Podcast appearances and mentions of Rachel Whiteread

Turner Prize winning artist Rachel Whiteread talks about her retrospective exhibition at the brand new Goodwood Art Foundation in Sussex. We celebrate the centenary of the National Library of Scotland and hear about its plans to send important items from its collection to museums around the country - from National Librarian Amina Shah and bestselling writer and Centenary Champion Val McDermid. And writer and curator Lally Macbeth talks about her book The Lost Folk: From the Forgotten Past to the Emerging Future of Folk, which looks at the past, present and future of the UK's folk culture - from music to Morris dancing and from pub signs to church kneelers. Presenter: Kate Molleson Producer: Fiona MacLellan

We head to Sussex to celebrate the newly opened Goodwood Art Foundation. We speak to curator Ann Gallagher, artist Rachel Whiteread and Goodwood Estate proprietor Charles Henry Gordon-Lennox.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Last week, I got a text message from my friend Michelle, who works at the National Gallery of Art. “Lunch tomorrow or Thursday?” followed by “Come see the movie in Little Beasts. It starts at the top of every hour. I would love to discuss it with you.” Not only was Michelle one of the first people I met when I first visited DC in 2014, since then, she's become a close friend and the National Gallery has come to be my happy place in DC. In fact, some of the best art and photography shows I've ever seen, including Sally Mann: A Thousand Crossings (Catalog), Gordon Parks: The New Tide, 1940-1950 (Catalog), Outliers and American Vanguard Art (Catalog), The 70s Lens, and Mark Rothko: Paintings on Paper (Catalog), to name just a few, have all been at the National Gallery. I've also learned about artists I'd never heard of before, like Rachel Whiteread, Philip Guston, James Castle, and Elizabeth Catlett, among others. And in nearly every case, when I've had the chance to walk through a show with Michelle, through her knowledge and experience of art and materials, I've come away with a deeper understanding and a greater appreciation of the nuances of both art and artists.CONNECT WITH MEWebsite: https://jefferysaddoris.com  Instagram: @jefferysaddorisEmail: talkback@jefferysaddoris.comSUBSCRIBESubscribe to Almost Everything with Jeffery Saddoris in your favorite podcast app. You can also subscribe to my newsletter on Substack.

We visit major museum projects unveiled this week in London and New York: Ben Luke takes a tour of V&A East Storehouse in London's Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, which offers unprecedented access to the Victoria and Albert Museum's collection. He meets the deputy director of the V&A, Tim Reeve, and speaks to key members of the team that are making this radical museological vision for London a reality: the museum's lead technician, Matt Clarke, its senior curator Georgia Haseldine, and Kate Parsons, the director of collections care and access. The Art Newspaper's editor-in-chief, Americas, Ben Sutton, visits the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which this week unveiled its revamped Michael C. Rockefeller Wing. The wing holds the Met's collections of work from Africa, the Ancient Americas, and Oceania. Ben talks to Alisa LaGamma, the curator of African art who is in charge of the Rockefeller Wing, and the Papua New Guinea-born, Brisbane-based artist Taloi Havini, one of a number of contemporary artists who created new works for the the project. And this episode's Work of the Week is Down and Up (2024-25) by Rachel Whiteread. It features in a new show of Whiteread's work, the first at the Goodwood Art Foundation, a not-for-profit contemporary art gallery and sculpture park in West Sussex, UK. Ben Luke talks to Rachel about the work.V&A East Storehouse, London, opens 31 May.The Michael C. Rockefeller Wing at the Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art New York, reopens 31 May.Rachel Whiteread, Goodwood Art Foundation, West Sussex, UK, 31 May-2 November.Summer subscription offer: get up to 50% off an annual print & digital subscription to The Art Newspaper. Link here: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/subscriptions-SUMMER25P&D?promocode=SUMMER25&utm_source=special+offer+banner&utm_campaign=SUMMER25 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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”

How does an artist give presence to absence? Bronze, wood, paint, and stone—classic materials for art making. But what if you're trying and struggling to convey a vast expanse, a terrible loss or a haunting presence? In this episode we'll look at two artists who turned to the material of space to express what nothing else could. Guests: Rachel Whiteread, sculptor Brinda Kumar, Associate Curator, Modern and Contemporary Art, The Met Shania Hall, photographer Featured artworks: Rachel Whiteread, Untitled (Three Tables), 1995/1996: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/816239 Shania Hall, Where the Vast Sky Meets the Flat Earth (unofficial title), ca. 2015: https://www.metmuseum.org/articles/framing-plains-indians For a transcript of the episode and more information, visit metmuseum.org/immaterialspaceart #MetImmaterial Immaterial is produced by The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Magnificent Noise and hosted by Camille Dungy. Production staff includes Salman Ahad Khan, Ann Collins, Samantha Henig, Eric Nuzum, Emma Vecchione, Sarah Wambold, and Jamie York. Additional staff includes Julia Bordelon, Skyla Choi, Maria Kozanecka, and Rachel Smith. Sound design by Ariana Martinez and Kristin Muller.Original music by Austin Fisher.Fact-checking by Mary Mathis and Claire Hyman. Immaterial is made possible by Dasha Zhukova Niarchos. Additional support is provided by the Zodiac Fund. Special thanks to Exhibition Design Manager Dan Kershaw, Associate Curator Patricia Norby, and Curator Sylvia YountSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The year 1993 marked a watershed for the famous Turner Prize, when it was awarded for the first time to a woman. That artist was Rachel Whiteread and the work was House in East London. In On Space, Whiteread is in conversation with the art historian Briony Fer. Together, they discuss the urges and concerns that underpin Whiteread's work, from seminal works of the 1990s to her more recent projects, such as the site-specific commission unveiled in the summer of 2023 at Palazzo della Ragione in Bergamo, Italy, which responds to the experience and legacy of the COVID-19 pandemic.   [Drawing] is something I've always done in the studio and it's a way of slowing things down, it's a way of being on my own, it's a way of meditating, a way of bringing some colour into my life. – Rachel Whiteread  Rachel Whiteread is a contemporary British artist working across sculpture and drawing, using casting to free her subject matter. Briony Fer is Professor of History of Art at University College and has published extensively on 20th century and contemporary art. Find images of the artwork discussed here. About Frieze Masters Podcast Series two of the Frieze Masters Podcast is now available, bringing you our annual programme of live talks – the Frieze Masters Talks programme – curated by the Director of the National Portrait Gallery, Dr Nicholas Cullinan. These eight conversations between leading artists, writers, museum directors and curators all reflect the ethos of the Frieze Masters fair: looking at the past with a contemporary gaze. The Frieze Masters Talks programme and the Frieze Masters Podcast are brought to you by Frieze in collaboration with dunhill, the foremost British luxury menswear house. This podcast is a Reduced Listening production. The producer was Silvia Malnati and sound engineer was Andy Fell. About Frieze Frieze is the world's leading platform for modern and contemporary art, dedicated to artists, galleries, collectors and art lovers alike. Frieze comprises three magazines –

Neil Thomas is the founder and director of Atelier One, one of the most creative engineering practices in the UK. The firm has worked on building projects such as Singapore Arts Centre, Federation Square in Australia, and Baltic in Gateshead, as well as with a hugely impressive roster of artists, including Anish Kapoor, Marc Quinn and Rachel Whiteread. It has also created stages for stadium rock shows from Pink Floyd, The Rolling Stones, U2, and Take That, often in collaboration with architect, the late Mark Fisher.The practice was the engineer behind the opening ceremony of London's 2012 Olympic Games and the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi. While Neil also teaches at Yale and MIT.Over recent years, he has developed a fascination with bamboo and was part of the team that created the award-winning Arc building, a community wellness space and gymnasium for the Green School campus in Bali.In this episode we chat about: the role of a structural engineer; his ability to talk a number of design languages; the genesis of his obsession with bamboo and its extraordinary properties; overcoming bamboo's image problem; giving up a teaching post at Yale to build with the material; wanting to be an engineer from childhood; the importance of David Bowie to his life; and, er, having a pony tail in his youth.Support the show

