As a biography of Edward Hopper is printed, containing a wealth of latest materials, Ben Luke speaks to its writer Louis Shadwick about his quest to search out the reality behind the artist that he writes “has turn out to be extra delusion than man within the fashionable creativeness”.
Edward Hopper’s Previous Ice Pond at Nyack (round 1898-1900)
Copyright 2026, Heirs of Josephine N. Hopper/Licensed by DACS, London
In Georgia, the Kvareli Basis for Modern Artwork, a brand new non-public museum, opens this weekend. The Artwork Newspaper’s digital editor, Alexander Morrison, speaks to Nino Sulkhanishvili, the inventive director, about it.
An aerial view of the the Kvareli Basis for Modern Artwork, within the countryside round 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 set up is the centrepiece of an exhibition on the Castello di Rivoli in Turin, considered one of three shows within the Italian metropolis marking the a hundredth anniversary of Merz’s beginning. Ben talks to the co-curator of the Castello di Rivoli present, Marianna Vecellio.
Marisa Merz’s E il naufragar m’è dolce in questo mare (and to be shipwrecked is good to me on this sea), 1980
Assortment Merz
Edward Hopper: A Life by Louis Shadwick, Yale College Press, out now within the US, $40 and printed on 24 November within the UK, priced £30.Kvareli Basis for Modern Artwork opens on 2 November.Marisa Merz – La danza delle ore, Castello di Rivoli, Fondazione Merz, GAM, Turin, Italy, till 4 April 2027.
