This week: we’re taking a tour of the Tate Modern exhibition which brings together the Swedish painter Hilma af Klint and the Dutch artist Piet Mondrian. One of the exhibition’s curators, Bryony Fer, talks to us about the two artists’ distinctive contributions to abstraction, their shared interest in esoteric belief systems, and their deep engagement with the natural world.
Yellow Quick-to-See Smith’s Breeding (1985)
Courtesy of the Whitney Museum of American Art
Our editor, Americas, Ben Sutton visits the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York to talk to Native American artist Yellow Quick-to-See Smith, as his retrospective opens at the museum.
A reconstructed Roman gateway and rampart at Richborough Roman Fort and Amphitheater in Kent
© English Heritage
And the work of the week for this episode is a reconstruction of a Roman gate that has just opened at Richborough Roman Fort in Kent, southern England. Andrew J. Roberts, a property historian with English Heritage, the charity looking after the historic site, explains what the gateway tells us about the arrival of the Romans in Britain in 43 CE.
• Hilma af Klint and Piet Mondrian: Forms of Life, Tate Modern, London, until September 3; Kunstmuseum den Haag, The Hague, 7 October-25 February 2024
• Yellow Quick-to-See Smith: memory card, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, until August 13; Fort Worth Museum of Modern Art, October 15-January 7, 2024; Seattle Art Museum, from February 15 to May 12 next year. The Land Carries Our Ancestors: Contemporary Art by Native Americans, National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, September 24-January 15, 2024; New Britain Museum of American Art, Connecticut, April 18, 2024-September 15, 2024
• The Roman gate and rampartRichborough Roman Fort and Amphitheatre, Kent, now open
