Encountering Beauty

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Printmaker and President of the Royal Academy of Arts, Rebecca Salter, will be in conversation with writer and critic, Thomas Marks, about her work and her role as President. Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.

Anila Quayyum Agha is a Pakistani-American artist who works in a cross-disciplinary fashion with mixed media. She creates artwork that explores global politics, cultural multiplicity, mass media, and social and gender roles. Agha is perhaps best known for her immersive, large-scale light installations in which she laser-cuts elaborate patterns into three-dimensional cubes. Suspended and lit from within, the cubes cast lace-like, floor-to-ceiling shadows that transform the surrounding environment, alluding to the richly ornamented public spaces such as mosques that Agha was excluded from as a female growing up in Lahore.Anny Shaw is a contributing editor for The Art Newspaper, reporting on auctions, art fairs and market news globally since 2011, and is also a regular contributor to the Financial Times. Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.

Minerals, masterpieces of the natural world that include precious gemstones and some of the rarest substances on earth, have been coveted and collected by royal enthusiasts and other elite members of societies throughout history. Today these natural wonders are sought after by a much wider range of collectors. From prominent museums to high-net-worth individuals and celebrities, mineral specimens can be as highly prized as art and antiques, or like fine wines and vintage cars.If you have a keen eye for colour and aesthetics and an appreciation for some of the rarest and most beautiful objects on earth – or just a passing interest in one of the most rapidly growing and appreciating fields of collecting – then this presentation is for you.Please join moderator Fatema Ahmed from Apollo magazine, along with panel members Joel Bartsch, Daniel Tranchillo and Alan Hart – a museum director, a leading international dealer and an expert in the science of mineralogy and in collection development, respectively: three figures who are at the forefront of a resurgence in collecting and investing in the finest natural gems and crystals that nature has to offer. Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.

First opening at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in December 2021 and then moving to the Wallace Collection where it is now on view, Inspiring Walt Disney: The Animation of French Decorative Arts has proven to be a critical success and a crowd-pleasing exhibition in both New York and London. It is the result of the close collaboration between the two museums across several departments, and with the Walt Disney Animation Research Library, and above all between the two curators. In this panel, Wolf Burchard and Helen Jacobsen discuss the project and the many years of working together to bring the exhibition to life. They will be joined by British theatre designer Tom Piper, one of the designers behind the Wallace Collection's version of the show, who brings his own experience of collaborating with museums to the conversation. Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.

Join Mali Morris, painter and Royal Academician, and Rebecca Lyons, Director of Collections and Learning at the RA, as they discuss Mali's work and influences. Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.

This talk gives an insight into the scope of William Klein's career and why his approach to photography and image-making was pioneering. He is well known for his fashion photography and distinctive gritty style of street photography together with his unconventional approach to subject matter. This talk will consider all aspects of his career including his training as a painter and work with film set against the wider context of art historical developments at the time, particularly Surrealism. Alongside this, the conversation will reference the major William Klein retrospective on show at the International Center for Photography in New York from June to September 2022.The talk will also explore the relationship between artist and gallery and the long-term friendship between William Klein and Marcus Bury, co-founder of HackelBury Fine Art Gallery.“I came from the outside, the rules of photography didn't interest me. There were things you could do with a camera that you couldn't do with any other medium – grain, contrast, blur, cock-eyed framing, eliminating or exaggerating grey tones and so on…… I thought it would be good to show what's possible, to say that this is a s valid of a way of using the camera as conventional approaches.” WK Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.

If living through lockdowns has taught us one thing, it is that the spaces we live and work in have an enormous effect on our wellbeing. Carefully curated art and design can help us understand ourselves better, while also teaching us to look outwards – but how to create an environment that balances form with function, heritage with modernity, the personal with the universal? In this thought-provoking conversation, our three panellists will reflect on what good curatorial practice looks like today, while also offering practical tips on how to collect and display art in both private and public spaces. Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.

