Van Gogh blockbuster, the birth of Impressionism, Juan Pablo Echeverri — podcast

Vincent van Gogh’s Sunflowers (1888), La Berceuse (The Lullaby) (1889) and Sunflowers (1889), which were conceived by the artist as a grouping
© The National Gallery, London; Photo: © 2024 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts; © Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania;
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: the Van Gogh blockbuster in London, a new book on the birth of Impressionism, and Juan Pablo Echeverri’s performative self-portraits.
As the exhibition Van Gogh: Poets and Lovers opens at the National Gallery in London as part of its bicentenary celebrations, The Art Newspaper’s special correspondent and resident expert in the Dutch painter, Martin Bailey, takes a tour of the exhibition with our associate digital editor, Alexander Morrison.
Vincent van Gogh’s The Lover (Portrait of Lieutenant Milliet) (1888) and The Poet (Portrait of Eugène Boch) (1888)
© Collection Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, The Netherlands. Photographer: Rik Klein Gotink; Photo © RMN-Grand Palais (musée d'Orsay) / Adrien Didierjean
The National Gallery of Art in Washington, meanwhile, has just opened the exhibition Paris 1874: The Impressionist Moment, its iteration of the show marking 150 years since the first Impressionist exhibition, which began earlier this year at the Musée d’Orsay in Paris. Coinciding with the show is the publication of the book Paris in Ruins: Love, War, and the Birth of Impressionism, by the Washington Post art critic, Sebastian Smee. Ben Luke speaks to Sebastian about the book.
Paris in Ruins: Love, War, and the Birth of Impressionism by Sebastian Smee explores the start of the Impressionist movement through the lives and careers of protagonists such as Berthe Morisot and Édouard Manet
Courtesy of Sebastian Smee
And this episode’s Work of the Week is MUTIlady (2003) by Juan Pablo Echeverri. The photographic piece features nine photographs in which the late Colombian artist pictures himself with an apparently flayed body and wildly different haircuts seemingly reflecting a multitude of identities. The work is part of the exhibition GROW IT, SHOW IT! A look at hair from Diane Arbus to TikTok, which opened this week at the Museum Folkwang in Essen, Germany. The show’s curator, Miriam Bettin, tells Luke more about the artist and the work.
Juan Pablo Echeverri, MUTILADY (2003/24)
Courtesy of KLEMM'S, Berlin. Installation: Museum Folkwan. Photo: Sebastian Drüen

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