I am so excited to say that my guest on the GWA Podcast is one of the most pioneering artists alive today, Rachel Whiteread. Working across sculpture and drawing, in mediums ranging from concrete to resin, and in scales that go from miniscule to colossal – from casting domestic hot water bottles to entire immersive libraries – Whiteread is hailed for her poetic, stoic works that draw so intimately on our human experiences. Discussing how her work gives, in her words “authority to forgotten things” Whiteread's sculptures of the past three decades have not only made me rethink sculpture as a form and medium, but they have provided incredible commentary on the changes that have occurred – from the rapidly gentrifying London, the state of political change in 1990s and 2000s Britain, as well as imparting on us a reflection of impermanence and loss. As someone born in the 90s, I grew up with Whiteread's work. Her sculptures were some of the first I ever saw and knew of as a kid and no matter what age we are, one can't help but be utterly stunned and fascinated by them. Famous for casting familiar objects and settings, from houses to the underneath of a chair, baths to doors, Whiteread takes elements we use in our everyday life, transforms them into ghostly replicas, and ultimately makes us rethink their purpose, practical use, and the memory that these objects once held. Raised in London to an artist mother and geography teacher father, who encouraged her to scavenge found objects and “look up” wherever she went, Whiteread studied at Brighton Polytechnic and sculpture, with the late and great Phyllida Barlow, at the Slade School of Fine Art in the 1980s. Her first solo exhibition in 1988, included her first series of cast objects, and in the early 1990s she made headlines with her sculpture House, a monumental, to-scale concrete cast of the inside of a three-storey townhouse. She has since taken over the Tate Modern's Turbine Hall, London's Fourth Plinth, created an extraordinary Holocaust Memorial in Vienna that resembles the shelves of a library with the pages turned outwards, has had major exhibitions and retrospectives all over the world and is still continuing to push forth all boundaries of sculpture in the most exciting and impactful ways. THIS EPISODE IS GENEROUSLY SUPPORTED BY THE LEVETT COLLECTION: https://www.instagram.com/famm.mougins // https://www.merrellpublishers.com/9781858947037 ENJOY!!! Follow us: Katy Hessel: @thegreatwomenartists / @katy.hessel Sound editing by Nada Smiljanic Music by Ben Wetherfield https://www.thegreatwomenartists.com/

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

John Wilson speaks to internationally acclaimed artist Dame Rachel Whiteread about the influences on her practice as she recalls some of her most famous works. Part of the Brit Art boom of the early 1990s, Rachel was not only the first woman to win the Turner Prize but also, at 29, the youngest artist to do so. Rachel is best known for large scale sculptures cast in plaster or concrete. She made headlines with an inside-out impression of an entire terraced house in east London, and for her Holocaust Memorial in Vienna. Commissioned to make a work to stand on the empty fourth plinth in London's Trafalgar Square, she cast the plinth itself in a huge block of translucent resin. A globally renowned artist who once represented Britain at the Venice Biennale, the work of Dame Rachel Whiteread can be found in collections, galleries and public spaces all around the world. Producer: Edwina Pitman

Ein Gespräch mit Ann-Christin Bertrand. Sie dürfte in der Fotobranche eigentlich jedem ein Begriff sein. Allein durch ihre Arbeit bei C/O Berlin ist ihre Tätigkeit als Kuratorin ganz sicher kein Geheimnis. Was sie jedoch seit ihrem Weggang von C/O macht und womit sie sich jetzt beschäftigt, darum soll es in dieser Episode gehen. Ann-Christin ist Kuratorin, Dozentin und Autorin im Bereich Fotografie und leitet den Studiengang BA Camera Arts an der Hochschule Luzern - Design & Kunst. Interessenschwerpunkt liegt auf Fragen zum Wandel der Fotografie seit der Digitalisierung 
sowie auf Fragen zur Zukunft des Mediums. Unsere Gesprächsthemen sind unter anderem das Rezipieren von Bilder, progressive Lehre, Referenten und Rezipienten, Wissenschaft und Kunst, die möglichen Beeinflussung zwischen künstlerischen Freiheiten und kommerziellen Zwängen, die Geschwindigkeit und die Möglichkeiten der Hochschulen, Wandel und Zukunft des Fotografischen und auch die Auswirkungen von Lens-Based Media auf die Skulptur. Foto: David von Becker https://www.ann-christin-bertrand.com https://www.museum-folkwang.de/de/ausstellung/image-capital https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanessa_Beecroft https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Whiteread

Es Devlin is the world's foremost set designer, having conceived stage sets for superstar musicians including Beyoncé, Stormzy, Kanye West, U2 and Adele. She has also created sets for opera houses around the world, and for productions at the National Theatre, the Royal Shakespeare Company and many more. Es also works as an artist in her own right, designing sculptural installation pieces that address issues of social justice and sustainability. For This Cultural Life, Es Devlin remembers a scale model of her home town, Rye in Sussex, that fired her imagination and encouraged her interest in storytelling. She chooses the sleeve of Kate Bush's 1978 debut album The Kick Inside, which she tried to recreate as a collage in her teenage bedroom. She recalls a career breakthrough when, in 1998, she designed a National Theatre production of Harold Pinter's play Betrayal, a set which was inspired by Rachel Whiteread's artwork House, a concrete cast of the interior of a Victorian terraced house in London's East End, which was demolished in 1994. Her final choice of cultural inspiration is her work with the hip hop artist and producer Kanye West, with whom she collaborated on several spectacular stadium shows. Producer: Edwina Pitman Audio of 'The Story of Rye' with kind permission from The Rye Heritage Centre

Art history textbooks, so excellent for flattening curled-up rug corners and holding open doors, are expected to tell us the entire story of our civilization, one painting at a time. It's more than any book, even one that weighs a spine-crunching twenty-five pounds, should be expected to do. And it opens our eyes to the way that history is narrated, and taught, and even, it follows, to how paintings are displayed, and museums are curated. So much is touched on; so much is left out. It's too much, and far too little, all at once. Dr. Charlotte Mullins has decided to lean into the brevity, and in doing so, manages to tell us so much more. In her new book, "A Little History of Art," she tells the story of 100,000 years of art history, in, in her words, language akin to a haiku, every word intentionally chosen, every artwork telling its own story. She turns us into time-travelers in a scant 300 pages. We talked about reading art history, teaching art history, writing art history, and much more. Charlotte is the art critic for Country Life and has written for specialist titles and newspapers including the Financial Times, Telegraph, Independent on Sunday, RA Magazine, Art in America and Tate Magazine. A former editor of Art Quarterly, V&A Magazine and Art Review, she has appeared on BBC TV arts programmes and is a regular on BBC Radio 4's Front Row and Radio 3's Free Thinking. She is the author of more than a dozen books including a monograph on Rachel Whiteread and A Little Feminist History of Art, both for Tate, and the internationally acclaimed Painting People, and its companion volume Picturing People, both for Thames & Hudson. Music used: The Blue Dot Sessions, "Spark" Rod Stewart, "Every Picture Tells A Story" Episode webpage: https://bit.ly/3ARd17U Charlotte's book: https://amzn.to/3TksKDl Episodes referenced: Anselm Kiefer: https://bit.ly/31gUSwW Sarah Sze: https://bit.ly/3NRnGmr Support the show: www.patreon.com/lonelypalette

Lily Cummins is an artist from the  Southern Highlands.  We had a great chat about studying and residencies.  Her practise examines both the self and the emotive bonds and attachments Lily feels that she attaining a Masters has given her practise a great deal of rigger, It really helped her grow as an artist and a person to keep studying and gain a masters. Lily studied at NAS and graduated from her masters in 2018 you can find Lily on her website http://www.lilycummins.comLily is inspired and likes a huge spectrum of artists - Folk and Outsider art  James Castle, Miro, Matisee, Rachel Whiteread, William Kentridge. Lily also works at the new art space in the southern highlands - The fantastic space called Ngununggula in Bowral.https://www.ngununggula.com

For a joyous opening episode of Young at Art, Harry is joined by Global Head of Collections for Soho House, curator and presenter Kate Bryan. She discusses her varied career; how she started in the art world, and how she got to where she is today, and reveals fascinating details about the interesting projects and people she has met along the way.The conversation starts with Kate discussing The Vault 100; the ground-breaking art collection she curated for members club The Ned, a collection of artworks by 93 contemporary female artists including Tracey Emin, Rachel Whiteread and Annie Morris. Kate is passionate about rewriting art history for a new generation and discusses her latest book, Bright Stars,a curation of many great artists who died around the age of 40 - from old masters to new faces – including Caravaggio, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Pauline Boty. Kate also tells us about some of the unmissable art events to see this summer and autumn, as well as what art means to her. Harry Stevens is the host of Young at Art and is a 21-year-old art and interiors obsessive passionate about opening up the art world to all. At Young at Art Harry speaks to the tastemakers who are defining a new image of art and design today, with new episodes out weekly. If you enjoyed this episode and want to find who we will be speaking to next, you can follow the podcast on Instagram @youngatartpodcast. Today's guest Kate Bryan can be found on Instagram at @katebryan_art, and Harry can be found at @planetstevens. For more information about the podcast, please visit the website, www.youngatartpodcast.comThe podcast's cover art was drawn by Beatrice Ross, @beatricealiceross and the intro music was written and performed by Maggie Talibart, @maggie_talibart.

