Podcast | Artwork growth because the UK busts: how the financial disaster is affecting the market

This week: Ben Luke talks to Anny Shaw, a contributing editor at The Artwork Newspaper, concerning the environment on the Frieze London and Frieze Masters festivals amid the UK’s financial struggles and the robust US greenback. Additionally they focus on the booming marketplace for so-called “ultra-contemporary” artwork, and a shift within the artists being purchased by collectors.

We then speak to Cecilia Vicuña, the Chilean artist and poet who, this yr alone, has gained the Golden Lion on the Venice Biennale, had a serious exhibition on the Guggenheim Museum in New York and is the newest artist to tackle the Turbine Corridor fee at Tate Trendy, the place we caught up along with her.

Our appearing digital editor, Aimee Dawson, talks to Camille Morineau, founding father of the Paris-based organisation AWARE (Archives of Ladies Artists, Analysis and Exhibitions), about Highlight, the part of Frieze Masters devoted this yr to ladies artists of the twentieth century.

And this episode’s Work of the Week is Boy in Brief Pants (1918) by Amedeo Modigliani. We speak to Simonetta Fraquelli, the consulting curator for a brand new exhibition of Modigliani’s work on the Barnes Basis in Philadelphia, concerning the portray.

• Frieze London and Frieze Masters, Regents Park, London, till 16 October.

• The Hyundai Fee: Cecilia Vicuña: Mind Forest Quipu, Tate Trendy, London, till 16 April 2023; A Quipu of Encounters, Rituals and Assemblies, Tate Trendy, from 14 October. Works by Cecilia Vicuña are at Lehmann Maupin, Frieze London, stand F2.

• Modigliani Up Shut, Barnes Basis, Philadelphia, 16 October-29 January 2023.