Within the first episode of this new season of The Week in Artwork, we speak to Martin Bailey, The Artwork Newspaper’s London correspondent, concerning the thefts scandal on the British Museum and its implications for the museum sooner or later.
The artist Grada Kilomba is one in all 4 curators of this 12 months’s Sāo Paulo biennial, referred to as Choreographies of the Inconceivable, and he or she joins our host Ben Luke to debate the present.
Chaïm Soutine, Village Sq. at Céret (1920) © The Israel Museum, Jerusalem by Avshalom Avita
And this episode’s Work of the Week is Village Sq. at Céret, a portray made in 1920 by Chaïm Soutine. It options within the exhibition Towards the Present, which opens this week at K20 in Düsseldorf, Germany. The exhibition’s co-curator, Susanne Meyer-Büser, tells us concerning the image.
• The Sāo Paulo biennial: Choreographies of the Inconceivable, Ciccillo Matarazzo Pavilion, Sāo Paulo, Brazil, 6 September-10 December.
• Chaïm Soutine: Towards the Present, K20 Düsseldorf, 2 September till 14 January subsequent 12 months; Louisiana Museum of Fashionable Artwork, Humlebæk, Denmark, 9 February-14 July 14 2024; Kunstmuseum Bern, Switzerland, 16 August-1 December 2024.
