Best Judy Barber Podcasts (2024)

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Arts and the UK election, ex-Uffizi head fails in Florence mayoral bid, Hank Willis Thomas at Glastonbury 57:43

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On Thursday 4 July, the UK will hold a general election, with the Labour party currently far ahead in the opinion polls. Dale Berning Sawa, a contributor to The Art Newspaper who is also commissioning editor at the online news site The Conversation, joins Ben Luke to reflect on the effects on culture of 14 years of Conservative or Conservative-led …

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Just Stop Oil’s Stonehenge protest, Tavares Strachan, Louise Bourgeois at the Galleria Borghese 52:40

19d ago52:40

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This week: Just Stop Oil’s Stonehenge protest. On Wednesday, two activists sprayed orange powder paint made from cornflour on to three of the boulders at Stonehenge, prompting outrage and some support. Before this latest action, in an article for the July/August print edition of The Art Newspaper, John Paul Stonard had argued that Just Stop Oil’s m…

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Art Basel: fireworks and nuance, Lynn Barber on her artist interviews, Guillaume Lethière at the Clark 1:03:02

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This week: it’s arguably the best loved of the major art fairs among collectors and dealers, but what have we learned about the art market at this year’s Art Basel, in its original Swiss home? The Art Newspaper’s acting art market editor, Tim Schneider, tells us about the big sales in Switzerland amid the wider market picture. The journalist Lynn B…

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Georgia O’Keeffe’s New York, Studio Voltaire at 30, Martha Jungwirth responds to Goya 56:37

1M ago56:37

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This week: we explore the Art Institute of Chicago’s exhibition dedicated to what Georgia O’Keeffe called her New Yorks—paintings of skyscrapers and views from one of them across the East River, which marked a turning point in her career. Sarah Kelly Oehler, one of the curators of the show, tells us more. One of the most distinctive of all London’s…

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Art’s AI reckoning, the rise of comic art, and Degas’ Miss La La 55:13

1M ago55:13

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The publication in April of Stanford University’s Artificial Intelligence Index Annual Report has provided the art world with much food for thought. We look at the implications for artists and institutions with Louis Jebb, the managing editor of The Art Newspaper and our technology specialist. As the Centre Pompidou in Paris is taken over on all it…

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The Mona Lisa's endless, and problematic, allure; Judy Chicago; Christian Schad and the New Objectivity 56:31

2M ago56:31

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As the Louvre’s director admits that the Paris museum wants to move its most famous painting away from the crowded gallery in which it is currently displayed, we ask the Leonardo specialist Martin Kemp: does the museum have a Mona Lisa problem? We also talk about the painting’s continuing allure and the ongoing efforts to explain its mysteries. In …

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Tate’s historic women artists show, Dia at 50, Martin Wong’s record-breaking painting 1:06:18

2M ago1:06:18

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We take a tour of Tate Britain’s new exhibition, Now You See Us, featuring more than 100 women artists who worked between the 16th and 20th centuries, with Tabitha Barber, its curator. The Dia Art Foundation has reached its half century and its director, Jessica Morgan, tells us how it has changed in that time, and especially how it has radically e…

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Gaza: artists’ stories, Frank Stella remembered, Vanessa Bell’s garden view 1:09:48

2M ago1:09:48

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We talk to The Art Newspaper’s reporter Sarvy Geranpayeh about her conversations with six Palestinian artists about their daily lives amid Israel’s ongoing military offensive in Gaza. Frank Stella, one of the key artists in the history of American abstraction, has died, aged 87. We speak to Bonnie Clearwater, the director and chief curator of the N…

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Should UK museums charge for entry? Plus, Michelangelo’s last decades and Maria Blanchard 1:00:31

2M ago1:00:31

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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 …

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Klimt’s last picture sells for €35m, Rebecca Horn, a Cézanne restored 41:21

3M ago41:21

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The last painting made by Gustav Klimt, left on his easel when he died in 1918 of illnesses relating to the Spanish flu epidemic of that year, has sold at auction in Vienna for €35m including fees. But much remains unclear about the picture, including its sitter, its commissioner and what happened to it in the Second World War. Ben Luke talks to Ca…

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Venice Biennale special 1:53:47

3M ago1:53:47

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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…

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Marlborough Gallery closes, Rose B. Simpson in New York, Caravaggio’s final painting 54:08