From Hitchcock to George Formby, stained glass to Rachel Whiteread, Cindy Sherman to Rembrandt. A new exhibition called Reframed: The Woman in the Window is the starting point for today's conversation about windows covering everything from voyeurism and vandalism to stained glass and modernism. Shahidha Bari is joined by film scholar Adam Scovell, art curator Dr Jennifer Sliwka, architectural critic Hugh Pearman and stained glass expert Jasmine Allen. Reframed: The Woman in the Window runs at the Dulwich Picture Gallery in London from 4th May to 4th September 2022 Jasmine Allen is Director of The Stained Glass Museum, Ely Producer: Torquil MacLeod

I interview Sofia Costaldi, Artist Liason at Gagosian Gallery, a gallery that exhibits some of the most influential artists of the 20th and 21st centuries including Pablo Piccaso, Willem de Kooning, Andy Warhol, Damien Hirst, Rachel Whiteread, Francis Bacon, Tatiana Trouvé, Jenny Saville and Roy Lichtenstein to name a few. Sofia is also Co-Founder of ArtBasiC.

Episode Summary:The current episode is co-hosted with Simon Butler, an artist, curator and founder of MigrateArt, an art charity that helps those impacted by the biggest humanitarian crisis of our time. In the current episode we meet a Myanmar-born graffiti artist Bart Was Not Here, who creates a body of work full of escapism and dry humour by mixing text and imagery from Burmese and global pop culture. In this candid conversation we talk about Bart's artistic journey from discovering graffiti, to experiencing anti-muslim hatred, and being forced to leave the country, as Bart shares with us his thoughts on the harsh reality of Myanmar and the misrepresentation of Burmese culture globally.The Speaker:Bart Was Not Here, born on 19.2.1996 in Yangon, Burma, is a visual artist working with paintings, illustrations, murals, and sculptures based in Paris. He started painting graffiti on the streets of Yangon under the alias “Bart Was Not Here” when he was in 8th grade and he graduated high school in 2011-2012. He committed to painting graffiti and street art with his crew R.O.A.R after high school and went to Lasalle College of the Arts in Singapore in 2014. He got a Fine Arts Diploma from Lasalle in 2018. As a graffiti artist he participated in a great number of group exhibitions in Burma as well as overseas. He debuted his solo exhibition titled God Complex at Myanm/art gallery in 2019. He has showcased his paintings in Saatchi Gallery as well as The Secretariat Building in Myanmar. His artworks are usually figurative with vibrant colored patterns and humorous text serving as punchlines. He is interested in world-building and storytelling within his art as he is inspired by the likes of Hieronymous Bosch, David Lynch, Neil Gaiman, and Jean “Moebius” Giraud. Kyaw Moe Khine is open to working with different concepts in his art but he loves working in the areas of myth, religion, icons, pop culture, and satire. He also believes humour can be used as a weapon in art. He's in the middle of his art residency at Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris.The Co-Host:Simon Butleris a curator, social entrepreneur and artist based in London. He founded Migrate Artin 2016 after visiting the Calais Jungle refugee camp in France for the first time. This poignant experience inspired him to use his years of experience in the art world to help those impacted by the biggest humanitarian crisis of our time. To date, Migrate Art has raised over £550,000, helped thousands of people across Europe and the Middle East and worked with some of the world's leading artists including Anish Kapoor, Mona Hatoum, Antony Gormley, Rachel Whiteread and Raqib Shaw.Host: Farah Piriye, ZEITGEIST19 FoundationSign up for ZEITGEIST19's newsletter at https://www.zeitgeist19.comFor sponsorship enquiries, comments, ideas and collaborations, email us at info@zeitgeist19.comFollow us on Instagramand TwitterHelp us to continue our mission and to develop our podcast: Donate

Episode Summary:The current episode is co-hosted with our former guest speaker Simon Butler, a curator, artist and founder of MigrateArt, a platform that helps those impacted by the biggest humanitarian crisis of our time. Together we meet Ken Nwadiogby, a Nigerian artist whose artistic research is focused on gender equality, African culture, and Black power. Ken was named by Guardian Life as one of the most “Outstanding Personalities of 2019” in recognition of his contributions to the Nigerian arts community.In this candid conversation we discuss how Ken is utilising his practice as a tool for social change, raising awareness of such themes as racism, police brutality, sexism, xenophobia and more. Ken shares his thoughts on cultural revolution, how to respond back to society when it speaks to us, what it means to be a Nigerian artist in today's climate and how Contemporealism, a new method of visual communication coined by the artist himself, was born.The Speaker:Ken Nwadiogbu (b. 1994, Lagos, Nigeria) is a visual artist who creates innovative conceptual drawings on various surfaces as he engages in multidisciplinary modes of storytelling. Nwadiogbu earned a B.Sc. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of Lagos, Nigeria. His interest in art, as well as his career began while he earned his degree despite no formal training. Inspired by issues relating to him and those around, he began creating works that reflect the everyday struggles of people, with the hopes of making a change in his community. Popularly known as KenArt, Nwadiogbu is credited for introducing the “Contemporealism” movement and is constantly revitalising his practice by challenging modes of Black representation. A core focus for Nwadiogbu is to inspire and encourage young creatives. He does this through public speaking and mentorship, as well as through his creative companies; Artland Contemporary Limited and KINGS Management. He nurtures an art collective called ‘Title Deed' and co-found Artists Connect NG, the largest artist gathering in Nigeria, created to foster creativity, collaboration and community.Follow Ken's journey on InstagramThe Co-Host:Simon Butler is a curator, social entrepreneur and artist based in London. He founded Migrate Art in 2016 after visiting the Calais Jungle refugee camp in France for the first time. This poignant experience inspired him to use his years of experience in the art world to help those impacted by the biggest humanitarian crisis of our time. To date, Migrate Art has raised over £550,000, helped thousands of people across Europe and the Middle East and worked with some of the world's leading artists including Anish Kapoor, Mona Hatoum, Antony Gormley, Rachel Whiteread and Raqib Shaw.Host: Farah Piriye, ZEITGEIST19 FoundationSign up for ZEITGEIST19's newsletter at https://www.zeitgeist19.comFor sponsorship enquiries, comments, ideas and collaborations, email us at info@zeitgeist19.com Follow us on Instagram and TwitterHelp us to continue our mission and to develop our podcast: Donate

I ask the philosopher Miranda Fricker five questions about herself. Miranda Fricker is Professor of Philosophy at the City University of New York Graduate Center and the author of “Epistemic Injustice: Power and the Ethics of Knowing” (2007). Rachel Whiteread, “Untitled (Stacks)” Doris Salcedo, “Fragmentos”

L'arte ha sempre subito il fascino della ricchezza e della sua unità di misura per eccellenza: il denaro. Passando dalla finanza quantistica di Hito Steyerl all'economia digitale del Bitcoin, e dal flusso di capitali legati al petrolio alle banconote tarocche di un falsario d'eccezione come JSG Boggs, Costantino e Francesco tracciano il percorso dell'arte contemporanea nel magnifico mondo dei soldi. E se il cesso d'oro di Maurizio Cattelan e il teschio di diamanti di Damien Hirst non entusiasmano i due conduttori, per fortuna c'è l'arte orrenda (ma estremamente redditizia) di negati di successo come Thomas Kinkade e Andrew Vicari a tirargli su il morale.In questa puntata si parla di Hito Steyerl, Superflex (Jakob Fenger, Rasmus Nielsen and Bjørnstjerne Christiansen), Ronald McDonald, David Cronenberg, Andrej Tarkovskij, William Burroughs, Nonna Cleofe, Maya Ying Lin, Hassan Sharif, Amanda Boetzkes, Hans Peter Feldmann, JSG Boggs, Zia Elvira, Zia Giuseppina, Zia Maria, Rick Owens, KLF (Bill Drummond e Jimmy Cauty), Pablo Picasso, Rachel Whiteread, Thomas Kinkade, Joan Didion, Frederic Edwin Church, Albert Bierstadt, David Koresh, Jim Jones, John Lennon, Donald Trump, Andrew Vicari, Damien Hirst e Maurizio Cattelan.

