The fifth version of London Gallery Weekend takes place this weekend, and opens as the worldwide artwork market is at a low ebb. So what can it do to alter the temper? Ben Luke speaks to Ananya Mukhopadhyay, the managing director of Ames Yavuz, which is opening a brand new London gallery to coincide with the weekend occasions, and Jeremy Epstein, co-director of the Edel Assanti gallery, who’s the co-founder and co-director of London Gallery Weekend.
Aerial view of ongoing restoration work on the Nationwide Museum of Brazil
Picture by Felipe Cohen
In 2018, a devastating electrical hearth tore by means of the Nationwide Museum of Brazil in Rio de Janeiro with catastrophic penalties. Lately, the museum introduced that it could quickly reopen a few of its galleries—this was initially scheduled for six June however was postponed after this episode was recorded. The museum’s director, Alexander Kellner, tells The Artwork Newspaper’s digital editor Alexander Morrison about its regular rise from the ashes.
Miniature portrait of Jane Austen
Unknown artist. Courtesy of the Morgan Library & Museum
And this episode’s Work of the Week is a miniature portrait of Jane Austen by an nameless Nineteenth-century artist. The work belongs to the Morgan Library & Museum in New York, which this week opens the exhibition A Energetic Thoughts: Jane Austen at 250. The present is co-organised by Juliette Wells, professor of literary research at Goucher School in Baltimore, and she or he speaks to Alexander Morrison in regards to the portrait.
