BROADCASTS.com

b'Ben Luke talks to Alexander Kellner, the director of the National Museum of Brazil, about how he plans to mark Brazil\\u2019s bicentennial and to restore the museum in the wake of the devastating 2018 fire, which destroyed most of the building and millions of objects. The Art Newspaper\\u2019s London correspondent Martin Bailey tells us about the National Portrait Gallery\\u2019s ambition to acquire the \\xa350m Portrait of Omai (1776), arguably the greatest work by the 18th-century British artist Joshua Reynolds\\u2014the latest installment in a long-running saga relating to the painting. And this episode\\u2019s Work of the Week is City, the land artist Michael Heizer\\u2019s magnum opus in the Nevada desert, which is complete and open to the public after more than 50 years. Our editor in the Americas, Ben Sutton, discusses this monumental piece with Kara Vander Weg, a member of the board of the Triple Aught Foundation, which manages the work.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.