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Faye Toogood is perhaps best known for her Roly-Poly chair, among the more famous pieces of furniture to come out of the 2010s and take over the zeitgeist, but the London-based designer's artistry and craft runs much deeper and spans much wider. She began finding, collecting, cataloging, producing, and editing her “assemblages” long before she ever had a name for them, and her design career has been marked by exactly that, beginning with the debut of Assemblage 1 (2010) and through to her latest, Assemblage 8: Palette (2024). On the whole, Toogood's creations serve as material investigations and discipline-defying attempts to better understand herself. Without formal training in design, Toogood—who was the Designer of the Year at the Maison&Objet design fair in Paris this past January and the Stockholm Furniture Fair's Guest of Honor in February—uses what she describes as the feeling of being “a fraud in the room” to her advantage. Through her work, she is an enigma; with projects across furniture, interiors, fashion, and homewares, she's unwilling to be defined by a single output and has instead built a multilayered practice and belief system that allows her to be “all heart and hands.” On this week's Time Sensitive—our debut of Season 11—Toogood talks about the acts of creation and connection, and how each underscores the enduring play that's ever-present in her work.Special thanks to our Season 11 presenting sponsor, L'École, School of Jewelry Arts.Show notes:Faye ToogoodToogood[3:49] Assemblage 1[7:43] Assemblage 7[13:28] Seamus Heaney[14:50] Isamu Noguchi[14:50] Kan Yasuda[17:23] Roly-Poly chair[18:06] Rachel Whiteread[20:07] Barbara Hepworth Museum and Sculpture Garden[22:45] Matisse Chapel[25:40] “Ways of Seeing”[29:57] “Womanifesto!”[36:55] Assemblage 8[52:17] “The World of Interiors”
The first episode of 2025 of A brush with… features a conversation with Linder, who discusses her influences—from writers to musicians and, of course, other artists—and the cultural experiences that have shaped her life and work. Born Linda Mulvey in Liverpool in 1954, she is best known for her photomontages, made from images found in books and magazines across six decades. They bring together sex and sexual politics, glamour and grit, satire and seduction. Since emerging in the punk era of the late 1970s—a culture whose DIY approach and unflinching attitude to society her work embodies—Linder has reinvigorated a radical tradition of avant-garde art-making while developing a singular voice. She reflects on the particularities of her native Britain while also addressing global struggles and themes, including feminism and class politics. She discusses her use of the scalpel as a “magic wand” in cutting up print material, her journey to Delphi and recent use of ancient Greek and Roman imagery, her fascination with Ithell Colquhoun and other Surrealists, the impact of reading Germaine Greer and the Brontës, how she has used the Playboy magazines once owned by the Brutalist architects Alison and Peter Smithson in a new body of work, and how she connects the Indian musical instruments, the dilruba and taus, with Barbara Hepworth. Plus, she answers our usual questions, including the ultimate: “What is art for”?This episode contains descriptions of abuse and sexual violence.Linder: Danger Came Smiling, Hayward Gallery, London, 11 February-5 May; a version of the show, curated by Hayward Gallery Touring, will travel across the UK in 2025 and 2026: Inverleith House, Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh, 23 May-19 October; Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea, 7 November 2025-8 March 2026; Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool, 27 June-20 September 2026. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Happy New Year! As we step into a new year brimming with creativity and inspiration, consider recharging with an off-season escape to an inspiring location. From the artistic allure of St. Ives and Penrith to the vibrant architecture of Portmeirion, these destinations offer more than just breathtaking scenery. They provide a canvas for your creativity, whether through journaling on coastal getaways or exploring local art colonies. Visit places like Rivier Sands in Hayle for affordable stays with stunning views or discover historical narratives along Hadrian's Wall. Let the landscapes that inspired artists like Ben Nicholson and Barbara Hepworth rekindle your own creative journey. Whether you're picking up a shell on a walk or documenting your thoughts with a handy app, inspiration is all around. Explore these unique locations, support local art, and fuel your creativity to fill January with vibrant colors and ideas.
Aflevering 1: Kunst? JE MOEDERLink naar alle kunst: Klik hierKunst? JE MOEDER gaat over kunst kijken en kunst maken. De schrijver Ali Smith licht in haar Seizoenen-vierluik toonaangevende kunstenaars uit de twintigste eeuw uit. In de boeken Herfst en Winter staan de Britse pop-art kunstenares Pauline Boty en de beeldend kunstenaar Barbara Hepworth centraal. Podcastmaker Laura van Zuijlen gaat over hun werk in gesprek met ensembleacteur Joris Smit, die meespeelt in De seizoenen, en Joyce Roodnat, kunstcritica voor NRC Handelsblad en haar moeder.Support the show
In this special episode, artist Kedisha Coakley joins EMPIRE LINES live at the Hepworth Wakefield in West Yorkshire, connecting their work from Jamaican and Black diasporic communities across the UK, with their research into sculptor Ronald Moody, uncovering shared interests in Ancient Egypt, indigenous Caribbean cultures, and questions of restitution. Born in Brixton, and based in Sheffield, Kedisha Coakley's practice spans sculpture, glassmaking, and wallpaper printed with blocks of braided hair. Commissioned for an exhibition about Ronald Moody, one of the most significant artists working in 20th century Britain, their new installation is set between his large-scale figurative wood sculptures from the 1930s, and post-war experimentations with concrete and resin casting. From Kedisha's bronze afro-combs influenced by historic Taino cultures, we journey from objects held in the British Museum, to mahogany relief sculptures by major influences like Edna Manley. With audio transcripts, we discuss Moody's BBC radio broadcasts for Calling the West Indies produced by Una Marson, particularly ‘What is called Primitive Art?' (1949). Kedisha shares Moody's interest in primitivism, present in ancient Egyptian, Greek, Indian, and ‘oriental' Chinese cultural forms, as well as Gothic and Renaissance works from Western/Europe. We look at photographs from Kedisha's studio, exploring ‘African masks' in the work of European modernists like Man Ray and Pablo Picasso, and the often marginalised role of religion and spirituality in Black and diasporic art practices. Kedisha also details her wider practice in ‘Horticultural Appropriation', working with breadfruit, flowers, plants, and the natural environment, connecting with Moody's description of Jamaica's Blue Mountains and sea. We consider Moody's place in British art history, drawing from his contemporaries Barbara Hepworth, Henry Moore, Jacob Epstein, and Elizabeth Frink, as well as the group known as the Caribbean Artists Movement (CAM), of which Moody was a founding member.. As a self-described ‘mature student', we look at Kedisha's pursuit of independent, adult education, the role of market cultures and fashion, and the work of women taking care of history. This episode was recorded live at Ronald Moody: Sculpting Life, an exhibition at the Hepworth Wakefield in West Yorkshire, in October 2024. The exhibition runs until 3 November 2024: hepworthwakefield.org/whats-on/kedisha-coakley-and-empire-lines-live-podcast-recording/ Hear more about Kedisha's work around ‘Horticultural Appropriation' with Ashish Ghadiali, curator of Against Apartheid (2023) at KARST in Plymouth: pod.link/1533637675/episode/146d4463adf0990219f1bf0480b816d3 For more about the Caribbean Artists Movement (CAM), listen to curator Rose Sinclair in the episode on Althea McNish's Batchelor Girl's Room (1966/2022), recreated at the William Morris Gallery in London: pod.link/1533637675/episode/953b78149a969255d6106fb60c16982b On post-war ‘British' art and sculpture, read about Egon Altdorf: Reaching for the Light at the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds, in gowithYamo: gowithyamo.com/blog/postwar-modernism-egon-altdorf-at-the-henry-moore-institute Hear from artist Yinka Shonibare, in the episode on Decolonised Structures (Queen Victoria (2022-2023) at the Serpentine in London: pod.link/1533637675/episode/01fffb739a1bd9f84f930ce41ee31676 On the globalisation of ‘African' masks, listen to curator Osei Bonsu on Edson Chagas' photographic series, Tipo Passe (2014-2023), in the episode about Ndidi Dike's A History of A City in a Box (2019) at Tate Modern in London: pod.link/1533637675/episode/386dbf4fcb2704a632270e0471be8410 And for more about Édouard Glissant, listen to Manthia Diawara, co-curator of The Trembling Museum at the Hunterian in Glasgow, and artist Billy Gerard Frank on Palimpsest: Tales Spun From Sea And Memories (2019), part of PEACE FREQUENCIES 2023: instagram.com/p/C0mAnSuodAZ
This year is the 50th anniversary of Monumenta, a ground-breaking collection of outdoor sculptures by 40 different artists. Some of those names included Willem de Kooning, Christo, and Barbara Hepworth. It was an ambitious exhibit that didn't get much attention from the art world at first, but it's now recognized for its influence on large-scale public art. Morning host Luis Hernandez recently spoke with Jim Donahue, Curator of Historic Landscapes and Horticulture at Newport Mansions, which is hosting a symposium on Monumenta this Saturday.
Eva Rothschild talks to Ben Luke about her influences—from writers to musicians, film-makers and, of course, other artists—and the cultural experiences that have shaped her life and work. Rothschild, born in Dublin in 1971, has a profound sense of the unique qualities and peculiar power of her discipline, sculpture. Although her art clearly relates to the history of abstraction and Modernism, it balances a reverence and deep curiosity for this sculptural history with playfulness and subversion. In her sculptures, time-honoured avant garde principles meet the forms and practices of popular culture. Born of much instinctive experimentation in the studio, her work engages, often exuberantly, with diverse sculptural processes—from casting and welding to stacking and balancing—and properties—from weight and solidity to patina, texture and colour. As well as exploring gallery space in often unexpected ways, she has developed a rich seam of public sculpture, with major permanent works including a playground in East London. She discusses her the “material giddiness” she feels in making work, how she uses negative space and porosity as key elements in her sculpture, and why she feels that black is almost more a material than a colour. She reflects on the early influence of a catalogue of the British Museum's Tutankamen in her family home as a child, discusses how Barbara Hepworth remains an enduring influence, recalls the shock of encountering Cady Noland's work in a catalogue when she was a student and remembers the profound effect of seeing Sinead O'Connor perform in Dublin in the 1980s. She gives insight into her studio life and answers our usual questions, including the ultimate: what is art for?Eva Rothschild, Modern Art, Helmet Row, London, 6-28 September; Still Lives, The Hepworth Wakefield, until January 2025; solo exhibition, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, 2026. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Marjane Satrapi is best known for being the cartoonist and film maker behind Persepolis. She talks to Samira Ahmed about her new book - Woman, Life, Freedom - which she has created with 17 Iranian and international comic book artists. It documents the story of the death in custody of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, a woman detained for allegedly not properly wearing the Islamic headscarf in 2022, and the subsequent protest movement which has swept Iran.In the Event of Moon Disaster is part of a new exhibition at the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts in Norfolk. It uses artificial intelligence to reimagine history, to ask what is truth? Centre Director Dr Jago Cooper and digital artist Francesca Panetta dive into conspiracy and misinformation, and discuss how an event as influential as the 1969 Apollo 11 moon landing could be manipulated, and how doubt can be cast on even the most well-known facts.And Samira and producer Julian May follow the Harlow Sculpture Trail, encountering work by some of the greatest artists of the 20th century, including Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth and Elisabeth Frink. Presenter: Samira Ahmed Producer: Paul Waters
Dame Barbara Hepworth (1903 - 1974) was a Sculptor and Artist who was one of the early pioneers of abstract sculpture in England. Many of her works incorporated lyrical forms with close connection to the feeling and form of the materials that she used in her work making Barbara Hepworth one of the most influential sculptors of the mid-20th century. At the breakout of World War II Barbara Hepworth moved from London to Cornwall with her husband Ben Nicholson and their young family. Setting up a home and studios in the buildings and gardens of Trewyn studios in St Ives where she lived and worked from 1949 until her death in 1975. Following her death, her home, studio and garden became the Barbara Hepworth Museum and Sculpture Garden. RNIB Connect Radio's Toby Davey recently visited St Ives and went on a guided touch tour of some of Barbara Hepworth's work that is on display in the museum and gardens of the Barbara Hepworth Museum and Sculpture Garden. The guided touch tour of the Barbara Hepworth Museum and Sculpture Garden was lead by trained guides Sarah and Rose included tours of; Infant - wood carved sculpture of a baby 1929, Four Square Walk Through - bronze squares 1966 and Poised Form - Purbeck marble on concrete base 1951 - 52, re-worked 1957. Toby was also joined by Cassie Penn, Assistant Curator of Public programmes at Tate St Ives who gave a bit of background and history to the Barbara Hepworth Museum and Sculpture Garden, why Barbara Hepworth moved down to St Ives at the beginning of World War II along with the history of the buildings and garden that became her home and studio and now the Barbara Hepworth Museum and Sculpture Garden and talking about her favourite examples of Barbara Hepworth's work. The Barbara Hepworth Museum and Sculpture Garden in St Ives, Cornwall is managed by Tate St Ives and during the year offers bookable guided touch tours of many of Barbara Hepworth's work which is on display in the museum and Garden. Tours need to be booked in advance by calling 01736 791 177 and more details about the Barbara Hepworth Museum and Sculpture Garden can be found on the following pages of the Tate website - https://www.tate.org.uk/visit/tate-st-ives/barbara-hepworth-museum-and-sculpture-garden (Image shows Four Square Walk Though, a 4.2 meter tall bronze sculpture by Barbara Hepworth made in 1966. The sculpture consists of a base square and 4 separate bronze squares with circles cut into them stacked on top. Two squares face each other on opposite sides of the base with two perpendicular squares stacked on top, above head height. There is a child in the bottom right corner of the photograph looking up towards the top of the sculpture)
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What does commissioning a piece of music, something with no tangible form, look like?In this episode, Adriana is joined by leading composer Supriya Nagarajan to learn more about her creative process and the rich, dreamy soundscapes she creates…Together they explore Supriya's cross-cultural commissions in a wide variety of contexts, from ekphrastic responses to the sculptural work of Barbara Hepworth, to bespoke performances for Iceland Symphony Orchestra, and collaborations in community-settings.
