London Gallery Weekend, Brazil’s National Museum, Jane Austen at the Morgan —podcast

The fifth edition of London Gallery Weekend takes place this weekend, and opens as the global art market is at a low ebb. So what can it do to change the mood? Ben Luke speaks to Ananya Mukhopadhyay, the managing director of Ames Yavuz, which is opening a new London gallery to coincide with the weekend events, and Jeremy Epstein, co-director of the Edel Assanti gallery, who is the co-founder and co-director of London Gallery Weekend.

In 2018, a devastating electrical fire tore through the National Museum of Brazil in Rio de Janeiro with catastrophic consequences. Recently, the museum announced that it would temporarily reopen some of its galleries—this was originally scheduled for 6 June but was postponed after this episode was recorded. The museum’s director, Alexander Kellner, tells The Art Newspaper’s digital editor Alexander Morrison about its steady rise from the ashes.

And this episode’s Work of the Week is a miniature portrait of Jane Austen by an anonymous 19th-century artist. The work belongs to the Morgan Library & Museum in New York, which this week opens the exhibition A Lively Mind: Jane Austen at 250. The show is co-organised by Juliette Wells, professor of literary studies at Goucher College in Baltimore, and she speaks to Alexander Morrison about the portrait.