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Artists and climate action; US National Gallery of Art’s women artists fund; Paula Modersohn-Becker

The Week in Art

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A Brief History of Art in the Middle East

Italian archaeologists have announced the discovery of 24 ancient Roman bronze statues in a thermal bath. The auction of works from the late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen fetched a record shattering $1.5 billion at Christie's New York on Wednesday evening. We hear about the National Gallery of Art in DC's $10 million fund for work by women artists and Paula Madison Becker's Modernist mother and child.

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