This week: the coronation within the UK. As Charles III is topped at Westminster Abbey this weekend, Anna Somers Cocks, founding father of The Artwork Newspaper and a former assistant keeper of metalwork on the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, tells us concerning the objects concerned within the coronation and the monarchical historical past they convey.
Set up view of Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Magnificence.
Courtesy The Metropolitan Museum of Artwork, New York
The Metropolitan Museum of Artwork in New York this week opens Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Magnificence, the most recent within the massively profitable Costume Institute exhibitions. The German designer, who died in 2019, was additionally the inspiration for this yr’s Met Gala, the museum’s star-studded fundraiser. We discuss to Stephanie Sporn, a style historian and humanities and tradition author, concerning the exhibition, the gala and the controversy round Lagerfeld’s offensive feedback a couple of vary of points.
Marlene Smith, Good Housekeeping III (2023)
Courtesy of the artist
And this episode’s Work of the Week is Good Housekeeping III (1985/2023) by the British artist Marlene Smith. She was a part of the Blk Artwork Group, a collective of younger Black British artists lively within the late Nineteen Seventies and Eighties, which is the topic of The extra issues change…, an exhibition on the Wolverhampton Artwork Gallery within the UK. Smith has re-created the work, first made in 1985, for the present, and tells us extra about its making, its context, and the historical past of the Blk Artwork Group.
• Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Magnificence, Metropolitan Museum of Artwork, New York, till 16 July.
• The extra issues change…, Wolverhampton Artwork Gallery, UK, till 9 July.