From the personal to the political and the universal, sculpture past and present has often reflected on identity, the human condition and societal changes. Exploring the multifaceted languages of contemporary sculpture, this panel discussion will consider innovative investigations of form and matter, and how other disciplines may inform and enrich sculptural practice, whether through the collision of art and science, conjuring up literary influences or looking down the lens of history. In reflecting on the challenges of our times, sculpture invites us to think about our shared experience. This, perhaps, may encourage us to think long term in a short-term world, or, as philosopher Roman Krznaric invites us to, be ‘good ancestors'. Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.

Fiona, 8th Countess of Carnarvon, is the wife of Geordie, 8th Earl of Carnarvon. They live at Highclere Castle, known to millions around the world as “Downton Abbey”. Lady Carnarvon is the best-selling author of 5 books, an historian, an international speaker and fundraiser in the UK and abroad. Lady Carnarvon, her husband and son live 'quietly' with seven dogs, a number of horses and ponies, a brood of chickens, several bee hives and some rare breed pigs, amongst the normal farm animals in the farm and landscape of Highclere Castle today.A love of travel and reading is part of Lady Carnarvon's DNA. Following a degree at St Andrew's University, she trained as a Chartered Accountant with what is now PWC. Highclere offers both an anchor to the past as well as seeking to innovate and play a part in a modern world, with social media such as Instagram, Lady Carnarvon's weekly blog, podcast and her latest exciting venture “Friends of Highclere”. Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Factum Foundation for Digital Technology in Preservation has been working in the Valley of the Kings since 2001, as part of a long-term collaboration with the University of Basel under the aegis of the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities. Adam Lowe will be revisiting the work of the Theban Necropolis Preservation Initiative (TNPI), ranging from high-resolution recordings and facsimiles of major tombs to the training of a fully Egyptian team. Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.

A screening of two short films: the first exploring decorative marbles from Ancient Rome to the present time (commissioned by the Fondazione Santarelli for the Capitoline Museums in Rome); and the second an insight into the life of Raniero Gnoli, one of the world's leading authorities on Roman and Byzantine marble and professor of Indology at Sapienza Università di Roma. The screenings will be followed by a Q&A session with the films' directors Adriano Aymonino and Silvia Davoli, moderated by Fabio Barry. Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.

Zavier Ellis is an international curator, artist and originator of multiple art-based initiatives. He was born in Windsor in the United Kingdom in 1973. He read History of Modern Art at Manchester University (1993-1996) before undertaking a Masters in Fine Art at City & Guilds of London Art School (2003-2005). Zavier is founder and director of CHARLIE SMITH LONDON, a curatorial gallery project that runs off-site exhibitions in diverse locations. He was also co-founder and co-curator of the museum scale exhibition for emerging artists THE FUTURE CAN WAIT, which between 2011 and 2014 was organised in partnership with Saatchi's New Sensations. Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.

John Makepeace OBE is internationally regarded as one of Britain's most influential designer-makers. He was an early proponent of material innovation and sustainability, setting up the acclaimed Parnham College for furniture designers in 1976 and initiating Hooke Park in 1982, as a School for Woodland Industries and Forestry Management. Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.

