The Week in Art

The Mona Lisa's endless, and problematic, allure; Judy Chicago; Christian Schad and the New Objectivity


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As the Louvre’s director admits that the Paris museum wants to move its most famous painting away from the crowded gallery in which it is currently displayed, we ask the Leonardo specialist Martin Kemp: does the museum have a Mona Lisa problem? We also talk about the painting’s continuing allure and the ongoing efforts to explain its mysteries. In London, remarkably, Judy Chicago has just opened her first major multidisciplinary survey in a British public gallery, at the Serpentine North. We talk to her about the show. And this episode’s Work of the Week is Christian Schad’s Self-Portrait with Model (1927). The painting features in Splendour and Misery: New Objectivity in Germany at the Leopold Museum in Vienna. Hans-Peter Wipplinger, the director of the museum and co-curator of the show, tells us more.


Judy Chicago: Revelations, Serpentine North, London, until 1 September.


Splendour and Misery: New Objectivity in Germany, Leopold Museum, Vienna, until 29 September. 


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