This week: with less than two weeks before the US goes to the polls, and with early voting underway, Ben Luke talks to The Art Newspaper’s editor, Americas, Ben Sutton, about what we might expect depending on whether Kamala Harris or Donald Trump wins the presidential election on 5 November.
The front panel of Duccio’s Maestà (1308-11)
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The reverse of Duccio’s Maestà (1308-11)
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The exhibition Siena: The Rise of Painting 1300-1350 is currently on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and will open at the National Gallery in London next March. Our associate digital editor, Alexander Morrison, travelled to the Tuscan city to look at the work of some of the Sienese artists who light up the show, in the context of the city itself.
Pietro Lorenzetti’s Nativity of the Virgin (1335-42)
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He was guided by the co-curator of the exhibition, Caroline Campbell, the director of the National Gallery of Ireland.
An installation view of Ambrogio Lorenzetti’s The Allegory of Good and Bad Government (1308), featuring Effects of Good Government in the City (centre) and Allegory of the Good Government (left)
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An installation view of the Effects of Bad Government in the City
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An installation view of Effects of Good Government in the Country
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A detail of Effects of Bad Government in the Country
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And this episode’s Work of the Week is Personal Accounts, an ongoing series of video installations exploring patriarchal violence by the South African artist Gabrielle Goliath. The latest cycle in the series, called Mango Blossoms, opens at the Talbot Rice Gallery in Edinburgh this weekend and we speak to Gabrielle about the work.
Gabrielle Goliath, Personal Accounts - Mango Blossoms (2024). Production still © Gabrielle Goliath