Earlier this year, we took a tour of the V&A East Storehouse, the Victoria and Albert Museum’s vast new complex in East London. This week, it opens the David Bowie Centre, a space dedicated to the music icon. It is the permanent repository of thousands of items from Bowie’s archive, which are on display and also available for personal study. Ben Luke explores the displays at the centre with the curator, Madeleine Haddon.
Courtesy of Bukhara biennial
Last week, a new biennial opened in Bukhara, Uzbekistan, forming part of a major cultural shift in the country. The Art Newspaper’s art market editor, Kabir Jhala, went to Bukhara for the opening event and delivers his verdict, and we also hear from its curator, Diana Campbell.
Portrait of Hilton Als
Photo: Ali Smith
And this episode’s Work of the Week is a pair of paintings: Untitled (2025), a new piece by Hurvin Anderson, and West Indies (2014) by Kara Walker. They are part of an exhibition at Michael Werner Gallery in London, curated by the critic and writer Hilton Als, which explores the Dominican-born writer Jean Rhys. We went to the gallery to talk to Als about these two remarkable paintings and his fascination with Jean Rhys’s life and work.
Hurvin Anderson, Untitled, 2025
© Hurvin Anderson. Courtesy Michael Werner Gallery
Kara Walker, West Indies, 2014
Private Collection, New York. © Kara Walker. Photo courtesy of the artist, Sikkema Malloy Jenkins, and Sprüth Magers
- David Bowie Centre, V&A East Storehouse, from 13 September
- The Bukhara Biennial continues until 20 November
- Postures: Jean Rhys in the Modern World, curated by Hilton Als, Michael Werner, London, 12 September-22 November
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