Art attack: Just Stop Oil and iconoclasm; Art Basels Paris+ fair; Frank Bowling
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This week: we talk to Emma Brown of Just Stop Oil about why the group targeted Vincent Van Gogh\\u2019s Sunflowers in the National Gallery, London, for its climate emergency protest. Stacy Boldrick, assistant professor of museum studies at the University of Leicester, discusses the climate protests in the context of the long history of iconoclasm and attacks on works of art. The first version of Paris+, Art Basel\\u2019s fair in the French capital, opened this week, and we ask Melanie Gerlis, a columnist for the Financial Times and The Art Newspaper, how it compares to Paris\\u2019s previous fair, Fiac, and to the Frieze fairs in London last week. And this episode\\u2019s Work of the Week is Frank Bowling\\u2019s Suncrush (1976), which features in an exhibition of the Guyana-born artist\\u2019s work at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. Reto Th\\xfcring, the curator of the show, tells us about the painting and Bowling\\u2019s 10-year stay in America in the 1960s and 1970s.
Links:
Stacy Boldrick, Iconoclasm and the Museum, Routledge, 212pp, \\xa327.99, $35.96 (pb)
Paris+, until 23 October.
Melanie Gerlis, The Art Fair Story: a Rollercoaster Ride, Lund Humphries, 104pp, \\xa319.99, $34.99 (hb)
Frank Bowling\\u2019s Americas, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 22 October-9 April 2023; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 13 May-10 September next year. Related shows: Equals 6: A Sum Effect of Frank Bowling\\u2019s 5+1, University Hall Gallery, UMass Boston, 14 November-18 February 2023; Revisiting 5+1, Paul W. Zuccaire Gallery, Staller Center for the Arts, Stony Brook University, 10 November-23 February 2023.
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