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b'This week, we look at a much anticipated exhibition, Slavery at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. The Rijksmuseum is the Netherlands\\u2019 national art and history museum and the curators of the exhibition state in the catalogue that the country\\u2019s colonial past has been "insufficiently examined in the national history of the Netherlands, including at the Rijksmuseum\\u201d. Ben Luke talks to Valika Smeulders, head of history at the Rijksmuseum and one of the four curators of the exhibition, focusing on several works in the show and exploring the people\\u2014from enslaved men and women to wealthy Amsterdam denizens who benefit from slavery\\u2014who feature in the exhibition. Also in this episode: as next year\\u2019s Venice Biennale is named after The Milk of Dreams, a children\\u2019s book by the Surrealist artist Leonora Carrington, Ben talks to Joanna Moorhead, a relative of Carrington\\u2019s and the author of The Surreal Life of Leonora Carrington, about the stories, what they tell us about the author, and what they might mean for the next Venice Biennale. And this episode\\u2019s Work of the Week is actually two works: Peter Paul Rubens\\u2019s two landscape masterpieces The Rainbow Landscape and A View of Het Steen in the Early Morning, which have been reunited for the first time in 200 years at the Wallace Collection in London.

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