 Today, on the Art Seeker Stories podcast 6th Episode  I'm delighted to chat with artist Lucy Chapman, a London based artist whose primarily a print maker exploring themes within photography and recreated objects. Lucy is a teacher specialising in Inclusion and has recently founded  the Unity Art Project, raising money for the Trussel Trust. Lucy is such a great kind soul, I first met Lucy online when she asked me for an artist interview as I was one of the artists who were adding their own work on top of her print ‘Peace Unity Love and Having Fun' for the Unity Art Project.  We connected so well that I ended up with almost 3 hours of recording. I have taken the liberty then, of cutting the episode in half as I felt everything she shares is so deep and meaningful, it wouldn't be fair to select and cut bits out, where would I start? In this 6th episode, part 2,  on Lucy's Art Seeker Island art residency  we go straight into Lufi's questions. Lucy talks about illness, a near death experience and the fragility of life and death. She shares with us her artwork that documents  and explores these themes. Books swapped in Lufi's book club are  "Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire" by Akala and Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert. We also talk dyslexia.If you missed it do check out  the Art Seeker Stories 5th Episode in part 1 of our chat, where we talk  about her Art Seeker Island, a blend of London and Wales, and her chosen artist artworks for company:  Rachel Whiteread's House in London and Holocaust memorial, in Vienna. Mark Bradford' 150 portrait tone and Wild Wild West : A Beautiful Rant  & Julie Cockburn's Nirvana 1, featured in her book Sticky Beak. We also talk about dyslexia, Lucy's  discussions with her dad are featured in the Listening Project for Chanel 4.  The Unity Art Project Lucy founded raised over £3,000 for The Trussell Trust @trusseltrust  | www.trusseltrust.orgWorking to stop UK hunger and poverty. Auction and an online exhibition, with @gowithyomo You can find more on Lucy:Website:   www.lucychapman.org  www.unityartproject.comInstagram: @luceprints @unityartproject  

Today, on the Art Seeker Stories podcast 5th Episode  I'm delighted to chat with artist Lucy Chapman, a London based artist, who is  primarily a print maker whose themes explore avenues within photography and recreated objects. Lucy is a teacher specialising in Inclusion and has recently founded  the Unity Art Project, raising money for The Trussell Trust.  Lucy is such a great kind soul, I first met Lucy online when she asked me for an artist interview as I was one of the artists who were adding their own work on top of her print ‘Peace Unity Love and Having Fun' for the Unity Art Project.  We connected so well that I ended up with almost 3 hours of recording. I have taken the liberty then, of cutting the episode in half as I felt everything she shares is so deep and meaningful, it wouldn't be fair to select and cut bits out, where would I start?  In this 5th episode, part 1,  we chat about her Art Seeker Island, a blend of London and Wales, and her chosen artist artworks for company:  Rachel Whiteread's House in London and Holocaust memorial, in Vienna. Mark Bradford' 150 portrait tone and Wild Wild West : A Beautiful Rant  & Julie Cockburn's Nirvana 1, featured in her book Sticky Beak. We also talk about dyslexia, Lucy's  discussions with her dad are featured in the Listening Project for Chanel 4.  The Unity Art Project Lucy founded raised over £3,000 for The Trussell Trust @trusseltrust  | www.trusseltrust.orgWorking to stop UK hunger and poverty. Auction and an online exhibition, with @gowithyomo You can find more on Lucy:Website:   www.lucychapman.org  www.unityartproject.comInstagram: @luceprints @unityartproject  Part two will be released Wednesday  next weekIncluding: Answers to Lufi's questions, Lucy's concept for her Shape of Hope and her dream collaboration. Not forgetting her book for Lufi and  Quote of Hope. 

L'architettura moderna è nata nella Vienna cosmopolita di fine '800 per rispondere al bisogno di ambienti che rispettassero i nuovi standard sanitari richiesti dai medici: spazi ampi, più luce e migliore areazione. Oggi, mentre ci lasciamo lentamente alle spalle una lunga pandemia, il legame tra architettura, salute e stile di vita è tornato a essere un tema cruciale. Costantino e Francesco ci raccontano una storia laterale dell'architettura contemporanea, parlando di anarchitetti batterici come Gordon Matta-Clark e archistar mancati come gli italiani di Archizoom, dell'architettura senza architetti di Yona Friedman e dell'architettura per i poveri promossa da Hassan Fathy e Laurie Baker.In questa puntata si parla di Sigmund Freud, Egon Schiele, Arnold Schönberg, Beatriz Colomina, Josef Hoffman, Adolf Loos, Gordon Matta-Clark, Mark Wigley, Holly Solomon, Roberto Matta, Benjamin Ward Richardson, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Gunter Sachs, John Zorn, Luis Barragán, Jill Magid, Rolf Fehlbaum, Federica Zanco, Harald Szeemann, Laurie Baker, Josef Albers, Anni Albers, Banksy, Kaws, Takashi Murakami, John Hilliard, Hassan Fathy, Superstudio, Archizoom, Poltronova, Ufo, Gianni Pettena, Rem Koolhaas, Mario Dezzi Bardeschi, Stefano Boeri, Gianandrea Barreca, Rachel Whiteread, Bruce Nauman, Sant'Agostino, Yona Friedman, Toni Negri, Renzo Piano, Richard Rogers, Minecraft, Bernard Rudofsky e Jeff Wall.

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.

This week: after four long months, commercial art galleries are open again in England. We discuss some of the London shows with Louisa Buck, The Art Newspaper’s contemporary art correspondent, and take a tour of Rachel Whiteread’s exhibition at the Gagosian Gallery in Grosvenor Hill, London. And we talk to the artist Idris Khan, who has a new exhibition at the Victoria Miro gallery, about his oil, watercolour and collage works made in the English countryside and using sheet music from Vivaldi's The Four Seasons. And in this episode’s Work of the Week we talk to the artist James Welling, whose latest photographic projects stem from direct encounters with ancient Greek objects, about Kore 674, an ancient Greek sculpture from 500 BCE in the Acropolis Museum, Athens. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Talk Art exclusive! Russell & Robert meet legendary British artist Dame Rachel Whiteread DBE for an intimate studio visit where we view her new works prior to installing her new exhibition ‘Internal Objects’. In Rachel Whiteread’s sculptures and drawings, everyday settings, objects, and surfaces are transformed into ghostly replicas that are eerily familiar. Through casting, she frees her subject matter—from beds, tables, and boxes to water towers and entire houses—from practical use, suggesting a new permanence, imbued with memory. We discuss childhood, experimenting with numerous materials as a student, the joy of sharpening pencils, studying with Richard Wilson, her now iconic artworks 'House' (1993) and 'Ghost' (1990), further early works made by casting a wardrobe and household furniture and her large permanent Holocaust Memorial (2000) in Vienna's Judenplatz. We learn about her ‘Shy Sculpture‘ series installed in unexpected international locations and hear of her experiences during the YBA years, and subsequently being the first woman to win the Turner Prize in 1993.We explore the new works made during lockdown including two large cabin-like structures 'Poltergeist' (2020) and 'Döppelganger' (2020–21) which now form the central part of a new exhibition at Gagosian’s Grosvenor Hill gallery, made of found wood and metal, meticulously overpainted in white household paint. The exhibition also features a new body of sculptures in resin and new works on paper, as well as recent cast sculptures in bronze, similar to works in bronze Whiteread made in 2000–10, and exhibited at a major retrospective at Tate Britain in 2017. Finally, we discover her interest in cinema, admiration for Italian Renaissance painter Piero della Francesca and living with contemporary artworks by Bridget Riley, Christopher Wool, Kiki Smith and Rebecca Warren and why Kenwood House in North London is worth a visit! Rachel Whiteread’s new solo show ‘Internal Objects’ opened this week at Gagosian in London and runs until 6th June 2021. Follow @RachelWhitereadOfficial and @Gagosian on Instagram. View exhibition views at Gagosian's website: https://gagosian.com/exhibitions/2021/rachel-whiteread-internal-objects/ A fully illustrated catalogue, including a short story by John Steinbeck and an essay by Richard Calvocoressi, will be published to accompany the exhibition.For 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.

Ben Luke talks to the Seoul-born, London-based artist Do Ho Suh about his influences and life-changing cultural experiences. They discuss his recreations of his various homes in coloured fabric and how his early work in South Korea has been ignored by curators and critics. Do Ho reveals that, influenced by a painting of fish and shellfish in his family home, he wanted to be a marine biologist, and that he only switched to art when he realised his maths was not good enough. He reflects on the influence of the Chinese artists Qi Baishi and Bada Shanren and discusses the contemporary artists he admires, from Felix Gonzalez-Torres to Rachel Whiteread. And, as with all the guests on the A brush with... podcast, he names the writers and musicians he admires, ponders his studio rituals and answers the ultimate question: what is art for? See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Leila Latif reviews Too Close, ITV’s new psychological thriller starring Emily Watson and Denise Gough, which will be broadcast on consecutive nights this week. On the day that commercial art galleries are allowed to re-open in England, Rachel Whiteread discusses her new exhibition Internal Objects at the Gagosian gallery in London. The exhibition features new resin sculptures, and the gallery's two main rooms are occupied by two new works - large sheds made of found materials and painted in white household paint. As the BAFTA winners were announced over the weekend, Chloe Zhao’s film Nomadland won four prizes including best film, best actress for star Frances McDormand and best director. Film critic Leila Latif joins Kirsty to tell us more about the exciting young director, and her first feature film Songs My Brothers Taught Me which has just been released for the first time in the UK. Novelist Rosa Rankin Gee joins Kirsty to talk about her new novel, Dreamland, set in a dystopian future where rising tides and political extremism have left one coastal community, and one small family, to fend for itself. Presenter: Kirsty Lang Producer: Simon Richardson Main image: Emily Watson as Dr Emma Robertson in Too Close Image credit: ITV.com

