Edward Hopper: A Life by Louis Shadwick (2026), featuring Edward Hopper's (Self-Portrait) (around 1925–30)
Yale University Press
From breaking news and insider insights to exhibitions and events around the world, the team at The Art Newspaper picks apart the art world’s big stories with the help of special guests. An award-winning podcast hosted by Ben Luke.
As a biography of Edward Hopper is published, containing a wealth of new material, Ben Luke speaks to its author Louis Shadwick about his quest to find the truth behind the artist that he writes “has become more myth than man in the popular imagination”.
Edward Hopper's Old Ice Pond at Nyack (around 1898-1900)
Copyright 2026, Heirs of Josephine N. Hopper/Licensed by DACS, London
In Georgia, the Kvareli Foundation for Contemporary Art, a new private museum, opens this weekend. The Art Newspaper’s digital editor, Alexander Morrison, speaks to Nino Sulkhanishvili, the creative director, about it.
An aerial view of the the Kvareli Foundation for Contemporary Art, in the countryside around 150km east of the Tbilisi
Courtesy Midamo
And this episode’s Work of the Week is E il naufragar m’è dolce in questo mare (1980) by Marisa Merz. This installation is the centrepiece of an exhibition at the Castello di Rivoli in Turin, one of three presentations in the Italian city marking the 100th anniversary of Merz’s birth. Ben talks to the co-curator of the Castello di Rivoli show, Marianna Vecellio.
Marisa Merz's E il naufragar m’è dolce in questo mare (and to be shipwrecked is sweet to me in this sea), 1980
Collection Merz
Plus, a horror show in London and a Flemish masterpiece in Bruges
What’s behind the troubles facing auction houses and galleries? Plus, Sasha Skochilenko recounts her experience of being arrested—and incarcerated—in Russia, and the story behind a 1937 Surrealist painting by Ernst
Plus, a protest-themed tenth edition of the Performa Biennial and a restored portrait by Hans Holbein the Younger
