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This week: as the UN\\u2019s climate emergency summit, Cop27, continues in Egypt, Ben Luke talks to Louisa Buck, The Art Newspaper\\u2019s contemporary art correspondent\\u2014and the author of our online column about art and climate change\\u2014about international art initiatives responding to the crisis. Kaywin Feldman, the director of the National Gallery of Art (NGA) in Washington, DC, tells us about the museum\\u2019s new $10m endowment fund for purchases of works by women artists. The historic gift, from the family of the gallery\\u2019s first female president, Victoria P. Sant, will help the NGA fill gaps in its collection. And this episode\\u2019s Work of the Week is Mother with Child on her Arm, Nude II (1906) by the German painter Paula Modersohn-Becker. The work is a highlight of Making Modernism, a show of German women artists that opens this weekend at the Royal Academy in London. The exhibition\\u2019s curator, Dorothy Price, discusses this late painting in Modersohn-Becker\\u2019s short but productive life.

Making Modernism: Paula Modersohn-Becker, K\\xe4the Kollwitz, Gabriele M\\xfcnter and Marianne Werefkin, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 12 November-12 February 2023.

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