New York auctions, James McNeill Whistler at Tate Britain, Edvard Munch
5/21/20261 hr 15 min
This season’s much anticipated auctions in New York have brought some records and eye-popping prices, including for works by Jackson Pollock, Constantin Brancusi and Mark Rothko, and some more middling results. Ben Luke talks to Judd Tully, who has been reporting on some of the sales for The Art Newspaper. The largest show of the art of James McNeill Whistler in Europe for more than 30 years has just opened at Tate Britain in London, and travels later in the year to the Netherlands, where it forms two shows, at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam and The Mesdag Collection in The Hague. Ben takes a tour of the Tate show with its lead curator Carol Jacobi. And this episode’s Work of the Week is the frieze made by Edvard Munch in 1922 for the women’s canteen of the Freia Chocolate Factory in Oslo. The frieze remains in the collection of the Freia chocolate company today, but is on temporary loan to MUNCH, the museum in the Norwegian capital for the exhibition Edvard Munch and the Chocolate Factory. Our digital editor, Alexander Morrison, went to Oslo to speak to the curator of the exhibition, Ana María Bresciani, about the frieze.
James McNeill Whistler, Tate Britain, London, until 27 September 2026; before splitting into two parallel presentations in the Netherlands, Whistler: Dandy and Disruptor, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam; Whistler: Loving The Netherlands, The Mesdag Collection, The Hague, both 16 October-10 January 2027.
Edvard Munch and the Chocolate Factory, MUNCH, Oslo, until 11 October.
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[gentle music] Hello, it's The Week in Art. I'm Ben Luke. This week, records tumble in the New York auctions, James McNeill Whistler at Tate Britain, and Edvard Munch's chocolate factory frieze. This season's much anticipated auctions in New York have brought an array of records and eye-popping prices, including for works by Jackson Pollock, Constantin Brâncuși, and Mark Rothko. I talk to Judd Tully, who's been reporting on some of the sales for The Art Newspaper. The largest show of the art of James McNeill Whistler in Europe for more than 30 years has just opened at Tate Britain in London and travels later in the year to the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam and the Mesdag Collectie in The Hague. I take a tour of the Tate show with its lead curator, Carole Jacobi. And this episode's work of the week is the frieze made by Edvard Munch in 1922 for the women's canteen of the Freia chocolate factory in Oslo. The frieze remains in the collection of the Freia chocolate company today, but is on temporary loan to Munch, the museum in the Norwegian capital for the exhibition Edvard Munch and the Chocolate Factory. Our digital editor, Alexander Morrison, went to Oslo to speak to the curator of the exhibition, Anna Maria Resciani, about the frieze.