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”. 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. 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.

Edward Hopper: A Life by Louis Shadwick, Yale University Press, out now in the US, $40 and published on 24 November in the UK, priced £30.

Kvareli Foundation for Contemporary Art opens on 2 November.

Marisa Merz – La danza delle ore, Castello di Rivoli, Fondazione Merz, GAM, Turin, Italy, until 4 April 2027.

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As protests engulf Paris, the Art Basel fair opened this week in the French capital and then it was announced that the fair would conclude on Friday, and not open as scheduled this weekend. The Art Newspaper’s global editor-in-chief, Ben Sutton, and our chief contributing editor, Gareth Harris, visited the fair before the announcement of the weekend closure and we hear what they made of it and the various satellite events and exhibitions around it. In Latin America, Brazil goes to the polls this weekend amid a so-called “blue wave” in which rightwing governments have come to power, often with the support of the US president, Donald Trump. Culture—and culture wars—have been central to their message and Ben Luke talks to our correspondent based in Buenos Aires, Mercedes Ezquiaga, about the weaponisation of the arts and heritage across the continent. And this episode’s Work of the Week is the “Blue China” Celestial Map by Yunyou Sanren, made in 1822. It is part of Night Maps, an exhibition at the Warburg Institute in London. Our digital editor, Alexander Morrison, spoke to John Tresch, one of the curators of the exhibition, about the work.

Art Basel Paris, until 23 October.

Night Maps, The Warburg Institute, London, until 17 April 2027.

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It’s Frieze week in London, and as usual we take the opportunity to take the temperature of the market in London, and more widely, at the fair. Joining Ben Luke in the tent in Regent’s Park is The Art Newspaper’s art market editor, Kabir Jhala. At Tate Modern, the annual commission for the Turbine Hall is Hold, a work by the Beirut-born artist Tarek Atoui, and Ben visits Tate Modern to talk to him. And this episode’s Work of the Week is Francesco di Giorgio’s Deposition of Christ from the Cross with a Group of Donors (Federico da Montefeltro and His Family), a bronze relief made in 1473–74. It is one of the highlights of an exhibition that opened this week at The Frick in New York, Siena: The Art of Bronze, 1450–1500. Ben talks to the curator of the exhibition, Giulio Dalvit.

Frieze London and Frieze Masters, until Sunday, 18 October.

Hyundai Commission: Tarek Atoui: Hold, Tate Modern, London, until 11 April 2027. You can see a list of the performances programmed for the space on the Tate’s website.

Siena: The Art of Bronze, 1450–1500, The Frick, New York, until 18 January 2027.

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