The Week in Art podcast | Artists’ stories from Gaza, Frank Stella remembered, Vanessa Bell’s garden view

From left to right: Sohail Salem, displaced to Deir al-Balah, with his sketches; Basel El Maqosui, photographer, teacher and co-founder of Shababeek cultural space, who now works with refugee children in Rafah; Ruqaia Alulu, who recovered just 33 of her 800 paintings from the rubble of her apartment in Bureij
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.
This week, we talk to The Art Newspaper’s reporter Sarvy Geranpayeh about her conversations with six Palestinian artists about their daily lives amid Israel’s ongoing military offensive in Gaza.
Frank Stella in 2015 Frank Stella/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Courtesy of the artist and Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York. Photo: Kristine Larsen
Frank Stella, one of the key artists in the history of American abstraction, has died, aged 87. We speak to Bonnie Clearwater, the director and chief curator of the NSU Art Museum in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, who worked with Stella on two landmark shows.
Vanessa Bell, View into a Garden (1926)
© Bolton Museum and Art Gallery / © Estate of Vanessa Bell. All rights reserved, DACS 2023 / Bridgeman Images
And as spring finally arrives in London, this episode’s Work of the Week is, fittingly, Vanessa Bell’s View into a Garden (1926). It features in an exhibition opening next week at the Garden Museum in London, called Gardening Bohemia: Bloomsbury Women Outdoors. Emma House, the curator at the museum, tells our host Ben Luke more.

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