Venice Biennale Special 2026—podcast

This episode of The Art Newspaper's podcast is a Venice Biennale special, covering the opening week of the 2026 edition. Host Ben Luke, along with Louisa Buck and Jane Morris, reviews the main exhibition "In Minor Keys," curated by the late Koyo Kouoh and realized by five collaborators. The podcast features interviews with artists Gabrielle Goliath, whose work for the South African pavilion was cancelled and is instead staged in a Venice church, and Lubaina Himid, showing in the British pavilion. It also includes conversations with writer Saidiya Hartman and Daniella Kaliada of Belarus Free Theatre about their collateral projects. The episode concludes with a focus on two restored Tintoretto paintings at the Basilica of San Giorgio Maggiore, funded by Save Venice.

Beatriz González at Barbican Art Gallery, London

The Barbican Art Gallery in London is presenting a major retrospective of Colombian artist Beatriz González, marking her first solo show in the UK and her largest-ever exhibition in Europe. The exhibition spans six decades of her work, from the 1960s to the present, showcasing her roles as an artist, curator, art historian, and educator.

Andy Warhol and Italy: in Milan the exhibition that reveals the unpublished face of the King of Pop Art

Andy Warhol e l’Italia: a Milano la mostra che svela il volto inedito del Re della Pop Art

A new exhibition in Milan, "Andy Warhol. Passaggio in Italia 1975-1987," explores the Pop Art icon's previously under-examined decade-long relationship with Italy. Hosted at La Galleria Crédit Agricole – Refettorio delle Stelline until June 20, the show is not a standard retrospective but a "memoir in images" reconstructing Warhol's creative intersections with Italian culture, gallerists, and cities like Naples and Milan. It features the series "Vesuvius" and "The Last Supper," alongside unpublished photographs, documents, and memorabilia from figures such as Lucio Amelio, Alexander Iolas, and Luciano Anselmino, as well as a section on Warhol's LP covers and the "Ladies and Gentlemen" series.