Autumn 2024 Ar t Quar te r l y
Agenda Previews Shows to visit this autumn Including Van Gogh, Monet, Francis Bacon, ‘Silk Roads’, Everlyn Nicodemus, Barbara Wa l ke r, T i m B u r t o n , a n d mo r e 6
Focus on Health and wellbeing Anna McNay highlights five museums to visit that tell stories of the history of physical and mental health and care 18
Books Eddy Frankel shares a themed reading list inspired by a new series of shows exploring the place of drugs in our lives 20
A day in Hampstead Susan Gray rounds up museums to visit in Hampstead with your National Art Pass and offers tips on where to eat, shop and relax 22
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Opinion Why do we need the humanities? Being Human Festival director Sarah Churchwell sets out how humanities subjects connect us to what it means to be human 26
Features Century of the surreal Patricia Allmer outlines the ongoing legacy of the radical art movement of Surrealism 28
Women who made the Middle Ages Eleanor Jackson tells the hidden stories of key women who contributed to medieval culture 36
Roma ar t through a feminist lens Hettie Judah speaks to Delaine Le Bas and Małgorzata MirgaTas about their art and heritage 42
Female ar t i sts in bloom Jane Simpkiss profiles four historic women artists famous for their flower paintings 48
‘Su r re a l i sm rema i n s a dynamic and disorderly collection of experiments and aesthetic innovations’ Patric i a Al lmer, page 28
Left: Thomas Gainsborough, John Joseph Merlin, 1781, Kenwood (see page 22); right: John Sovero Jhefferson and Saldana Valera, La Sachamama, 2002 (see page 20); above: René Magritte, La Condition Humaine, 1935
Art Fund stories Director Supporting creative learning Jenny Waldman shares news of Art Fund’s increasing commitment to young people and cultural education 56
Funding ar t A new work for The Box How Art Fund and the Freelands Foundation have brought Ingrid Pollard’s work to Plymouth, plus recent acquisitions and updates 58
Chairman Sharing great arts expertise Incoming Art Fund chair Sandy Nairne speaks to Helen Sumpter about his passion for supporting art, artists and museums 66
Making audiences Fostering diverse talent Support for a new professional development programme for artists and curators of colour, plus touring and visiting news 68
Backing museums Te n y e a r s o f p e o p l e p owe r Looking back at a decade of successful crowdfunding campaigns for museums on Art Happens, and other notices 70
First person Anya Gallaccio Ahead of an exhibition at Turner Contemporary, the artist talks about her relationship with ordinary, ephemeral materials 72
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