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Art Basel Qatar, Dürer portrait debate, Paula Modersohn-Becker and Edvard Munch

2/6/2026 • 56 min

The first Art Basel Qatar art fair is now open in Qatar’s capital, Doha, and The Art Newspaper’s art market editor, Kabir Jhala, joins Ben Luke to discuss its impact, as well as reflecting on the wider artistic outlook in Qatar and the Middle East. The author of a new catalogue raisonné of the work of Albrecht Dürer argues that a painting of the artist’s father … Play episode

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