Installation view of Keith Haring: Art Is for Everybody exhibition at The Broad, Los Angeles, May 27, 2023 – October 8, 2023.
Photo: Joshua White/JWPictures.com, courtesy of The Broad
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.
This week: the first ever museum show of Keith Haring’s work in Los Angeles. We talk to Sarah Loyer, the curator of Keith Haring: Art Is for Everybody at the Broad in Los Angeles.
Tate Britain is home to the world's largest collection of British art
© Tate (Seraphina Neville)
Alex Farquharson, the director of Tate Britain in London, has led the complete rehang of the museum’s collection, including a vastly expanded presence of women and artists of colour across 500 years of British art. He tells us about the project.
Joan Brown, The Room, Pt. 1 (1975), Carnegie Museum of Art
© 1975 Estate of Joan Brown
And this episode’s Work of the Week is The Room, Part 1 (1975) by the late San Francisco-born painter Joan Brown. The painting is part of the touring survey that opens this week at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, and Liz Park, the curator of the Pittsburgh show, tells us more about it.
• Keith Haring: Art Is For Everybody,The Broad, Los Angeles, 27 May-8 October; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, 11 November-17 March 2024; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, 27 April-8 September 2024.
• The rehang of Tate Britain is open now.
• Joan Brown, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, 27 May-24 September. Orange County Museum of Art, Costa Mesa, California, 7 February–1 May 2024.
• Joan Brown: Facts & Fantasies, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, until 17 June.