The Week in Art
The Art Newspaper
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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We are back in Venice for the latest edition of the biggest biennial in the world of art. The 60th Venice Biennale comprises an international exhibition featuring more than 300 artists, dozens of national pavilions in the Giardini—the gardens at the eastern end of the city—and the Arsenale—the historic shipyards of the Venetian Republic—and host of official collateral exhibitions and other shows and interventions across Venice. The Art Newspaper’s contemporary art correspondent, Louisa Buck, editor-at-large Jane Morris and host Ben Luke review the international exhibition, Foreigners Everywhere/Stranieri Ovunque, curated by the Brazilian artistic director, Adriano Pedrosa. We talk to artists and curators behind five national pavilions—Jeffrey Gibson in the US pavilion, John Akomfrah in the British pavilion, Romuald Hazoumè in the Benin pavilion, Gustavo Caboco Wapichana, the curator of the Hãhãwpuá or Brazilian pavilion, and Valeria Montii Colque in the Chilean pavilion—about their presentations. And we like to end our Venice specials by responding to an example of the historic work that made la Serenissima one of the world’s great centres for art. So for this episode’s Work of the Week, Ben Luke gained exclusive access to one of the most significant paintings in Venetian history: the Assunta or Assumption of the Virgin made between 1516 and 1518 by Titian. Since the last Biennale in 2022, the Assunta has been unveiled after a four-year conservation project, funded by the charity Save Venice. We spoke to the man who restored this incomparable masterpiece, Giulio Bono, right beneath Titian’s painting.
The Venice Biennale, 20 April-24 November. Listen to the interview with Adriano Pedrosa in the episode of this podcast from 2 February.
The website that Giulio Bono mentions, which will present the findings of the conservation of Titian’s Assunta in detail, will go online later this year.
Save Venice, savevenice.org.
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Previous episodes
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296 - Venice Biennale special Thu, 18 Apr 2024
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295 - Marlborough Gallery closes, Rose B. Simpson in New York, Caravaggio’s final painting Thu, 11 Apr 2024 - 0h
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294 - Inigo Philbrick and art world fraud, Hong Kong’s new security law, a Maharaja’s sword Thu, 04 Apr 2024
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293 - Richard Serra remembered. Plus, expressionist art special: Käthe Kollwitz at MoMA and the Blue Rider at Tate Modern Fri, 29 Mar 2024
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292 - Whitney Biennial reviewed, museum visits back to normal, Pieter Bruegel the Elder Fri, 22 Mar 2024 - 0h
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291 - Tate’s racist mural—Keith Piper’s response, the Art Basel & UBS Art Market Report, Anni Albers Fri, 15 Mar 2024 - 0h
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290 - Photography and feminist activism, Jacob Rothschild remembered, Robert Ryman Fri, 08 Mar 2024 - 0h
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289 - Los Angeles and Frieze, Angelica Kauffman, Matthew Wong and Van Gogh Fri, 01 Mar 2024 - 0h
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288 - Black figuration, Surrealism is 100, Tonita Peña’s Eagle Dance mural Fri, 23 Feb 2024
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287 - Yoko Ono at Tate Modern, Elton John’s collection, a Roman colossus remade Fri, 16 Feb 2024 - 0h
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286 - Tania Bruguera on censorship, Frank Auerbach, an Indian painting from Howard Hodgkin’s collection Fri, 09 Feb 2024
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285 - Venice Biennale, the immersive art explosion, Barbara Kruger by Hans Ulrich Obrist Fri, 02 Feb 2024
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284 - The masters market, India’s controversial Hindu temple, Honoré Daumier Fri, 26 Jan 2024
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283 - An oligarch vs Sotheby’s in a New York court, Singapore Art Week, Zanele Muholi Fri, 19 Jan 2024 - 0h
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282 - 2024: market predictions and the big shows Fri, 12 Jan 2024
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281 - 2023: the biggest stories and the best shows Fri, 15 Dec 2023
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280 - Art Basel in Miami Beach, the all-women museum in Athens, Pesellino’s David panels Fri, 08 Dec 2023 - 0h
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279 - Gaza: damage to historic sites, Emily Kam Kngwarray in Canberra, a Gauguin manuscript Fri, 01 Dec 2023
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278 - US museums’ financial woes, Documenta’s new crisis, Kim Lim Fri, 24 Nov 2023 - 0h
