Venice Biennale, Van Goghs self-portraits, Dali and Freud
b'This week, we talk to Cecilia Alemani, the artistic director of the Venice Biennale for art, which opens in April, about her show, The Milk of Dreams. She discusses the story by the Surrealist artist Leonora Carrington that gives the Biennale its title, the \\u201ctime capsules\\u201d of historic art that punctuate the exhibition, the thematic structure, and the fact that it is the first Venice Biennale featuring a majority of women artists. For this episode\\u2019s Work of the Week, Martin Bailey visits the Courtauld Gallery, where 15 of Vincent van Gogh\\u2019s self-portrait paintings have been gathered for a once-in-a-generation show. He talks to the curator Karen Serres about Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear (1889). And at the Belvedere in Vienna, a new exhibition explores the relationship between Salvador Dal\\xed and Sigmund Freud\\u2014Ben Luke talks to Stephanie Auer from the museum about Dal\\xed\\u2019s obsession with the father of psychoanalysis, his attempts to meet Freud in Vienna, and what happened when they finally encountered each other in London.
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