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The $6.2m banana, Frank Auerbach remembered, Lindokuhle Sobekwa’s photographs of addiction in South Africa—podcast

Exploring this week’s New York auctions, which included Maurizio Cattelan’s now-infamous fruit, plus a tribute to the late German-British artist Auerbach and a chat with Sobekwa about a work from his powerful series, on view at the UK’s Sainsbury Centre

Episode 300! British Museum, Tate Modern and V&A East directors in discussion

A special roundtable conversation touching on some of the biggest issues facing museums: from the need to address colonial histories to sponsorship and AI

Sponsorship, sustainability and security: what’s the future for UK museums?

The directors of the British Museum, V&A East and Tate Modern talked activism, funding, empire and more in a wide-ranging discussion on The Art Newspaper’s Week in Art podcast

Renaissance special: Michelangelo, Leonardo and Raphael in Florence, drawings and tapestries—podcast

A deep dive into two London shows bringing together key works of the movement, and a spectacular series of tapestries depicting the Battle of Pavia on view in San Francisco

Rare Fra Angelico crucifixion scene acquired by Ashmolean for £4.48m after tense fundraising campaign

The Oxford museum took action after the UK government placed an export bar on the work earlier this year

American sculpture: race and racism, Warsaw’s Museum of Modern Art, Jusepe de Ribera in Paris — podcast

A chat about a Washington show offering a radical new perspective on the history of sculpture, plus how the major Polish museum has journeyed through political change towards opening, and a discussion of Ribera’s “most moving” work

US election, the glory of Siena, Gabrielle Goliath — podcast

What is at stake for the US cultural sector as the nation chooses its next president? Plus, a tour of 14th-century Sienese masterpieces and a conversation with Goliath about her ongoing video series Mango Blossoms

Art Basel at the Grand Palais, Guillermo Kuitca at Musée Picasso and Małgorzata Mirga-Tas at Tate St Ives — podcast

We find out what happened when the art world descended on Paris for Art Basel, speak to Guillermo Kuitca about his new work for Musée Picasso and hear from Małgorzata Mirga-Tas about June, her work soon to go on display at Tate St Ives

Iceland plans national gallery overhaul

The culture minister is calling for a new, world-class space for the national collection, currently housed in three locations in Reykjavik

Artist and gallery awards announced at Frieze London

Nat Faulkner wins the Camden Art Centre’s Emerging Artist Prize, while Proyectos Ultravioleta bags the Frieze London Stand Prize 2024

Mire Lee: ‘I’ve started playing with potential technical failures’

With her complex, performative installation now filling Tate Modern’s vast Turbine Hall, the South Korean artist discusses how she aims to bring theatricality to sculpture

Frieze, UK critics The White Pube, Giuseppe Penone and Arte Povera — podcast

We find out how the London fair went this year, speak to Gabrielle de la Puente and Zarina Muhammad about their new book and to Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev about her new show at the Bourse de Commerce in Paris

New London gallery plans to champion artists from beyond the capital

Manchester-born William Hine, former director at Grimm Gallery, will highlight many contemporary artists who have shown at institutions before, but not had commercial exposure

'It’s the first bathroom I’ve ever curated': Minor Attractions brings a DIY spirit to Frieze week

The “selling event”—that insists it is not a fair—is an antidote to the white walls and flashy crowds of Frieze

In pictures: a tour of Frieze Masters' immersive presentations with Sheena Wagstaff

The fair’s creative adviser takes a closer look at six of the ten artists showing in this year's Studio section, where each installation seeks to “evoke the spirit” of the studio

PAD London accolade brings Peter Schlesinger out of Hockney's shadow

The photographer, painter, sculptor—and one-time muse of the Pop artist—wins the fair’s Contemporary Design Prize

'I have this problem where I buy a lot': Selim Bouafsoun on the art that excites him

The Tunisian-born financier is on a mission to put North African art on the map

Mike Kelley, a pivotal period of contemporary Indian art, Raoul Dufy and Berthe Weill — podcast

Celebrating the “negative joy” of the American artist Kelley in a new Tate retrospective, a period of change in India explored at the Barbican, and a conversation about a work once owned by the pioneering woman gallerist Berthe Weill

East London’s latest gallery aims to show art that is ‘a bit less polite’

The founders of Panrucker in Walthamstow are also employing a versatile “pop-up” business model to help keep the initiative sustainable

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At Italy's leading Old Master fair, dealers anticipate a foreign collector influx

The latest edition of the Biennale Internazionale dell’Antiquariato di Firenze (Biaf) opens at a time when wealthy individuals are moving to Italy in growing numbers

Monet in London, Matisse in Basel, Frankenthaler in Florence — podcast

A chat with the curator of a new show featuring Monet's Thames views—in the very room where many were painted, plus trips to Basel and Florence for 'Matisse: Invitation to the Voyage' and 'Helen Frankenthaler: Painting without Rules'

Glenn Ligon in Cambridge, new Gauguin biography, Teresa Margolles’s Fourth Plinth commission — podcast

The American artist on his interventions at the Fitzwilliam Museum, a chat about a new publication exploring Gauguin’s complex character, and the details on a new London sculpture paying tribute to trans, non-binary, and gender non-conforming communities

‘An enormous milestone for museums’: platform designed to host 100 million object records launches in UK

Those behind the Museum Data Service hope it will eventually host the details of objects held by 1,750 “accredited” museums and other collections

Van Gogh blockbuster, the birth of Impressionism, Juan Pablo Echeverri — podcast

A tour of the National Gallery’s landmark exhibition with our Van Gogh expert Martin Bailey, plus a new book zoning in on the Impressionists’ “Terrible Year” and a highlight from Museum Folkwang’s hair-themed show

Dulwich Picture Gallery makes first acquisition in 12 years—purchasing bronze installation for £176,500

The artists Rob and Nick Carter sold Bronze Oak Grove to the London institution for just the price of the materials they used to make it

The art market slump, the artist freed in the US-Russia prisoner swap, Max Ernst in Paris — podcast

What’s behind the troubles facing auction houses and galleries? Plus, Sasha Skochilenko recounts her experience of being arrested—and incarcerated—in Russia, and the story behind a 1937 Surrealist painting by Ernst

World’s first museum of Sufi art to debut in Paris

The Musée d’Art et de Culture Soufis MTO opens at challenging moment for France’s Muslim community

William Blake’s cottage—where he wrote ‘Jerusalem’—a step closer to becoming a museum

Funding has been secured to fix the collapsing roof of the house in Sussex, UK, with future plans to restore it and turn it into an arts centre

London’s National Gallery acquires major work by Lawrence Alma-Tadema for £2m

The painting, purchased with the help of Christie’s auction house, is a prime example of the Victorian artist’s interest in antiquity

‘We want people to have fun’: Dulwich Picture Gallery’s director on the institution’s new sculpture park

The London museum has embarked on a £5m redevelopment that will see its grounds filled with contemporary sculpture and versatile family spaces