Welcome to Encountering Beauty, a series of podcasts brought to you by Masterpiece London. I'm Thomas Marks, editor of Apollo magazine, and in these podcasts we'll be exploring the enduring relevance and resonance of what have long been some of the most revered and versatile materials that artists have had at their disposal. In each conversation I'll be joined by two art dealers who exhibit at the leading art fair that is Masterpiece London – experts in different artistic fields or periods that nevertheless share particular materials between them. We'll explore everything from wood and ceramic to marble and bronze; discussing how artists have handled, worked and transformed these materials; and why they're prized by collectors today. In this episode we'll be hearing about precious stones – about how artists and patrons have lusted for their lustre across civilisations, and of how their brilliance has thrilled beholders over centuries. We'll learn how the meanings of different stones have shifted over time and as they've crossed borders, and about how changing techniques of cutting or working with them have added new facets to their appeal. I'm delighted to be joined by Sandra Cronan, one of London's leading antique jewellery specialists, who handles important jewels from the 17th to the early 20th century; and by Keegan Goepfert, former vice president of Les Enluminures, the New York-, Chicago- and Paris-based experts in manuscript illumination – and who also focus on rings and jewellery from the medieval and Renaissance periods. It's great to have you both with me… See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Hello and welcome to Masterpiece Conversations, a series of podcasts that in each episode brings together a leading curator and art dealer to offer a taste of what people are really talking about in a particular field. I'm Thomas Marks, editor of Apollo magazine, and I'll be your host for these discussions, in which we're aiming to override the perceived ‘church and state' separation between museums and the art market – or at least to explore what conversation and collaboration between them makes possible. We'll be talking about what first drew our guests to their particular fields – and what's really inspiring them right now about the art they're immersed in. And we'll dive into what the priorities are for museums and the market in that field at the moment – where they coincide and where they might productively diverge. For this episode the focus is on contemporary sculpture. I'm delighted to be joined by Melanie Vandenbrouck, curator of sculpture at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, and by Mica Bowman, director at Bowman Sculpture, specialists in sculpture from 1860 to the present day. It's great to have you both with me… See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Hello and welcome to Masterpiece Conversations, a series of podcasts that in each episode brings together a leading curator and art dealer to offer a taste of what people are really talking about right now in a particular field. I'm Thomas Marks, editor of Apollo magazine, and I'll be your host for these discussions, in which we're aiming to override the perceived ‘church and state' separation between museums and the art market – or at least to explore what conversation and collaboration between them makes possible. We'll be talking about what first drew our guests to their particular fields – and what's really inspiring them at this point about the art and design they're immersed in. And we'll dive into what the priorities are for museums and the market in that field at the moment – where they coincide and where they might even diverge productively. For this episode the focus is on post-war design. I'm delighted to be joined by Libby Sellers – design historian, consultant, curator and writer, and former curator at the Design Museum in London – and by Sebastian Holt, UK director of Modernity, the 20th-century Nordic design specialists based in Stockholm and London. It's great to have you both with me… See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Hello and welcome to Masterpiece Conversations, a series of podcasts that in each episode brings together a leading curator and art dealer to offer a taste of what people are really talking about right now in a particular field. I'm Thomas Marks, editor of Apollo magazine, and I'll be your host for these discussions, in which we're aiming to override the perceived ‘church and state' separation between museums and the art market – or at least to explore what conversation and collaboration between them makes possible. We'll be talking about what first drew our guests to their particular fields – and what's really inspiring them at this point about the art they're immersed in. And we'll dive into what the priorities are for museums and the market in that field at the moment – where they coincide and where they might even diverge productively. For this episode the focus is on post-war and contemporary art. I'm delighted to be joined by Flavia Frigeri, Chanel Curator for the Collection at the National Portrait Gallery in London, and by Niamh Coghlan, director at Richard Saltoun Gallery, specialists in contemporary art, with an emphasis on feminist, conceptual and performance artists from the 1960s onwards. It's great to have you both with me… See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Hello and welcome to Masterpiece Conversations, a series of podcasts that in each episode brings together a leading curator and art dealer to offer a taste of what people are really talking about right now in a particular field. I'm Thomas Marks, editor of Apollo magazine, and I'll be your host for these discussions, in which we're aiming to override the perceived ‘church and state' separation between museums and the art market – or at least to explore what conversation and collaboration between them makes possible. We'll be talking about what first drew our guests to their particular fields – and what's really inspiring them at this point about the art they're immersed