After a difficult 12 months by which worldwide galleries, public sale homes and museums have been pressured to reduce their operations and make redundancies on an alarming scale, a slower, extra thought of strategy to enterprise appears to be rising.
So are we into an period of longer, extra in-depth exhibitions and bespoke occasions involved extra with genuine connection than flashy spectacle? Ben Luke talks to Anny Shaw, a contributing editor at The Artwork Newspaper.
Guests admire Johannes Vermeer’s The Milkmaid (1657–58) on the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam
Picture: Bumble Dee
Within the Netherlands, simply as within the US, cuts by far-right politicians to worldwide improvement appear more likely to have a huge effect on arts tasks. As Tefaf, the main worldwide artwork honest opens within the Dutch metropolis of Maastricht, we speak to Senay Boztas, our correspondent primarily based in Amsterdam, about fears of a funding disaster.
Pieter Bruegel the Elder, The Hunters within the Snow (1565)
Picture: Wikimedia Commons
And this episode’s Work of the Week is without doubt one of the biggest work ever made: The Hunters within the Snow (1565) by Pieter Bruegel the Elder. It’s a part of an exhibition referred to as Arcimboldo – Bassano – Bruegel: Nature’s Time, which opened this week on the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. The museum’s director, Jonathan Positive, tells us extra.
Arcimboldo–Bassano–Bruegel: Nature’s Time, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, till 29 June
