Installation view, Art Dubai 2023, until 5 March, Madinat Jumeirah, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Photo: Cedric Ribeiro / Getty Images for Art Dubai
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: as the Art Dubai fair opens, The Art Newspaper’s acting digital editor Aimee Dawson tells us about this latest edition, its ongoing commitment to displaying the art of the global south and its continued focus on digital art.
Nam June Paik's Good Morning Mr. Orwell (1984)
© 2022 Estate of Nam June Paik. Courtesy Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York
The Museum of Modern Art in New York opens the largest media exhibition it has ever staged, Signals: How Video Transformed the World on 5 March. It looks at how artists around the globe have used video as a networked technology capable of reaching huge audiences but also how they have employed video to reflect on or engage in activism and urgent political developments. We talk to the show’s curators, Stuart Comer and Michelle Kuo.
Lucie Rie's Coffee pot and milk jug (around 1960)
Photo: David Gerrans. © Estate of Lucie Rie
And this episode’s Work of the Week is a coffee pot and milk jug from 1960 by Lucie Rie, the great modernist potter. Eliza Spindel, co-curator of the exhibition Lucie Rie: The Adventure of Pottery at Kettle’s Yard in Cambridge, UK, tells us about these objects and Rie’s life and work.
• Art Dubai until 5 March
• Signals: How Video Transformed the World, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 5 March-8 July
• Lucie Rie: The Adventure of Pottery, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, UK, 4 March-25 June