The Week in Art

The Week in Art

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

Two museum openings feature on this week’s podcast—V&A East in London and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.In our 300th episode in 2024, Gus Casely Hayford, the director of the V&A East, told us about the community-driven programming at the museum and its connection with its ...  Show more

 . 1h 0min
Marcel Duchamp at MoMA, Dorothea Tanning book, Leonora Carrington at the Freud Museum, London

Three artists who in different ways connect to the Surrealist movement are the subject of this week’s podcast. At the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the first major US survey of the full career of Marcel Duchamp since 1973 opens this weekend, before travelling later in the yea ...  Show more

 . 1h 12min
Should English museums charge tourists? Plus, Raphael at the Met and Senga Nengudi at the Whitechapel Gallery

The UK government last week issued a response to a report ostensibly exploring the future of the funding body Arts Council England but containing an idea that has prompted much debate: that the government should consider changing its policy of free admission for all to national m ...  Show more

 . 1h 8min
Matisse’s explosive finale and a new chapter for Hong Kong? Plus, Schiaparelli and Dalí

The Grand Palais in Paris this week unveiled an enormous exhibition focusing on the final 13 years of Henri Matisse’s life and work, a project conceived by the Centre Pompidou. The show includes abundant examples of the celebrated gouache cut-outs, his works for the Chapel of the ...  Show more

 . 53min 41sec
New Museum extension opens, NextGen collectors, a Wardian Case in Oxford

The New Museum in New York opens its new extension, designed by Shohei Shigematsu and Rem Koolhaas of the architectural practice OMA, this week. Ben Luke talks to Massimiliano Gioni, the New Museum’s artistic director, and the co-curator of the inaugural exhibition in the new bui ...  Show more

 . 59min 4sec