Laura Freeman, chief art critic at The Times and author of Ways of Life: Jim Ede and the Kettle's Yard Artists, and Kettle's Yard Director Andrew Nairne take us back to Cambridge in this follow-up to Episode 30 of the Foxed pod. Jim Ede was a man for whom art, books, beauty, friendship and creativity were essential facets of a happy and fulfilled life and, in her acclaimed group biography of Jim and his artists, Laura casts new light on the men and women who gently shaped a new way of making, seeing and living with art for the twentieth century. Laura and Andrew join Slightly Foxed Editors Gail and Hazel at the kitchen table to draw us deeper into Jim and his wife Helen's way of life at Kettle's Yard: a domestic home-cum-gallery where pausing to sit is encouraged and artworks, furniture, ceramics, books and found objects from the natural world live side by side in delicious harmony. We follow Laura upstairs to Helen's sitting-room to meet Constanin Brâncuşi's cement-cast head of the boy Prometheus, we pause in the light-filled Dancer Room to take in Henri Gaudier-Brzeska's bronze ballerina and we pass Barbara Hepworth's strokable slate sculpture Three Personages on the landing before leafing through the bookshelves to discover hand-bound early editions of Virginia Woolf's Orlando and works by Henry James. We hear how Jim believed that art was for everyone and wasn't just for looking at but also for touching, hearing and engaging with: a belief so central to his ethos that he would lend pieces to Cambridge University students to place in their own living spaces. Books mentioned We may be able to get hold of second-hand copies of the out-of-print titles listed below. Please get in touch with Jess in the Slightly Foxed office for more information. Subscribe to Slightly Foxed magazine Laura Freeman, Ways of Life: Jim Ede and the Kettle's Yard Artists (0:55) Virginia Woolf, Orlando (18:30) Henry James, ‘The Great Good Place' (19:46) Richard Cobb, A Classical Education (45:34) Adrian Bell, A Countryman's Summer Notebook (46:00) Lionel Davidson, The Night of Wenceslas (46:15) Lionel Davidson, The Rose of Tibet (46:29) Lionel Davidson, Kolymsky Heights (46:32) Eric Carle, The Very Hungry Caterpillar (48:40) Ann Pratchett, The Dutch House (49:18) Osman Yousefzada, The Go-Between (50:59) Related Slightly Foxed articles & podcast episodes Episode 30 of the Slightly Foxed podcast: Jim Ede's Way of Life Living Art, Mark Haworth-Booth on Jim Ede, A Way of Life: Kettle's Yard, Issue 42 The Pram in the Hall, Laura Freeman on Barbara Hepworth, A Pictorial Autobiography, Issue 69 Russian Roulette, Anne Boston on Lionel Davidson, Kolymsky Heights, Issue 60 High Adventure, Derek Robinson on Lionel Davidson, The Rose of Tibet, Issue 32 Other links Kettle's Yard, Cambridge Jim Ede, A Way of Life: Kettle's Yard is available from the Kettle's Yard shop King Charles, the then Prince of Wales, on Kettle's Yard at their inaugural concert Kettle's Yard House Tour Opening music: Preludio from Violin Partita No.3 in E Major by Bach The Slightly Foxed Podcast is hosted by Philippa Lamb and produced by Podcastable
Join us ‘in conversation' with Alison Wilding OBE and A Level art students from Hardenhuish School and St Mary's Calne in Wiltshire, discussing topics including the artist's use of conflicting materials; connections to myth and ancient artefacts in her work; the influence of artists such as Rachel Whiteread and Barbara Hepworth; and the sustaining power of the creative process.‘Wilding was born in Blackburn, Lancashire. She studied at Ravensbourne College of Art and, from 1970 to 1973, at the Royal College of Art in London. Her sculpture is closely concerned with the physical qualities of materials. She uses traditional as well as contemporary sculptural processes, such as modelling, carving, casting and constructing to explore the contrasts and relationships between materials. Her sculptures often consist of two separate elements, which suggest opposites such as positive-negative, male-female, light-dark. She uses a wide range of materials, including copper, wood, beeswax, lead, galvanised steel, transparent plastics, silk, fossils, rubber and paints; these enable her to establish unusual juxtapositions of form, colour and surface. She was shortlisted for the Turner Prize in 1988 and 1992. Wilding's work can be found in major collections nationally and internationally, including Arts Council of Great Britain, British Council, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Australia, Musée de Beaux Arts, Calais, France, and Scottish National Gallery.' (Source: New Art Centre website)The Roche Court Educational Trust works with over 6,000 children, young people and specialist groups annually, at both the Sculpture Park and elsewhere. We encourage an exploration of modern and contemporary art through our specialist looking, thinking & speaking approach.As an independent charity, we rely on donations to deliver our program. For further details of how to support our work, please visit our website at: https://rochecourteducationaltrust.co.uk/support-us/ Follow us on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/_ilovesculpture/ To find out more about Alison Wilding, follow this link: https://www.karstenschubert.com/artists/26-alison-wilding/Thanks to: Dan Coggins and Zach James for co-producing this episode. Thanks also to the New Art Centre and finally, Alison Wilding, for generously giving her time. This podcast has been generously funded by RSA Catalyst Award and The Arts Society Wessex.Photo credit: Alison Wilding, Shrubs 1, 2019
We're talking about the burgeoning opportunities for new and established collectors of beautiful rare objects, looking forward to London Craft Week, with Guy Salter, the fair's founder. Now in its ninth year and dubbed ‘the most luxurious craft fair in the world', the fair spreads right across the capital, incorporating Acton and Park Royal as Creative Enterprise Zones for the first time. There will be exciting events and exhibitions celebrating the Coronation and London Craft Week will also showcase the work of over 700 artists, designers and makers from across the world and include four international pavilions from Austria, Malaysia, South Korea and Taiwan. We also talk to Nazy Vassegh, founder of the boutique art platform Eye of the Collector. The third edition of The Eye of the Collector fair is running between 17th and 20th May at Two Temple Place, the majestic 1892 Neo-Gothic building, commissioned by William Waldorf Astor, on London's Strand. Of the 120 works for sale, many will be of museum quality or by huge names including Frank Auerbach, Barbara Hepworth and Bridget Riley but will there will also be 60 new works, aiming to shine a light on emerging artists and designers and overlooked talent. Our third guest is celebrated couturier and interior designer Tomasz Starzewski, who's now collaborating with the specialist ceramics and craft auctioneers Maak to curate an installation of exquisite pieces from the collection of the late Victoria Lady de Rothschild. The installation is now open in Buckinghamshire, at Ascott House, the home Lady de Rothschild shared for over a decade with her husband Sir Evelyn. Victoria Lady de Rothschild designed Ascott House, alongside Renzo Mongiardino and it's now the beautiful setting for 118 carefully chosen and placed objects that she collected on her travels for over 20 years. They will be displayed throughout the house until September when Maak will auction them. London Craft Week: throughout the capital from Monday 8th to Sunday 14th May The Eye of the Collector: at 2 Temple Place from Wednesday 17th to Saturday 20th May Highlights from Victoria Lady de Rothschild's Collection: at Ascott House until September
Als "Meisterin der Abstraktion" präsentiert die Ausstellung diese große Künstlerin der Moderne. Die Britin revolutionierte die Bildhauerei mit ihren "Piercings", dem Durchstechen der Formen. Christiane Vielhaber über befreite Formen in Duisburg. Von Christiane Vielhaber.
Kendrah Morgan, Head Curator at the Heide Museum of Modern Art speaks in-depth about the first survey exhibition in Australia of modernist sculptor Barbara Hepworth's (1903–1975) work. Inspired by the landscape and human form, Hepworth was one of the leading British artists of her generation and the first woman sculptor to achieve international recognition. She was also the first Western artist to pierce the form in 1932. Her abstract works are timeless and continue to inspire audiences and artists today. Kendrah explains the span of Hepworth's oeuvre, the materials she used, and the discrimination she faced being a talented woman in a male-dominated medium. BARBARA HEPWORTH – IN EQUILIBRIUM is showing at the Heide until March 13. Book at https://www.heide.com.au/exhibitions/barbara-hepworth-equilibrium/ Broadcast on February 7 2023.
Kendrah Morgan, Head Curator at the Heide Museum of Modern Art sits down to speak about the first survey exhibition of modernist sculptor Barbara Hepworth's (1903–1975) work in Australia. Inspired by the landscape and human form, Hepworth was one of the leading British artists of her generation and the first woman sculptor to achieve international recognition. BARBARA HEPWORTH – IN EQUILIBRIUM is showing at the Heide until March 13.
Amy speaks with Dr Ben Eltham from Monash Uni and Associate Professor Jo Caust from Melbourne Uni as they delve into the details of Australia's new arts and cultural policy, REVIVE. They talk about how these policy changes will reposition the arts in Australia and affect artists, musicians, writers, actors, and more. They analyse what sectors have benefited from the policy and what areas have been neglected. Professor Chris Wallace returns to speak in-depth about her new book, Political Lives: Australian Prime Ministers and Their Biographers. Chris tells Australian political history anew through her account of prime ministers, their biographies and their biographers – examining their motivations and relationships. Kendrah Morgan, Head Curator at the Heide Museum of Modern Art sits down to speak about the first survey exhibition of modernist sculptor Barbara Hepworth's (1903–1975) work in Australia. Inspired by the landscape and human form, Hepworth was one of the leading British artists of her generation and the first woman sculptor to achieve international recognition. BARBARA HEPWORTH – IN EQUILIBRIUM is showing at the Heide until March 13.
Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 720, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Movie Objects 1: In this holiday classic, Ralphie's dad's "leg lamp" causes quite a stir. A Christmas Story. 2: In "A Very Brady Sequel", Tim Matheson struggles to steal the Bradys' statue of one of these animals. Horse. 3: In "Cool Hand Luke", Paul Newman is put on a chain gang for vandalizing these mechanical devices. Parking meters. 4: At the beginning of "Close Encounters", a bunch of these, missing since 1945, are found in the Sonoran Desert. airplanes. 5: This shiny title object from a 2007 fantasy film is actually an alethiometer, which cryptically answers questions. The Golden Compass. Round 2. Category: Memorials 1: The national memorial that commemorates this 1889 disaster preserves what's left of the South Fork Dam. the Johnstown flood. 2: At its headquarters you can find Barbara Hepworth's Dag Hammarskjold Memorial. United Nations. 3: This memorial consists of 4 sculpted heads, each 60 feet tall. Mount Rushmore. 4: The U.S. Marine Corps War Memorial stands near the north gate of this Virginia site. Arlington National Cemetery. 5: On April 15, 1962 memorials were held in remembrance of this tragic event's 50th anniversary. sinking of the Titanic. Round 3. Category: '90s Movies 1: This term for total nudity is the title of a 1997 film about male strippers. The Full Monty. 2: Matt Damon stars as a genius janitor from South Boston in this 1997 movie. Good Will Hunting. 3: Rob Lowe played the leader of a conservative religious group in this 1997 sci-fi film starring Jodie Foster. Contact. 4: Ethan Hawke and Robert De Niro starred in this film based on a Dickens novel. Great Expectations. 5: Whitney Houston played the spouse of a New York pastor in this 1996 film. The Preacher's Wife. Round 4. Category: In The Cards 1: It's the number of playing cards in a standard deck (not counting the jokers). 52. 2: These fortune telling cards include "The Lovers", "The Magician" and "The Wheel of Fortune". tarot cards. 3: The Donald knows one of these is a "key resource to be used at an opportune moment". a trump card. 4: If you're "carded" while buying cigarettes in Calif. it's because you don't look old enough to be this age. 18. 5: The most valuable of these is the T206 Honus Wagner. a baseball card. Round 5. Category: Colorful Idioms 1: Elephant or lie. white. 2: Elephants or slip. pink. 3: Humor or market. black. 4: Blood or streak. blue. 5: Light or thumb. green. Thanks for listening! Come back tomorrow for more exciting trivia! Special thanks to https://blog.feedspot.com/trivia_podcasts/
PSA: This episode was recorded 2 weeks ago, due to illness and short - notice graduate job interviews I was unable to find the time to schedule it. I am getting more settled now into university so my uploading schedule should now resume as normalI hope your all well! I have had quite a break, I have had a lot on with my health recently, and I have been trying to rest and recover, but I am excited to be posting more consistently now!Barbara Hepworth: Art & Life at Tate St Ives!!!You can book tickets for the show here!The exhibition guide that I used as a script for this episode can be seen here!Another show which had Hepworth's work in I did a review of (New Art Gallery Walsall), you can hear that review here:Socials:Instagram - @scarlettart18Website - scarlettford.co.uk - YOU CAN LISTEN TO THE POD FROM MY WEBSITE!!Mailing List - https://www.scarlettford.co.uk/contact-9Linkedin - https://uk.linkedin.com/in/scarlett-ford-485795208Email - scarlettart18@gmail.comEdited on LumafusionMusic from Epidemic SoundsMic: Samson Q2UThanks for listening, this was a long edit and tedious edit hahaScarlett
A new exhibition at The Hepworth Wakefield celebrates the relationship that two of the UK's greatest sculptors, Barbara Hepworth and Henry Moore, had with the Yorkshire landscape they grew up in. Eleanor Clayton, the curator of the exhibition, Magic in this Country, joins the landscape photographer Kate Kirkwood - who has just published a new book, Cowspines, that blends the landscape of the Lake District with the backs of the cows that graze upon it – to discuss the power of landscape to draw an artist's eye. John McCusker discusses and performs live from his new ‘Best of ‘Album, which celebrates his 30-year career as one of Scotland's most acclaimed fiddle players and musical collaborators. Writer of fiction and poetry Victoria MacKenzie tells Shahidha Bari about her first novel, For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy On My Little Pain, which is based on the lives of two extraordinary, trail-blazing fourteenth-century Christian mystics, Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe. Presenter: Shahidha Bari Producer: Eliane Glaser Main image from Cowspines by Kate Kirkwood
BARBARA HEPWORTH MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN Explore Barbara Hepworth through her home, studio and garden Barbara Hepworth first came to live in Cornwall with her husband Ben Nicholson and their young family at the outbreak of war in 1939. She lived and worked in Trewyn studios – now the Barbara Hepworth Museum – from 1949 until her death in 1975. https://www.tate.org.uk/visit/tate-st-ives/barbara-hepworth-museum-and-sculpture-garden
BARBARA HEPWORTH MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN Explore Barbara Hepworth through her home, studio and garden Barbara Hepworth first came to live in Cornwall with her husband Ben Nicholson and their young family at the outbreak of war in 1939. She lived and worked in Trewyn studios – now the Barbara Hepworth Museum – from 1949 until her death in 1975. https://www.tate.org.uk/visit/tate-st-ives/barbara-hepworth-museum-and-sculpture-garden
BARBARA HEPWORTH MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN Explore Barbara Hepworth through her home, studio and garden Barbara Hepworth first came to live in Cornwall with her husband Ben Nicholson and their young family at the outbreak of war in 1939. She lived and worked in Trewyn studios – now the Barbara Hepworth Museum – from 1949 until her death in 1975. https://www.tate.org.uk/visit/tate-st-ives/barbara-hepworth-museum-and-sculpture-garden
BARBARA HEPWORTH MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN Explore Barbara Hepworth through her home, studio and garden Barbara Hepworth first came to live in Cornwall with her husband Ben Nicholson and their young family at the outbreak of war in 1939. She lived and worked in Trewyn studios – now the Barbara Hepworth Museum – from 1949 until her death in 1975. https://www.tate.org.uk/visit/tate-st-ives/barbara-hepworth-museum-and-sculpture-garden
The exhibition ‘Barbara Hepworth: Art & Life' at Tate St Ives not only showcases over 30 examples of the work of one of the twentieth century's most inspiring artists and a true pioneer of modernist sculpture but also reflects on her links with Cornwall. RNIB Connect Radio's Toby Davey caught up with Giles Jackson, Assistant Curator at Tate St Ives for an insight into the life and work of Barbara Hepworth and her work which is on display in the exhibition ‘Barbara Hepworth: Life & Art' too. Giles began by explaining to Toby why Barbara Hepworth decided to move from London at the outbreak of World War II to set up her home, art studio and workshop in St Ives. Giles then talked about Barbara Hepworth's early studies at Leeds School of Art and the Royal College of Art in London, her travels around Europe and life in London too and how her early work during these times is explored through the exhibition. Toby and Giles then discussed on how well Barbara Hepworth fitted in with the people and artist community in St Ives and how the local Cornish landscape and people influenced some of her work with examples that are also on display in the exhibition too. The exhibition also includes some of Barbara Hepworth's stage designs for a production at the Old Vic Theatre in London and also explores her interest in science and technology too. ‘Barbara Hepworth: Art & Life' continues at Tate St Ives until 1 May 2023, more details about the exhibition and access at Tate St Ives can be found on the following website or by emailing Visiting .stives@tate.org.uk or calling 0173 679 6226. https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-st-ives/barbara-hepworth-art-and-life Image shows: Dame Barbara Hepworth, Oval Sculpture (No.2) (1943, cast 1958) Tate Barbara Hepworth © Bowness. An off-white oval sculpture which resembles the shape of an egg lying on it's side. There is a large hole through the sculpture with two smooth round bridges connecting one side of the hollowed out side to the other. The piece is on a thin, dark wooden plinth
7.00am Acknowledgement of Country 7. 08am Claudia speaks with public health researcher and aged care advocate Dr Sarah Russell about alleged disparity among political candidates in relation to access to residents of retirement villages and aged homes during election campaigns. Sarah is the director of Aged Care Matters. She was an Independent candidate for the federal seat of Flinders in the May election.@AgedMatters fb AgedCareMAtters 7.30am Jacob speaks with Australian-Iranian women, Delaram, Aida, and Nazanin about the Mahsa Amini protests calling for greater freedoms for women, and an end to Iran's oppressive regime. Special thanks to Jahan for his assistance in this piece. 8.07am Kendrah Morgan, curator at Heide Museum of Modern Art, speaks about the new Barbara Hepworth sculpture exhibition.http://heide.com.auFor access information see:https://wp.heide.com.au/app/uploads/2022/10/Access-Information_2022.pdf Songs: Better in Blak by Thelma Plum, Why by Kutcha Edwards, Better Things by Kee'ahn
Andy Freer, the CEO and artistic director of the 30-year-old Melbourne puppet company Snuff Puppets talks about the world premiere of ‘SWAMP'; Heide Museum of Modern Art's artistic director, Lesley Harding, on Heide's latest exhibition ‘Barbara Hepworth: In Equilibrium'; Director Kirsten von Bibra joins Identity Theatre founder and performer Ray Swann to discuss their adaptation of TS Eliot's ‘The Waste Land'. With presenter Richard Watts.
We meet Alex Rotter, Chairman of Christie's 20/21 Art Departments, to discuss Christie's New York forthcoming auction 'Visionary: The Paul G. Allen Collection' which runs from 9–10 November 2022 at Rockefeller Center. The collection of philanthropist Paul G. Allen, co-founder of Microsoft, includes more than 150 masterpieces spanning 500 years of art history. Reflecting the depth and breadth of Paul G. Allen's collection, the auctions connect this visionary innovator to a range of ground-breaking artists, joining Paul Cezanne with David Hockney, Alberto Giacometti with Louise Bourgeois, Georges Seurat with Jasper Johns and Agnes Martin with Yayoi Kusama. Valued in excess of $1 billion, The Paul G. Allen Collection is poised to be the largest and most exceptional art auction in history. Pursuant to his wishes, the estate will dedicate all the proceeds to philanthropy.From 29 October – 8 November 2022, view The Paul G. Allen Collection in-person at Christie's Rockefeller Center galleries in New York. Follow @ChristiesInc and visit their official website: https://www.christies.com/en/events/visionary-the-paul-g-allen-collection/overviewFrom Canaletto's famed vistas of Venice and Paul Cezanne's magisterial vision of the Mont Sainte-Victoire to Gustav Klimt's Birch Forest, Georgia O'Keeffe's 'Red Hills with Pedernal, White Clouds', and latterly, David Hockney's joyful depictions of his native Yorkshire, the collection highlights landmark moments in the development of landscape painting through centuries. Botticelli's Madonna of the Magnificat, Georges Seurat's pointillist masterwork Les Poseuses, Ensemble (Petite version) and Lucian Freud's Large Interior, W11 (after Watteau) demonstrate the enduring power of the human figure in art, while the polyvalent practice of artists such as Max Ernst and Jasper Johns show how artists can subvert tradition to move art forward. We explore some of our own personal favourite works by Georgia O'Keeffe, Agnes Martin, David Hockney, Louise Bourgeois, Bridget Riley and Barbara Hepworth.Alex Rotter grew up in a family of art dealers in his native Austria, and studied at the University of Vienna. He currently lives in New York and is responsible for overseeing a global team of specialists spanning the full scope of 20th and 21st Century art. Rotter's progressive approach to presenting extraordinary works of art to the market has yielded many of the most groundbreaking moments in auction history. Career highlights include the 2017 sale of Leonardo da Vinci's Salvator Mundi , which sold for $450 million, becoming the most expensive object ever sold at auction, and Jeff Koons' Rabbit from the Collection of SI Newhouse, which sold for $91.1 million and set a world auction record for a living artist. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Dame Barbara Hepworth is a revered figure in British art, who has never had a dedicated solo show in Australia.Her abstract sculptures echo the coastal landscape where she lived, and the human body. She wanted viewers to touch her artwork and move around it, and she rejected the pristine art gallery. For Barbara Hepworth: In Equilibrium, Lesley Harding and Kendrah Morgan chat to Daniel about curating 40 of Hepworth's works for the Heide Museum of Modern Art.My Thing is... auto fiction. In her latest work, filmmaker and visual artist Pilar Mata Dupont attempts to distil and reconcile personal accounts of her family's memories of 20th-century Argentina and its painful political divisions. Las Hormigas is on at the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (PICA).Kieren Karritpul creates larger-than-life paintings, drawings and textiles that explore the cultural and spiritual dimensions of the handmade fish traps and nets made by women in his family. Based at Nauiyu in the Daly River region of the Top End, Kieren speaks to producer Rosa Ellen from his exhibition at Tolarno Galleries in Melbourne.
Dame Barbara Hepworth is a revered figure in British art, who has never had a dedicated solo show in Australia. Her abstract sculptures echo the coastal landscape where she lived, and the human body. She wanted viewers to touch her artwork and move around it, and she rejected the pristine art gallery. For Barbara Hepworth: In Equilibrium, Lesley Harding and Kendrah Morgan chat to Daniel about curating 40 of Hepworth's works for the Heide Museum of Modern Art. My Thing is... auto fiction. In her latest work, filmmaker and visual artist Pilar Mata Dupont attempts to distil and reconcile personal accounts of her family's memories of 20th-century Argentina and its painful political divisions. Las Hormigas is on at the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (PICA). Kieren Karritpul creates larger-than-life paintings, drawings and textiles that explore the cultural and spiritual dimensions of the handmade fish traps and nets made by women in his family. Based at Nauiyu in the Daly River region of the Top End, Kieren speaks to producer Rosa Ellen from his exhibition at Tolarno Galleries in Melbourne.
Hvordan skriver man med pulsen på samtiden, uten å vite hvor man ender? Det ville Ali Smith finne ut av da hun satte i gang med et halsbrekkende eksperiment – etter å ha overtalt redaktøren sin: Hun skulle skrive fire bøker, om de fire årstidene, på fire år.Resultatet ble de fire kritikerroste og prisbelønnede bøkene Høst, Vinter, Vår og Sommer (alle til norsk ved Merete Alfsen), der vår egen samtid siver inn i romanuniverset. Skjebnen ville ha det til at disse årene ble ganske begivenhetsrike: I Storbritannia deler brexit folket, flyktningekrisa deler Europa, Donald Trump velges til president i USA og verden rammes av en global pandemi.Kvartetten er likevel fjernt fra samtids-reportasje. De fire romanene er gjennomsyret av Smiths gjenkjennelige lekenhet i både språk og handling, og en nærmest trassig optimisme. Historiene og persongalleriene i de fire romanene krysser hverandre, Smith drar veksler på Shakespeare og Dickens, og løfter fram underkjente kunstnere som Pauline Boty, Barbara Hepworth og Lorenza Mazzetti.Skotske Ali Smith er forfatter av mer enn 25 romaner, novellesamlinger og skuespill. Hun er vinner av en rekke priser, deriblant Goldsmiths Prize, Costa Books Award og Orwell Prize for Political Fiction, og hun har vært kortlistet til den prestisjetunge Booker-prisen hele fire ganger.Maria Horvei er forlagsredaktør og litteratur- og kunstkritiker. Nå møter hun Smith til samtale om litteraturen, kunsten, håpet og tiden vi lever i. Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.
Silvia Cruz Lapeña hoy nos adentra en las historias amorosas de la escultora inglesa Barbara Hepworth y su mundo artístico. Entre sus amores destacan los artistas John Speaking o Ben Nicholson.
The Tate St Ives and the Barbara Hepworth Garden have lots of accessible events and touch tours you can head along too. Ellie's been finding out just what's on offer and get's a preview tour of what you could expect from the Talking Garden Tour To find out more about the Tate St Ives, please visit their website here: Tate St Ives | Tate The next Talking Art event is taking place on Saturday 17th September, you can book by calling 01736 791177 Image Shows: Barbra Hepworth Gardens.© Bowness.
With the RCA's Vice Chancellor Dr. Paul Thompson and Chair of the Governing Body Sir Peter Bazalgette This week we're talking about the RCA's brand new £135 million Battersea campus. In a fascinating conversation with Dr. Paul Thompson and Sir Peter Bazalgette, they tell us how the new facilities can give future creative leaders the tools to learn to solve some of the most pressing global issues, from climate crisis and ageing populations to mobility, urbanism, inclusivity and ensuring AI remains a force for good. As Paul Thompson says, ‘We're trying to introduce some core fundamentals of science into the RCA art petri dish.' The new development comprises a large scale hangar, robotics centre and an intelligent mobility design centre as well as sculpture and contemporary art practice studios. RCA alumni include some of the world's most innovative designers from Jony Ive to James Dyson and Thomas Heatherwick, alongside artists including David Hockney, Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth, Bridget Riley and Tracey Emin. Listen in to hear how the RCA is in a better position than ever on the global stage to produce the creative leaders our world needs.
