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Daily Art DownloadDaily Art Download — 2025-10-25Show notes for today's episode of The Daily Art Download — your ten minute crash course in today's art world news.
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- The Asian Art Scene Is Thriving in Paris: ‘It’s a Moment to Reclaim Presence’: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/asian-artists-paris-2704353
- Are French Museums Becoming Hotbeds for Theft? The Past Year Suggests Yes: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/french-museums-theft-2704251
- The 8 Most Embarrassing Art Heist Fails of All Time, Including a Getaway Van That Wouldn’t Gogh: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/embarrassing-art-heist-1606585
- Stolen Louvre Jewels Might Be Too ‘Elevated’ to Neatly Disappear, Say Experts: https://news.a...
2025-10-2503 min
Design PerspectivesLina Ghotmeh: What Does Responsibility Look Like in Architecture Today?
The guest on this episode is ICONIC AWARDS 2025 „Architect of the Year” Lina Ghotmeh. Host Martin Pauli talks with the Paris-based architect about her design philosophy “Archaeology of the Future” and the question of what responsibility in architecture means today. From her upbringing in post-war Beirut to internationally acclaimed projects such as the „Stone Garden Housing”, the Hermès Workshops in Normandy, and the „Serpentine Pavilion” in London, Ghotmeh shares how place, memory, material, and care shape her work.
The conversation explores how architecture can act as both a critical and hopeful practice – one that embraces complexity, fosters community, and responds to urg...
2025-10-1434 minDaily Art DownloadDaily Art Download — 2025-09-10Show notes for today's episode of The Daily Art Download — your ten minute crash course in today's art world news.
Artnet News
- Introducing the Intelligence Report: The Mid-Year Report 2025: https://news.artnet.com/market/mid-year-review-2025-2684554
- Unique Les Lalanne Jewelry From Pauline Karpidas’s Collection Heads to Auction: https://news.artnet.com/market/pauline-karpidas-les-lalanne-jewelry-sothebys-2685981
- Archaeologists Unearth Albania’s First Roman-Era Tomb: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/albania-roman-tomb-2685849
- Lewd Drawing Donald Trump Allegedly Made for Jeffrey Epstein Surfaces: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/trump-epstein-drawing-2669870
- Chloë Bass Is the First-Ever Artist to Take Over the New York Subway...
2025-09-1005 min
Time SensitiveLina Ghotmeh on Ruin and Regeneration in ArchitectureThrough her “archaeology of the future” design approach, the Lebanese-born, Paris-based architect Lina Ghotmeh has firmly established herself as a humanist who brings a profound awareness of past, present, and presence to all that she does. In the two decades since winning her breakthrough commission—the Estonian National Museum in Tartu—her practice has taken off, with Ghotmeh swiftly becoming one today’s fastest-rising architectural stars. Just a week after we recorded this episode of Time Sensitive, she was named the winner of a competition to design the British Museum’s Western Range and, shortly after that, she was announced as...
2025-04-161h 07
Culture BitesEpisode 68: What role will Arab talent play in renovating British Museum galleries?This week, Culture Bites hosts Enas Refaei and Farah Andrews discuss Lebanese architect Lina Ghotmeh’s selection to renovate the British Museum’s Western Range galleries, and how this is a major recognition of and a moment of pride for Arab architects. Farah also highlights how picking Ghotmeh might signal a shift in how the British Museum is positioning itself, as it has been under pressure to return looted artefacts, particularly from the Middle East.
They also discuss Lady Gaga, who is back with a new album, Mayhem, marking her return to high-energy and electropop. Enas and Fara...
2025-03-1327 min
Light Talks - der Podcast der Zumtobel Group#19 Windows of Light – Exploring light from its origins to the present with Lina GhotmehIn episode 19 of Light Talks we were happy to welcome Lina Ghotmeh, Lebanese born architect and founding principal of Lina Ghotmeh Architecture, based in Paris for just over 20 years. Her work has been awarded with many international prizes and she significantly impacts the international architectural discourse. Lina lectured at the world’s leading universities and is appointed professor member of the International Academy of Architecture (IAA). For the Zumtobel Group, she created this year’s artistic annual report entitled Windows of Light, which has become an exploration of light – from its origins to the present. Lina explains that the idea e...
