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Charles III’s coronation: the ceremonial objects explained

Plus, Karl Lagerfeld in New York and Marlene Smith’s Good Housekeeping III

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Hosted by Ben Luke. with guest speaker Anna Somers Cocks. Produced by David Clack, Aimee Dawson and Julia Michalska
5 May 2023
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The Imperial State Crown of the United Kingdom

Image: G. Younghusband & C. Davenport's The Crown Jewels of England (1919) ,  p. 6.

The Imperial State Crown of the United Kingdom

Image: G. Younghusband & C. Davenport's The Crown Jewels of England (1919) , p. 6.

The Week in Art

From breaking news and insider insights to exhibitions and events around the world, the team at The Art Newspaper picks apart the art world’s big stories with the help of special guests. An award-winning podcast hosted by Ben Luke.

This week: the coronation in the UK. As Charles III is crowned at Westminster Abbey this weekend, Anna Somers Cocks, founder of The Art Newspaper and a former assistant keeper of metalwork at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, tells us about the objects involved in the coronation and the monarchical history they convey.

Installation view of Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Beauty.

Courtesy The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York this week opens Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Beauty, the latest in the hugely successful Costume Institute exhibitions. The German designer, who died in 2019, was also the inspiration for this year’s Met Gala, the museum’s star-studded fundraiser. We talk to Stephanie Sporn, a fashion historian and arts and culture writer, about the exhibition, the gala and the controversy around Lagerfeld’s offensive comments about a range of issues.

Marlene Smith, Good Housekeeping III (2023)

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And this episode’s Work of the Week is Good Housekeeping III (1985/2023) by the British artist Marlene Smith. She was part of the Blk Art Group, a collective of young Black British artists active in the late 1970s and 1980s, which is the subject of The more things change…, an exhibition at the Wolverhampton Art Gallery in the UK. Smith has re-created the work, first made in 1985, for the show, and tells us more about its making, its context, and the history of the Blk Art Group.

• Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Beauty, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, until 16 July.

• The more things change…, Wolverhampton Art Gallery, UK, until 9 July.

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