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The $6.2m banana, Frank Auerbach remembered, Lindokuhle Sobekwa’s photographs of add…

11/22/2024 • 67 min

Maurizio Cattelan’s Comedian (2019), the work featuring a banana stuck to a wall with grey duct tape, sold at Sotheby’s in New York, on Wednesday for $5m or $6.2m with fees. But how did other works fare at this week’s auctions in New York? Ben Luke talks to Ben Sutton, The Art Newspaper’s editor, Americas, about the sales. Frank Auerbach, the painter who escaped… Play episode

Episode 300! British Museum, Tate Modern and V&A East directors in discuss…
Renaissance special: Michelangelo, Leonardo and Raphael in Florence, drawi…
American sculpture—race and racism, Warsaw’s Museum of Modern Art, Jusepe …
US election, the glory of Siena, Gabrielle Goliath
Paris: Art Basel at the Grand Palais and Guillermo Kuitca at Musée Picasso…
Frieze, UK critics The White Pube, Giuseppe Penone and Arte Povera
Mike Kelley, a pivotal period of contemporary Indian art, Raoul Dufy and B…
Monet in London, Matisse in Basel, Frankenthaler in Florence
Glenn Ligon in Cambridge, new Gauguin biography, Teresa Margolles’s Fourth…
Van Gogh blockbuster, the birth of Impressionism, Juan Pablo Echeverri
The art market slump, the artist freed in the US-Russia prisoner swap, Max…
Arts and the UK election, ex-Uffizi head fails in Florence mayoral bid, Ha…
Just Stop Oil’s Stonehenge protest, Tavares Strachan, Louise Bourgeois at …
Art Basel: fireworks and nuance, Lynn Barber on her artist interviews, Gui…
Georgia O’Keeffe’s New York, Studio Voltaire at 30, Martha Jungwirth respo…
Art’s AI reckoning, the rise of comic art, and Degas’ Miss La La
The Mona Lisa's endless, and problematic, allure; Judy Chicago; Christian …
Tate’s historic women artists show, Dia at 50, Martin Wong’s record-breaki…
Gaza: artists’ stories, Frank Stella remembered, Vanessa Bell’s garden view
Should UK museums charge for entry? Plus, Michelangelo’s last decades and …
Klimt’s last picture sells for €35m, Rebecca Horn, a Cézanne restored
Venice Biennale special
Marlborough Gallery closes, Rose B. Simpson in New York, Caravaggio’s fina…
Inigo Philbrick and art world fraud, Hong Kong’s new security law, a Mahar…
Richard Serra remembered. Plus, expressionist art special: Käthe Kollwitz …
Whitney Biennial reviewed, museum visits back to normal, Pieter Bruegel th…
Tate’s racist mural—Keith Piper’s response, the Art Basel & UBS Art Market…
Photography and feminist activism, Jacob Rothschild remembered, Robert Rym…
Los Angeles and Frieze, Angelica Kauffman, Matthew Wong and Van Gogh
Black figuration, Surrealism is 100, Tonita Peña’s Eagle Dance mural
Yoko Ono at Tate Modern, Elton John’s collection, a Roman colossus remade
Tania Bruguera on censorship, Frank Auerbach, an Indian painting from Howa…
Venice Biennale, the immersive art explosion, Barbara Kruger by Hans Ulric…
The masters market, India’s controversial Hindu temple, Honoré Daumier
An oligarch vs Sotheby’s in a New York court, Singapore Art Week, Zanele M…
2024: market predictions and the big shows
2023: the biggest stories and the best shows
Art Basel in Miami Beach, the all-women museum in Athens, Pesellino’s Davi…
Gaza: damage to historic sites, Emily Kam Kngwarray in Canberra, a Gauguin…
US museums’ financial woes, Documenta’s new crisis, Kim Lim
New York auctions, radical Central Eastern European art, Terry Adkins x Gr…
Protest and performance in New York, UK National Trust row, Hans Holbein
Can AI reveal the Herculaneum scrolls? Plus, Venice Biennale political row…
Kyiv Biennial, sound art and migration, Jem Perucchini’s London Tube mural
Paris +, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Marie Laurencin
Frieze is 20, Hildigunnur Birgisdóttir, Matisse in New York
The looted Ethiopian icon, AI copyright debate in US, the end of China’s m…
Marina Abramović, Frans Hals, Peter Paul Rubens
Unesco controversies; Fernando Botero; Barkley Hendricks in New York

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