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<\/p>\nWe visit major museum projects unveiled this week in London and New York: Ben Luke takes a tour of V&A East Storehouse in London\u2019s Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, which offers unprecedented access to the Victoria and Albert Museum\u2019s collection. He meets the deputy director of the V&A, Tim Reeve, and speaks to key members of the team that are making this radical museological vision for London a reality: the museum\u2019s lead technician, Matt Clarke, its senior curator Georgia Haseldine, and Kate Parsons, the director of collections care and access. <\/p>\n
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The Met’s newly reopened Arts of Africa Galleries<\/p>\n
Paula Lobo <\/p>\n
The Art Newspaper\u2019s editor-in-chief, Americas, Ben Sutton, visits the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which this week unveiled its revamped Michael C. Rockefeller Wing. The wing holds the Met\u2019s collections of work from Africa, the Ancient Americas, and Oceania. Ben talks to Alisa LaGamma, the curator of African art who is in charge of the Rockefeller Wing, and the Papua New Guinea-born, Brisbane-based artist Taloi Havini, one of a number of contemporary artists who created new works for the the project.<\/p>\n
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Rachel Whiteread, Down and Up (2024 – 2025) at Goodwood Art Foundation Photograph by Lucy Dawkins, courtesy of the Goodwood Art Foundation<\/p>\n
And this episode\u2019s Work of the Week is Down and Up (2024-25) by Rachel Whiteread. It features in a new show of Whiteread\u2019s work, the first at the Goodwood Art Foundation, a not-for-profit contemporary art gallery and sculpture park in West Sussex, UK. Ben Luke talks to Rachel about the work.<\/p>\n