For some visually impaired people, the element of touch is very important when trying to establish what a piece of art work looks like. This prompted listener Mike Lambert to contact the program following a visit to The World of Stonehenge exhibition at the British Museum. Mike was unhappy that he wasn't able to handle some of the stone items displayed at the exhibition and he explains to Peter a series of other access concerns that he has. We put these concerns to the Museum's Equality and Diversity Manager, Will Westwood. We also take a look at The Barbara Hepworth Museum and Sculpture Garden in St Ives. Here, they ensure that visually impaired visitors are catered for with touch tours, 3D printings of the sculptures and more. We pay a remote visit to the garden with Georgina Kennedy, the museum's Public Program Curator. Presenter: Peter White Producer: Beth Hemmings Production Coordinator: Liz Poole Website image description: pictured is a sculpture by Barbara Hepworth titled 'Two Forms (Divided Circle)'. The sculpture is asymmetrical, with each part at an angle to the other and one is slightly behind the other. One of the semi-circular sections has a cylindrical hole. On the other, a hole spirals from a circle to an oval. The sculpture is surrounded by lots of shrubbery and behind it, to the right, is a smaller sculpture and to the left is a large white shed with glass windows. Barbara Hepworth Two Forms (Divided Circle) 1969 © Bowness
BONUS! Barbara Hepworth in de RijksmuseumtuinenIn de ban van het Britse landschap De beelden van Barbara Hepworth brengen de natuur weer dichtbij de mens. Ze hebben holtes en gaten, waarin licht verplaatst en het landschap zich openbaart. Op welke andere manieren zien we de natuur terugkomen in haar beelden? Wat vertellen ze over onze huidige relatie met de natuur? En waarom passen de beelden zo goed in de Rijksmuseumtuinen? Expert Ludo van Halem praat hierover met Janine Abbring aan de hand van drie sculpturen: River Form, Figure for Landscape en Conversation with Magic Stones. Ga voor meer informatie naar: rijksmuseum.nl/podcast
One of the foremost artists of the 20thC, we take a look at Dame Barbara Hepworth. Emily takes us on a trot through the life and work of the wonderful artist who is linked to both London and St Ives, and we find out what inspired her art, and where in London you can find her work. We find out where you can take a little break from the hustle and bustle and lose yourself in her art for a short time. Visit www.ladieswholondon.com/post/piercing-holes-dame-barbara-hepworth for the show notes to each episode. Get in touch! Instagram; @ladieswholondonpodcast Email; ladieswholondon@gmail.com Websites; www.ladieswholondon.com www.guideemily.com and www.alexlacey.com/podcast where you can also book for our virtual and real life walking tours. Thanks to Susie Riddell for our voiceover jingles www.susieriddell.com and our jinglemeister Ben Morales Frost, can be found on www.benfrostmusic.com See you next week Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Barbara Hepworth is one of the greatest artists to ever come out of the UK. Achieving monumental heights of fame and success during her life, she developed a sculptural language that makes her work not only timeless but so instantly recognisable as her own. This week I take you on a whistle-stop tour of her life and work during her time living and working in her iconic studio and gardens in St.Ives!! I talk you through Hepworth's practice, my experience while visiting her studio in St Ives, August 2021; and why I think it's important to visit where an artist works to truly help understand what makes them tick as a creator. The studio was an experience which will stay with me forever and somewhere I cannot recommend enough should you find yourself in Cornwall and wondering how to spend a day!! I hope you enjoy it! Jo Instagram:@josarthistory Some links! Hepworth Estate: https://barbarahepworth.org.uk/st-ives/ Hepworth St Ives: https://www.tate.org.uk/visit/tate-st-ives/barbara-hepworth-museum-and-sculpture-garden Hepworth Wakefield: https://hepworthwakefield.org/ New Art Centre: https://www.sculpture.uk.com/barbara-hepworth Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Hepworth Tate: https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/dame-barbara-hepworth-1274 My blog on the Hepworth Garden and Studio: https://www.josarthistory.com/post/down-the-rabbit-hole-barbara-hepworth-museum-and-sculpture-garden-st-ives VIDEO ON THE SCULPTURE GARDEN: https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/dame-barbara-hepworth-1274/barbara-hepworth-sculpture-garden
'She did cause a bit of a revolution in the Royal Academy, which has been only to the good,' Anne Desmet, R.A. Gertrude Hermes was one of the most experimental sculptors of the twentieth century. She also changed the way women artists were treated at the Royal Academy forever – a story which had been overlooked until recently. Representing Britain at the Paris World Fair of 1937, selected for the British Pavilion at the 1939 Venice Biennale and the subject of a solo retrospective at the Whitechapel Gallery in 1967, Hermes' reputation fell into obscurity and her reforming activism forgotten. In the 1920s she was part of a group of artists including Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth and Eileen Agar who were invigorating traditional techniques with a modernist approach. Working not only across sculpture and printmaking, but a variety of decorative and architectural forms such as door knockers and fountains, Hermes imbued her work with a vital energy that often focused on the elemental forces of nature. This episode takes listeners to where she lived and worked along the Thames tracing her friendships and patrons, her art school networks and studios; and the work that remains around us. We speak to people who knew Hermes, worked with her, as well as contemporary artists who explain the allure of an artist they describe as a 'goddess'. Image: Gertrude Hermes carving Diver at St Peter's Square, 1937. Digital image courtesy of Leeds Museums and Galleries © Archive of Sculptors Papers, Leeds Museums _ Galleries Bridgeman Images,
In episode 70 of The Great Women Artists Podcast, Katy Hessel interviews the acclaimed writer, fashion critic, and art curator, Charlie Porter on Louise Bourgeois, Anne Truitt, Sarah Lucas and Martine Syms !!!!!! In this episode, which will work slightly differently from normal, we will focus on four artists mentioned in Charlie's latest book, one of my favourite books of this year: What Artists Wear!!! An incredibly fascinating book that chronicles the lives and careers of artists through their clothes and how they have worn, incorporated, used, recycled, referenced, and drawn from garments from the early 20th century to the present day. From chapters dedicated to Louise Bourgeois and Martine Syms, an in-depth look into the history of the suit (think Frida Kahlo to Georgia O'Keeffe); a focus on the subject of workwear with the likes of Agnes Martin and Barbara Hepworth, and how they dressed ‘for the studio'. What ‘casual' means today, how artists have worn jeans, how they integrate clothing for performance or made ‘wearable art', to those who use garments as their chosen medium or for acts of transformation. This book, for me, provided such a rich, fascinating insight into artists and their work, mostly for the reason that it offered an alternative viewpoint. Never has something made me think so deeply about how artists presented themselves, and in effect our own identities, but also how clothing has been used in art in so many different ways, circumstances, and for so many different reasons. ENJOY!!!!!! A visiting lecturer in fashion at the University of Westminster, Charlie is one of the leading cultural commentators of our time and has been described as one of the most influential fashion journalists of his generation, with many of his garments now in the collection of the V&A. Further links: https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/314/314590/what-artists-wear/9780141991252.html#:~:text=In%20What%20Artists%20Wear%2C%20style,at%20home%20and%20at%20play. https://lismorecastlearts.ie/read-watch-listen/curator-of-palimpsest-charlie-porter-gives-an-introduction-to-the-exhibition LISTEN NOW + ENJOY!!! Follow us: Katy Hessel: @thegreatwomenartists / @katy.hessel Sound editing by Nada Smiljanic Sound recording by Amber Miller Artwork by @thisisaliceskinner Music by Ben Wetherfield https://www.thegreatwomenartists.com/
Fresh from a trip to Wales, Charles gets up to date with what's happening culturally in York and Harrogate and how the pandemic continues to cast a long and confusing shadow. Graham reports on the current Barbara Hepworth Exhibition at the Hepworth Gallery in Wakefield and the duo debate her work alongside that of fellow Yorkshire artist and friend, Henry Moore. Charles reflects on his experience of two exhibitions in Bristol: the Vanguard Bristol Street Art exhibition and the Colston Statue: What Next? exhibition and he and Graham discuss the problem of public statues.
For our second episode of all-new Season TEN, Russell & Robert meet artist OLIVER HEMSLEY from his studio in Suffolk!!! Warning: this episode features very strong language! We explore the joys of being a dog parent, his adoration for Alan Bennett, David Hockney and Keith Haring, studying at St Martins and his early passion for drawing. We discuss the unprovoked attack in which he was stabbed after a night out dancing at the Joiner's Arms, his resulting paralysis and the long journey to relearning how to draw and making art. We learn about the charity Art Against Knives he helped to found, starting with an exhibition organised by Oliver's friends and fellow Central Saint Martins' students to raise money and awareness a year after he was attacked. The event gained support from some of the biggest names in art and fashion with work donated by Antony Gormley, Tracey Emin, Wolfgang Tillmans and Banksy amongst others. We discover his long friendship with Gilbert & George, who collect his work and are his biggest fans, is admiration for Barbara Hepworth's hospital drawings and the works of Lubaina Himid, Paul Rego, Tracey Emin and Francis Bacon AND SO MUCH MORE!!!!Follow @OliverHemsley on Instagram! Visit Oliver's official website at www.oliverhemsley.co.uk Learn more about the Art Against Knives charity at their website: www.artagainstknives.comWe are SO excited to be back for series 10!! We decided to start it sooner because so many of you have been messaging us and we didn't want to leave you without new episodes!!! We will be with you for the rest of the summer and beyond!!! Also, don't forget to catch up on over 130 one-hour earlier episodes from the Talk Art podcast Seasons 1-9, our treasured archive of creative thinking.TALK ART BOOK is OUT NOW! Visit Waterstone's or The Margate Bookshop to buy our brand new book in the UK or Amazon or Bookshop.org in USA & Canada. Full list of links in our Linktree: https://linktr.ee/TalkArtFor images of all artworks discussed in this episode visit @TalkArt. Talk Art theme music by Jack Northover @JackNorthoverMusic courtesy of HowlTown.com We've just joined Twitter too @TalkArt. If you've enjoyed this episode PLEASE leave us your feedback and maybe 5 stars if we're worthy in the Apple Podcast store. For all requests, please email talkart@independenttalent.com See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
A Bouillabaisse soup inspired hat paraded by the surrealist artist Eileen Agar in 1948 caused raised eyebrows to the passers-by captured in the Pathé news footage on show in the Whitechapel Gallery's exhibition exploring her career. It's just one of many displays showcasing women's art open this summer at galleries across the UK, so today's Free Thinking looks at what it means to put women's art back on the walls and into the way we look at art history. Shahidha Bari is joined by Whitechapel curator Lydia Yee, by Frieze editor-at-large and podcaster Jennifer Higgie, by New Generation Thinker Adjoa Osei, who specialises in studying the contribution of Afro Latin-American women artists, and by the artist Veronica Ryan. Her work runs from a neon crocheted fishing line, to bronze and clay sculptures, and work made from tea-stained fabrics. Veronica Ryan: Along A Spectrum runs at Spike Island, Bristol, from 19 May 19 to 5 September 2021. Her sculptures responding to the work of Barbara Hepworth feature in Barbara Hepworth: Art & Life at the Hepworth Wakefield 21 May 2021 – 27 Feb 2022, and in Breaking The Mould: Sculpture By Women Since 1945 - An Arts Council Collection Touring Exhibition, which opens at the Longside Gallery at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park 29 May–5 Sep 2021. Eileen Agar: Angel Of Anarchy runs at the Whitechapel Gallery 19 May - 29 Aug 2021, alongside another focus on women artists in Phantoms of Surrealism 19 May - 12 Dec 2021. Jennifer Higgie's book The Mirror And The Palette: Rebellion, Revolution And Resilience - 500 Years Of Women's Self Portraits is out now, and she presents a podcast, Bow Down: Women In Art. Adjoa Osei is a New Generation Thinker on the scheme run by BBC Radio 3 and the Arts and Humanities Research Council to work with academics to put their research on radio. You can also find exhibitions of The Life And Legacy of Constance Spry at the Garden Museum; Ellen Harvey and Barbara Walker at Turner Contemporary; Infinity Mirror Rooms by Yayoi Kusama at Tate Modern; Charlotte Perriand - The Modern Life at the Design Museum; Paula Rego at Tate Britain; Karla Black at the Fruitmarket Gallery in Edinburgh; Sophie Tauber-Arp coming to Tate Modern; and Joan Eardley's centenary marked at the Scottish Gallery in Edinburgh. Producer: Emma Wallace Image: Veronica Ryan Courtesy: Alison Jacques, London, and Create, London; photo: Lisa Whiting
Sheena Wagstaff leads the Met's commitment to modern and contemporary art, including the design of the international exhibition program at The Met Breuer (2016-20), artist commissions, and collection displays. She has also curated numerous shows at the Met, amongst which are Gerhard Richter: Painting After All (2020); Like Life: Sculpture, Color, and The Body (1300-Now) (2018); and Nasreen Mohamedi (2016), and oversaw the David Hockney exhibition (2017). Significant acquisitions have been brought into the collection under her leadership, including works by Pablo Bronstein, Cecily Brown, Phil Collins, Tacita Dean, Peter Doig, Nick Goss, Chantal Joffe, Hew Locke, Sarah Lucas, Adam McEwen, Steve McQueen, Lucy McKenzie, Cornelia Parker (who was also featured as The Met's 2016 Roof Garden Commission artist), Bridget Riley, Rachel Whiteread, as well as Vanessa Bell, Lucian Freud, Roger Fry, and Barbara Hepworth. A new Met Façade commission, and an exhibition, each by British artists, are planned in the coming years. With a curatorial team representing expertise from across the globe, she is building a distinctive collection for the Met, both culturally and geographically, to reflect the historic depth of its global collections. Before joining the Met, Wagstaff was Chief Curator of Tate Modern, London, where, for 11 years, she was responsible for initiating the exhibition program, the Turbine Hall artist commissions, and contributing to the conceptual framework of collection displays. With the Tate Director, she worked with architects Herzog & de Meuron on the design for the Tate Modern Switch House building. She curated noteworthy exhibitions such as Roy Lichtenstein; John Burke + Simon Norfolk: Photographs from the War in Afghanistan; Jeff Wall Photographs 1978-2004; Darren Almond: Night as Day; and Mona Hatoum: The Entire World as a Foreign Land. Over the course of her career, Wagstaff has worked for the Museum of Modern Art, Oxford; the Whitechapel Art Gallery, London; The Frick Art Museum, Pittsburgh; and Tate Britain, London, where she played a seminal role in its transformation from the former Tate Gallery. She is a member of the Foundation for the Preservation of Art in Embassies (FAPE), and from 2013-2019, she was a United States Nominating Committee Member for Praemium Imperiale. She has written and edited many publications, and lectured widely. Brought to you by the British Consulate General, New York. Follow us on Twitter and Instagram.
