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3 weeks ago | 
theartnewspaper.com | Florence Hallett |Ben Luke |Gareth Harris |David. Clack
A major survey of the Portuguese abstract painter Maria Helena Vieira da Silva (1908-92) opens at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice this April, before travelling to the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao in the autumn.
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Jan 17, 2025 | 
theartnewspaper.com | Hadani Ditmars |Ben Luke |David. Clack |Aimee Dawson
The Vancouver Art Gallery (VAG) announced on Friday (17 January) that it has received a promised gift of 122 works from the local collectors Brigitte and Henning Freybe valued at over C$10m ($7m). The most significant donation of international contemporary art in the gallery’s history was welcome news for the beleaguered VAG, which announced last month it was scrapping plans for a new C$600m ($444.6m) Herzog & de Meuron-designed building that had been in development for more than a decade.
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Oct 11, 2024 | 
theartnewspaper.com | Ben Luke |David. Clack |Julia Michalska |Alexander Morrison
The Frieze London art fair has a new look for 2024 as it strives to keep its freshness amid increased competition with the new kid on the art fair block, next week’s Art Basel Paris. So how effective is the re-design? Ben Luke talks to Kabir Jhala, the art market editor at The Art Newspaper, about this year’s fair and about the auctions, which have also taken place in London this week.
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Oct 9, 2024 | 
theartnewspaper.com | Ben Luke |David. Clack
Sonia Boyce talks to Ben Luke about her influences—from writers to musicians, film-makers and, of course, other artists—and the cultural experiences that have shaped her life and work. Boyce, a recent Golden Lion-winner at the Venice Biennale, was born in London in 1962 and first made an impact through her figurative drawings before shifting to what she calls a “multi-sensory” practice.
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Jun 14, 2024 | 
theartnewspaper.com | Ben Luke |David. Clack |Julia Michalska |Alexander Morrison
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 Barber has a new book out, called A Little Art Education, in which she reflects on her encounters with artists from Salvador Dalí to Tracey Emin.
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Jun 12, 2024 | 
theartnewspaper.com | Ben Luke |David. Clack
Otobong Nkanga, born in 1974 in Kano, Nigeria, explores the land and the environment in relation to our bodies, and the cultures and histories that mould and define them. Working across sculpture, installation, performance, sound, photography and video, the artist brings together what she calls constellations of images, movements and objects, to poetically interweave ideas relating to cultural history and anthropology, geography and geology.
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May 29, 2024 | 
theartnewspaper.com | Ben Luke |David. Clack
Ben Luke talks to Michaël Borremans about his influences—from writers to musicians, film-makers and, of course, other artists—and the cultural experiences that have shaped his life and work. Borremans, born in 1963 in Geraardsbergen in Belgium, is one of the most original painters working today. He marries a technical brilliance, born of a careful study of the style and touch of the Old Masters, with a sensibility and atmosphere that are completely his own.
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May 24, 2024 | 
theartnewspaper.com | Ben Luke |David. Clack |Julia Michalska |Alexander Morrison
As the Louvre’s director admits that the 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 enduring allure and the continuing efforts to explain its mysteries. In London, remarkably, Judy Chicago has just opened her first major multidisciplinary survey in a British public gallery, at the Serpentine North.
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Mar 8, 2024 | 
theartnewspaper.com | Ben Luke |David. Clack |Julia Michalska |Alexander Morrison
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 this distinguished history, with a particular focus on feminism across the world.
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Oct 27, 2023 | 
theartnewspaper.com | Ben Luke |David. Clack |Julia Michalska |Alexander Morrison
This week: the first Kyiv Biennial since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine last year is taking place in various locations across the wartorn country as well as a host of neighbouring European states. We talk to the co-curator, Georg Schöllhammer, about this year’s event. As refugees and displaced people continue to dominate the news, a global sound art project, Migration Sounds, aims to explore and reimagine the sounds of human migration and settlement.
