This week: we take a tour of Tate Trendy’s exhibition that brings collectively the Swedish painter Hilma af Klint and the Dutch artist Piet Mondrian. We hear concerning the two artists’ distinctive contributions to abstraction, their shared curiosity in esoteric perception techniques and their deep engagement with the pure world, from one of many present’s curators, Bryony Fer.
Jaune Fast-to-See Smith’s Herding (1985)
Courtesy of the Whitney Museum of American Artwork
Our editor, Americas, Ben Sutton visits the Whitney Museum of American Artwork in New York to speak to the Native American artist Jaune Fast-to-See Smith, as her retrospective opens on the museum.
A reconstructed Roman gateway and rampart at Richborough Roman Fort and Amphitheatre in Kent
© English Heritage
And this episode’s Work of the Week is a reconstruction of a Roman gateway that has simply opened at Richborough Roman Fort in Kent, southern England. Andrew J. Roberts, a properties historian with English Heritage, the charity that appears after the historic website, explains what the gateway tells us concerning the Romans’ arrival in Britain in 43 CE.
• Hilma af Klint and Piet Mondrian: Types of Life, Tate Trendy, London, till 3 September; Kunstmuseum den Haag, The Hague, 7 October-25 February 2024
• Jaune Fast-to-See Smith: Reminiscence Map, Whitney Museum of American Artwork, New York, till 13 August; Trendy Artwork Museum of Fort Price, 15 October -7 January 2024; Seattle Artwork Museum, 15 February–12 Might subsequent 12 months. The Land Carries Our Ancestors: Up to date Artwork by Native Individuals, Nationwide Gallery of Artwork, Washington D.C., 24 September-15 January 2024; New Britain Museum of American Artwork, Connecticut, 18 April 2024-15 September 2024
• The Roman gateway and rampart, Richborough Roman Fort and Amphitheatre, Kent, now open