Eleanor Clayton is the curator of the largest publlc exhbition of the work of the sculptor Barbara Hepworth since her death in 1975. She's also written a new biography about the sculptor called Barbara Hepworth Art and Life. She talks to Nick about Hepworth's passion for making sculpture and how her insistence on the best way her work should be presented to the public has influenced the new show at The Hepworth Wakefield. The secretary of state for culture, The Rt Hon Oliver Dowden wants museum trustee boards to have greater regional representation, but is he taking the right approach to achieve this? Lord Smith of Finsbury who, as Chris Smith MP, was culture secretary in Tony Blair's goverment has concerns. He joins Front Row to explain why he thinks the present culture secretary needs to keep at arms length from our cultural institutions. The National Youth Theatre is about to premiere a new production of Othello at the Royal and Derngate in Northampton. The play is set in a hedonistic 90s club, and Othello is now a black woman played by rising star Francesca Amewudah-Rivers. She reflects on the appeal of playing the tragic hero and the joy, after months of lockdown, of creating a club on stage. Can theatre keep you healthy? As UK Theatre and the Society of London Theatre (SOLT) release new research about the financial savings that theatre brings to the NHS, Jon Gilchrist, executive director and deputy chief executive of Home in Manchester, explains how theatre can be part of a healthy way of life. Presenter: Nick Ahad Studio Managers: Owain Williams and Jonathan Esp Production Coordinator: Caroline Dey Producer: Ekene Akalawu
We talk to Sarah Wyndham Lewis about bees, Simon Wallis, director of the Hepworth Wakefield Gallery in West Yorkshire, and Wigmore Hall's director John Gilhooly. To celebrate World Bee Day, Martin Miller's Gin is offering listeners a 10% discount on all its ranges from 12th May till 31st October Code: Breakout Buy from https://www.masterofmalt.com Subscribe to our Newsletters Follow Country & Town House on Twitter Follow Country & Town House on Instagram We're reading: Planting for Honeybees: The Grower's Guide to Creating a Buzz by Sarah Wyndham Lewis We're visiting: Barbara Hepworth: Art & Life at The Hepworth Wakefield Gallery From 21st May till 27th February 2022 https://hepworthwakefield.org/whats-on/barbara-hepworth-art-and-life/ The Yorkshire Sculpture Park https://ysp.org.uk Summer Concerts and the Learning Festival at London's Wigmore Hall https://wigmore-hall.org.uk https://wigmore-hall.org.uk/learning/learning-festival-2021-connectivity We're making: A Bee's Knee's Cocktail Ingredients 50ml Martin Miller's SUMMERFUL Gin 25ml fresh lemon juice 20ml Bermondsey Street Bees Exmoor Honey Method Add the gin, lemon juice and honey to a shaker with some ice (if you don't have a shaker, a jam jar or water bottle will do) Shake until chilled Strain into a cocktail glass Edited and Produced by Alex Graham
In episode 64 of The Great Women Artists Podcast, Katy Hessel interviews the acclaimed writer ALI SMITH (!!!!) on Pauline Boty, Barbara Hepworth, Tacita Dean and Lorenza Mazzetti !!!! [This episode is brought to you by Alighieri jewellery: www.alighieri.co.uk | use the code TGWA at checkout for 10% off!] The FINAL episode of Season 5 of the GWA Podcast, we speak to one of the GREATEST authors and writers in the world, Ali Smith, about the artists who act as the 'spine' for her recently-completed series of four stand-alone novels, grouped as the Seasonal Quartet: Pauline Boty in Autumn, Barbara Hepworth in Winter, Tacita Dean in Spring, and filmmaker Lorenza Mazetti in Summer, who in their own way, as presences as people, spirits, or their work, interweave into each story so beautifully. Written in the space of four years, between 2016–2020, these books track and are witness to, some of the most unprecedented, and extraordinary events in living history. Beginning with Autumn, known as the first-Brexit novel, the final book in the series, Summer, was written in the midst of the Coronavirus pandemic. Born in Inverness, Scotland, and now based in Cambridge, Ali Smith is acclaimed for her fictional work, and non-fiction writing on some of my favourite artists. The author of Public library and other stories, How to be both, Shire, Artful, and MANY OTHERS, Smith has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize, the Orange Prize, The Man Booker Prize, and has won the Bailey's Prize, the Goldsmiths Prize and the Costa Novel of the Year Award for her brilliant novel, How To Be Both. PAULINE BOTY – AUTUMN One of the most important artists to change the face of British Pop Art (as well as being an Actress, TV star, radio commentator, who read Proust) Pauline Boty EPITOMISED the possibilities of the modern Pop woman. She captured the glamour and vivacity of the 1960s, including those of music stars to film icons, think Marylin to Elvis, Boty worshipped the proliferation of imagery available in the post-War era. BARBARA HEPWORTH – WINTER The Titan of British sculpture, Hepworth set up a studio in St Ives during World War II, and is hailed for her small-to-colossal hand-carved wooden sculptures. Cast in stone and bronze, sometimes embedded with strings or flashes of colour, and fluctuating between hard and soft, light and dark, round and straight, solid and hollow, the spirit of Hepworth's work is at the spine of Spring and through Ali's incredible writing makes us SEE differently. TACITA DEAN – SPRING Filmmaker and artist, Dean, seven-metre-wide work The Montafon Letter is a vast chalk drawing on nine blackboards joined together, looms in Spring (and is also an exhibition visited by the protagonist Richard at the Royal Academy). Dean says in some ways the work about Brexit and about hope; “hope that the last avalanche will uncover us”. Much like Smith's post-Brexit novels. LORENZA MAZZETTI – SUMMER A new artist for me, this story of the Italian-born filmmaker who came of age in the 1960s is one of the most profound in the history of art. I am not going to tell you anything else other than listen to Ali tell her story. LINKS TO ALI'S BOOKS! https://www.waterstones.com/book/autumn/ali-smith/9780241973318 https://www.waterstones.com/book/winter/ali-smith/9780241973332 https://www.waterstones.com/book/spring/ali-smith/9780241973356 https://www.waterstones.com/book/summer/ali-smith/9780241973370 We also discuss How To Be Both at the very start! https://www.waterstones.com/book/how-to-be-both/ali-smith/9780141025209 LISTEN NOW + ENJOY!!! Follow us: Katy Hessel: @thegreatwomenartists / @katy.hessel Sound editing by Winnie Simon Artwork by @thisisaliceskinner Music by Ben Wetherfield https://www.thegreatwomenartists.com/
Educator Daphne Beneke surveys the diverse subjects, materials and purposes of sculpture over time, looking at Bodhisattva Maitreya (2nd-3rd century), Little Dancer, Aged Fourteen (modeled 1878–81; cast after 1936) by Edgar Degas and Rock Form (Porthcurno) (1964) by Barbara Hepworth, from the Museum's sculpture collection.Produced as part of the Museum's Videos for Schools series.
Well what an episode I have for you today!! Ever heard of Peggy Angus? I certainly hadn't until the brilliant Clare Dales got in touch to tell me all about this incredible woman. Peggy Angus was a British designer, artist and educator born in 1904. Although born in Chile, her family relocated back to the UK when she was 5 and she grew up in Muswell Hill, London. At 17, she won a scholarship to study at the Royal College of Art and studied alongside now world renowned artists such as Barbara Hepworth, Henry Moore, Eric Ravilious and Edward Bawden; just to name drop a few. Peggy is best known for her love of pattern and design and spent a large part of her career making incredible patterned tile designs/murals for architectural projects around the UK as well as hand made wall paper. Let me repeat that. HAND-MADE wall paper. Within the cannon of art history, she has very much slipped into the shadows but thanks to an exhibition at the Tower Gallery in Eastbourne in the UK in 2014, more is known about this great artists. Clare takes us on a brilliant whistle stop tour of Peggy's life and work and set the scene beautifully for allowing us to understand the challenges Peggy faced as an artist working after World War 1 and World War 2. You are going to love this - so sit back and relax as we discuss the INCREDIBLE Peggy Angus! Additional links and info: For a quick over view: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peggy_Angus And: https://moda.mdx.ac.uk/creativity-co-creation/peggy-angus/ Obituary: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-peggy-angus-1501622.html Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/jul/06/peggy-angus-warrior-painter-designer-tiles-wallpaper Images: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2014/jul/06/peggy-angus-designs-forgotten-warrior-in-pictures?page=with:img-1 The tile company: https://www.dorsetlife.co.uk/2016/08/carters-tile-manufactory/ The New Craftsmen: https://www.thenewcraftsmen.com/news-and-events/post/finding-peggy-angus The festival of Britain & Peggy's Tiles: https://heritagecalling.com/2017/05/10/7-remarkable-survivals-from-the-festival-of-britain/ All images referred to on the podcast will be Host: Clare Dales www.claredales.com Twitter: @clare_dales Instagram: @claredalesart Facebook: Clare Dales Art Etsy: https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/ClareDalesCreative
Judy Garland, Barbara Hepworth and 60% of the global population. Play along on your own or with friends and family. You can find thousands of free to use quiz rounds at pubquizquestionshq.com. If you manage to get all ten correct, email me at adam@pubquizquestionshq.com and I'll give you a mention on the show. Insta: @pubquizhq Web: https://pubquizquestionshq.com
Judy Garland, Barbara Hepworth and 60% of the global population. Play along on your own or with friends and family. You can find thousands of free to use quiz rounds at pubquizquestionshq.com. If you manage to get all ten correct, email me at adam@pubquizquestionshq.com and I'll give you a mention on the show. Insta: @pubquizhq Web: https://pubquizquestionshq.com
Rose Shuckburgh is a Bristol based artist who's work is inspired by the Welsh Landscape and her personal connection to the landscape. Rose works in watercolours to create abstract paintings on handmade paper, these paintings are very subtle in their tones that create rich paintings. Rose is also really interested in standby stones and the myths behind them, there is a stone circle where apparently women were dancing in a Sunday and were turned to stone. Rose has recently started to incorporate film and photography into her practice - through capture the welsh landscape and human interactions. One of Rose's biggest inspiration is Barbara Hepworth and more recently she is really drawn to Mary Herbert's work. From January - February Rose is exhibiting with The Artists Contemporary Atelier, please visit our website to learn more about Rose and the works exhibited.
Today, Lucy Branch, talks to Hugh Chapman, on The Sculpture Vulture Podcast. His abstract, dynamic sculpture plays with light and form and elicits profound reactions from his audience. Hugh's work is part of the magnificent sculpture collection at Canary Wharf, London, and is enjoyed by many thousands of visitors each year. Today we discuss his inspiration, creative life and journey as a professional sculptor. Join us and BE INSPIRED BY SCULPTURE. You can find images of Hugh Chapman work and a transcription of the interview at https://sculpturevulture.co.uk/abstract-sculpture-with-hugh-chapman If you are looking for a new book, the novel mentioned in this interview is currently available free from Sculpture Vulture. This podcast was brought to you by Antique Bronze Snippet from the interview: Lucy: I began our discussion today with asking my favourite question, which is if he'd always been creative. Hugh: Yes, I have been ever since I was a boy. I always was very interested in painting, drawing, and making models, and that sort of thing. I was very fortunate in the sense that my parents always encouraged creative activities as much as academic ones, which gave me a great breadth of experience. Lucy: What did your parents do? Hugh: My mum is a retired specialist in pediatric dentistry, and she's currently a visiting fellow in School of Psychology at the University of Lincoln. And she does a lot of research into dental phobia and occupational stress to do with the treatment of patients on behalf of the dentists, and that sort of thing. So, it's a pretty... Lucy: Interesting. Hugh: ...pretty interesting career for her. And my father, he's just retired. He was a research and development software engineer in the world of heating and control systems, which is a bit more exciting and varied than it might sound. I mean, Mum's quite creative at sewing and that sort of thing, which she was taught by her mum. And my dad has painted watercolours and that sort of thing for a lot of his life, and he was designing mobile aircraft as a boy and a young teenager. And we, in fact, still, to this day, fly them together. Lucy: Sounds cool. Hugh: Yeah, yeah. It's good until you crash them. But it's a useful skill as a young boy to learn that when you do crash your model, it is possible to put it back together again. But, no, they were very good. And, in fact, they sacrificed a great deal for me, because, well, I am severely dyslexic, and at school, I was basically...it was resigned to the fact that I was thick. And they remortgaged the house to send me to private school, where education in the arts and creative subjects was actually more prevalent anyway. So, I was very fortunate to go to schools where it was understood that academia wasn't everything, although I did struggle with the feeling that...you know, my brother, he's very academic as well, and in my early life, I struggled with the feeling of I needed to do something academic. And I would have been much better off had I, at an earlier age, established that being a creative person was a good thing and equally as merited as being highly academic.
