War in the Middle East, the Whitney Biennial, and a newly-discovered Rembrandt in Amsterdam—podcast – The Art Newspaper

Because the conflict in opposition to Iran instigated final week by Israel and america continues to unfold by means of the Center East, we discover the way it impacts tourism within the Persian Gulf, of which artwork and tradition extra usually have been a cornerstone. Considered one of The Artwork Newspaper’s Center East correspondents, Melissa Gronlund, joins Ben Luke to debate the most recent information.

The 82nd biennial on the Whitney Museum of American Artwork in New York opens this weekend and our editor-in-chief within the Americas, Ben Sutton, and Elena Goukassian, our senior editor of museums and heritage, inform us what they considered it.

And this episode’s Work of the Week is The Imaginative and prescient of Zacharias within the Temple (1633) by Rembrandt. Researchers on the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam have demonstrated that the portray, which had beforehand been documented as a replica of a misplaced unique, is the truth is an genuine work by the Dutch grasp. We converse to Jonathan Bikker, the Rijksmuseum’s curator of Seventeenth-century Dutch work, who was a part of the group that secured the attribution to Rembrandt. The image is now on view to the general public on the Rijksmuseum.

Whitney Biennial 2026, Whitney Museum of American Artwork, New York, 8 March-23 AugustRembrandt’s The Imaginative and prescient of Zacharias within the Temple is now on view on the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.