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The mystic and the Modernist: Hilma af Klint and Piet Mondrian

We explore the Tate Modern exhibition. Plus, the Whitney's Jaune Quick-to-See Smith retrospective and a reconstructed Roman gateway in England

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Hosted by Ben Luke and Benjamin Sutton. Produced by Julia Michalska, David. Clack and Aimee Dawson
21 April 2023
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Left: Hilma af Klint's The Ten Largest, Group IV, No. 3, Youth (1907). Right: Piet Mondrian's Composition with red, black, yellow, blue and gray (1921)

Courtesy of The Hilma af Klint Foundation, Kunstmuseum den Haag

Left: Hilma af Klint's The Ten Largest, Group IV, No. 3, Youth (1907). Right: Piet Mondrian's Composition with red, black, yellow, blue and gray (1921)

Courtesy of The Hilma af Klint Foundation, Kunstmuseum den Haag

The Week in Art

From breaking news and insider insights to exhibitions and events around the world, the team at The Art Newspaper picks apart the art world’s big stories with the help of special guests. An award-winning podcast hosted by Ben Luke.

This week: we take a tour of Tate Modern’s exhibition that brings together the Swedish painter Hilma af Klint and the Dutch artist Piet Mondrian. We hear about the two artists’ distinctive contributions to abstraction, their shared interest in esoteric belief systems and their deep engagement with the natural world, from one of the show’s curators, Bryony Fer.

Jaune Quick-to-See Smith's Herding (1985)

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Our editor, Americas, Ben Sutton visits the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York to talk to the Native American artist Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, as her retrospective opens at the museum.

A reconstructed Roman gateway and rampart at Richborough Roman Fort and Amphitheatre in Kent

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And this episode’s Work of the Week is a reconstruction of a Roman gateway that has just opened at Richborough Roman Fort in Kent, southern England. Andrew J. Roberts, a properties historian with English Heritage, the charity that looks after the historic site, explains what the gateway tells us about the Romans’ arrival in Britain in 43 CE.

• Hilma af Klint and Piet Mondrian: Forms of Life, Tate Modern, London, until 3 September; Kunstmuseum den Haag, The Hague, 7 October-25 February 2024

• Jaune Quick-to-See Smith: Memory Map, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, until 13 August; Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, 15 October -7 January 2024; Seattle Art Museum, 15 February–12 May next year. The Land Carries Our Ancestors: Contemporary Art by Native Americans, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., 24 September-15 January 2024; New Britain Museum of American Art, Connecticut, 18 April 2024-15 September 2024

• The Roman gateway and rampart, Richborough Roman Fort and Amphitheatre, Kent, now open

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