Cezanne in Paris, Taryn Simon in New York, Magritte in London—podcast

Taryn Simon’s A squad agent informed me I’d be babysitting, 2026 (detail)
© 2026 Taryn Simon
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.
At the Grand Palais in Paris a new exhibition explores Paul Cezanne’s influence on artists from his own time to now. In Paris, Ben Luke speaks to Xavier Rey, the director of the Musée National d’Art Moderne at the Centre Pompidou, who is one of four curators of the exhibition, Cezanne and Us.
Paul Cezanne, La Montagne Sainte-Victoire au grand pin (1887)
© Photo Courtauld
In New York, the Guggenheim has just opened Taryn Simon’s latest project, called Father Country I Do Love You. It is the first solo exhibition by an artist whose principal medium is photography to be staged in the museum’s celebrated rotunda and, remarkably, the largest display of new work ever staged at the Guggenheim. The Art Newspaper’s editor-in-chief, Ben Sutton, speaks to Taryn Simon about the show.
Video still from Taryn Simon’s Earth two (2026)
© 2026 Taryn Simon
And this episode’s Work of the Week is René Magritte’s Le Plaisir (Pleasure) (1946), a gouache on paper which is part of an exhibition at Gagosian in London called This Is Still Not a Pipe: The Afterlife of Magritte. The exhibition’s co-curator is Jasper Sharp and our digital editor, Alexander Morrison, went to the gallery to talk to him.
René Magritte, Le Plaisir, 1946, Collection Lucien Bilinelli / Milan
© 2026 ADAGP, Paris and DACS, Photo: Prudence Cuming Associates Ltd. Courtesy Gagosian
Plus, a protest-themed tenth edition of the Performa Biennial and a restored portrait by Hans Holbein the Younger
Höller discusses his new book of games, Murakami chats AI and the television series Shōgun, and two artists talk about a new sound installation at Dia’s New York City space
Plus, the artist Deborah Roberts on Benny Andrews’s No More Games in the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Produced in association with Christie’s.