The Week in Art

Arts & Culture Podcasts

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. Hosted on Acast....

Episodes

Smithsonian Women’s Museum chaos, Oliver Beer and Rufus Wainwright, Jasper Johns in Bilbao

New York auctions, James McNeill Whistler at Tate Britain, Edvard Munch

Frieze New York, the Cranach in Hitler’s Munich apartment, Ajamu X

Venice Biennale Special 2026

Zurbarán in London, the Carnegie International, Walter Sickert’s Ennui

Chernobyl 40 years on, Paula Rego at Munch in Oslo, Gluck’s flower painting

Museum openings: V&A East and Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Plus, William Blake in Dublin

Marcel Duchamp at MoMA, Dorothea Tanning book, Leonora Carrington at the Freud Museum, London

Should English museums charge tourists? Plus, Raphael at the Met and Senga Nengudi at the Whitechapel Gallery

Matisse’s explosive finale and a new chapter for Hong Kong? Plus, Schiaparelli and Dalí

New Museum extension opens, NextGen collectors, a Wardian Case in Oxford

Iran war: art communities and heritage in Iran, moderate recovery in the art market, Cannupa Hanska Luger at the Sydney Biennale

Iran war and culture in the Gulf, the Whitney Biennial, Rembrandt discovery

Venice Biennale details revealed, Beatriz González, Tracey Emin

National Gallery’s deficit bombshell, Simon Schama on birds and art, Vilhelm Hammershøi

The US struggles with history, Stephen Friedman Gallery closes, Tudor Heart pendant acquired by the British Museum

Art Basel Qatar, Dürer portrait debate, Paula Modersohn-Becker and Edvard Munch

Venice Biennale: South African pavilion scandal, Marian Goodman remembered, Paul Cezanne in Basel

Smithsonian’s African LGBTQ+ exhibition, art and the Iran crisis, Louise Nevelson at the Pompidou Metz

Hawai’i at the British Museum, a Venice palazzo for sale, Joseph Beuys’s Bathtub