The Art Newspaper’s editor, Alison Cole, and London correspondent, Martin Bailey, join our host Ben Luke to review the National Portrait Gallery after its £41m revamp.
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William Edmondson's Untitled (Crucifix) (1935-45) Collection of KAWS
© Bill Jacobson Studio
We talk to Nancy Ireson at the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia about the exhibition William Edmondson: A Monumental Vision. Edmondson was the first African American artist to have a solo show at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in the 1930s, but has rarely been shown in museums on the US East Coast since.
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Installation shot from Zinzi Minott's Mikl Mek Ah Mukl
Image Credit Deniz Guzel ©
And this episode’s Work of the Week marks the 75th anniversary of the arrival in the UK of the Empire Windrush, a boat carrying passengers from the Caribbean. Zinzi Minott, the choreographer and artist, has made a film called Fi Dem about the Windrush on this anniversary every year since 2017. She tells us about the latest iteration, which is at the heart of a new exhibition at Queercircle in London.
• The National Portrait Gallery is open now. Yevonde: Life and Colour, until 15 October.
• William Edmondson: A Monumental Vision, Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, 25 June-10 September.
• Zinzi Minott’s Fi Dem VI is part of her exhibition Many Mikl Mek Ah Mukl, Queercircle, London, until 27 August.