Pan-Africanism in London, the health benefits of art, Barbara Hepworth—podcast – The Art Newspaper

The exhibition Mission a Black Planet: The Artwork and Tradition of Panafrica started its life on the Artwork Institute of Chicago earlier than travelling to Museu d’artwork contemporani de Barcelona (Macba) in Barcelona and now to the Barbican in London, in every case altering in relation to the actual circumstances of its location. One of many present’s curators is Elvira Dyangani Ose, the director of the Barcelona museum, and Ben Luke speaks to her concerning the present.

Among the many books shortlisted for the Ladies’s Prize for Non-Fiction within the UK, which was awarded this week, is Daisy Fancourt’s Artwork Remedy: The Science of How the Arts Remodel Our Well being. Ben discusses her analysis and the way it may be carried out.

And this episode’s Work of the Week is Sculpture with Color (Oval Type) Pale Blue and Pink (1943), by Barbara Hepworth. It options in Hepworth in Color, a brand new exhibition on the Courtauld Gallery in London, and The Artwork Newspaper’s digital editor, Alexander Morrison, speaks to the present’s curator, Alexandra Gerstein, concerning the work.