Best luke inglis Podcasts (2025)

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Smithsonian under fire from Trump, Frieze Seoul, Dara Birnbaum and Quantum 59:03

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Since we were last on air in June, the US government has announced what it calls a comprehensive internal review of activities at eight of the 21 museums under the umbrella of the Smithsonian Institution. Meanwhile, one of those museums, the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C., saw the artist Amy Sherald cancel a long-scheduled exhibition…

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Arthur Jafa and Mark Leckey, Cecilia Alemani on SITE Santa Fe, Trisha Brown and Robert Rauschenberg 1:08:37

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An exhibition opens this weekend at Conditions, the low-cost studio programme for artists in Croydon, on the outskirts of south London, featuring two of the great works of art of recent decades: Mark Leckey’s Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore (1999) and Arthur Jafa’s Love is the Message, the Message is Death (2016). Ben Luke talks to Mark and AJ about show…

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ICYMI: Going nuclear - ‘We are entering an era of a new global arms race’ 24:46

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A year ago this week, Tova talked to James Acton, co-director of the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, D.C. Amid wars in Europe and the Middle East, she wanted to assess the chances of a nuclear war breaking out and how it could start, play out and affect New Zealand. Safe to say the world's not…

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Art Basel, human remains in Dutch museums, Eva Hesse 55:05

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The Art Newspaper’s digital editor Alexander Morrison is in Basel for the annual Art Basel fair. He talks to our art market editor, Kabir Jhala, about the atmosphere at the fair after a long downturn in the art market and underwhelming auctions last month in New York. While some major museums around the world would rather avoid the topic of returni…

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Rachel Jones, Liverpool Biennial, UK Aids Memorial Quilt at Tate Modern 1:01:12

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The Dulwich Picture Gallery, the UK’s first purpose-built public art gallery, is hosting an exhibition of one of Britain’s brightest young painting talents, Rachel Jones. Ben Luke visits the gallery to talk to her about the paintings—giant and tiny—in the show. The latest Liverpool Biennial has just opened in that great British city; Louisa Buck, T…

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London Gallery Weekend, Brazil’s National Museum, Jane Austen at the Morgan 58:58

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The fifth edition of London Gallery Weekend takes place this weekend, and opens as the global art market is at a low ebb. So what can it do to change the mood? Ben Luke speaks to Ananya Mukhopadhyay, the managing director of Ames Yavuz, which is opening a new London gallery to coincide with the weekend events, and Jeremy Epstein, co-director of the…

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Museum openings: V&A East Storehouse and the Met’s Rockefeller Wing, plus Rachel Whiteread at Goodwood Art Foundation 1:22:04

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We visit major museum projects unveiled this week in London and New York: Ben Luke takes a tour of V&A East Storehouse in London’s Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, which offers unprecedented access to the Victoria and Albert Museum’s collection. He meets the deputy director of the V&A, Tim Reeve, and speaks to key members of the team that are making t…

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Jean Tinguely’s 100th anniversary, Fenix Museum, Ben Shahn 1:04:52

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A host of exhibitions and events this month and next celebrate the 100th anniversary of the birth of the Swiss artist Jean Tinguely, one of the godfathers of kinetic and auto-destructive art. Ben Luke speaks to Roland Wetzel, the director of the Tinguely Museum in Basel about the artist’s life and work, and the events marking the centenary. In Rott…

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Koyo Kouoh remembered, Queen Elizabeth II memorial, Jasper Johns by Robert Storr 59:12

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Koyo Kouoh remembered, Queen Elizabeth II memorial, Jasper Johns by Robert Storr Koyo Kouoh, the Cameroon-born curator who was director of Zeitz Mocaa in Cape Town and had been invited to curate next year’s Venice Biennale died on 10 May. There has been an outpouring of moving tributes to Kouoh from artists, curators and gallerists across the world…

