Tate Modern continues to explore the histories of Modern art beyond the European and North American canons that were once its focus. This week it opened the exhibition Nigerian Modernism, and The Art Newspaper’s digital editor, Alexander Morrison, speaks to the show’s co-curator Osei Bonsu, and to one of the 50 artists in the exhibition, Jimoh Buraimoh.
The opening night of Expectant at 8Cube on 1 August
© Sarvy Geranpayeh
Before the 12-day war between Israel and Iran in June of this year, the art scene in the Iranian capital, Tehran, was thriving. Sarvy Geranpayeh, one of The Art Newspaper's correspondents for the Middle East, travelled to Tehran and tells Ben Luke how the art world has responded in the aftermath of the conflict.
Wayne Thiebaud, Cakes, 1963, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C
© Wayne Thiebaud VAGA at ARS, NY and DACS, London 2025. Image Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington
And this episode’s Work of the Week is Cakes (1963) by Wayne Thiebaud, a painting in the National Gallery of Art in Washington that has travelled to the Courtauld Gallery in London for Wayne Thiebaud: American Still Life, the first UK museum exhibition of his art. We visit the show and speak to Barnaby Wright, its co-curator.
- Nigerian Modernism, Tate Modern, London, until 10 May 2026
- Wayne Thiebaud. American Still Life, Courtauld Gallery, London, 10 October-18 January 2026
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