
Julia Michalska
Julia Michalska is the Interim Co-Editor of The Art Newspaper. She is also the Deputy Editor and Digital Editor, as well as the creator and producer of the award-winning podcast The Week in Art
Van Gogh in the asylum. Plus, Christian Marclay on The Clock
Our correspondent Martin Bailey and art historian Martin Gayford talk about Van Gogh's time at the asylum of Saint-Paul-de-Mausole and Christian Marclay tells us about his ground-breaking work The Clock. Produced in association with Bonhams, auctioneers since 1793.
Berlin Wall may be resurrected—and then demolished—as part of anniversary of reunification
Organisers of the culture festival Berliner Festspiele are in talks with city authorities and are yet to confirm the event
Poland’s answer to the Guerrilla Girls—the 'bison ladies'—stage protest against Araki exhibition in Warsaw
Japanese artist became embroiled in #Metoo movement over treatment of long-time model
Podcast episode 39: All about the biennials
We talk to Sally Tallant, the artistic director of the Liverpool Biennial, about the 10th edition opening next week. And Jane Morris, an editor-at-large of The Art Newspaper, joins Ben Luke to discuss “peak biennial”
Podcast episode 38: Marina Abramovic and Michael Jackson
We speak to the queen of performance art about casting herself in stone and to the National Portrait Gallery’s director Nicholas Cullinan about the king of pop’s influence on artists.
Podcast episode 37: Art and football plus John Akomfrah interview
With the World Cup in full swing, we look at a London show exploring football as a cultural phenomenon with its co-curator Eddy Frankel, and talk to the British film-maker John Akomfrah about his exhibition at the New Museum, New York.
Collector's Eye: Grazyna Kulczyk
The Polish art lover on her fascination with female artists and how she wishes she could have been seated at Judy Chicago's Dinner Party
How Art Basel can inspire the Venice Biennale
Artistic director likens fair booths to cabinets of curiosities
In pictures: AA Bronson selects his favourite works at Art Basel
The artist, an Art Basel veteran of four decades, has championed female artists, including Sylvie Fleury, in his selection
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
Elmgreen & Dragset get first major UK survey at Whitechapel Gallery
Exhibition during Frieze week spans 20 years of the artists' career and will include a major new commission
Art fest: Gallery Weekend Berlin takes over the city
Commercial and non-commercial enterprises combine as the most important event in the German art calendar gets underway
Should big galleries subsidise smaller ones?
David Zwirner's idea that art fairs tax top dealers to support younger galleries signals major concerns over the fragile ecosystem of the art market
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.
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
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.
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
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
Collector's Eye: William Lim
The Hong Kong-based architect tells us what art he's bought and why
Cern’s resident artists to create work for Art Basel
Darkroom installation will use data collected at the particle physics centre
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
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
Podcast episode 22: the genius of Picasso
We take a tour of Tate Modern's blockbuster and explore the strength of Picasso's market
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