Dans ce cinquième épisode, l'équipe de La Saveur de la finitude s'intéresse au vide cosmique, au vide laissé dans nos esprits par la mort de Dieu et le rationalisme moderne, ainsi qu'à la représentation du vide dans l'art, pour se demander ce que l'horreur moderne et le cosmicisme de Lovecraft doivent à cette omniprésence du vide et du néant. Avec : - Guillaume Baychelier, plasticien et philosophe - Lucile Bokobza, philosophe et musicienne - Jean-Christophe Dardart, psychologue - Ambroise Garel, journaliste - Julie Le Baron, journaliste Générique et habillage : Lucile Bokobza Montage : Ambroise Garel Logo et illustrations : Guillaume Baychelier Liste non exhaustive des œuvres citées dans cet épisode : Livres et articles - L'Arche originaire Terre ne se meut pas, Edmund Husserl - The Big Empty: représentation de l'espace interstellaire à la télévision, Florent Favard - Chroniques Martiennes, Ray Bradbury - Évidements, les figures retirées de Jean-Marc Cerino et Anthony Vérot (in L'art du vide), Anne Favier - Généalogie de la morale, Friedrich Nietszche - Suspicion, Pattern Recognition, Paranoia (in The Age of Lovecraft), David Putner - The Thing: A Phenomenology of Horror, Dylan Trigg Films, vidéos, séries et documentaires - 28 jours plus tard, Danny Boyle - Abyss, James Cameron - Ad Astra, James Gray - Alien, Ridley Scott - Aliens, James Cameron - Chair de poule, R. L. Stine - Farscape, Rockne S. O'Bannon - Gravity, Alfonso Cuarón - L'Histoire sans fin, Wolfgang Petersen - L'Homme à la caméra, Dziga Vertov - Le Jour où la Terre s'arrêta, Robert Wise - La Quatrième dimension, Rod Serling - Phase IV, Saul Bass - Premier Contact, Denis Villeneuve - Quatermass and the Pit, Roy Ward Baker - Star Trek: The Next Generation, Gene Roddenberry - Sunshine, Danny Boyle - The Leftovers, Damon Lindelof & Tom Perrotta - The Thing, John Carpenter Peintures, photographies, œuvres plastiques, installations - Le Voyageur contemplant une mer de nuages, Caspar David Friedrich - Rosecrans Drive-In, Paramount, Hiroshi Sujimoto - Le Saut dans le vide, Yves Klein - Zen for Film, Nam June Paik - The Weather Project, Olafur Eliasson - et aussi Anish Kapoor, Rachel Whiteread... Jeux vidéo - Alien Isolation, Creative Assembly - Dead Space, Visceral Games - Narcosis, Honor Code

Ben Luke talks to Rachel Whiteread about how her influences and cultural experiences have affected her life and work. Among other things, she talks about the influence of her parents on her work; the enduring power of Piero della Francesca; the seismic effect of seeing Bruce Nauman's art; how poetry informs her sculpture; and she recalls memorable trips to Egypt and the Soviet Union. Plus, she answers the questions we ask all our guests, including: if you could live with just one work of art, what would it be? And what is art for? See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, we look at contemporary public art, as debate has raged about various works in recent weeks. Who is public art for and why does it continue to provoke such strong reactions? Host Ben Luke talks to Louisa Buck, The Art Newspaper’s contemporary art correspondent, and James Lingwood from the visionary producers of public works, Artangel, about art by Christoph Büchel, Jeremy Deller, Maggi Hambling, Rachel Whiteread, Marc Quinn and Mark Wallinger; the artist Olaf Breuning tells us about a public work he has made for a hospital in Miami; and for this episode’s Work of the Week, the artist Tom Sachs talks about Mondrian's Broadway Boogie-Woogie in the Museum of Modern Art, New York. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Episode Summary:In the wake of the myriad crises of the past two decades - art helps the world to be felt - by its inhabitants - spurring thinking, engagement and even action. In this episode we meet Simon Butler, founder of Migrate Art Charity, who delves into most pressing issues of today that the media and global society are disconnected from. We talk about his latest project The Scorched Earth, turning ash from burnt crops of Iraqi Kurdistan into art, organised in direct response to widespread deliberate destruction of the war-torn fields that impact the economy, ecosystem, and intimidating local communities. Simon explains to us how he changes the perspective on charity auctions, using the voice of significant artists, advocating that We are part of a larger We.The Speaker:Simon Butler is a curator, social entrepreneur and artist based in London. He founded Migrate Art in 2016 after visiting the Calais Jungle refugee camp in France for the first time. This poignant experience inspired him to use his years of experience in the art world to help those impacted by the biggest humanitarian crisis of our time. To date, Migrate Art has raised over £550,000, helped thousands of people across Europe and the Middle East and worked with some of the world's leading artists including Anish Kapoor, Mona Hatoum, Antony Gormley, Rachel Whiteread and Raqib Shaw.Follow Migrate Art's Journey on Instagram and TwitterHosts: Farah Piriye & Elizabeth ZhivkovaSign up for ZEITGEIST19's newsletter at https://www.zeitgeist19.comFor sponsorship enquiries, comments, ideas and collaborations, email us at info@zeitgeist19.com Follow us on Instagram and Twitter

In Frankenstein: How to Make a Monster, six performers from Battersea Arts Centre's Beatbox Academy interpret Mary Shelley’s classic novel from their own perspective; as young people growing up in 21st-century Britain. Using only their own mouths and voices to make every sound in the film, they explore how today’s society creates its own monsters. John Wilson talks to one of the creator performers, Nadine Rose Johnson. Acclaimed author William Boyd talks about his new novel, Trio. Set in the summer of 1968, the year of the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy, there are riots in Paris and the Vietnam War is out of control. While the world is reeling, three characters - a producer, a novelist and an actress - are involved in making a Swingin' Sixties movie in sunny Brighton and each of them is harbouring a dangerous secret. Artist Rachel Whiteread discusses her series of works she has been creating in lockdown at her home in the Welsh countryside: March-Sept Drawings, as well as a newly-revealed resin sculpture, Untitled (Pinboard), which goes on digital display today. Author Irenosen Okojie and journalist Mik Scarlet review the new ITV drama series The Sister, written by Neil Cross (creator of Luther) and starring Russell Tovey. Mik will also be discussing the Shaw Trust Power 100, an annual publication aiming to further inclusivity by celebrating 100 most influential disabled people, and Irenosen celebrates her current cultural highlight, the Netflix American comedy film The 40-Year-Old Version. Presenter: John Wilson Producer: Oliver Jones Main image: Grove in Frankenstein: How to Make a Monster Image credit: Lukas Galantay

Today I have the pleasure of speaking with Sara Byers is a London based artist, musician and museum educator.  Her practice can best be described as based on the ‘truth to materials' tenet of modern architecture, which holds that any material should be used where it is most appropriate and that its nature should not be hidden, disguised, or concealed.  From reclaimed and recycled material, to food products, metal, wood, plastics, resins and textiles, Sara's practice creates the fantastical from the mundane while addressing wider issues of empire, class and accessibility. Sara holds a BA from Camberwell and an MA from the RCA in Fine Art Sculpture. She was a Fellow in Sculpture at The Cheltenham Art College and at The University of Glamorgan. She was awarded the SOGAT Prize, The K-Foundation prize by Rachel Whiteread, and has exhibited in the UK and Europe. Sara has taught on many courses, both in the UK and internationally, and is an artist-educator regularly working for Museums and Galleries, delivering Master Drawing Classes at UCL, and devising education projects for the V&A and The Saatchi Gallery. Articulate is a podcast for students of art that I have started in order to create an archive and a community for them to dip into for ideas and inspiration. I speak with artists across continents and genres about themselves and how they see their art in today's world context.

