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Van Gogh’s Sunflowers legal dispute. Plus, Singapore’s art scene and photographer Grace Lau

Van Gogh’s Sunflowers legal dispute. Plus, Singapore’s art scene and photographer Grace Lau

FromThe Week in Art


Van Gogh’s Sunflowers legal dispute. Plus, Singapore’s art scene and photographer Grace Lau

FromThe Week in Art

ratings:
Length:
41 minutes
Released:
Jan 20, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Vincent Van Gogh’s Sunflowers in Tokyo are the subject of a legal claim in the US relating to Nazi loot. The Art Newspaper’s London correspondent and resident Van Gogh expert Martin Bailey tells us why Sunflowers (1888-89) is at the centre of the dispute, 35 years after it was sold for a record price at auction, and why the heirs of the German Jewish banker Paul von Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, who owned it until the 1930s, now value it at a staggering $250m. Our editor-at-large Georgina Adam has just returned from Singapore, where the first Art SG art fair took place last week. How successful was this new event in the art market calendar, and what does it tell us about Singapore’s ambitions to become an art hub? And this episode’s Work of the Week is Portraits in a Chinese Studio, a photographic work by the artist Grace Lau. In the project, which marks Chinese New Year, Lau is subverting the tradition of colonial 19th-century portrait studios in a shopping centre in Southampton on the south coast of the UK.Grace Lau: Portraits in a Chinese Studio, Marlands Shopping Centre, Southampton, UK, 21 January-12 February Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Released:
Jan 20, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

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From breaking news and insider insights to exhibitions and events around the world, the team at The Art Newspaper picks apart the art world's big stories with the help of special guests. An award-winning podcast hosted by Ben Luke, The Week in Art is sponsored by Christie's. Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.