3M ago54:08

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This week: after 80 years in business, Marlborough Gallery, one of the most historic commercial galleries in London, New York and beyond, has announced that it is closing. Host Ben Luke talks to Anny Shaw, a contributing editor at The Art Newspaper, about what happened and what, if anything, it tells us about the market. The New Mexico-based sculpt…

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Inigo Philbrick and art world fraud, Hong Kong’s new security law, a Maharaja’s sword 1:03:57

3M ago1:03:57

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The convicted art fraudster Inigo Philbrick is out of prison and possibly seeking a return to art dealing. How is that possible? Tim Schneider, The Art Newspaper’s acting art market editor, tells us about Philbrick’s story, why the art trade is a natural habitat for fraud, and why a criminal past need not lead to art-world banishment. In the wake o…

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Richard Serra remembered. Plus, expressionist art special: Käthe Kollwitz at MoMA and the Blue Rider at Tate Modern 1:00:42

3M ago1:00:42

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Richard Serra, one of the greatest artists of the past 50 years, a linchpin of the post-minimalist scene in late 1960s and early 1970s New York and later the creator of vast steel ellipses and spirals, died on Tuesday 26 March. We mark the passing of this titan of sculpture with Donna De Salvo, the senior adjunct curator of special projects at the …

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Whitney Biennial reviewed, museum visits back to normal, Pieter Bruegel the Elder 53:49

4M ago53:49

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This week: the Whitney Biennial reviewed. Host Ben Luke discusses the show with Ben Sutton, The Art Newspaper’s editor, Americas, and the critic Annabel Keenan. Our annual survey of visitor numbers at museums is published in the next print edition of The Art Newspaper and Lee Cheshire, the co-editor of the report, joins us to discuss the findings. …

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Tate’s racist mural—Keith Piper’s response, the Art Basel & UBS Art Market Report, Anni Albers 53:45

4M ago53:45

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Four years after Tate Britain closed its restaurant because Rex Whistler’s murals on its walls contained racist imagery, it has unveiled the work it commissioned in response to Whistler’s painting by the artist Keith Piper. We talk to Piper about the work. The annual Art Basel & UBS Art Market Report was published on Wednesday and, as ever, reviews…

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Photography and feminist activism, Jacob Rothschild remembered, Robert Ryman 59:22

4M ago59:22

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To coincide with International Women’s Day on 8 March, the South London Gallery is opening the exhibition Acts of Resistance: Photography, Feminisms and the Art of Protest. Activism and photography have long gone hand in hand but this collaborative exhibition, organised with the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A), attempts to capture a new chapter in…

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Los Angeles and Frieze, Angelica Kauffman, Matthew Wong and Van Gogh 56:13

4M ago56:13

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As Frieze Los Angeles opens its fifth iteration, The Art Newspaper’s associate digital editor, Alexander Morrison, talks to our correspondent in LA, Jori Finkel about the changing landscape of the city’s art scene. In London, the Royal Academy has finally opened an exhibition dedicated to the 18th-century painter Angelica Kauffman, a show that was …

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Black figuration, Surrealism is 100, Tonita Peña’s Eagle Dance mural 1:10:32

5M ago1:10:32

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The exhibition The Time Is Always Now, featuring 22 artists from the African diaspora whose work takes the Black figure as its starting point, is now open at the National Portrait Gallery in London, and will tour to Philadelphia later in the year. We explore the show with its curator Ekow Eshun. 2024 marks the centenary of the the first Surrealist …

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Yoko Ono at Tate Modern, Elton John’s collection, a Roman colossus remade 57:49

5M ago57:49

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A vast survey covering seven decades of art by Yoko Ono has just opened at Tate Modern, and we take a tour of the show with Juliet Bingham, its curator. The collection from Elton John’s home in Atlanta in the US is up for auction at Christie’s and ahead of its big Opening Night auction next week, The Art Newspaper’s associate digital editor Alexand…

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Tania Bruguera on censorship, Frank Auerbach, an Indian painting from Howard Hodgkin’s collection 1:02:38

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As she stages a non-stop reading of Hannah Arendt’s The Origins of Totalitarianism for five days at the Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin, Tania Bruguera reflects on growing concerns about the censorship of artists in Germany in relation to the Israel-Hamas war. She also discusses the comments made by Ai Weiwei this week that censorship in the West was n…

