This week: the Whitney Biennial reviewed. Host Ben Luke discusses the show with Ben Sutton, The Art Newspaper’s editor, Americas, and the critic Annabel Keenan.
The National Gallery in London had the biggest absolute fall in visitor numbers of any museum in our survey, though its Sainsbury Wing was closed throughout 2023, reducing gallery space and the number of entrances
Photo Unsplash / Igor Sporynin
Our annual survey of visitor numbers at museums is published in the next print edition of The Art Newspaper and Lee Cheshire, the co-editor of the report, joins us to discuss the findings.
Pieter Bruegel the Elder, The Temptation of St Anthony (around 1556)
Courtesy of Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford
And this episode’s Work of the Week is Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s drawing The Temptation of St Anthony (around 1556). It features in the exhibition Bruegel to Rubens: Great Flemish Drawings, which opens this weekend at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, UK. An Van Camp, the curator of the show, discusses this remarkable study.
- The Whitney Biennial: Even Better than the Real Thing, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, until 11 August
- Bruegel to Rubens: Great Flemish Drawings, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK, 23 March-23 June.