After opening a significant constructing mission in Could final yr and asserting the small print of one other in September, which is because of open within the early 2030s, the Nationwide Gallery in London has revealed, fairly unexpectedly, that it has to make severe cuts, together with to its employees, within the face of a deficit that would rise to £8.2m within the coming yr. Martin Bailey, The Artwork Newspaper’s particular correspondent in London, tells us extra.
Carel Fabritius, The Goldfinch (1654)
Mauritshuis, The Hague
In The Hague within the Netherlands, the Mauritshuis has simply opened a brand new exhibition referred to as BIRDS – Curated by The Goldfinch & Simon Schama. Since The Goldfinch, the Seventeenth-century portray by Carel Fabritius, just isn’t capable of communicate, Schama tells Ben Luke in regards to the present, together with Fabritius’ outstanding image.
Sunbeams or Daylight. Mud Motes Dancing within the Sunbeams. Strandgade 30 (1900)Oil on canvas, 70 × 59 cm. Ordrupgaard, Copenhague. Ordrupgaard, Copenhagen. Picture: © Anders Sune Berg
And this episode’s Work of the Week is Sunbeams or Daylight. Mud Motes Dancing within the Sunbeams, Strandgade 30 (1900) by the Danish painter Vilhelm Hammershøi. The image is among the many highlights of a brand new exhibition, Hammershøi: The Eye that Listens, on the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza in Madrid. The curator of the exhibition, Clara Marcellán, joins Ben to debate the portray.
BIRDS – Curated by The Goldfinch & Simon Schama, Mauritshuis, The Hague, The Netherlands, till 7 June Hammershøi: The Eye that Listens, Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, till 31 Could 2026, Kunsthaus Zürich, 3 July-25 October. Go to the Vilhelm Hammershøi Digital Archive, hammershoi.smk.dk