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Venice Biennale, the immersive art explosion, Barbara Kruger by Hans Ulrich Obrist 1:02:12

5M ago1:02:12

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This week: Adriano Pedrosa, the artistic director of the 60th Venice Biennale, on his exhibition, Foreigners Everywhere. As he announces the themes, concepts and the list of artists in the show, we speak to the Brazilian curator about his plans. Hugely popular immersive art experiences are popping up across the world from London to Las Vegas, Tokyo…

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The masters market, India’s controversial Hindu temple, Honoré Daumier 1:04:14

6M ago1:04:14

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This week: masters week in New York—can the market for historic works be revived? Scott Reyburn, a market reporter for The Art Newspaper, has for some time been exploring the decline in the trade for Old Master paintings. He looks ahead to the auctions in Masters Week in New York, which begin this weekend. In India on Monday, the prime minister Nar…

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An oligarch vs Sotheby’s in a New York court, Singapore Art Week, Zanele Muholi 50:09

6M ago50:09

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This week: the astonishing civil trial in Manhattan between a Russian oligarch and Sotheby’s. The Art Newspaper’s acting art market editor, Tim Schneider, witnessed the Russian billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev’s testimony in the trial in New York in which he accuses Sotheby’s of aiding the Swiss art dealer Yves Bouvier in an alleged fraud. It relates …

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2024: market predictions and the big shows 1:18:23

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In the first episode of 2024 we look ahead to the next 12 months. The Art Newspaper’s acting art market editor Tim Schneider peers into his crystal ball to tell us what we might expect from the coming 12 months in the art market. Then, Jane Morris, editor-at-large, Gareth Harris, chief contributing editor, and host Ben Luke select the biennials and…

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Arts and the UK election, ex-Uffizi head fails in Florence mayoral bid, Hank Willis Thomas at Glastonbury 57:43

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Just Stop Oil’s Stonehenge protest, Tavares Strachan, Louise Bourgeois at the Galleria Borghese 52:40

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Art Basel: fireworks and nuance, Lynn Barber on her artist interviews, Guillaume Lethière at the Clark 1:03:02

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Georgia O’Keeffe’s New York, Studio Voltaire at 30, Martha Jungwirth responds to Goya 56:37

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Art’s AI reckoning, the rise of comic art, and Degas’ Miss La La 55:13

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The Mona Lisa's endless, and problematic, allure; Judy Chicago; Christian Schad and the New Objectivity 56:31

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Tate’s historic women artists show, Dia at 50, Martin Wong’s record-breaking painting 1:06:18

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Gaza: artists’ stories, Frank Stella remembered, Vanessa Bell’s garden view 1:09:48

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Should UK museums charge for entry? Plus, Michelangelo’s last decades and Maria Blanchard 1:00:31

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Klimt’s last picture sells for €35m, Rebecca Horn, a Cézanne restored 41:21

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Venice Biennale special 1:53:47

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Marlborough Gallery closes, Rose B. Simpson in New York, Caravaggio’s final painting 54:08

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Inigo Philbrick and art world fraud, Hong Kong’s new security law, a Maharaja’s sword 1:03:57

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Richard Serra remembered. Plus, expressionist art special: Käthe Kollwitz at MoMA and the Blue Rider at Tate Modern 1:00:42

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Whitney Biennial reviewed, museum visits back to normal, Pieter Bruegel the Elder 53:49

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Tate’s racist mural—Keith Piper’s response, the Art Basel & UBS Art Market Report, Anni Albers 53:45

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Photography and feminist activism, Jacob Rothschild remembered, Robert Ryman 59:22

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Los Angeles and Frieze, Angelica Kauffman, Matthew Wong and Van Gogh 56:13

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Black figuration, Surrealism is 100, Tonita Peña’s Eagle Dance mural 1:10:32

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Yoko Ono at Tate Modern, Elton John’s collection, a Roman colossus remade 57:49

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Tania Bruguera on censorship, Frank Auerbach, an Indian painting from Howard Hodgkin’s collection 1:02:38

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Venice Biennale, the immersive art explosion, Barbara Kruger by Hans Ulrich Obrist 1:02:12

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The masters market, India’s controversial Hindu temple, Honoré Daumier 1:04:14

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An oligarch vs Sotheby’s in a New York court, Singapore Art Week, Zanele Muholi 50:09

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2024: market predictions and the big shows 1:18:23

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