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UK culture war: how should museums confront colonialism?

Plus, craft and American identity and critic Michael Peppiatt on Frank Auerbach

Hosted by Ben Luke, Aimee Dawson and Jori Finkel. Produced by Julia Michalska, David Clack and Henrietta Bentall
12 March 2021
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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 explore the debate over contested heritage in the UK by speaking to the art historian Alice Procter about her book The Whole Picture, a strident call for colonial histories to be told in museums.

Tippoo's Tiger (around 1790) Courtesy of V&A

Plus Jori Finkel speaks to Glenn Adamson about Craft: An American History, a radical reappraisal of craft's role in forging American identity.

And in this episode’s Work of the Week, Ben Luke talks to the critic Michael Peppiatt—curator of an exhibition uniting Frank Auerbach and Tony Bevan at Ben Brown Fine Arts in London—about Auerbach's EOW Sleeping IV (1967), in the Israel Museum in Jerusalem.

The Week in Art podcast by The Art Newspaper is available every Friday on our website and all the usual places where you find podcasts. This podcast is sponsored by Christie's.

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