We go to main museum tasks unveiled this week in London and New York: Ben Luke takes a tour of V&A East Storehouse in London’s Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, which gives unprecedented entry to the Victoria and Albert Museum’s assortment. He meets the deputy director of the V&A, Tim Reeve, and speaks to key members of the group which can be making this radical museological imaginative and prescient for London a actuality: the museum’s lead technician, Matt Clarke, its senior curator Georgia Haseldine, and Kate Parsons, the director of collections care and entry.
The Met’s newly reopened Arts of Africa Galleries
Paula Lobo
The Artwork Newspaper’s editor-in-chief, Americas, Ben Sutton, visits the Metropolitan Museum of Artwork, which this week unveiled its revamped Michael C. Rockefeller Wing. The wing holds the Met’s collections of labor from Africa, the Historical Americas, and Oceania. Ben talks to Alisa LaGamma, the curator of African artwork who’s in command of the Rockefeller Wing, and the Papua New Guinea-born, Brisbane-based artist Taloi Havini, considered one of quite a few up to date artists who created new works for the the challenge.
Rachel Whiteread, Down and Up (2024 – 2025) at Goodwood Artwork Basis {Photograph} by Lucy Dawkins, courtesy of the Goodwood Artwork Basis
And this episode’s Work of the Week is Down and Up (2024-25) by Rachel Whiteread. It options in a brand new present of Whiteread’s work, the primary on the Goodwood Artwork Basis, a not-for-profit up to date artwork gallery and sculpture park in West Sussex, UK. Ben Luke talks to Rachel concerning the work.
V&A East Storehouse, London, opens 31 MayThe Michael C. Rockefeller Wing on the Metropolitan Museum of Trendy Artwork New York, reopens 31 MayRachel Whiteread, Goodwood Artwork Basis, West Sussex, UK, 31 Could-2 NovemberSummer subscription provide: stand up to 50% off an annual print & digital subscription to The Artwork Newspaper.
