Nathaniel Mary Quinn, Father Stretch My Hands (2021)
© Nathaniel Mary Quinn. Photo: Rob McKeever. Courtesy Gagosian
This week, the exhibition The Time Is Always Now, featuring 22 artists from the African diaspora whose work takes the Black figure as its starting point, opened at the National Portrait Gallery in London, and will tour to Philadelphia later in the year. We explore the show with its curator Ekow Eshun.
André Breton
Photo: Wikimedia Commons
Plus, 2024 marks the centenary of the the first Surrealist manifesto by André Breton, and the first of a fresh series of exhibitions focusing on the movement opened at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium in Brussels on Wednesday, before travelling to the Centre Pompidou later in the year and Hamburg, Madrid and Philadelphia in 2025.
But what did that first manifesto contain and how did it influence the course of the movement? Alyce Mahon, a Surrealism specialist and professor of Modern and Contemporary Art at the University of Cambridge, tells us more.
Tonita Peña; Eagle Dance (c.1932–33)
Promised gift, The William P. Healey Collection of Native American Art; © Estate of Tonita Peña
And this episode’s Work of the Week is Eagle Dance (1934) by Tonita Peña, one of the leading Native American Pueblo artists of the 20th century. It features in a new exhibition, Native American Art of the 20th Century: The William P. Healey Collection, at the Saint Louis Art Museum in the US. Alexander Brier Marr, the associate curator of Native American art at the museum, joins us to discuss the painting.
