# Axel Rüger

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Can Netflix help solve the Isabella Stewart Gardner art heist?

On this week's podcast: the world’s greatest art heist. As a new Netflix documentary hits our screens, who stole the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum’s paintings by Rembrandt, Vermeer and Manet, among other items, and are we any closer to finding them? We talk to Jeff Siegel, producer of the new Net…

48. Axel Rüger on the Summer Exhibition Bringing Joy to Autumn

The Summer Exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts From 22nd September till 2nd January Book: https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/exhibition/summer-exhibition-2021 Browse and buy: https://se.royalacademy.org.uk/?_ga=2.21972985.356073063.1632560505-679266684.1632221837 Also at the Royal Academy: …

Van Gogh Museum Director Axel Ruger

On this episode of Travel Today with Peter Greenberg we head the the Netherlands, and more specifically, Amsterdam!  Joining Greenberg at the Conservatorium Hotel in Amsterdam is Axel Rüger, the Director of the Van Gogh Museum. Ruger tells us the proper way to address Mr. Van Gogh and gives us a qu…

Van Gogh Museum Director Axel Ruger

On this episode of Travel Today with Peter Greenberg we head the the Netherlands, and more specifically, Amsterdam!  Joining Greenberg at the Conservatorium Hotel in Amsterdam is Axel Rüger, the Director of the Van Gogh Museum. Ruger tells us the proper way to address Mr. Van Gogh and gives us a qu…

Bacon and beasts, Botticelli in New York, gender in Asian art in San Francisco

This week, we visit the Royal Academy in London, where a new show looking at Francis Bacon’s use of animal imagery, Man and Beast, is about to open. The RA’s director, Axel Rüger sheds light on Bacon’s means of transposing the animal into the human figure. We talk to our editor-at-large, Georgina A…

Exhibition Preview: Inside the Summer Exhibition with Axel Rüger

Everyone's favourite exhibition is back! With the Royal Academy's Summer Exhibition returning to Piccadilly (London) on the 21st of June, tune in as James chats with Royal Academy Chief Executive, Axel Rüger, to find out what's in store this year, which works might just be his favourite and just ho…

Inside New York's Most Beloved Museum: Axel Rüger on the New Era of The Frick - 271 - Alain Elkann Interviews

THE REGENERATION OF THE FRICK. Axel Rüger is a German art historian, curator and museum director. Director of the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam from 2006 to 2019, he previously worked as a curator of Dutch art at the National Gallery in London. He led the Royal Academy of Arts in London from 2019 th…

Season 2026: Axel Rüger

Axel Rüger is a German art historian, curator, and museum director. Formerly director of the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam and the Royal Academy of Arts in London, he assumed the directorship of The Frick Collection in New York in March 2025. In this episode, he discusses the museum's history as a G…

Inside New York's Most Beloved Museum: Axel Rüger on the New Era of The Frick - 271 - Alain Elkann Interviews

THE REGENERATION OF THE FRICK. Axel Rüger is a German art historian, curator and museum director. Director of the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam from 2006 to 2019, he previously worked as a curator of Dutch art at the National Gallery in London. He led the Royal Academy of Arts in London from 2019 th…