This week: Quiet as It’s Kept, the 80th edition of the Whitney Biennial, is now open to the public at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. The Art Newspaper’s associate editor Tom Seymour, Americas editor Ben Sutton and staff reporter Gabriella Angeletti gather to discuss it. You can read our review here.
Aaron Douglas's Into Bondage (1936) Credit: National Gallery of Art, Corcoran Collection © 2021 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
As the latest incarnation of the show Afro-Atlantic Histories is unveiled at the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC, we speak to its curator, Kanitra Fletcher, about the gallery’s approach to this complex subject.
Raphael's Self Portrait with Giulio Romano (1519–20) Credit: Musée du Louvre, Paris (inv. 614) Photo: © RMN-Grand Palais (musée du Louvre) / Gérard Blot
And the National Gallery in London’s long-planned Raphael blockbuster, postponed due to the pandemic, is finally open, so for this episode’s Work of the Week, we speak to Tom Henry, one of the curators of the show, about the Self-Portrait with Giulio Romano (1519-20), one of the Renaissance master’s final paintings.
• Whitney Biennial 2022: Quiet as It’s Kept, Whitney Museum of American Art, until 5 September
• Afro-Atlantic Histories, National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, 10 April-17 July
• Raphael, National Gallery, London, 9 April-31 July. To hear an in-depth discussion with Hugo Chapman, keeper of prints and drawings at the British Museum, about Raphael’s wider career, his precocious brilliance, his rivalry with Michelangelo, and his influence and legacy, listen to the episode of this podcast from 22 May 2020.