2024-10-2927 min
Talk ArtEva Jospin, presented by RuinartTalk Art Special LIVE EPISODE with Ruinart! We met leading French artist EVA JOSPIN! Live from London's Frieze week, this inspiring episode was recorded in the Serpentine Pavilion designed by Lina Ghotmeh in front of a live audience. With the belief art can enlighten and connect us, Ruinart gives Carte Blanche to leading contemporary artists every year to pay tribute to the Maison’s legacy, this year French Artist Eva Jospin.As part of the Carte Blanche program Eva Jospin imagined an artistic and sensory encounter offering her vision of the terroir of Mai...
2023-10-1155 min
Serpentine PodcastIntimacies: Surroundings (with Lina Ghotmeh, Black Power Naps & Jakob Kudsk Steensen)This episode opens up to consider intimacy with the world around us. Today, many of us feel – and are – disconnected from place, and not everyone feels equally at home in the spaces we move through. Ranging from urban and built environments to social and digital worlds, this episode asks what we need to be able to feel comfortable and intimate with our surroundings. How are artists challenging and working with different forms of space and place? And what happens when we can reconnect with the elements, environments, people, and other beings around us? Featuring an inte...
2023-09-1948 min
Alain Elkann InterviewsLina Ghotmeh - 157 - Alain Elkann InterviewsBRINGING PEOPLE TOGETHER. Architect Lina Ghotmeh was born and raised in Beirut, where she studied at the American University. In 2005, while working in London and collaborating with Ateliers Jean Nouvel and Foster & Partners, she won an international competition to design the Estonian National Museum. Following this victory, she co-founded her first studio, DGT Architects, in Paris. Upon delivery of this project in 2016, she had established Lina Ghotmeh—Architecture. Ghotmeh has won several prestigious awards, has delivered multiple commended projects and designed the Serpentine Pavilion 2023, À Table.
2023-08-0642 min
Open CityBuilding with Timber, with engineer Andrew Lawrence and architect Lina GhotmehOpen City presents Episode One, Season Two of Words on Wood, a podcast series created by the American Hardwood Export Council (AHEC) in conjunction with Disegno journal, that delves deep into the big questions surrounding forests, the timber industry, and the use of wood as a design material.With architecture under more pressure than ever to improve the sustainability of buildings, this episode of Words on Wood looks at the potential for timber structures to reshape the field. Given the opportunities and challenges facing the construction of tall timber buildings, what role does wood have to play...
2022-12-2235 min
Sur le filClimat : quelles solutions pour le bâtiment, secteur très polluant ?Saviez-vous que le secteur du bâtiment était responsable de près de 40% des émissions de gaz à effet de serre dans le monde ? (38% selon l’ONU)Pour lutter contre le réchauffement climatique, le secteur est donc appelé à faire sa révolution. Alors faut-il arrêter de construire du neuf ? Comment loger l’humanité alors qu’on s’apprête à dépasser le seuil des 8 milliards d’habitants sur Terre ? La COP 27, la grande conférence sur le climat de l’ONU en Egypte s’ouvre dans un mois. A cette occasion, nous vous prop...
2022-10-0407 min
Words on WoodS2E1: Building with Timber with engineer Andrew Lawrence and architect Lina GhotmehThis second season of Words on Wood sees Disegno’s editors Oli Stratford and India Block navigate the intersections between the worlds of forestry and design and architecture, focusing in on topics including timber construction; experimental uses of wood and cellulose; a world wide timber tracing network; and a look at how designers and makers are bringing fresh relevance to traditional woodcraft practices. With architecture under more pressure than ever to improve the sustainability of buildings, Words on Wood looks at the potential for timber structures to reshape the field. Given the opportunities and challenges facing the...
2021-10-0633 min
Perrotin galleryTalk between Jean-Michel Othoniel, Lina Ghotmeh & Aldric Beckmann (FR)Talk between Jean Michel Othoniel, Lina Ghotmeh and Aldric Beckmann
2019-04-2500 min