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.
Wonder women: curator Cecilia Alemani on what we can expect at the female-dominated Venice Biennale this year
Plus, Van Gogh’s self-portraits in London, and the story of when Dalí met Freud
Bacon and beasts: an in-depth look at the visceral new show at London’s Royal Academy of Arts
Plus, Botticelli in New York and gender in Asian art in San Francisco
Why did the €471m Caravaggio villa fail to sell?
Plus, artists create their own monuments at Goldsmiths CCA in London and Michael Armitage on Sane Wadu at the newly opened Nairobi Contemporary Art Institute
The Year Ahead: the best exhibitions to look forward to in 2022
Plus, who will be the art market’s winners and losers?
From NFTs to LFTs: 2021's biggest art stories—and what they mean
The Art Newspaper team picks apart this year’s most important developments, from demands for colonial restitution to the return of culture wars
Disney at the Met—but is it art?
Plus, a new centre to study Matisse at Baltimore Museum of Art and Josef Albers's lithographs at Cristea Roberts in London
Art fairs: how did they begin and where are they going?
Plus, Caribbean-British art at Tate Britain and Marco Brambilla's VR work at Pérez Art Museum in Miami
Fraud: the case of Inigo Philbrick
Plus, Warhol’s Catholicism and Moscow’s new museums
Big money, new collectors: the low-down on the New York auctions
Plus, Fabergé in London and a rediscovered Dürer
M+ finally opens in Hong Kong—but is it censoring its displays?
Plus, the revamped Courtauld Gallery and Black American Portraits at Lacma in Los Angeles
Depot: a new way of visiting museums?
Plus, Cop26: how can the art world respond? And Fragonard's restored The Swing
Contemporary art meets Ancient Egypt: new sculptures at the Pyramids of Giza
Plus, the New Museum Triennial and Édouard Manet's portrait of Zacharie Astruc
Is Paris really taking London’s art crown?
Plus, Marlene Dumas at the Musée d'Orsay and Christian Boltanksi remembered
Can the art world really change its wasteful ways?
Plus, Mark Rothko’s late paintings at Pace’s new London space and Nicolas Poussin at the National Gallery
Jasper Johns: a radical look at a colossus of post-war American art
Plus, Venice's tourism problem and Finnish artist Outi Heiskanen
All glitz and glamour? Hollywood’s new Academy Museum of Motion Pictures
Plus, the rise of private museums and Renaissance portraits at the Rijksmuseum
It’s a wrap: Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s final fabric project unveiled in Paris
Plus, Art Basel: are the buyers back? And Mary Beard on images of power
Should the art world boycott China over its treatment of Uyghur people?
Plus, Van Gogh’s final months and master printer Kenneth Tyler on Helen Frankenthaler
The state of painting now
Plus, its enduring market appeal and new secrets revealed in a restored Vermeer
Afghanistan: the threat of the Taliban to artists and heritage
Plus, artist Bill Fontana records Notre Dame's bells
Great women in art history make a comeback: the New Woman at the Met and Aware in Paris
Plus, Rania Matar's photographic portraits
Should the Science Museum stop taking money from oil companies?
Plus, Michael Landy's exhibition at Firstsite and artist Shahzia Sikander on a manuscript miniature
Slavery: the groundbreaking Dutch exhibition confronting colonial history
Plus, Leonora Carrington's Surrealist children's book behind the next Venice Biennale and Rubens's landscapes reunited after 200 years
Guerrilla Girls: corrupt museum boards, the female nude and NFTs
Plus, Glasgow International festival and Cézanne at MoMA
Classicist Mary Beard on the infamous Roman emperor Nero
Plus, London Gallery Weekend and Nina Katchadourian on her adopted grandmother's embroidery
Viking-age treasure: new insights into life 1,000 years ago
Plus, new proposals for the Fourth Plinth in London and Nike Air Force 1s
'Art is our spiritual oxygen': new shows to see in London and New York
We discuss Matthew Barney, Igshaan Adams, Eileen Agar and Louise Bourgeois
New York auctions: has the art market roared back to life?
Plus, Heather Phillipson at Tate Britain and Ackroyd and Harvey on Joseph Beuys
Climate disaster: photographer Richard Mosse on environmental crime in the Amazon
Plus, artist Rachel Maclean on Hieronymus Bosch's influence
Return to La La Land: art is back in California
Plus, artists' album covers, and Grace Jones in the Work of the Week