In two-and-a-half months for the reason that inauguration of President Donald Trump, a sequence of govt orders and different initiatives have tried systematically to eradicate and defund a few of the federal businesses liable for the distribution of federal cash to museums, libraries and different organisations.
The Artwork Newspaper’s editor-in-chief within the Americas, Ben Sutton, joins Ben Luke to debate what’s being seen as an authoritarian and ideologically pushed try to regulate cultural actions in taxpayer-funded establishments, prohibit free speech and—to make use of the administration’s personal time period—“rewrite historical past”. We additionally talk about the impact of the financial chaos brought on by President Trump’s seesawing on commerce tariffs up to now week.
That very same matter is mentioned by Clare McAndrew of Arts Economics, the author of the Artwork Basel and UBS Artwork Market Report 2025. The report’s key discovering is that world artwork gross sales declined by 12% in 2024 and McAndrew discusses this stark statistic and different elements of the survey.
Guests at Artwork Basel, Basel in 2024
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And this episode’s Works of the Week are by Mainie Jellett and Evie Hone, the 2 artists in an exhibition subtitled The Artwork of Friendship on the Nationwide Gallery of Eire in Dublin. Jellett and Hone had been key figures in Irish Modernism, and we speak to one of many curators of the exhibition, Brendan Rooney, about Jellett’s portray, Ornament (1923) and Hone’s stained-glass picture of a chalice (1948-52), a research for her most well-known piece, the East Window of Eton Faculty Chapel in Berkshire, UK.
The Artwork Basel and UBS Artwork Market Report 2025 will be downloaded right hereMainie Jellett and Evie Hone: The Artwork of Friendship, Nationwide Gallery of Eire, Dublin, till 10 August.
