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Is the US museum sector in crisis?

Plus, a new antisemitism scandal at Documenta and a Kim Lim sculpure on show at the Hepworth Wakefield

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Hosted by Ben Luke. Produced by David Clack, Julia Michalska and Alexander Morrison
24 November 2023
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San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMoMA) is one of the museums that has laid off staff this year, with an announcement citing low attendance figures, rising costs of operation and broader economic issues Photo: Beyond My Ken / Wikipedia

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMoMA) is one of the museums that has laid off staff this year, with an announcement citing low attendance figures, rising costs of operation and broader economic issues Photo: Beyond My Ken / Wikipedia

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 Art Newspaper’s editor, Americas, Ben Sutton discusses redundancies and ticket price-hikes at several museums across the US, and what it tells us about the economic climate for American museums in the wake of the pandemic.

Several works at the last edition of Documenta, housed in Kassel venues such as Museum Fridericianum, were removed for containing antisemitic imagery

Photo: Basilius Maximus

After a troubled 15th edition in 2022, Documenta—the influential exhibition that takes place twice a decade in Kassel, Germany—is at the centre of another controversy. The entire committee intended to appoint its artistic director has resigned following disputed allegations of antisemitism against one of the panel. Our correspondent in Germany, Catherine Hickley, tells us more about this and the wider crisis in the German art world relating to the Israel-Gaza war.

Kim Lim, Ronin (1963)

© Kim Lim Estate / Turnbull Studio. All Rights Reserved, DACS 2023. Photo courtesy Sotheby’s

And this episode’s Work of the Week is Ronin (1963), a sculpture by the Singaporean-British artist Kim Lim. The work is part of the first survey of Lim’s work at a British gallery since 1999, at The Hepworth Wakefield. Marie-Charlotte Carrier, the curator of the show, tells us more about Lim’s life and art.

  • To hear more about Documenta in 2022, listen to our episode from 24 June last year and our review of the year on 16 December 2022.
  • Kim Lim: Space, Rhythm & Light, The Hepworth Wakefield, 25 November-2 June 2024.
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