As Tate Britain opens Vanessa Bell & Duncan Grant: Inside Bloomsbury, a major show exploring these pivotal figures in British Modernism in a new light, Ben Luke visits the show and takes a tour with the exhibition’s co-curator, Thomas Kennedy.
Duncan Grant's Bathing (1911)
© 2026 Estate of Duncan Grant All rights reserved, DACS. Photo © Tate (Mark Heathcote & Abbie Soanes)
The Lagos Biennial opens this weekend in the Nigerian city and this fifth edition is called The Museum of Things Unseen. Its three curators are Furen Dai, Chinyere Obieze and Sam Hopkins, and Ben speaks to Chinyere and Sam about their concept for the biennial.
Feda Wardak's HANGING IMAGINARIES, Skies, grounds and undergrounds (2024) installed at the Lagos Biennial in 2024
Courtesy of Lagos Biennial
And this episode’s Work of the Week is a group of plaster sculptures created by the Belgian artist Constantin Meunier for his magnum opus in Brussels, the Monument to Labour. Meunier’s work is at the heart of a new exhibition at the Petit Palais in Paris called Brussels 1900. Ben talks to Davy Depelchin, head curator of the 19th-century paintings and sculptures department at the Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Belgium, who is one of the curatorial team organising this vast show.
Plaster sculptures and reliefs for Constantin Meunier's Monument to Labour (around 1900)
Courtesy Petit Palais, Paris Musées; Photo: Nicolas Borel
- Vanessa Bell & Duncan Grant: Inside Bloomsbury, Tate Britain, until 11 April 2027
- Lagos Biennial, 14 November-6 December
- Brussels 1900, Petit Palais, Paris, until 25 April 2027
