Artists in Gaza respond to the ceasefire, Cimabue at the Louvre, a Baroque printmaking family—podcast

Muralist Ayman Al Hossary paints calligraphy on a destroyed building in Gaza Courtesy of the artist
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 Art Newspaper’s correspondent for the Middle East, Sarvy Geranpayeh, has been reporting on the effect of Israel’s military bombardment of Gaza on artists and art workers there since the beginning of the Israel-Hamas conflict in 2023. In the wake of the three-stage ceasefire that began last Sunday, she has returned to those she has spoken to over the past 16 months to hear their views on the agreement and what happens next.
Cimabue, La Dérision du Christ (around 1285-90) after restoration
© GrandPalaisRmn (musée du Louvre), Gabriel de Carvalho
The Musée du Louvre in Paris this week opened a show of the great 13th-century Italian painter Cimabue. Our associate digital editor, Alexander Morrison, spoke to Thomas Bohl, the exhibition’s curator. And this episode’s Work of the Week is actually three works produced in a family business of printmakers in 17th-century Netherlands.
Adriaen Jacobsz Matham, Portrait of a Man, after Frans Hals (1626)
Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, The Leo Steinberg Collection, 2002
The works, by Hendrick Goltzius, and his grandsons Theodor and Adriaen Matham, are part of a new show, A Family Affair: Artistic Dynasties in Europe (Part I, 1500–1700), at the Blanton Museum of Art, part of The University of Texas, Austin. The curator of the exhibition, Holly Borham, tells me more about this printmaking dynasty.
From the devastating war in Gaza to art attacks in museums, our editors analyse the year's biggest stories
From the British Museum thefts to the consequences in art and heritage of the Israel-Hamas war
Plus, Frans Hals at London's National Gallery and a Peter Paul Rubens painting inspired by Ovid's Metamorphoses

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