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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After years of decreasing public funding, the lingering effects of the Covid pandemic and enduring questions around the ethics of corporate sponsorship, UK museums are facing unprecedented financial pressures. Some commentators are suggesting that the time has come to abandon the policy of free admission to museums that is viewed by many as key to the cultural fabric of the UK. Among those arguing for charging is the critic and broadcaster Ben Lewis, who joins Ben Luke to discuss the issue. This week, the British Museum opened the exhibition Michelangelo: the Last Decades. It focuses on the period after 1534, when Michelangelo left his native Florence for Rome, never to return, and embarked on many of his most ambitious projects. We take a tour of the show with its curator, Sarah Vowles. And this episode’s Work of the Week is Maria Blanchard’s Girl at Her First Communion (1914). The painting features in a new exhibition at the Museo Picasso in Málaga. Its curator, José Lebrero Stals, tells us more about this underappreciated Spanish artist, who was at the heart of the Parisian avant garde in the 1910s and 20s.
Michelangelo: the Last Decades, British Museum, until 28 July.
María Blanchard: A Painter in Spite of Cubism, Museo Picasso Málaga, Spain, until 29 September.
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Previous episodes
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298 - Should UK museums charge for entry? Plus, Michelangelo’s last decades and Maria Blanchard Thu, 02 May 2024
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297 - Klimt’s last picture sells for €35m, Rebecca Horn, a Cézanne restored Thu, 25 Apr 2024 - 0h
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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