Why do people love pebbles? What is it about their appearance, texture, sounds, history and folklore that inspires us? BBC Radio 4 invites you on a lyrical pebble pilgrimage, shaped by the sounds of scrunching shingle and wild waves. ‘The beautifully shaped stone, washed up by the sea, is a symbol of continuity, a silent image of our desire for survival, peace and security.’ (Barbara Hepworth) We hear how pebbles have influenced some of our greatest artists, possessing secrets of deep time, and woven into our history and our very being. What do pebbles tell us about the world, and about ourselves? Across the British Isles, we meet a writer, a geologist, an archivist, a clothes designer, and a team of pebble dashers – people who work with and are captivated by pebbles. In Cambridge, we visit Kettle’s Yard gallery – created by the late art collector Jim Ede and known as the Louvre of the Pebble. The programme includes pebble-inspired poetry and music, and soundscapes of pebbles recorded in a range of locations, from NE Scotland to SW England. POETRY: Stone Speech by Charles Tomlinson Dover Beach (extract) by Matthew Arnold MUSIC: The Sea – Morcheeba Pebble Dash – Gang Colours Sunday Morning, from Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes (Opus 33a), composed by Benjamin Britten. Pebble Shore – Baltic Fleet Gotta Pebble In My Shoe – Ella Fitzgerald The Pebble and the Boulder – MJ Hibbett Su-a Song – Jenna Reid Extract from Barbara Hepworth, BBC TV, September 1961 – by kind permission of Sophie Bowness: ‘Barbara Hepworth © Bowness' Producer: Steve Urquhart Executive Producer: Emma Walker A Rosa production for BBC Radio 4
Instagram influencer and host of The Great Women Artists podcast Katy Hessel visits the Barbara Hepworth Museum and Sculpture Garden in St Ives with her friend, the artist Unskilled Worker. While there, they explore the stunning garden and discover more about the life and work of one of the 20th century's most important artists. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Dr Helen Pheby is the head of curatorial programmes at Yorkshire Sculpture Park. Set in 500 acres of historic parkland, the park has provided a “gallery without walls” for artists such as Elisabeth Frink, Auguste Rodin, Giuseppe Penone, and local legends such as Barbara Hepworth and Henry Moore. Helen has collaborated on projects in Iraqi Kurdistan, South Africa, India, and even Barnsley! Born in the so-called ‘rhubarb triangle’, Helen reminisces over “the rhubarb express”, a train which ran from her village in Yorkshire to London, and muses over how magical it was being able to see the contrast between rural and urban environments. In this insightful conversation, Helen explains how she believes creativity and art is a human right, how the YSP was visited by Henry VIII, and how another Henry, Henry Moore, believed it was the job of artists to show people the natural world and subsequently designed artwork for sheep. She explains how the Sculpture Park aims to be inclusive, free from the barriers of social standing, wealth and a gender imbalance that art is often associated with. Subsequently, the YSP is now home to brain-controlled helicopters, women on horseback steeplechasing through the landscapes of the First World War, and all of this second to the migratory routes of the Great Crested Newt. In her own words: “We are places the extraordinary can happen.” For more information on this podcast, including David's thoughts following this interview, head to: https://www.treesacrowd.fm/dr-helen-pheby/ See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
“Hepworth... didn’t see herself as a feminist at all and didn’t see herself as ‘a pioneering woman’, she just felt she was a pioneering sculptor.” Stephen Feeke, curator and writer. Barbara Hepworth was born in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, in 1903. By the time of her death in 1975, she had become one of the most important artists of the century, creating a poignant and innovative sculptural language. She is extremely unusual for a woman artist in that she has two museums named after her. Although a lot has been written about Hepworth, there is still a great deal to find out – there is a mystique and there are assumptions made about her. In this episode, we challenge those ideas, go to the places she lived and worked, and explore why she remains such a powerful influence on artists today. “A normal person from Wakefield, a remarkable artist but a remarkable woman.” Eleanor Clayton, Curator, The Hepworth Wakefield. With AMAZING contributions from: · Eleanor Clayton, Curator, The Hepworth Wakefield · Sara Matson, Curator, Tate St Ives · Stephen Feeke, Curator and Writer · Clare Lilley, Director of Programme, Yorkshire Sculpture Park In the episode, we visit these incredible places associated with Hepworth's career and legacy: The Hepworth, Wakefield (https://hepworthwakefield.org/) Barbara Hepworth Museum and Sculpture Garden (Tate), St Ives (https://www.tate.org.uk/visit/tate-st-ives/barbara-hepworth-museum-and-sculpture-garden) Yorkshire Sculpture Park (https://ysp.org.uk/) For the art works discussed in this episode and more images related to our research on Hepworth, visit @sculptinglives (https://www.instagram.com/sculptinglives/?hl=en) on Instagram Image: Dame Barbara Hepworth, Corymb, 1959, bronze, 33.7 x 34.5 x 25.6 cm. Collection Barbara Hepworth Museum and Sculpture Garden, Tate St Ives (T12281). © Bowness
Martin Scorsese has the most Oscar nominations of any living director though he has only won once, for his 2006 film The Departed. Nominated again this year for The Irishman, he talks about the film’s themes of ageing, guilt and redemption – and about how it would feel to win. As part of our season looking at risk in the arts, we consider when risk is disproportionately apportioned to working with diverse talent like women or black artists. The result is that white male practitioners are seen as a safe pair of hands and women and BAME talent are ignored even if they have proven their success in the past. We investigate the scale of the problem and what can be done to change it with Dawn Walton, Head of Revolution Mix theatre group and Clare Binns Joint Managing Director, Picturehouse. Artist, engineer, architect and poet, Naum Gabo was a leading spirit in the radical arts flourishing after the Russian Revolution. When the Soviet authorities cracked down on avant-garde art, Gabo worked at the Bauhaus in Germany, collaborated with Diaghilev in Paris, and energised London's art scene. During the war Barbara Hepworth and Ben Nicholson persuaded him to come to St Ives. His work was startlingly spare and made beautiful use of industrial materials. Tate St Ives presents the first major exhibition of Gabo’s work for more than 30 years. Michael Bird, who lives in St Ives and has written about Gabo, reviews the show. Presenter: John Wilson Producer: Oliver Jones Main image: Martin Scorsese
Today we celebrate the 17th-century renegade who wanted medicine through herbs to be accessible to the people and the Anniversary of the day Indian tea became available for sale in England. We will learn about the American landscape gardener whose superpower was framing a view and the English sculptor who famously said I am the landscape. Today’s Unearthed Words feature words from Henry David Thoreau - It turns out it was super cold 164 years ago today. We Grow That Garden Library™ with a book that features a beloved poet gardener or gardener poet - whichever you prefer. I'll talk about a garden item that encourages experimentation and facilitates some indoor growing fun in your kitchen, and then we’ll wrap things up with the first full moon event in 2020. It's happening today. But first, let's catch up on a few recent events. Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart Curated Articles Winter Gardens | Flower Magazine The article features a beautiful, quiet winter garden with Charlotte Moss. A photo shows an urn standing like a sentry in the after-the-snowfall stillness of New York’s Gramercy Park. “Reduced to a skeletal state, a garden in winter gives our imaginations an opportunity to explore those possibilities. It allows our eyes the chance to be a paintbrush devising new color schemes and filling in borders. On the other hand, we may choose to simply enjoy the bones of the pleached hedge, the peeling bark of the crape myrtle, remnants of bittersweet, and viburnum berries. Early morning walks reveal piles of oak leaves silver-plated with frost and holly trees standing boastful and defiant in a blaze of color.” 'Forgotten' elm tree set to make a comeback - BBC News Good news for Elm trees. Karen Russell says, "With the right people in the right place and the funding, we can put elm back in the landscape. Mature specimens have been identified that are hundreds of years old, and have mysteriously escaped the epidemic. And a new generation of elm seedlings are being bred, which appear to be resistant to the disease." “More than 20 million trees died during the 1960s and 1970s from Dutch elm disease. In the aftermath, the elm was largely forgotten, except among a handful of enthusiasts who have been breeding elite elms that can withstand attack." Elm Facts: Known for its beauty, the elm has been captured in paintings by the likes of John Constable, while Henry VIII's warship, lost in 1545, was built partly from elm. Signs of Dutch elm disease include dead leaves on the tree, yellowing or other discoloration in autumn or spring and wilting leaves and young shoots Dutch elm disease is caused by a fungus spread by a bark beetle. Now, if you'd like to check out these curated articles for yourself, you're in luck, because I share all of it with the Listener Community in the Free Facebook Group - The Daily Gardener Community. There’s no need to take notes or search for links - the next time you're on Facebook, search for Daily Gardener Community and request to join. I'd love to meet you in the group. Important Events 1654 Today is the anniversary of the death of the English physician, botanist, and herbalist Nicholas Culpeper. Culpepper was a non-conformist, and he was also a business owner. Ten years before his death, he found a spot in East London and open the doors to his own apothecary. Culpeper catered to the needs of the people. He took medical books that were written mainly in Latin and translated them into English. the masses were grateful. The medical community wasn't excited about this, and neither were the universities who had a monopoly on training doctors and holding medical information for their paying students. Culpeper wrote one of the first books about the medicinal use of herbs. It was comprehensive and helpful, and for years, it was a sought-after resource. The book was initially known as the English physician, but in the ensuing years, it became known as The Complete Herbal or Culpeper's Herbal. For each herb and plant he featured, Culpeper provided both the Latin and the common name. He also told people where to find the plant, when it flowered, the astrological connections, and how the plant could be used medicinally. Culpeper provided this information for almost 400 different herbs and plants - and in so doing, he revolutionized the medical world. 1839 Today is the day that Indian tea became available to the British people. Unlike the tea from China, Britain was entirely in charge of Indian tea - from the planting to the exportation - and as a result, Indian tea was cheaper than tea from China. The Brits went wild for it, and they drank tea every day. It wasn’t long before tea became the official national drink of England. Of course, none of this would have happened without Robert Fortune. Fortune drew the attention of The British East India Company, and they sent him to China. Fortune had a particular mission: get tea plants and figure out how to make tea for drinking. The English only knew what the final tea product looked like - they had no idea how it was made. Fortune traveled to China incognito, dressed like a Mandarin. He had shaved the front of his head, and he had extensions sewn into the remaining hair on the back of his head - so he looked like he has this amazingly long ponytail. Then, he hired guides to do the talking for him. Since there was no national language, Fortune successfully flew under the radar of the emperor. Once in China, Fortune immediately began visiting tea plantations. He learned the methods and ways of harvesting tea plants to make tea. He learned that green tea and black tea come from the same plant; it’s the processing method that makes different teas. Thanks to the Wardian case, Fortune was able to ship live plants to India. All told, Fortune managed to smuggle out 20,000 tea plants to India. He even managed to get some of the Chinese tea farmers (with their tools) to leave China and help set up tea production in India. Sara Rose, one of the authors who has written a biography on Fortune, said that what Fortune accomplished was no less than the most significant single act of corporate espionage in the history of the world. Today, China is still the top tea producer with over 2.4 million tons of production. Followed by India at a little less than half and then Kenya, Sri Lanka, and Vietnam make up the next spots. So, tea being grown outside of China is a direct result of Robert Fortune and India, as the number 2 tea producer in the world (behind China) was a feat that was accomplished in less than two centuries. And, again, it wouldn't have happened without Robert Fortune. 