Lets talk about race: museums and the battle against white privilege
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This week, in the aftermath of the killing of George Floyd, we talk about the history of black resistance in the US and how the art world can respond to this latest tragedy. As protests grow throughout the country, Margaret Carrigan, one of The Art Newspaper\\u2019s senior editors in New York, speaks to Spencer Crew, the interim director of the National Museum of African American History and Culture, about the museum\\u2019s Talking About Race online portal.
Also this week, we pay tribute to Christo, who died earlier this week. With his collaborator and wife Jeanne-Claude, Christo most famously wrapped the Pont Neuf in Paris and the Reichstag in Berlin in coloured fabric.
And in the latest in our series of Lonely Works behind the doors of closed museums, Caro Howell, the director of the Foundling Museum in London, explores William Hogarth\\u2019s portrait of Thomas Coram, the painting that is the cornerstone of the Foundling\\u2019s collection\\u2014which she now hasn\\u2019t seen for months because of the coronavirus lockdown.
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