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London: National Gallery refurb and rehang, Tate Modern is 25. Plus, Inge Mahn 1:19:41

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This week: after a two-year closure, the National Gallery’s Sainsbury Wing reopens this week, revealing a major overhaul by the architect Annabelle Selldorf. The gallery has also rehung its entire collection and Ben Luke takes a tour of both the revamped building and the new displays with the National Gallery director, Gabriele Finaldi. Tate Modern…

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Frank Auerbach’s Berlin homecoming, human remains and museums, Ian Hamilton Finlay’s ‘Republic’ 1:13:21

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During his lifetime, the late artist Frank Auerbach never had an exhibition in Berlin, the city of his birth, which he left for the UK in 1939 to escape the Nazis. This weekend, the first show of his work in the German capital opens at the Galerie Michael Werner. Our digital editor, Alexander Morrison, went to Berlin to talk to the artist’s son, th…

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Pope Francis and art, JMW Turner’s 250th birthday, John Singer Sargent’s Madame X 1:01:54

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Following the death of Pope Francis on Easter Monday, The Art Newspaper’s managing editor, Louis Jebb, who has written an extensive obituary of the late pontiff, joins Ben Luke to talk about the late pope’s engagement with art and with the Vatican art collections. Wednesday 23 April was the 250th anniversary of the birth of JMW Turner, one of the g…

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Christine Sun Kim and Thomas Mader, teamLab in Abu Dhabi, Vermeer’s final painting? 52:20

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ollowing on from opening her exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art, which continues until August, the US-born, Berlin-based artist Christine Sun Kim this week opened a show in London in collaboration with Thomas Mader. The exhibition, 1880 THAT, uses a notorious historic conference in Milan in 1880, which effectively outlawed sign langua…

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Trump’s assault on museums and libraries, the art market’s 12% fall, Evie Hone and Mainie Jellett 58:38

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In two-and-a-half months since the inauguration of President Donald Trump, a series of executive orders and other initiatives have attempted systematically to eliminate and defund some of the federal agencies responsible for the distribution of federal money to museums, libraries and other organisations. The Art Newspaper’s editor-in-chief in the A…

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Museum visitor figures—highs and lows, William Morris mania, Marguerite Matisse, the unsung hero of her father’s art 1:00:51

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he Art Newspaper’s annual report on museum visitor figures is out and shows that the slow build-back after the Covid-19 closures is over, and museums are back at what we might consider their “natural level”. Host Ben Luke talks to the co-editor of our report, Lee Cheshire, about what that means, and who were last year’s big winners and losers. A ne…

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Preparing for the playoffs with Colin Miller 16:42

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In the regular season finale of GROUND CONTROL, our guest is defenceman Colin Miller! Fresh off clinching a spot in the 2025 Stanley Cup playoffs, Millsy sat down with host Jamie Thomas to chat about growing up in the Soo, what it's like to become a dad during the season, and ramping up for the playoffs! Can you guess which three sports Miller exce…

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The Frick: Annabelle Selldorf interview and our review. Plus, Taiso Yoshitoshi 1:00:55

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After a five-year closure, the Frick Collection in New York will reopen to the public on 17 April and this week opened its doors to the press. The Gilded Age mansion, created on Fifth Avenue for the industrialist Henry Clay Frick, has been restored and enhanced by Selldorf Architects, with the executive architect Beyer Blinder Belle. It is the bigg…

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Data Mastery & Personal Resilience with Luke Beckley 33:07

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In this powerful episode, Elle sits down with data strategy expert Luke Beckley to explore the fascinating intersection between data mastery and personal resilience. From supporting his extended family at just 21 to pioneering the concept of "Data Posture" in business, Luke shares how overcoming personal challenges became his greatest professional …

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The Elevation Framework: How to Transform Your Life and Career 17:35