1839 Today the American horticulturist and landscape gardener Henry Winthrop Sargent married Caroline Olmsted. A little over a year after marrying Caroline, Henry Winthrop (who was fabulously wealthy) bought a twenty-acre estate that overlooked the Hudson River. He christened it Wodenethe - a marriage of two old Saxon terms Woden (pronounced Woe-den) and ethe, which stands for woody promontory ( promontory is a point of high land that juts out into the sea or a large lake; a headland.) Henry Winthrop’s most considerable influence was his friend Andrew Jackson Downing. One historian wrote, "Had there been no Downing, there would have been no Wodeneth." Downing was a renowned landscape designer, horticulturist, and writer, and his botanic garden was just across the river from Wodenethe. In addition to Downing’s guidance, Henry Winthrop had vision and courage - two characteristics that are often found in master Landscape Designers. One of his first actions at Wodenethe was to remove trees and foliage that obstructed scenic vistas - that’s a scary proposition for many gardeners. Yet, Henry Winthrop was exacting when it came to vistas. This skill in framing a scene was Henry Winthrop's superpower, and he even created windows for his home that were shaped to maximize the view to the outside. One story about Henry Winthrop's exceptional ability to create a view involves his son, Winthrop. One time a woman visited the Sargents, and when she looked out the window, she noticed little Winthrop out on the lawn. Henry Winthrop had created the view to look like the lawn extended out to the Hudson, creating a sense that there was a sharp dropoff - almost like the lawn ran out to the edge of a cliff. Concerned for Winthrop, the lady visitor commented something to the effect of how SHE wouldn't let her own children play so close to that dropoff. Well, after that visit, Henry Winthrop would often have little Winthrop go out to the lawn with a fishing pole and pretend to fish off the edge. In reality, he was sitting a good mile away from the water's edge - quite safe on the flat earth. But, Henry Winthrop's masterful vista created an artful and beautiful illusion. 1903 Today is the birthday of the British sculptor Dame Barbara Hepworth. Barbara drew inspiration from nature, the shoreline, and the landscape., she was one of the most influential figures in the creation of Abstract Art in Britain. In 1949, Barbara left London went to St Ives. For 26 years, she lived & worked at Trewyn studios, and she considered finding the studio 'a sort of magic.’ Barbara died in an accidental fire at her Trewyn Studios at the age of 72. She had been smoking in her bed. You can still see the scorch marks at Trewyn. A year after her death, her Trewyn studio became the Barbara Hepworth Museum. Following her wishes, both the Museum & Sculpture Garden opened to the public in 1976. People who visit the garden are stunned by the beauty, peace, and tranquility. Barbara would be pleased that people often describe Trewyn as a magical place. It’s a beautiful mix of art and nature. To see her working studio is absolutely incredible; it’s an extraordinary place. It was Barbara Hepworth who famously said, “I, the sculptor, am the landscape.” “In the contemplation of nature, we are perpetually renewed.” Unearthed Words 1856 Today Henry David Thoreau wrote in his diary: “-2 degrees at breakfast time, but this has been the coldest night probably. You lie with your feet or legs curled up, waiting for morning, the sheets shining with frost about your mouth. Water left by the stove is frozen thickly, and what you sprinkle in bathing falls on the floor ice. The house plants are all frozen and soon droop and turn black. I look out on the roof of a cottage covered a foot deep with snow, wondering how the poor children in its garret, with their few rags, contrive to keep their toes warm. I mark the white smoke from its chimney, whose contracted wreaths are soon dissipated in this stinging air, and think of the size of their wood-pile, and again I try to realize how they panted for a breath of cool air those sultry nights last summer. Realize it now if you can. Recall the hum of the mosquito.” Grow That Garden Library Emily Dickinson's Gardens by Marta McDowell Before Marta’s latest book on Emily Dickinson, she wrote this book. As Marta points out at the beginning of this book, Emily Dickinson was a gardener. She grew up in a family of gardeners. Emily herself would send bouquets to friends, and she often slipped little flowers in two envelopes alongside her nearly 1,000 letters to friends and family. Most people think of Emily as a poet or writer; they don't think of her as a gardener. The fact that Marta has written two books about Emily Dickinson's gardening passion is a clue to how vital the activity was in her life. This first book of Marta’s is a sentimental favorite of mine. And I love that book is arranged by season. In the section on Winter, Marta talks about the final years of Emily's life, which were a winter of loss. Her father died and then her mother. Emily referred to her house as a House of snow. Emily wrote, “I wish, until I tremble, to touch the ones I love before the hills are red - are gray - are white - are ‘born again’! If we knew how deep the crocus lay, we never should let her go!” You can get a used copy of Emily Dickinson's Gardens by Marta McDowell and support the show, using the Amazon Link in today's Show Notes for under $10. Great Gifts for Gardeners Back to the Roots Organic Mushroom Farm Grow Kit, Harvest Gourmet Oyster Mushrooms In 10 days for $15.99 Back to the Roots is on a mission to undo food. In a college class, they learned mushrooms could grow entirely on spent coffee grounds. After watching hours of how-to videos & turning our fraternity kitchen into a big science experiment, they eventually decided to give up our corporate job offers to become full-time mushroom farmers instead. What started as curiosity about urban farming has turned into a passion for undoing food & reconnecting families back to where it comes from. Grow delicious, gourmet oyster mushrooms right out of the box in just ten days! Just add water and watch them double in size each day. 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Today’s Botanic Spark Today we celebrate the first full moon of the year, also known as the Wolf Moon. The Wolf Moon can be seen rising on the horizon, although it reaches peak fullness at 2:21 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. Today's Wolf Moon will experience a partial lunar eclipse that will last four hours and five minutes. The lunar eclipse will only be visible from Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australia. India will have the best view. January's moon is called the Wolf Moon - supposedly because wolves are hungry and more vocal in January. They often howl more frequently during the winter months.
The CILIP Carnegie Medal, and CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal are the most prestigious prizes for literature for children and young people. Both winners were announced today and are on tonight's Front Row. Elizabeth Acevedo’s Carnegie-winning novel tells the story of Xiomara, a Dominican-American girl growing up modern-day Harlem. Elizabeth explains why she chose to unfold the story of The Poet X in a long series of short lyrics. The Lost Words, for which illustrator Jackie Morris has won the Kate Greenaway Medal, is also a poetry book. It's her collaboration with writer Robert Macfarlane, inspired by the words left out of a new children’s dictionary, words such as bluebell and acorn. Jackie tells Stig how she approached illustrating the poems with three very different images, but of the same subject. As we head into the final weeks of this year’s prestigious Art Fund Museum of the Year competition, Front Row begins looking at the five shortlisted institutions vying for the top prize of £100,000. Today it’s the turn of Nottingham Contemporary, and its director Sam Thorne joins Stig to explain why he believes Nottingham Contemporary would be a worthy winner. It was the success of the Yorkshire-born sculptors Henry Moore and Barbara Hepworth that contributed to the UK’s largest county becoming the pre-eminent destination for sculpture. As the opening of the inaugural Yorkshire Sculpture International draws near, Andrew Bonacina, chief curator at The Hepworth Wakefield, and Jan Dalley, arts editor of the Financial Times, discuss how sculpture has evolved since the heyday of Barbara Hepworth and Henry Moore. Presenter: Stig Abell Producer: Ekene Akalawu
View fullsize Tatt opp ¨live¨ på Rogaland Kunstsenter 13. februar, 2019I den tredje mimrekvelden flydde vi inn Susanne Christensen fra Danmark for å snakke om kvinnekampen og sin tid i Stavanger, med hovedfokus 80 og 90 tallet. Vi starter mimringen med å applaudere for Ingeborg Kvames entre og snakke litt om tilstanden til Lunken Hvitvin redaksjonen, Ingeborg mimrer om hennes første møte med Susanne, så forteller Agnes Tiffon om hennes første møte med Susanne og Siri Borge forteller også om hennes første møte med denne kvinnen. Susanne supplerer historien til Agnes, Torunn Larsen prøver å mimre frem en utstilling som het Alltid sulten, Tove Kommedal vil vite hvordan hårfrisyren til Susanne var, Så kommer vi inn på Local motives initiativet, Turid Ottesen forteller om hennes første møte med Susanne og sykkelfabrikken, Susanne snakker om Sykkelfabrikken, Berit og Turid supplerer, Agnes legger til hva Sykkelfabrikken har blitt en fortsettelse av, Så snakker vi om de første kvinnene som ble med i BKFR og Susanne prater om hvordan de mannlige kunstnere reagerte på henne og Turi Gramstad Oliver,Berit tar opp en anekdote rundt kvinners inngang i BKFR, hvem som var de første og hvordan antallet kvinner vokste, Ull og Leir, Susanne forteller om når hun var ansatt på kunstsenteret, Når NK ble med i kunstsenteret, Susanne og Agnes snakker om frykten til de mannlige malere, Berit forteller en liten historie om Terry Nilsen Love og Turi Gramstad Oliver, så snakker vi kort om dette bilde: View fullsize Så går vi over til HISTORIER FRA UTKLIPPSBOKEN og lander på dette bildet: View fullsize Berit snakker om dette bildet og Susanne supplerer. Neste utklipp: View fullsize Avbildet Kunstner Agnes er i huset, men husker lite fra episoden, Berit Supplerer og snakker om kunstsenterets samarbeid med innvandrersenteret, Agnes snakker mer om hennes samarbeid med innvandrersenteret, Siri spør om afrikanere lagde kunsten, det blir diskusjon rundt dette og appropriasjon, i neste utklipp kommer dette bildet nedenfor og mens folk jubler skriker hunden Tui: View fullsize Susanne som er avbildet her husker ikke hvilken anledning bildet er tatt, men Berit prøver å få henne til å huske og forteller om problematikken rundt denne tid, men er usikker på hva problematikken var. Kristin Høiland nevner Arbeidsverk, så tar vi en jingel som oppfordrer til å skrive spørsmål til hatten før vi tar en liten pause.Etter pausen tar vi segmentet ANNELISE CONVAD, og legger opp dette bildet: View fullsize Bildet er tatt med for å representere Annelise Convad, men hun er ikke med. Berit Wathne snakker litt om bildet, Nils Eger gjør sin entree, så tar vi segmentet DAGENS PROTOKOLL der Torunn spør Susanne om hvordan det var å være utstillingsledere sammen med Odd Sama, Susanne svarer, den kontroversielle LSD utstillingen som til slutt fikk dem sparket, Agnes snakker om det å være kritisk, Siri snakker om det å være kritisk, å få midler fra kommunen, det å ha politikere med i kunstsenterets styre, Agnes om selvsensurering, kutt i kultur,salget av Barbara Hepworth skulpturen, SPØRSMÅL FRA HATTEN, vi trekker lapper fra hatten og svarer, kårer beste spørsmål, så avlutter vi kvelden. God Lytting!
Kunstner Natasja Askelund mener kunsten plikter å være en tydelig stemme. Hun mener og tror at kunsten spiller en viktig rolle i samfunnet. Natasja har også gjort seg bemerket i den lokale kunst og kulturdebatten blant annet gjennom det mye omdiskuterte salget av Barbara Hepworth.
