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Frida Kahlo at Tate Modern, the Brexit effect, a Renaissance tarot deck

6/25/2026 • 62 min

This last episode of the current season begins with Frida Kahlo. Tate Modern in London this week opened Frida: The Making of an Icon, an exhibition that began at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston earlier this year and which explores the Mexican artist’s paintings but also her influence on other artists and wider cultural forms. Ben Luke speaks to Tobias Ostrand… Play episode

Art Basel in Basel, Pierre Huyghe interview, James Turrell
Pan-Africanism in London, the health benefits of art, Barbara Hepworth
Yemen heritage, US flags at the National Gallery in Washington, Felix Gonz…
Smithsonian Women’s Museum chaos, Oliver Beer and Rufus Wainwright, Jasper…
New York auctions, James McNeill Whistler at Tate Britain, Edvard Munch
Frieze New York, the Cranach in Hitler’s Munich apartment, Ajamu X
Venice Biennale Special 2026
Zurbarán in London, the Carnegie International, Walter Sickert’s Ennui
Chernobyl 40 years on, Paula Rego at Munch in Oslo, Gluck’s flower painting
Museum openings: V&A East and Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Plus, Will…
Marcel Duchamp at MoMA, Dorothea Tanning book, Leonora Carrington at the F…
Should English museums charge tourists? Plus, Raphael at the Met and Senga…
Matisse’s explosive finale and a new chapter for Hong Kong? Plus, Schiapar…
New Museum extension opens, NextGen collectors, a Wardian Case in Oxford
Iran war: art communities and heritage in Iran, moderate recovery in the a…
Iran war and culture in the Gulf, the Whitney Biennial, Rembrandt discovery
Venice Biennale details revealed, Beatriz González, Tracey Emin
National Gallery’s deficit bombshell, Simon Schama on birds and art, Vilhe…
The US struggles with history, Stephen Friedman Gallery closes, Tudor Hear…
Art Basel Qatar, Dürer portrait debate, Paula Modersohn-Becker and Edvard …
Venice Biennale: South African pavilion scandal, Marian Goodman remembered…
Smithsonian’s African LGBTQ+ exhibition, art and the Iran crisis, Louise N…
Hawai’i at the British Museum, a Venice palazzo for sale, Joseph Beuys’s B…
The Year Ahead 2026: the big shows and the key openings
2025: our review of the year
Frank Gehry remembered, Serpentine and FLAG Art Foundation prize, Joan Sem…
Art Basel Miami Beach, Louvre crisis deepens, Helene Schjerfbeck
The US Venice Biennale saga, Queer Islamic art in Oslo, Duane Linklater in…
The $236m Klimt, Cop 30 and the art world, Caravaggio’s Victorious Cupid
Studio Museum in Harlem, Grand Egyptian Museum, Stanley Spencer
MFA Boston returns enslaved artist’s work to his heirs, Wifredo Lam, Ghirl…
Gauguin “fake” is real, Mrinalini Mukherjee and her circle, Franz Xaver Me…
Louvre heist: the fallout, RoseLee Goldberg on the Performa Biennial, Wayn…
Frieze in London, Hypha Studios and Renoir’s drawing for The Great Bathers
Nigerian Modernism, Tehran’s art scene after the war, Wayne Thiebaud’s Cak…
Who made ancient Egyptian art? Plus, Michaelina Wautier, Robert Rauschenbe…
Museums and ethics, Fra Angelico in Florence, Cornelia Parker’s PsychoBarn
Kerry James Marshall, National Gallery expansion, Picasso’s Three Dancers
David Bowie Centre, Bukhara Biennial, Hilton Als on Jean Rhys, Hurvin Ande…
Smithsonian under fire from Trump, Frieze Seoul, Dara Birnbaum and Quantum
Arthur Jafa and Mark Leckey, Cecilia Alemani on SITE Santa Fe, Trisha Brow…
Art Basel, human remains in Dutch museums, Eva Hesse
Rachel Jones, Liverpool Biennial, UK Aids Memorial Quilt at Tate Modern
London Gallery Weekend, Brazil’s National Museum, Jane Austen at the Morgan
Museum openings: V&A East Storehouse and the Met’s Rockefeller Wing, plus …
Jean Tinguely’s 100th anniversary, Fenix Museum, Ben Shahn
Koyo Kouoh remembered, Queen Elizabeth II memorial, Jasper Johns by Robert…
London: National Gallery refurb and rehang, Tate Modern is 25. Plus, Inge …
Frank Auerbach’s Berlin homecoming, human remains and museums, Ian Hamilto…

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