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May 25, 2018 • 33min

Episode 33: Absent friends: Howard Hodgkin's final paintings; Robert Indiana remembered

We talk to Antony Peattie, the music writer and partner of the late Howard Hodgkin and to Barbara Haskell, curator of Robert Indiana's 2013 retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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May 18, 2018 • 45min

Episode 32: The Royal Academy’s new project unveiled: David Chipperfield interview

The Academy’s £56m project opens, with subtle additions and revamps by the British architect. Chipperfield talks about the subtleties of architecture, the RA’s chief executive Charles Saumarez Smith discusses funding and the quirks of the institution and we review the buildings and its displays with Jane Morris. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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May 11, 2018 • 46min

Episode 31: The $646m Rockefeller sale. Plus: should big galleries subsidise smaller ones?

We drill down into the big numbers from the Post-Impressionist and Modern sale in New York, talk to Professor Rachel Pownall about the wider market and look at a small gallery housed in Piccadilly Circus Tube station. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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May 4, 2018 • 42min

Episode 30: All about Berlin

Our guest host Arsalan Mohammad takes us behind the scenes of Gallery Weekend Berlin and beyond, speaking to dealers and artists about the changing face and enduring appeal of one of the world's most creative cities. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Apr 27, 2018 • 51min

Episode 29: Taryn Simon interview, and restoring a Renaissance masterpiece at the Met

We talk to the American artist about her acclaimed work staged in New York and now London, An Occupation of Loss. We hear from a curator and conservator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art about resurrecting Moretto da Brescia’s final great painting. And Louisa Buck and Ben Luke appraise the Turner Prize shortlist. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Apr 20, 2018 • 34min

Episode 28: The battle over Ethiopia’s treasures

We speak to Hailemichael Aberra Afework, Ethiopia’s ambassador to the UK, about the treasures looted by the British army at Maqdala, go behind the scenes of the Sony Photography Award with judge Gareth Harris and speak to Richard Parry about his plans for Glasgow International. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Apr 13, 2018 • 50min

Episode 27: The enduring appeal of enigmatic Beuys. Plus, lost masterpieces reborn

We hear from Adam Lowe of Factum Arte about a new TV series in which seven lost paintings are recreated using digital means, and speak to Norman Rosenthal and Thaddaeus Ropac about the enigmatic German artist Joseph Beuys Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Apr 6, 2018 • 47min

Episode 26: Christo interview, plus museum visitor figures

We speak to the Bulgarian-born artist about his grand project for the Serpentine, and look at our annual survey of visitor figures Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Mar 28, 2018 • 41min

Episode 25: Living with Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo specialist Martin Kemp on decades spent in the company of the Renaissance master, plus the 300th edition of The Art Newspaper Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Mar 23, 2018 • 44min

Episode 24: Mural-gazing with the Dalai Lama, plus Michael Rakowitz

We speak to Thomas Laird about his new sumo-sized book on Tibetan murals, and to the artist creating the new work for the Fourth Plinth commission in London's Trafalgar Square. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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