This week: the newest controversies prompted by the Unesco World Heritage Committee. As we talked about final week, the forty fifth session of the committee is happening within the Saudi Arabian capital, Riyadh, and continues till 25 September.
The founding father of The Artwork Newspaper, Anna Somers Cocks, joins host Ben Luke to take a look at the newest websites granted World Heritage standing and on the Committee’s choice to not add Venice to the organisation’s endangered checklist. We ask: is Unesco so mired in politics that it can not adequately carry out its function?
Artist Fernando Botero throughout a 2007 exhibition of his sculptures in Berlin Picture: Rainer Jensen. dpa image alliance archive / Alamy Inventory Picture
The Colombian artist Fernando Botero died final week, aged 91, and we speak to the gallerist Stéphane Custot, of Waddington Custot galleries in London, about this painter and sculptor who drew ire from many critics however achieved widespread public acclaim.
Barkley L. Hendricks’s October’s Gone . . . Goodnight (1973)
Credit score: Harvard Artwork Museums / Fogg Museum, Cambridge; Richard Norton Memorial Fund
And this episode’s Work of the Week is October’s Gone . . . Goodnight (1973) by Barkley L. Hendricks. As a gaggle of work by Hendricks goes on show among the many masters at Frick Madison in New York, Aimee Ng, co-curator of the exhibition, tells us in regards to the portray.
• Barkley L. Hendricks: Portraits on the Frick, Frick Madison, New York, till 7 January 2024.
