Art podcast of the Week
The new Sculpting Lives podcast series explores and celebrates the dramatic lives of British female sculptors including Barbara Hepworth, Elisabeth Frink and Phyllida Barlow.
More art podcasts
Talk Art
Actor Russell Tovey – Alonso from Doctor Who if you’re my daughter – chats with gallerist Robert Diament and assorted guests in this amicable art world podcast.
The Serpentine Podcast: On General Ecology
This ambitious podcast series is as much about nature and society as art – but what do you expect from a gallery run by polymathic visionary Hans-Ulrich Obrist?
Dialogues
These podcasts made by the David Zwirner Gallery brings artists from Chris Ofili to Jeff Koons into two-way chats with critics and thinkers like Peter Schjeldahl, Emily Wilson and … Russell Tovey, Doctor Who’s Alonso, again.
Inside the Mind of Leonardo da Vinci
… is quite a place to be, and this discussion with Martin Kemp and other experts is a chance to find out how the Renaissance genius thought and dreamt.
Image of the week
As shamelessly bawdy ex-Young British Artist Sarah Lucas thunders towards her 60s, she talked to us about knobby guys, life in metal-detecting country – and coping with all her hair falling out last year. Read more here.
What we learned
We toured the world’s best online art galleries …
… and discovered how street artists are responding to coronavirus
(Here’s a list of major Covid-19 cancellations so far)
Asterix creator Albert Uderzo died at 92 …
Nick Cave opened his scrapbook of rarely seen photos and sketches, from the sacred to the profane
Epic photography by country star Kenny Rogers revealed the sinister side of America
The Royal College of Art faced a backlash over plans to hold degree shows online
Liam Wong told us how he makes his moody Tokyo photographs
Andrew Krivine showed us the best of his 40-year punk memorabilia collection
Black lives documented by New York’s photography pioneers Louis Draper and the Kamoinge Workshop
Illustrator and mural artist Seanna Doonan explored Wakefield’s mining life
Richard Brooks asked who would lead the BBC on the other side of the virus crisis
For now behind closed doors, the National Gallery celebrates Titian – Love, Desire, Death
Melbourne’s first feminist book store has been transformed into a modern family home
Cartoonist Simone Lia shared her apocalyptic visions
Masterpiece of the Week
Albrecht Dürer – Saint Jerome in His Study, 1514
The scholarly Saint Jerome works in contented isolation at home. He’s got his pet lion and dog slumbering in his comfortably furnished study among nicely scattered cushions, select leather-bound volumes, a stuffed letter rack and an hour glass in case of tight deadlines. His desk is neat and comes with a lectern that would be just right for a tablet computer. This idealised vision of working from home is a trope of Renaissance art. Other depictions of Saint Jerome by artists including Antonello da Messina and Domenico Ghirlandaio are similarly lavish in picturing the perfect study. Working from home may not feel this simple and tidy in reality, of course.
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