This week: the coronation in the UK. As Charles III is crowned at Westminster Abbey this weekendAnna Somers Cocks, founder of The arts journal and former assistant keeper of ironwork at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, tells us the objects involved in the coronation and the monarchical history they convey.
Installation view of Karl Lagerfeld: a beauty line.
Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York opens this week Karl Lagerfeld: a beauty line, the latest of the Costume Institute’s successful exhibitions. The German designer, who died in 2019, also inspired this year’s Met Gala, the museum’s flagship fundraiser. We chat with fashion historian and arts and culture writer Stephanie Sporn about the exhibit, the gala, and the controversy around Lagerfeld’s offensive comments on a series of questions.
Marlene Smith, Good Housekeeping III (2023)
Courtesy of the artist
And the work of the week for this episode is Good Housekeeping III (1985/2023) by British artist Marlene Smith. She was part of the Blk Art Group, a collective of young black British artists active in the late 1970s and 1980s, which is the subject of The more things change…, an exhibition at the Wolverhampton Art Gallery in the UK. Smith recreated the work, first produced in 1985, for the exhibition, and tells us more about its making, context and the history of the Blk Art Group.
• Karl Lagerfeld: a beauty line, Metropolitan Museum of ArtNew York, until July 16.
• The more things change…, Wolverhampton Art GalleryUnited Kingdom, until July 9.
