This week: Chicago Expo and the Windy City art scene. Ben Sutton, The art journal editor, Americas, and Carlie Porterfield, associate editor, art market, Americas, discuss the fair and the broader market and gallery scene in Chicago.
In 2021, Array Collective, a Belfast-based group of 11 artists, became Northern Ireland’s first Turner Prize winner for their recreation of a síbín, now on display in the city.
© Ulster Museum
As US President Joe Biden travels to Northern Ireland to honor the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday or Belfast Agreement, we chat with Hannah Crowdy, Curatorial Manager at the National Museums Northern Ireland, a group of four museums . She tells us about how museums are approaching the anniversary, representing Northern Ireland’s recent history and looking to the future.
by Georges Clairin Portrait of Sarah Bernhardt (1876)
© Paris Museums Petit Palais
And this episode’s work of the week is Georges Clairin’s 1876 portrait of the famous French actress Sarah Bernhardt, who died 100 years ago. The work is part of a major new exhibition on Bernhardt which opens this week at the Petit Palais in Paris. The director of the museum, Annick Lemoine, tells us about the painting and the extraordinary notoriety of the woman it represents.
• Hannah Starkey, Principled and Revolutionary: The Peaceful Women of Northern Ireland, Ulster MuseumBelfast, until September 10
• Collective Array: Druthaib’s ball, Ulster Museumuntil September 3
• Sarah Bernhardt: and the woman created the star, Small palaceParis, until August 27
