitchell; Tudors in New York
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2022’s biggest art stories—and what they mean
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Parthenon Marbles: breakthrough in sight? Plus, Afghan culture in crisis and Kiki Smith’s New York murals
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Protest and performance in New York, UK National Trust row, Hans Holbein
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Kerry James Marshall, National Gallery expansion, Picasso’s Three Dancers
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Art and the British Royal Family; museums’ energy crisis; Fuseli’s The Nightmare
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Art at Qatar’s World Cup; New York auctions; Mozambican artist Luis Meque
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The art world in 2023: market predictions, big shows, museum openings
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Turkey-Syria: the earthquake and heritage; Alice Neel in London; a Navajo “eye-dazzler” blanket
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Peter Hujar, Gregg Bordowitz and Rotimi Fani-Kayode: art and the Aids struggle
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Art Basel, human remains in Dutch museums, Eva Hesse
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Fraud: how corrupt is the art world? Plus, Warhol’s Catholicism and Moscow’s new museums
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Brazil turns 200; a £50m Reynolds painting; Michael Heizer’s City
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Keith Haring in LA; Tate Britain’s rehang; Joan Brown in Pittsburgh
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Gaza: damage to historic sites, Emily Kam Kngwarray in Canberra, a Gauguin manuscript
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Venice Biennale Special 2026
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London: National Gallery refurb and rehang, Tate Modern is 25. Plus, Inge Mahn
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2025: our review of the year
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2024 in review: the biggest stories and the best shows
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Frieze in London, Hypha Studios and Renoir’s drawing for The Great Bathers
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Frieze New York, the Cranach in Hitler’s Munich apartment, Ajamu X
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Episode 300! British Museum, Tate Modern and V&A East directors in discussion
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Museums and ethics, Fra Angelico in Florence, Cornelia Parker’s PsychoBarn
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Nigerian Modernism, Tehran’s art scene after the war, Wayne Thiebaud’s Cakes
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Art Basel Qatar, Dürer portrait debate, Paula Modersohn-Becker and Edvard Munch
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Trump’s assault on museums and libraries, the art market’s 12% fall, Evie Hone and Mainie Jellett
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Chernobyl 40 years on, Paula Rego at Munch in Oslo, Gluck’s flower painting
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Summer of Seoul: will South Korea become a new art world hub?
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Art boom as the UK busts; Cecilia Vicuña; C20th women at Frieze; Modigliani in Philadelphia
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Art Dubai; MoMA’s political video art show; Lucie Rie
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Black figuration, Surrealism is 100, Tonita Peña’s Eagle Dance mural
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The art market slump, the artist freed in the US-Russia prisoner swap, Max Ernst and Surrealism in Paris
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Smithsonian under fire from Trump, Frieze Seoul, Dara Birnbaum and Quantum
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The Year Ahead 2026: the big shows and the key openings
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Venice Biennale: South African pavilion scandal, Marian Goodman remembered, Paul Cezanne in Basel
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Documenta 15: scandal and legacy. Plus, the Warhol-Prince copyright dispute, and Juan Muñoz
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Art attack: Just Stop Oil and iconoclasm; Art Basel’s Paris+ fair; Frank Bowling
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Ukraine museum collections: kept safe or looted? Plus, Okwui Enwezor’s Sharjah Biennial and Ming Smith at MoMA
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Art and the banks; hip hop in Baltimore; Juan de Pareja, the artist enslaved by Velázquez
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Expo and the Chicago scene; Northern Ireland’s museums; Sarah Bernhardt in Paris
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The masters market; India’s controversial Hindu temple; Honoré Daumier
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Inigo Philbrick and art world fraud, Hong Kong’s new security law, a Maharaja’s sword
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Monet in London, Matisse in Basel, Frankenthaler in Florence
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Leigh Bowery at Tate Modern, Ukraine and art—three years on, Max Beckmann and the Gothic Modern
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Jean Tinguely’s 100th anniversary, Fenix Museum, Ben Shahn
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