In Hong Kong, the long-awaited M+ Museum opens this week, amid accusations of censorship by the Chinese artist Ai Weiwei. Ilaria Maria Sala joins us to tell us about her visit to the museum.
The Courtauld Gallery, one of London’s great collections, is re-opening after a three-year renovation, and we take a tour of the gallery with its director Ernst Vegelin van Claerbergen. He picks out some of the key works:
Robert Campin, The Entombment, known as ‘The Seilern Triptych’ (around 1425) © The Courtauld
Sando Botticelli, The Holy Trinity with Saints Mary Magdalen and John the Baptist (around 1491-94) © The Courtauld. Photo © David Levene
Pair of marriage chests: The Nerli Chest by Biagio di Antonio, Jacopo del Sellaio and Zanobi di Domenico (1472) © The Courtauld
Peter Paul Rubens, The Family of Jan Brueghel the Elder (around 1613–15) © The Courtauld
Peter Paul Rubens, Landscape by Moonlight (1635–40) © The Courtauld
Joshua Reynolds, Cupid and Psyche (around 1789) © The Courtauld
The LVMH Great Room at The Courtauld Gallery Photo: © David Levene
Cecily Brown, Unmoored from her reflection (2021) in the revamped Courtauld Gallery © Cecily Brown. Courtesy the artist, Thomas Dane Gallery. Photo © David Levene.
And in this week’s Work of the Week, Christine Y Kim tells us about Samella Lewis’s Bag Man, a key work in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s exhibition Black American Portraits.
Samella Lewis, Bag Man (1996) © Samella Lewis, photo courtesy of Stella Jones Gallery and the artist
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