in. And we'll dive into what the priorities are for museums and the market in that field at the moment – where they coincide and where they might even diverge productively. For this episode the focus is on antiquities. I'm delighted to be joined by Tom Hardwick – an Egytologist who writes about Egyptian sculpture and the history of collecting, and Consulting Curator of the Hall of Ancient Egypt at the Houston Museum of Natural Science – and by Madeleine Perridge, Gallery Director at Kallos Gallery, London, among the leading international specialists in artworks from the ancient world. It's great to have you both with me… See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Welcome to Encountering Beauty, a series of podcasts brought to you by Masterpiece London. I'm Thomas Marks, editor of Apollo magazine, and in these podcasts we'll be exploring the enduring relevance and resonance of what have long been some of the most revered and versatile materials that artists have had at their disposal. In each conversation I'll be joined by two art dealers who exhibit at the leading art fair that is Masterpiece London – experts in different artistic fields that nevertheless share particular materials between them. We'll explore everything from wood to marble, and from pigments to precious stones; discussing how artists have handled, worked and transformed these materials; and why they're prized by collectors today. Today we'll be hearing about the ancient and enduring craft of ceramics – from the elemental forming and firing of clay that has been advanced by so many civilisations to the ‘white gold' of porcelain, and the potters and patrons who have dedicated themselves to its mysteries. I'm delighted to be joined by two London-based specialists in the field: Adrian Sassoon, expert in 18th-century French porcelain and contemporary works of art in ceramic, and by Errol Manners of E. and H. Manners Ceramics and Works of Art, which offers a wide range of pottery and porcelain from European pieces to Middle Eastern, Far-Eastern and Mexican colonial period wares. It's great to have you both with me… See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Welcome to Encountering Beauty, a series of podcasts brought to you by Masterpiece London. I'm Thomas Marks, editor of Apollo magazine, and in these podcasts we'll be exploring the enduring relevance and resonance of what have long been some of the most revered and versatile materials that artists have had at their disposal. In each conversation I'll be joined by two art dealers who exhibit at the leading art fair that is Masterpiece London – experts in different artistic fields that nevertheless share particular materials between them. We'll explore everything from ceramic to wood, and from pigments to precious stones; discussing how artists have handled, worked and transformed these materials; and why they're prized by collectors today. Today we'll be hearing about why artists have been so drawn to bronze for thousands of years – a material that is notoriously difficult to work with and yet has rarely been out of fashion. I'm delighted to be joined by Martin Clist, managing director of Charles Ede in London, one of the world's leading dealerships for works of ancient art from Egypt, Greece and the Roman Empire; […] And by Peter Osborne, of Osborne Samuel, one of London's leading dealers in modern British painting and sculpture. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Today we'll be talking about pigment and the ingredients of paint – that is, how a range of coloured substances, usually ground into powders and mixed with oil, water or another type of binder, have been the starting point for paintings from prehistoric murals to Pop art and beyond. We'll be discussing how far an understanding of pigment has been fundamental to the painting of the past, including how certain colours have been valued or venerated – and we'll explore what contemporary painters know, or need to know, about the materials that they use. I'm delighted to be joined by two specialists who'll be grinding the colours for our canvas: Molly Dorkin, head of research and a specialist in Old Master paintings at Dickinson in London, and – to give us a contemporary perspective – Neil Wenman, partner at Hauser & Wirth. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Today we'll be talking about wood – a material that is in a sense very ordinary but which has been made extraordinary by artists from many different cultures, and for thousands of years. It has been carved and turned, joined and inlaid, polished and painted – and in many cases, its endurance against the odds has lent it a fragile preciousness that only adds to the sense of wonder that it inspires.Featuring Patrick Mestdagh, whose gallery in Brussels presents objects from outside Europe – from Africa, Oceania, Asia and the Americas; and Sarah Vanwelden of the Dutch gallery, workshop and upholstery studio Morentz, which specialises in mid-century furniture. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Welcome to Encountering Beauty, a series of podcasts brought to you by Masterpiece London, with Thomas Marks, editor of Apollo magazine. These podcasts we'll be exploring the enduring relevance and resonance of what have long been some of the most revered and versatile materials that artists have had at their disposal. In this episode we'll be hearing about the marvels of marble, a material that since antiquity has captured the imaginations of sculptors and architects. Across cultures and centuries, it has conveyed power, grandeur and endurance – and yet it has also been the substance of some of the most humane and intimate sculptures that we know, and of delicate designs.This episode features Alessandra di Castro, whose family has been dealing antiques in Rome since 1878, and whose renowned gallery in Piazza di Spagna focuses on Old Master paintings, sculptures and works of art; and Francis Sultana, one of the world's leading interior and furniture designers, and CEO of David Gill Gallery. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.