Saturday, 10 October, marks the first anniversary of the ceasefire in Gaza. It has not put an end to the bloodshed, with figures released in August by the United Nations Human Rights Office stating that more than 1,200 Palestinians have been killed by Israel since last October. The Art Newspaper’s reporter Sarvy Geranpayeh has been reporting on the lives of Palestinian artists since soon after the first Israeli bombings in Gaza in October 2023, following the Hamas attacks in Israel on 7 October. She joins Ben Luke to discuss her latest conversations with four Gazan artists who have all experienced different levels of trauma, grief and displacement.
After the ceasefire in Gaza, Asma’a Jeathni recovered one painting from the rubble of her home
Courtesy the artist
A stunning new survey exhibition of the work of the US painter Robert Ryman opened this week at the Barbican Art Gallery in London, and Ben visits the gallery to talk to Wells Fray-Smith, the exhibition’s curator.
Installation view of Robert Ryman… The Real Thing at the Barbican Art Gallery
© Thomas Adank and Barbican Centre
And this episode’s Work of the Week is The Great Room (2020-ongoing) by the US artist Katherine Hubbard, the latest iteration of which was unveiled this week at Studio Voltaire in London. The Great Room responds through different forms of photographic work to the effects of LATE, a progressive brain disease, on Hubbard’s mother Antonette Berger, and the emotional experience of packing up a home in preparation for a move into residential care. Ben talks to Katherine about the work.
Katherine Hubbard's The Great Room (2026) at Studio Voltaire in London
Image courtesy of the artist, Company Gallery and Studio Voltaire; Photo Dominique Croshaw
- Robert Ryman: The Real Thing, Barbican Art Gallery, London, 9 October-28 February 2027
- Katherine Hubbard: The Great Room, Studio Voltaire, London, until 10 January 2027.