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277 - New York auctions, radical Central Eastern European art, Terry Adkins x Grace Wales Bonner Fri, 17 Nov 2023 - 0h
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276 - Protest and performance in New York, UK National Trust row, Hans Holbein Fri, 10 Nov 2023 - 0h
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275 - Can AI reveal the Herculaneum scrolls? Plus, Venice Biennale political row, Dorothea Lange Fri, 03 Nov 2023 - 0h
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274 - Kyiv Biennial, sound art and migration, Jem Perucchini’s London Tube mural Thu, 26 Oct 2023 - 0h
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273 - Paris +, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Marie Laurencin Thu, 19 Oct 2023 - 0h
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272 - Frieze is 20, Hildigunnur Birgisdóttir, Matisse in New York Thu, 12 Oct 2023 - 0h
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271 - The looted Ethiopian icon, AI copyright debate in US, the end of China’s museum boom Thu, 05 Oct 2023 - 0h
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270 - Marina Abramović, Frans Hals, Peter Paul Rubens Thu, 28 Sep 2023
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269 - Unesco controversies; Fernando Botero; Barkley Hendricks in New York Thu, 21 Sep 2023 - 0h
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268 - Saudi Arabia’s soft power grab; Julianknxx in London; Michelangelo’s Libyan Sibyl Thu, 14 Sep 2023 - 0h
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267 - Special 250th episode: what’s next for the visual arts? Thu, 07 Sep 2023
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266 - British Museum in crisis, Sāo Paulo biennial, Soutine in Düsseldorf Thu, 31 Aug 2023 - 0h
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265 - Art market and stagflation; Spain’s historical memory; Dürer plate remade by Goldin + Senneby Thu, 29 Jun 2023 - 0h
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264 - New National Portrait Gallery, William Edmondson, Zinzi Minott’s Windrush film Thu, 22 Jun 2023
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263 - Afua Hirsch on Africa Rising, Liverpool Biennial, Basquiat in Basel with Jeffrey Deitch Fri, 16 Jun 2023 - 0h
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262 - Thom Yorke and Stanley Donwood; Wayne McGregor on Carmen Herrera; Whistler’s Mother Thu, 08 Jun 2023
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261 - Hannah Gadsby’s Picasso show; Italy floods; Ellsworth Kelly’s centenary Thu, 01 Jun 2023 - 0h
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260 - Keith Haring in LA; Tate Britain’s rehang; Joan Brown in Pittsburgh Thu, 25 May 2023
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259 - New York: Frieze and auctions; Richard Prince copyright case (and Warhol ruling); Sarah Sze in London Thu, 18 May 2023 - 0h
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258 - Artists in Sudan; the Marquis de Sade in Barcelona; Gwen John Thu, 11 May 2023 - 0h
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257 - Charles III’s coronation; Karl Lagerfeld in New York; Marlene Smith’s Good Housekeeping III Thu, 04 May 2023
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256 - Artificial Intelligence: the museum perspective, the artist’s view, the photography controversy Thu, 27 Apr 2023
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255 - Hilma af Klint and Piet Mondrian at Tate Modern; Jaune Quick-to-See Smith at the Whitney; the Roman gateway to Britain, reconstructed Thu, 20 Apr 2023
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254 - Expo and the Chicago scene; Northern Ireland’s museums; Sarah Bernhardt in Paris Thu, 13 Apr 2023 - 0h
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253 - Art and the banks; hip hop in Baltimore; Juan de Pareja, the artist enslaved by Velázquez Thu, 06 Apr 2023 - 0h
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252 - Are visitors returning to museums? Plus, Manet/Degas and Berthe Morisot Thu, 30 Mar 2023
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251 - Art Basel Hong Kong bounces back; art censorship online; Brenda L. Croft’s images of First Nations Australian women Fri, 24 Mar 2023 - 0h
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250 - “Biggest art fraud in history” in Canada; artists’ pay; the Ugly Duchess by Massys (and Leonardo) Fri, 17 Mar 2023 - 0h
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249 - Old Masters at Tefaf; Paris’s Institut du Monde Arabe; Rosalba Carriera in Berlin Fri, 10 Mar 2023 - 0h
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248 - Art Dubai; MoMA’s political video art show; Lucie Rie Fri, 03 Mar 2023 - 0h
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247 - Nigeria’s pivotal election, The Met: a guard’s memoir, Hubert Robert in Stockholm Fri, 24 Feb 2023 - 0h