Expo and the Chicago scene; Northern Irelands museums; Sarah Bernhardt in Paris
This week: Expo Chicago and the art scene in the Windy City. Ben Sutton, The Art Newspaper\u2019s editor, Americas, and Carlie Porterfield, associate editor, art market, Americas, discuss the fair, and the wider market and gallery scene in Chicago. As the US president Joe Biden visits Northern Ireland to honour the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday or Belfast agreement, we talk to Hannah Crowdy, head of curatorial at National Museums Northern Ireland, a group of four museums. She tells us about how the museums are addressing the anniversary, representing Northern Ireland\u2019s recent history and looking to the future. And this episode\u2019s Work of the Week is Georges Clairin\u2019s 1876 portrait of the celebrated French actor Sarah Bernhardt, who died 100 years ago. The work is part of a huge new exhibition about Bernhardt opening this week at the Petit Palais in Paris. The museum\u2019s director, Annick Lemoine, tells us about the painting and the extraordinary fame of the woman it depicts.
Principled and Revolutionary: Northern Ireland\u2019s Peace Women by Hannah Starkey, Ulster Museum, Belfast, until 10 September; Array Collective: The Druthaib\u2019s Ball, Ulster Museum, until 3 September.
Sarah Bernhardt: and the woman created the star, Petit Palais, Paris, until 27 August.
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