Russell and Robert meet Edward Enninful OBE, editor-in-chief of British Vogue. Over the past two and a half years as editor-in-chief of the famed publication, he has helped shape a new vision for fashion media — not just in the UK, but globally — where he has placed a “diversity of perspective” at its core.Enninful has described his vision for British Vogue as “about being inclusive. It’s not just the colour of your skin but the diversity of perspective.” He has made art a priority including interviews and features with artists as varied as Lubaina Himid, Steve McQueen (who is Vogue's Contributing Editor), Luchita Hurtado, Celia Hempton, Anthea Hamilton, Lorna Simpson, Mark Bradford, Nathaniel Mary Quinn, Frank Bowling, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, Howardena Pindell, Bridget Riley, Toyin Ojih Odutola, Rosalind Nashashibi, Maggi Hambling, Huguette Caland, Tracey Emin, Grayson Perry and Rachel Whiteread. He has also profiled curators and museum directors such as Zoé Whitley (Chisenhale), Maria Balshaw (Tate) as well as writer Zadie Smith and photographers including Nadine Ijewere, Tyler Mitchell and Campbell Addy. In 2019, Enninful presented the Turner Prize, in an historic year where all four nominees won the prize.Ghanaian-born Enninful began his career as fashion director of British youth culture magazine i-D at age 18, the youngest ever to have been named an editor at a major international fashion title. After moving to London with his parents and six siblings at a young age, Enninful was scouted as a model on the train at 16 and briefly modelled for Arena and i-D magazines including being shot by artist Wolfgang Tillmans.Inspired by London’s club scene in the 1980s, Enninful’s work during this period captured the frenetic energy and creative zeitgeist of the time. It was also during this time that he befriended many of his future fashion collaborators, including Steven Meisel, David Smins, Pat McGrath, Craig McDean, Mario Sorrenti, Kate Moss and Naomi Campbell. For British Vogue, Enninful ’s covers have consistently featured strong women who promote messages of empowerment: Stella Tennant, Oprah Winfrey, Adwoa Aboah, Naomi Campbell, Rihanna, not to mention his September 2019 edition guest-edited by Meghan Markle HRH Duchess of Sussex, which featured 15 trailblazing female changemakers including Greta Thunberg and Jane Fonda on the cover.Enninful was awarded an OBE for his services to diversity in the fashion industry, and in 2018 he received the Media Award in Honour of Eugenia Sheppard from the CFDA in recognition of his career-long contribution to the fashion industry.Follow @Edward_Enninful and @BritishVogue. For images of all artworks discussed in this episode visit @TalkArt. We've just joined Twitter too @TalkArtPodcast. If you've enjoyed this episode PLEASE leave us your feedback and maybe 5 stars if we're worthy in the Apple Podcast store. We love to hear your feedback!!!! Thank you for listening to Talk Art, we will be back very soon. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The second ‘lockdown special’ episode of Material Matters features the excellent Sheridan Coakley. The entrepreneur cut his teeth as a modern furniture dealer before founding the iconic SCP – or Sheridan Coakley Products – in London’s Shoreditch during the mid-eighties. The manufacturer and retailer burst onto the nascent British design scene with pieces by Jasper Morrison and Matthew Hilton. In 1991 it produced the latter’s Balzac armchair, which has gone on to become a bona fide classic. Over the years the roll call of designers Sheridan has worked with includes: Konstantin Grcic, James Irvine, Michael Marriott, Donna Wilson, Rachel Whiteread and Reiko Kaneko to name just a handful. He has legitimate claims to be considered one of the most influential figures in British design over the past 35 years. In this episode we talk about his early days; swapping bubblegum cards with artist Eduardo Paolozzi; meeting Jasper Morrison for the first time (in quite surprising circumstances); setting up business in unfashionable east London; copying classics; the state of British design; oh, and the future of retail. So I hope there’s quite a bit to get your teeth into. (Please note this is a special episode made in really quite tricky circumstances, so the sound quality isn’t quite as good as normal.)

"She's A Brick (Concrete) House," Episode 8 of Season 2 illuminates Rachel Whiteread's work, House. Kelsey raves about the Lisa Saltzman book, Making Memory Matter and contemplates giving physical presence to the absent. Nicole warns against borrowing sisters' things without return and expresses the physicality of memory.

The themes raised by Matthew Reynolds' Likenesses: Translation, Illustration, Interpretation will be discussed by Dr Jason Gaiger (Ruskin School), Dr Adriana Jacobs (Oriental Studies) and Dr Nick Halmi (English). Translation, illustration and interpretation have at least two things in common. They all begin when sense is made in the act of reading: that is where illustrative images and explanatory words begin to form. And they all ask to be understood in relation to the works from which they have arisen: reading them is a matter of reading readings. Likenesses explores this palimpsestic realm, with examples from Dante to the contemporary sculptor Rachel Whiteread. The complexities that emerge are different from Empsonian ambiguity or de Man's unknowable infinity of signification: here, meaning dawns and fades as the hologrammic text is filled out and flattened by successive encounters. Likenesses follows on from the argument of Reynolds's The Poetry of Translation (2011), extending it through other translations and beyond into a wide range of layered texts. Browning emerges as a key figure because his poems laminate languages, places, times and modes of utterance with such compelling energy. There are also substantial, innovative accounts of Dryden, Stubbs, Goya, Turner, Tennyson, Ungaretti and many more. Matthew Reynolds teaches at Oxford where he is a Fellow of St Anne's College and The Times lecturer in the English Faculty. It has been said of him that 'the best critics, like the best poets (in Browning's words) impart the gift of seeing to the rest: Reynolds has this gift of seeing and imparting' (TLS). His earlier books are The Poetry of Translation, The Realms of Verse 1830-1870, the novels The World Was All Before Them and Designs for a Happy Home(/i), and editions of Dante in English and of Manzoni.

Michael Petry, author, artist and Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art in London talks with Emmy Winner Charlotte Robinson host of OUTTAKE VOICES™ about his new book “The Word Is Art” that addresses how contemporary global artists incorporate text and language into their works that speaks to some of the most pressing issues of the 21st century. In the digital and online age words have become more important than ever with text becoming information and information striving to become a free form of expression. “The Word Is Art” looks at the work of a diverse range of artists including Annette Messager, Barbara Kruger, Cerith Wyn Evans, Christian Marclay, Christopher Wool, Chun Kwang Young, eL Seed, Fiona Banner, Ghada Amer, Glenn Ligon, Harland Miller, Jenny Holzer, Kay Rosen, Laure Prouvost, Martin Creed, Rachel Whiteread, Raymond Pettibon, Roni Horn, Tania Bruguera, Zhang Huan and many more interpreting how the digital and online age have made words more important than ever. “The Word Is Art” takes us on a fascinating and richly illustrated tour interpreting these trending global art forms. We talked to Michael about his inspiration for creating this book and his spin on our LGBTQ issues. When asked what his personal commitment is to LGBTQ civil rights Petry stated, “I’m one of the ancients who’s been around fighting for LGBTQ rights since the early eighties and I’ve been involved in so many different ways over the years. I consider myself queer because I think that is a broader term that for me represents who I am and what I think and part of that commitment as a queer who is an artist and who also is an author and a curator is to try and bring queer artists to the foreground of the art world. We only have to think back a few years to realize that LGBTQ artists were very marginalized and that’s still the case for many people. In the LGBTQ movement every year I curate a Pride Exhibition in London which I really hope to introduce LGBTQ artists not only to that community but to the straight community and I work within all the structures that are available whether that’s museums or the corporate structure to get that recognition for LGBTQ people because I think what is at issue in the broader political sphere is this notion of fear. Fear of others and of course that fear is not limited to the general public. It’s also in the art world.” Michael Petry has written a number of books, including “Installation Art”, “The Art of Not Making: the new artist/artisan relationship”, “Nature Morte: Contemporary Artists Reinvigorate the Still-Life Tradition” and his most recent work “The Word Is Art” all published by Thames & Hudson. In 2019 he will be speaking and exhibiting his work worldwide.For More Info: michaelpetry.com Hear 450+ LGBT Interviews @OUTTAKE VOICES

We've reached the end of Season 2! Thanks to everyone who came back and all the new listeners and subscribers who joined us. I appreciate your support! I'll be taking some time off for the holidays and to plan Season 3. The gallery has some fantastic shows up, so visit if you can! There's Corot's Women, a retrospective of Gordon Park's photography, the Birmingham Project by Dawoud Bey, the Rachel Whiteread retrospective and more. There are also a few more dates for senior lecturer David Gariff's The Christmas Story in Art a fascinating look at how the story we know came about. This is where I found out about the symbolism of rocks! You can catch up on any episodes you missed here or you can listen on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Soundcloud, TuneIn or your favorite podcast app. You can find links to some of these below. I'll be posting updates here, so check back.  And as always, thanks for joining me! SHOW NOTES “A Long Look” theme is Ascension by Ron Gelinas Exhibitions information https://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/current.html The Christmas Story in Art schedule and live stream The post End of Season 2 appeared first on A Long Look.

“Ghost,” the ambitious sculpture by Rachel Whiteread tells a story of family, memory, impending loss and survival. We'll find out the mind-blowing idea behind it, the tenacity of a young artist and its connection to a rock legend. “Ghost” is part of a survey of Whiteread's work at the Gallery which runs through January 13, 2019. See the artwork at https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.131285.html SHOW NOTES “A Long Look” theme is “Ascension” by Ron Gelinas. Episode theme is “Sad Ambient Piano” by AShamaluevMusic. Courtesy of Soundcloud. Ghost information Molly Donovan/Rachel Whiteread's Vies Trouvées (Found Lives) (accessed Oct 20, 2018). Rachel Whiteread: “Ghost” (video) Bronze casting (video) Courtesy of the Khan Academy Slow Art Day The post Ghost by Rachel Whiteread appeared first on A Long Look.