Tatt opp i Lunkent verksted 12 juni, 2018Kunst-sosiolog, seniorforsker for IRIS og Anna Ihles andre ønskegjest: Merete Jonvik besøker "Verkstedet" en lunken sommerkveld og vi snakker om at hun har kuttet ut sitt mellomnavn, LUNKENT BEKJENTSKAP hennes noe uheldige minne, å gå på kunst-ting i Stavanger, hennes forhold til Stavanger, hennes tidligere bosteder, hennes barns forhold til Stavanger, mitt forhold til Stavanger, hvorfor hun flyttet til Stavanger, hennes doktorgrad, når og hvor hun starter å gå på kunst-åpninger, nysgjerrigheten hennes rundt salget av Barbara Hepworth skulpturen, lunken skål, Meretes forhold til kaffi-drikking, min fars kaffi vaner, hennes forhold til Tove Kommedal, Hans Edward Hammonds og Anna Ihle, Arnhild Sunnanå, Prosjektrom Normanns, mine komfortsoner i kunstsammenheng, mine tryggheter og utryggheter i Kunståpning settinger, Margrethe Aanestad, Bruksrommet, Ingrid Toogood, 10 års arbeidsstipend for kunstnere, Meretes lille tekst i norsk kunstårbok 2018, å skrive på nynorsk, BERGMAN, LUNKEN DAGBOK, å utforske sitt eget sinn, når Merete tok personlighetstesten Big 5, for lite og for mye selvinnsikt, SELVSKRYT, bilister, syklister, bussister og passasjerister, min selvskryt, A mennesker og B mennesker, Meretes penn, jeg forteller om en Lunken Kaffi høydare, Ka då ittepå 2018 og så snakker vi litt om Stavangers kunstmiljø idag før vi avslutter kjapt og presist.God lytting! View fullsize
This episode begins the Art, Architecture & Sculpture category by exploring some of England’s most stunning sculpture. The host Dr Suzannah Lipscomb takes us to the Angel of the North, the beautiful landscape of Yorkshire Sculpture Park and Barbara Hepworth’s home and studio in Cornwall. The 100 places featured in this series have been nominated by the public and chosen by a panel of judges. Together they help tell England’s fascinating history. Irreplaceable: A History of England in 100 Places is a Historic England podcast, sponsored by specialist insurer Ecclesiastical ecclesiastical.com
Stuart Charles Towner is a freelance multi-award winning garden designer and RHS consultant. This 2018 he will design his first garden on Main Avenue, Chelsea Flower Show 2018 - his first time to design at the prestigeous RHS event. On this episode of The Sodshow Garden Podcast Stuart and Peter Donegan chat everything from just how did you get here, nerves, never seeing a garden build being taken apart to Dolly Parton, spare time and escapism from a world of working on your lonesome for a love of horticulture. We also talk his upcoming garden and why one should only expect a gold. As a by the way, you can subscribe to The Sodshow Garden Podcast in spotify/ iTunes or any good podcast store – and get it direct to your phone or desktop computer. And, if you have a mo, a rate / review in iTunes would be just fan-tastic. Thanks for listening Xx - www.sodshow.com Twitter: @sodshow facebook: The Sodshow instagram: sodshow VTB Capital Garden - Spirit of Cornwall at RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2018 Following Stuart & Beth’s joint success with their last show garden they have since collaborated on several commercial projects. Spirit of Cornwall was jointly co-designed by them and the rest of the team with Stuart leading the project through to its inception. One of the Show Gardens to be unveiled at the Chelsea Flower Show in May this year will be The VTB Capital Garden – ‘Spirit of Cornwall’ – a unique creative collaboration not usually seen in the industry, bringing together garden designers, architects, a composer, musicians and a sculptor; all commissioned by VTB Capital, a leading international bank. Garden design is by multi award-winning garden designers Stuart Charles Towner & Bethany Williams, winners of Gold & Best in Show RHS Hampton 2015, in collaboration with a multi-award winning creative team of architects Studio Evans Lane, Constella OperaBallet & sculptor Sheila Vollmer. Sited on Chelsea’s Main Avenue ‘Spirit of Cornwall’ is a multi-sensory experience: inspired by the work of renowned British sculptor Barbara Hepworth; and music composed by Leo Geyer, Artistic Director Constella OperaBallet, specially commissioned by the Hepworth Estate and Tate St Ives to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Hepworth’s garden. Conceived as a garden for a sculptor and a composer, ‘Spirit of Cornwall’ is contemporary in style, the garden features a palette of subtropical and temperate plants, illustrating the unique microclimates found throughout Cornwall. Concrete and steel form the only hard landscaping elements in the garden. The metalwork that runs throughout the garden is a physical manifestation of the music, taken from the sound wave pattern, with its peak expressed by the garden pavilion, a space for composing and performing designed by awardwinning architectural practice, Studio Evans Lane. Water features echo the sea views from Hepworth’s garden. The continuous circulation of water reinforces the musical motif. Sculptures by International sculptor Sheila Vollmer nestle amongst the planting, drawing inspiration from the rhythms of the garden design, the music and her own practice style; sources such as Russian Constructivism. VTB Capital is proud to have commissioned the ‘Spirit of Cornwall’ garden and support its talented designers and artists at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show. Established in the City of London for almost 100 years, VTB Capital helps its investment banking and corporate clients grow their businesses and retail customers grow their savings. VTB Capital has carved out a reputation as a reliable business partner for clients from around the world. According to the league tables published by Dealogic, Bloomberg and Thomson Reuters, VTB Capital has consistently been one of the top three Investment Banks in the CEE since 2009. FB - Stuart Charles Towner Twitter - @StuartTowner Website - www.stuartcharlestowner.co.uk
One hundred years ago D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson published On Growth and Form, a book with a mission to put maths into biology. He showed how the shapes, forms and growth processes we see in the living world aren’t some arbitrary result of evolution’s blind searching, but are dictated by mathematical rules. A flower, a honeycomb, a dragonfly’s wing: it’s not sheer chance that these look the way they do. But can these processes be explained by physics? D'Arcy Thompson loved nature’s shapes and influenced a whole new field of systems biology, architects, designers and artists, including Henry Moore and Barbara Hepworth. Presented by Phillip Ball. Picture: Corn shell, Getty Images
Tatt opp på Kampen, Stavanger, 19.september, 2017På en regnfull aften ankommer jeg Toves kjøkken og vi snakker om, Kampen, hvor hun er fra, hennes båtbygger familie, hamburgerbaren på vågen, verstingen, frisøren Tove, mellommenneskelige relasjoner, hennes kunst utdannelse, hennes autoritetsangst bakrunn, Hugo Wathne, Molitrix, vi tar en lunken skål, hennes utstilling "Illusjon" på Molitrix, vi har begge jobbet på psykriatisk, hennes korte tid som ansatt på Foodstory, en "syk" sammenligning i Stavanger by, antatt eller antastet, vestlandsutstillingen eller høstutstilling, historien til visningsrommet 21m2 ifølge Tove, (varmluftspumpen blir skrudd av og bakrunnsstøyet forsvinner), LUNKENT BEKJENTSKAP, kunstmiljøet i Stavanger, NUART og BKFR, Barbara Hepworth saken, Hadia Tajik sitat, å trives med lav økonomi, litt snakk om politikk, Tove har meldt seg ut av statskirken 2 ganger, Merete Jonvik, så går vi gjennom hele historien om Tove og kråkene til hennes bok "dEFINISJONSMAKT" og alle hennes samarbeidspartnere i prosjektet, hennes motivasjon til å fortsette, å bli inspirert, relevansen i hennes kunst, hennes prosjekt om Hans Sundt Berggrafse "EKHO", å inspirere folk, alle stedene Tove har hatt utstilling i Stavanger og litt utfor Norge, jeg avbryter Tove når hun begynner å snakke om tråder mellom relasjoner og kunstnerskap slik at vi kan avslutte lunkent.God lytting og sjekk ut http://www.tovekommedal.com/ for mer av hennes fantastiske prosjekter! View fullsize
As the six-month-long 57th International Art Exhibition - otherwise known as the Venice Biennale - opens its doors to the world, John Wilson reports from the Italian city. The artist selected for the British Pavilion in the Giardini this year is 73-year-old Phyllida Barlow, following in the footsteps of Henry Moore, Francis Bacon, Barbara Hepworth, Howard Hodgkin and Rachel Whiteread. Phyllida Barlow describes the new large-scale sculptures made of concrete, wood, cloth and polystyrene that she has created for her show Folly, and discusses the challenge of representing Britain in an age of global political unrest.Presenter John Wilson Producer Jerome Weatherald.
In her new film, Their Finest, Gemma Arterton plays a screenwriter during World War II whose job it is to write women's dialogue - referred to as "the slop" by her male colleagues - for morale boosting films for the home front. Gemma discusses the role and her own experiences of being a woman in the film industry.In January last year, curator Sarah Gavanta came on to Front Row to talk about her exhibition for Historic England called Out There: Our Post-War Public Art. It was an exploration of the boom in public art created by the likes of Barbara Hepworth, Henry Moore and Elizabeth Frink between 1945 and 1985. But it was also a call to arms to trace the missing sculptures of the period. Sarah returns to the programme to tell us how one of those lost pieces, The Sunbathers by Peter Laszlo Peri, has been discovered in a hotel garden.The new Broadway production of Hello, Dolly! starring Bette Midler broke box office records last year, exceeding $9 million on the first day tickets went on sale. Theatre critic Matt Wolf reviews Midler's performance - her first in a musical for 50 years - and discusses the big Broadway contenders vying for Tony awards this season. Martin Parr is known for his social documentary photographs - everything from the new BBC One idents to his earliest work documenting the rural farming communities of Yorkshire. As the Sony World Photography Awards acknowledge him for his Outstanding Contribution to Photography, he shows us around his exhibition at Somerset House in London and looks back over his work and influences.Presenter: John Wilson Producer: Rachel Simpson.
Jack O'Connell, whose previous lead roles include Starred Up, '71 and Angelina Jolie's Unbroken, discusses his latest film in which he plays a disgruntled New Yorker with a grudge who takes George Clooney's character hostage in the financial thriller Money Monster, directed by Jodie Foster.Seeing Round Corners at Turner Contemporary in Margate explores the role of the circle in art. From sculpture to film and painting to performance, the exhibition brings together works by leading historical and contemporary artists including Leonardo da Vinci, Barbara Hepworth, JMW Turner and Anish Kapoor. Art historian and critic Richard Cork reviews.Jason Solomons rates the contenders for the Palme d'Or as the Cannes Film Festival comes to an end this week.Spymonkey's The Complete Deaths brings all of the killings in Shakespeare's works into one play. Kirsty speaks to actor Toby Park and director Tim Crouch.Presenter: Kirsty Lang Producer: Rachel Simpson.
Barbara Hepworth's life and work examined through records held by selected archives, including The National Archives and the Tate archives, marking the 40th anniversary of her deathInga Fraser is Assistant Curator of Modern British Art 1890-1945 at Tate Britain and assistant to curators of the exhibition, Barbara Hepworth: Sculpture for a Modern World at Tate Britain. Briony Paxman is a modern records specialist at The National Archives.Morwenna Roche and Bianca Rossmann from Tate Archives discuss their project to catalogue Barbara Hepworth's personal and professional papers, which provide a fascinating and rich insight into her life and work.This podcast was recorded live in July 2015, as part of an afternoon of events at The National Archives, Kew.We apologise for the variable sound quality of this podcast.
Lenny Henry's career as an actor continues with Willy Russell's Educating Rita at Chichester's Minerva Theatre The first Barbara Hepworth retrospective exhibition in London for half a century has opened at Tate Britain. Does it do her career justice? Everyone's Going To Die is a small scale British dark comedy film about hitmen, relationships and reincarnation The author Joshua Cohen's latest novel is Book of Numbers about a writer called Joshua Cohen (not him) writing a biography of an internet genius called Joshua Cohen (also not him). Confused? Let us help you to make some sense. Channel 4's Not Safe For Work is a comedy about the staff of a government department which has been moved from London out to the regions as part of a money-saving exercise.
Rachel Nicholson has an extraordinary artistic background: her mother was Barbara Hepworth, her father Ben Nicholson. Yet despite, perhaps because of, the burden of that parentage, she herself did not begin to paint until she was in her forties. Now in her early eighties, she's established a reputation as a painter of rhythmically beautiful landscapes and still lifes; her work influenced perhaps by her father's sense of space and colour, but very much her own. She paints every day in an attic studio in North London; for Private Passions she invited Michael Berkeley to her studio and gave a rare interview, revealing the central role music has played for her, right from earliest childhood. Rachel Nicholson has synaesthesia, which means that when she listens to music, she sees colours; so music provides inspiration when she's stuck, or searching for a new colour palette. She remembers sitting on the stairs listening to the music drifting from her mother's studio, but it was no ordinary childhood: Rachel was a triplet, and the babies were sent to a nursing college to be looked after as infants. Only later did she return home with a nanny from the college, and then she was sent away again to school. She was so excited when she first heard Bach's B Minor Mass at Dartington Hall School that she spent all her pocket money going to every performance. Other music choices include Haydn, Scarlatti, Handel, Schubert, Mozart, John Adams, and Priaulx Rainier - a composer who was a close friend of Barbara Hepworth's, and whom Rachel Nicholson remembers well. A Loftus production for BBC Radio 3 Produced by Elizabeth Burke.
All medical fields have their cultures, both among professionals and in the wider world. Such cultures tend to be metaphorically rich. By that token surgery has been associated with, variously, butchery, cutting open, delving inside, mutilation, penetration and so on. We can see these features in satires, which for several centuries have developed a critical language, visual as well as verbal, for speaking about the aspects of surgery that perhaps seem most frightening to outsiders, and that may sometimes be embraced by insiders in developing a collective identity. Feminist commentators and artists have been particularly alert to the gender issues embedded in medical cultures generally, and surgical cultures specifically. I was first working on these themes in the 1980s, but since then a good deal has changed. One of the most striking shifts is the rise of elective surgery, which covers a wide range of phenomena, but in all cases is capable of shedding light on the ways people think about, represent and spend money on their bodies. Another is the interest in disability. My current interest is primarily in visual representation. So I also can’t help but observe how persistent religious motifs are in the representation of pain, suffering and bodily mutilation. My talk will consider a range of artistic representations of bodies in the context of surgery, for example, by Barbara Hepworth in the 1940s and John Bellany in the 1980s, and explore how we might use them to think about broader historical and political issues. Surgeons’ relationships with human bodies have been contentious for a long time; visual culture offers rich opportunities for exploring the complexities involved. Ludmilla Jordanova is Professor of History and Visual Culture at the University of Durham. She has held posts at the Universities of Cambridge, Oxford, Essex, York, East Anglia and at King’s College, London. Her training was in the natural sciences, history and philosophy of science and art history. She has long worked on aspects of medicine, and she seeks to blend history and art history while doing so. A Trustee of the National Portrait Gallery between 2001 and 2009, she is currently a Trustee of the Science Museum group. The Look of the Past: Visual and Material Evidence in Historical Practice came out in 2012; she is currently preparing the third edition of History in Practice and writing a book about ‘medical’ portraits to be called Traces of Life.
Thomas Keneally joins Anne McElvoy to discuss his new novel The Daughters of Mars, which examines the hidden wounds of two nurses as they confront the horrors of Gallipoli. Richard Cork and Juliet Gardiner review Barbara Hepworth's hospital drawings, exhibited at the Hepworth Wakefield, sketched during her hours observing hospital procedures between 1947 and 1949. And Anne talks to David Byrne, musician, artist and essayist, about his new book How Music Works.
Night Presence II 1976 Size: 155 5/8 in. x 95 3/4 in. x 55 1/4 in. (395.3 cm x 243.2 cm x 140.3 cm) Museum purchase through the Earle W. Grant Endowment Fund, 1976:137 Louise Nevelson, 1899–1988 The outdoor May S. Marcy Sculpture Court, adjacent the Museum’s main building, is a must-see for monumental art. Under cover of the Sculpture Court Café stands Louise Nevelson’s Night Presence II of 1976, an arresting meditation on architecture composed of columns, finials and scroll-sawed steel offcuts. Experimenting first with wall-mounted assemblages of found objects, mostly wood, which the artist painted either all black or all white to unify her three-dimensional compositions, Nevelson began in the 1960s to translate these reliefs into freestanding sculptures. The use of welded Cor-Ten steel, its oxidized patina a rusty red, allowed Nevelson to install her work outdoors, her boxy abstractions recalling oversized Cubist collages. In contrast to Night Presence II’s forest of standing forms, the sculpture court also showcases Henry Moore’s Reclining Figure: Arch Leg of 1969, alongside works by such sculptors as Barbara Hepworth and David Smith.
Ellsworth Kelly, Untitled (EK 927), 2005, Commissioned in honor of Alice and Pamela Creighton, beloved daughters of Margaret Stuart Hunter, 2006 Bronze
NGV curators discuss Barbara Hepworth’s sculpture Eidos which means ‘form’ in Greek. In this work, Hepworth is attempting to sculpt form itself.
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