Art Dubai Digital, a new section of the Emirati fair in 2022, focussed on NFTs and cryptocurrencies Photo: Aimee Dawson
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, The Week in Art is sponsored by Christie’s.
This week, we talk to the writer and critic Amy Castor about what effect the tumbling crypto markets might have on the until-now booming world of non-fungible tokens or NFTs.
National Museum of Norway, I Call It Art. Photo: Iwan Baan
Also, as as Norway’s vast new National Museum opens this week, we speak to its director Karin Hindsbo. Read our special report on the new Norway museum here.
Unidentified artist, Folding Screen with Indian Wedding, Mitote, and Flying Pole (Biombo con desposorio indígena, mitote y palo volador), Mexico, c. 1660–90, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Purchased with funds provided by the Bernard and Edith Lewin Collection of Mexican Art Deaccession Fund, photo © Museum Associates/ LACMA
This episode's Work of the Week is Folding Screen with Indian Wedding, Mitote, and Flying Pole, made in Mexico in the late 17th century. It is one of the major pieces in a new show at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, called Archive of the World: Art and Imagination in Spanish America, 1500–1800. Ilona Katzew, the curator of the exhibition, talks in depth about the meanings and purpose of the work.
• Archive of the World: Art and Imagination in Spanish America, 1500–1800, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, 12 June-30 October.