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In this debut episode, Elle Lacey introduces her powerful Elevation Framework - a proven system for aligning personal development with professional growth. Drawing from her own remarkable journey from school dropout to CEO, Elle shares the first two pillars of her framework: Unshakeable Self-Belief and Strategic Vision Integration. Discover how the…

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Jack Whitten at MoMA, New York, Paris Noir at the Pompidou, Arpita Singh at the Serpentine 1:09:01

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The largest ever exhibition of the work of Jack Whitten opens this weekend at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York. Ben Luke speaks to Michelle Kuo, the curator of the show, about the political and experimental commitment that drove Whitten’s remarkable body of work. In Paris, one of the final exhibitions to open at the Centre Pompidou before …

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What's it like being traded twice in 24 hours with Luke Schenn 25:28

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The newest member of the Winnipeg Jets — Luke Schenn — joins us this week on GROUND CONTROL. A whirlwind week sent Schenn and his family from the Nashville Predators to the Pittsburgh Penguins before finally joining the Jets. With a few practices and a pair of games under his belt, Schenner sat down with host Jamie Thomas to share stories from thro…

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The big art slowdown, Dutch funding crisis, Bruegel’s Hunters in the Snow 54:23

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After a challenging year in which international galleries, auction houses and museums have been forced to scale back their operations and make redundancies on an alarming scale, a slower, more considered approach to business seems to be emerging. So are we into an era of longer, more in-depth exhibitions and bespoke events concerned more with authe…

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Censorship and Australia’s Venice Biennale pavilion, a controversial AI auction, and Elizabeth Catlett in Washington 1:08:37

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It seems absurd that more than a year ahead of the next Venice Biennale, one of the major pavilions in the Giardini might be empty for next year’s event. But that is the dilemma facing Creative Australia, which is responsible for that country’s Biennale presentation. Last month, it announced the team comprising the Lebanese-born Sydney-based artist…

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Leigh Bowery at Tate Modern, Ukraine and art—three years on, Max Beckmann and the Gothic Modern 1:10:38

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Tate Modern this week opened a vast exhibition exploring the life and work of the maverick Australian-born performance artist, fashion designer and self-styled “club monster”, Leigh Bowery, as well as the variety of cultural figures in his orbit in London. It coincides with other related London shows: one analysing the fashion work of Bowery and hi…

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80’s hockey memories with Pokey Reddick 21:42

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Winnipeg Jets 1.0 fan favourite Eldon "Pokey" Reddick was recently back in town to cheer on the team, so he joined our on GROUND CONTROL for a trip down memory lane! Host Jamie Thomas goes in-depth with Pokey on his love of Winnipeg, and so much more. Plus some memorable stories on being an NHL goaltender in an era where goals were being scored at …

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Gee’s Bend quiltmakers, “Degenerate” Art in Paris, and Mel Bochner remembered 1:03:31

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Shows opening in Washington and Dublin this month explore quiltmaking by African American women. Ben Luke talks to Raina Lampkins-Fielder, chief curator for the Souls Grown Deep Foundation, and the organiser of the exhibition Kith & Kin: The Quilts of Gee’s Bend at the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA), about the history of quiltmaking in this smal…

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Anselm Kiefer, Hoor al Qasimi on Sharjah, a Picasso Blue Period mystery 1:14:45

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Next month, the German artist Anselm Kiefer will be 80, and the first of a number of shows internationally to mark this landmark moment opened this week at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK. It focuses on his early works, and Ben Luke visits Oxford to discuss this pivotal moment in his career with Lena Fritsch, the curator of the exhibition. The lat…

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Trump tariffs and Zona Maco in Mexico, India Art Fair, and American photography at the Rijksmuseum 56:56

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Last weekend, the US President Donald Trump signed executive orders placing 25 percent tariffs on Mexico and Canada, which were due to take effect on Tuesday. But at the last minute, the tariffs were postponed, at least for a month. Inevitably, though, the talk of a trade war set nerves jangling at Zona Maco, the art fair in Mexico City, which open…

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