This week: Jasper Johns. Carlos Basualdo of the Philadelphia Museum of Art and Scott Rothkopf of the Whitney Museum of American Art talk to Ben Luke about their simultaneous shows of the 91-year-old artist, and taking a radical approach to a retrospective of a radical artist. Read more about the exhibition (until 13 February 2022) here.
Venice continues to suffer from overcrowding. Image: Mike Palmer from Pixabay
Also this week: Venice’s tourist problem. Are Venetian authorities subjecting tourists in Venice to unprecedented surveillance? We talk to Anna Somers Cocks, founder of The Art Newspaper and former chair of Venice in Peril.
Outi Heiskanen's Dream Play: Fleeting Virginity (1984). Courtesy of Ateneum
And in the Work of the Week, our deputy digital editor Aimee Dawson asks Marja Sakari, the director of the Ateneum in Helsinki, about the Finnish artist Outi Heiskanen's Dream Play: Fleeting Virginity (1984), a key work in her retrospective at the museum (until 9 January 2022).
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