Frank Gehry, the architect behind the Guggenheim Bilbao, Geffen Modern at MoCA, Los Angeles, and the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris, amongst different museums and artwork areas, died final Friday at his dwelling in Santa Monica, California. He was 96. Ben Luke discusses his lengthy engagement with artwork, artists and museums with Paul Goldberger, the structure critic and Gehry’s biographer.
Left: Serpentine. Proper: The FLAG Artwork Basis
Picture: © Andy Stagg for Serpentine, Picture: © Steven Probert
Serpentine and the US-based FLAG Artwork Basis final week introduced the creation of a prize for artists that may see £1 million being awarded over 10 years to 5 artists, or £200,000 to every recipient—the most important up to date artwork prize within the UK given to a single artist. Ben speaks to Glenn Fuhrman, the founding father of The FLAG Artwork Basis, and Jonathan Rider, its director, concerning the prize.
Joan Semmel, Daylight, 1978
The Jewish Museum, New York. Buy: Fantastic Arts Acquisition Fund, 2010-35. © 2025 Joan Semmel/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
And this episode’s Work of the Week is Daylight (1978) by Joan Semmel. The portray options in a brand new exhibition opening on the Jewish Museum in New York this week, and we communicate to the present’s curator, Rebecca Shaykin.
Paul Goldberger is the writer of Constructing Artwork: The Life and Work of Frank Gehry, printed in 2015 by Knopf, and Why Structure Issues, printed in 2009 by Yale College PressJoan Semmel: Within the Flesh, Jewish Museum, New York, 12 December-31 Could 2026
