Art Basel in Miami Beach, the all-women museum in Athens, Pesellinos David panels
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This week: the final big art market event of the year, Art Basel in Miami Beach. The Art Newspaper\\u2019s associate digital editor, Alexander Morrison, talks to our acting art market editor, Tim Schneider, in Miami about the fair, as tensions rise ahead of the pivotal 2024 US election. In Athens, the National Museum of Contemporary Art, or EMST, is next week opening a months-long programme which will end up with the entire museum filled with women artists. We talk to EMST\\u2019s director, Katerina Gregos, about the programme, called What if Women Ruled the World? And this episode\\u2019s Work of the Week is two objects: the 15th-century Florentine artist Francesco Pesellino\\u2019s panels telling the story of David and Goliath, made for a luxurious cassone or chest for the Medici family. The panels belong to the National Gallery in London and have just been restored for a new exhibition there, Pesellino: A Renaissance Master Revealed. We talk to Jill Dunkerton, who did the restoration, about these extraordinary paintings.
Art Basel in Miami Beach, Miami Beach Convention Center, until Sunday, 10 December.
What if Women Ruled the World? begins at EMST, Athens, on 14 December.Pesellino: A Renaissance Master Revealed, National Gallery, London, until 10 March 2024.
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