Rachel Whiteread, British artist and Turner Prize winner, unveals a monumental sculpture in the heart of Dalby Forest, Yorkshire, UK. Interview with the artist.

“这是最好的时代，也是最坏的时代”，《双城记》的开场白可能是文学史上最有名的。出版于法国大革命50年后，狄更斯是人物塑造和扣人的情节发展的高手，这本书也成为后世记忆和理解大革命和之后的恐怖统治最直观和鲜活的正反两方面素材。作品信息：小说：A Tale of Two Cities/双城记豆瓣：http://suo.im/2IG2vv小说：Vanity Fair/名利场豆瓣：http://suo.im/cH1wf张宇凌提到的几个艺术家和作品分别是：Antoine Watteau/华多的Embarkation for Cythera/舟发西苔岛Bernini/贝尼尼的Ecstasy of Saint Teresa/圣特雷莎的狂喜Rachel Whiteread/雷切尔·怀特里德的Torso/身体编辑推荐乔治·奥威尔关于狄更斯的散文收录在《奥维尔散文》豆瓣：http://suo.im/4Bwod1英文版可以在网上看到：http://suo.im/2KvqrI乔治奥威尔的《巴黎伦敦落魄记》豆瓣：http://suo.im/3W4Iba谌洪果：《时代是大写的人》腾讯网：http://suo.im/4lmNXw音乐Intro音乐是《马赛曲》的 Remix by HumanOutro音乐是The Pet Shop Boys的Dictator Decides预告下周节目计划讨论正在公映的《三块广告牌》和《黑豹》下一期误读会大概在四月的第三周录制，讨论伏尔泰的Candide/赣第德，我们推荐徐志摩翻译的中译本，有兴趣的朋友可以找来读。豆瓣：http://suo.im/352mOr反馈邮箱：zyifan@me.com官网：www.culturepotato.com嘉宾：张宇凌、晏礼中 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

1993: Rachel Whiteread remporte le Turner Prize avec House, l'emprunte en béton d'une maison victorienne. Béton, plâtre, résine... au-delà de la simplicité des matériaux, les oeuvres de Whiteread nous apprennent avant tout à regarder l'espace - et les objets- autrement. Plus d'info www.culturealt.com

Marcel Duchamp, the father of conceptual art, and responsible for that famously provocative urinal signed 'R Mutt, 1917', is the great life choice of fellow artist Cornelia Parker. She explains to Matthew Parris why he's influenced not only her work but that of so many other artists since his death in 1968. As an art student in the 1970s she recalls the attraction of Duchamp's 'readymades', such as a bicycle wheel or suspended wine bottle rack - manufactured items that the artist selected and modified, antidotes to what he dismissed as conventional 'retinal art'. They are joined by Dawn Ades, Professor of the History of Art at the Royal Academy, who's curated the current RA exhibition on Duchamp and Dali. Dawn recalls an occasion when, whilst she didn't actually meet Duchamp, she once saw him completely absorbed in a game of chess in a café in the Spanish seaside town of Cadaqués, whilst visiting Salvador Dali. They also discuss Duchamp's intriguing female alter ego, Rrose Selavy (Eros, c'est la vie or "physical love is the life") Man Ray's photographs of whom featured in some Surrealist exhibitions. We hear how Duchamp let the world know that he'd given up being in artist in favour of devoting himself to chess whilst still in his 30s. He played the game at a high level, representing France at international tournaments, whilst covertly continuing his art work. Cornelia Parker explains that his works spoke not just to the Pop Art and Op Art movements of the 1960s, but more broadly to American artists like Bruce Nauman and the composer John Cage, and whose influence can be seen today in the work of, for example, fellow English artist, Rachel Whiteread. Producer: Mark Smalley.

Pour conclure l'année 2017 en beauté, En Pleines Formes propose une émission tout en giboulées.  [caption id="attachment_62106" align="aligncenter" width="318"] "To Da Bone", 2017, © La Horde[/caption] Marine Brutti et Jonathan Debrouwer du collectif La Horde sont venus nous parler de leur résidence à la MAC (Maison des arts de Créteil) qui aboutira en février par trois événements: , la pièce chorégraphique « To Da Bone », le film « Novaciéries », et la performance participative « 150 Battements par minute ». Ils évoquent avec nous leur réflexion sur l'impact d'internet et des danses populaires sur la création contemporaine, de la nécessité de multiplier les dispositifs et du quotidien de leur collectif.  [caption id="attachment_62108" align="aligncenter" width="280"] Rachel Whiteread, "Modern Chess Set", © Rachel Whiteread courtesy of the artist[/caption]   En deuxième partie d'émission, Marie-Lou Thiébault nous accompagne dans l'exposition Women House (commissariat Camille Morineau), qui se tient à la Monnaie de Paris jusqu'en janvier 2018.  [caption id="attachment_62110" align="aligncenter" width="960"] Atelier de Flavie L.T, le Houloc, 2017. © Sophie Monjaret[/caption] L'émission se termine par l'entretien in situ menée par Carmen avec la plasticienne Flavie L.T, présidente pour l’année 2017 de l’association « le Houloc » et porteuse du projet d’ateliers partagés du même nom. Rassemblant 17 artistes émergents aux pratiques diverses, ce projet souhaite mettre en commun les compétences et les points de vues, pour tirer le meilleur parti de leur complémentarité. La pratique de Flavie L.T se base principalement sur une analyse du réel. A partir de la photographie, instrument de capture du monde, l’artiste opère une déconstruction du réel, pour mieux le reconstruire. Des formes souvent simples viennent alors s’hybrider, s’incarner dans la matière par le biais de la sculpture. Les objets qui en résultent portent l’imaginaire et viennent ouvrir l’esprit à l’ensemble des possibles qui existent dans le réel.   Tout ça sans oublier la chronique "arts vivants" de Henri, qui ce mois-ci nous parle des dernières créations de Miet Warlop.    Animation : Flore Di Sciullo Interviews: Henri Guette, Marine Vazzoler, Flore Di Sciullo Chroniques: Carmen Blin, Henri Guette Réalisation: Eliott Janon    

La Monnaie de Paris explore l'idée de la maison comme espace genré, et transporte le débat hors-les-murs pour s'intéresser à la place de la femme dans l'espace public. Women House met en scène le travail de 40 femmes artistes, de l'échiquier ménager de Rachel Whiteread, en passant par les photos de Cindy Sherman, une Nana de Niki de Saint Phalle ou encore une araignée monumentale de Louise Bourgeois. Plus d'info www.culturealt.com  

Nazi-loot conference at London’s National Gallery and how The Art Newspaper’s journalist returned a stolen treasure to its cathedral. Plus: Rachel Whiteread on “mummifying the air” at Tate Britain. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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 this audio recording Lizzie Carey-Thomas, curator at Tate Britain, explores the drawings that provide a rare insight into the creative process of the artist.

With Samira Ahmed. The Grand Budapest Hotel is the latest film from Wes Anderson, the director of Moonrise Kingdom and The Royal Tenenbaums. It follows the adventures of a flamboyant hotel concierge Gustave H, played by Ralph Fiennes, and his trainee Lobby Boy, Zero, played by Tony Revolori. Larushka Ivan-Zedeh reviews. The French film director Alain Resnais has died at the age of 91. His last film, The Life of Riley, was based on a play by Alan Ayckbourn and will be released this month. Alan Ayckbourn discusses his relationship with Resnais, who adapted three of his plays for the screen. A new exhibition at Tate Britain explores the lure of ruins for artists ranging from John Constable to Rachel Whiteread. Ruin Lust includes paintings of picturesque ruins from the 18th Century and 20th century photographs of inner city decay. Author Iain Sinclair discusses why so many artists have found ruins compelling. French author Marie Darrieussecq's latest novel, All The Way, charts the sexual awakening of Solange, a young French girl who's obsessed with sex and with losing her virginity. Marie Darrieussecq became a French literary sensation with her first novel, Pig Tales, about a woman turning into a pig. She discusses writing about adolescence, desire and the feminine experience.

Actor Daniel Radcliffe discusses his newest stage role and his career choices post-Harry Potter. Playwright Conor McPherson talks to Mark Lawson about the experiences that have informed his writing. Lenny Henry discusses his return to the stage to star in the Pulitzer prize-winning play Fences by American playwright August Wilson. Director Tina Gharavi on her debut film I Am Nasrine, which follows a teenage refugee from Iran. Neil Hannon and musician Thomas Walsh discuss their second cricket-inspired album, Sticky Wickets. Artist Rachel Whiteread makes her selection for the Cultural Exchange - a painting by Bridget Riley, which she kept as a postcard. David Edgar's new play If Only imagines what will happen to the coalition in 2014 - he tells Mark Lawson what will happen to his play if life mirrors art.

