This week, 4 years after Tate Britain closed its restaurant as a result of Rex Whistler’s murals on its partitions contained racist imagery, it has unveiled the work it commissioned in response to Whistler’s portray by the artist Keith Piper. We discuss to Piper in regards to the work.
A view of Frieze London 2023
Photograph: Lyndon Douglas. Courtesy Frieze / Lyndon Douglas Images
The annual Artwork Basel & UBS Artwork Market Report was revealed on Wednesday and, as ever, critiques the standing of the worldwide artwork market. We communicate to its writer, the cultural economist and founding father of the corporate Arts Economics, Clare McAndrew.
Anni Albers, With Verticals, 1946
The Josef and Anni Albers Basis
And this episode’s Work of the Week is With Verticals, one in every of Anni Albers’s pictorial weavings, made in 1946. It’s a key piece within the exhibition Woven Histories: Textiles and Trendy Abstraction, which arrived this week on the Nationwide Gallery of Artwork in Washington. We talk about the weaving with the present’s curator, Lynne Cooke.
Keith Piper: Viva Voce, Tate Britain, till at the least 2025.Artwork Basel and UBS Artwork Market Report 2024, theartmarket.artbasel.com.Woven Histories: Textiles and Trendy Abstraction, Nationwide Gallery of Artwork, Washington DC, 17 March-28 July; Nationwide Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 25 October-2 March 2025; The Museum of Trendy Artwork, New York, 20 April 2025-13 September 2025
