Tate Fashionable continues to discover the histories of Fashionable artwork past the European and North American canons that had been as soon as its focus. This week it opened the exhibition Nigerian Modernism, and The Artwork Newspaper’s digital editor, Alexander Morrison, speaks to the present’s co-curator Osei Bonsu, and to one of many 50 artists within the exhibition, Jimoh Buraimoh.
The opening night time of Expectant at 8Cube on 1 August
© Sarvy Geranpayeh
Earlier than the 12-day conflict between Israel and Iran in June of this yr, the artwork scene within the Iranian capital, Tehran, was thriving. Sarvy Geranpayeh, one in every of The Artwork Newspaper’s correspondents for the Center East, travelled to Tehran and tells Ben Luke how the artwork world has responded within the aftermath of the battle.
Wayne Thiebaud, Desserts, 1963, Nationwide Gallery of Artwork, Washington, D.C
© Wayne Thiebaud VAGA at ARS, NY and DACS, London 2025. Picture Courtesy Nationwide Gallery of Artwork, Washington
And this episode’s Work of the Week is Desserts (1963) by Wayne Thiebaud, a portray within the Nationwide Gallery of Artwork in Washington that has travelled to the Courtauld Gallery in London for Wayne Thiebaud: American Nonetheless Life, the primary UK museum exhibition of his artwork. We go to the present and converse to Barnaby Wright, its co-curator.