Turner Prize winning artist, Rachel Whiteread chooses a postcard of Fall by Bridget Riley.Plus archive interviews with Bridget Riley, Sir Anthony Caro and Michael Craig Martin.

With Mark Lawson Before Midnight is the last instalment in the acclaimed film trilogy that began with Before Sunset and continued with Before Sunrise. Jesse and Celine, who enjoyed brief encounters in Vienna and Paris, are now married with children, but as their summer holiday in Greece comes to an end, the light seems to be going out of their relationship. Antonia Quirke delivers her verdict on one of modern cinema's most famous and enduring couples, played by Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke. Neil Hannon (frontman and founder of The Divine Comedy) and musician Thomas Walsh discuss their second cricket-inspired album Sticky Wickets, and the formation of their band The Duckworth Lewis Method. They also reveal how they arranged special guests including Daniel Radcliffe, Stephen Fry and Henry Blofeld. The Weir, a series of ghost stories told in an Irish pub, was a huge hit for playwright Conor McPherson over a decade ago. His latest play The Night Alive returns to the theme of how the past can haunt the present in unexpected ways. Conor McPherson talks to Mark about the experiences that have informed his writing. Artist Rachel Whiteread makes her selection for the Cultural Exchange - a painting by Bridget Riley, which she kept as a postcard.

With Mark Lawson. Dominic Cooke is leaving London's Royal Court Theatre after seven years as Artistic Director. He looks back at his often controversial tenancy and discusses his final production, The Low Road by Bruce Norris. And in the week that Nicholas Hytner announced the date for his departure as Artistic Director of the National Theatre, Kenneth Branagh, Marianne Elliott, Sam Mendes and Kwame Kwei-Armah reveal where they stand as potential contenders for the top job. Michael Dobbs, who was Conservative Chief of Staff under Margaret Thatcher, and Haydn Gwynne who is currently portraying Thatcher on stage in The Audience, reflect on the ways that the former Prime Minister has been represented in culture. And two exhibitions by leading women artists open in London this week. In her new show Detached, Rachel Whiteread continues her exploration of casting the inside of objects including sheds, doors and windows. And sculptor Elisabeth Frink, who died twenty years ago, has an anniversary retrospective which celebrates the four decades of the artist's life in sculptures, drawings and paintings. Rachel Cooke reviews. Producer Jerome Weatherald.

With Kirsty Lang. Charles Sturridge, the director of the landmark TV series Brideshead Revisited, discusses his latest project, a TV adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's The Scapegoat, a tale of two identical looking men who swap lives. He also reflects on how television drama has changed since the days of Brideshead. Iraq war veteran Kevin Powers has drawn on his own experiences in his novel The Yellow Birds, the story of a young recruit sent to Iraq's Nineveh Province in 2004, and his struggle to adapt to civilian life on his return. Kevin reveals the frequently asked question that was the starting point for the book. Not since the invention of sound cinema have silent movies been so popular, partly due to the unexpected Oscar success of The Artist. This week sees two new films which pay homage to the silent era - Tabu, which has no dialogue in its last half hour and takes its name from a famous F W Murnau drama, and a Spanish adaptation of Snow White which looks like it's been made in the 1920s and not the 21st century. Historian Matthew Sweet and silent film accompanist and composer Neil Brand explain why we've learned to stop worrying and love silent cinema The Art of Chess is a new exhibition at the Saatchi Gallery which brings together 16 chess sets designed by some of the world's leading contemporary artists, including Jake and Dinos Chapman, Rachel Whiteread, Damien Hirst and Tim Noble and Sue Webster. Each set is individually crafted in a wide variety of different materials including wood, porcelain, glass, amber and silver. Scotland's strongest chess Grandmaster Jonathan Rowson reviews. Producer Erin Riley.

In Barcelona, Cathy Byrd speaks with Carolina Grau, an independent curator from Spain, who has created projects in London, Madrid, Lisbon, Sao Paulo and Paris. Carolina describes what she learned as a facilitator for artists Rachel Whiteread and Juan Muñoz; her curatorial residency at the Center for Contemporary Art, Noisy-le-Sec; the evolution of her work with Martin Creed (Cubitt Gallery and Tate Modern, London; Sala Alcalá, Madrid); and how locals get involved with the D.I.Y. biennial she co-organizes with Mario Flecha in the village of Jafre, Spain. Sound Editor: Leo Madriz Photos: Courtesy the artists and Carolina Grau, except where noted Episode End Sound: Martin Creed, Thinking, Not Thinking

Anne McElvoy asks Director David Cronenberg if he sees himself as a political commentator, or are his films all about the spectacle? Lord Robert Winston criticised the Cultural Olympiad for the lack of science in the four-year celebration. Anne McElvoy is joined by Lord Winston and the historian of science Richard Holmes to discuss the relationship between science and the arts. This week marks the 30th anniversary of the end of the Falklands war, and Anne McElvoy talks to authors Carlos Gamerro. His novel “The Islandsâ€*, recently translated in English, gives a surreal account of the war and explores its impact on the Argentinian psyche. And artist Rachel Whiteread's first permanent public commission in this country - a new façade for the Whitechapel Gallery in London. Anne is joined by the art critic for The Times, Rachel Campbell-Johnston.

Canadian singer-songwriter Neil Young; Janet Suzman and Alan Howard on the art of acting; author Jon McGregor, winner of the lucrative International Impac Dublin Literary Award; and artist Rachel Whiteread.

With Mark Lawson. Three decades after TV viewers around the world asked 'Who shot JR?', the saga of the Ewing family arrives in the 21st century, with a revamp of Dallas. In the new version, JR, Bobby and Sue Ellen are joined by the next generation - with just as many rivalries and power-struggles as before. David D'Arcy reviews. Turner Prize-winning artist Rachel Whiteread discusses her new commission, the facade of the Whitechapel Art Gallery. She explains how she found inspiration. The Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Medals are awarded for writing and illustrating books aimed at young people. Unusually this year the same book has won both medals: A Monster Calls was written by Patrick Ness, completed from an idea left by the late Siobhan Dowd, herself a winner of the Carnegie in 2009, and Jim Kay provided the book's atmospheric illustrations. They join Mark to reflect on their collaboration. Front Row is reporting from the four contenders for the Art Fund Prize for museums. Ten years ago, the Watts Gallery near Guildford, which is dedicated to the work of neglected Victorian painter G.F. Watts, was in a sorry state with a leaking roof, broken windows and an average attendance of five visitors a day. But, thanks to a multi-million pound restoration, the gallery has been returned to its former glory, when it was one of the major centres for art in this country. Producer Ellie Bury.

With Mark Lawson. Charlize Theron plays a writer of teen literature who returns to her small hometown to reclaim her happily married high school sweetheart, in her new film Young Adult. But things don't go according to plan. The film is directed by Jason Reitman, who also brought us Juno and Up in the Air. Ryan Gilbey reviews. The Orange Prize-winning novelist Kate Grenville discusses her novel Sarah Thornhill in which she returns to early Australia and the story of the Thornhill family, whose story she told in her novel The Secret River. The Singing Detective, the TV drama series written by Dennis Potter and starring Michael Gambon, returns to our screens 26 years after it was first shown. Chris Dunkley and Rebecca Nicholson re-assess this TV classic. And writer Joanne Harris visits a new exhibition in Sheffield with a focus on the family, with artists ranging from William Hogarth to Rachel Whiteread. Producer Jerome Weatherald.

With Kirsty Lang. Singer Michael Stipe and bassist Mike Mills from the band REM discuss what it feels like to 'call it a day as a band' after 30 years, 15 studio albums and 85 million albums sold. They reflect on their career in the light of a new retrospective double album called REM, Part Lies, Part Heart, Part Truth, Part Garbage, 1982-2011. Artists including Tracey Emin, Rachel Whiteread, Howard Hodgkin and Martin Creed have created posters for the London 2012 Olympics and Paralympics, unveiled today. Three of the artists reveal their inspirations, and Waldemar Januszczak discusses whether the new posters are winners. In a time of austerity, the TV schedules still find space for programmes about the super-rich. Boyd Hilton assesses the appeal of shows such as Billion $$ Girl, about the daughter of F1 chief Bernie Ecclestone, and Keeping Up With The Kardashians. Producer Philippa Ritchie.

Sue Lawley's castaway this week is the artist Rachel Whiteread.She came to public prominence in 1993 with the life-size concrete cast of a Victorian house in East London. The sculpture prompted a public debate about what conceptual art is - the house was destroyed shortly afterwards. At the same time, Whiteread was named winner of the Turner Prize at the age of 30. She had studied sculpture at the Slade School of Fine Art and became one of the generation of Young British Artists, with her work displayed alongside that of Damien Hirst. Her most controversial work - a memorial to 65,000 Austrian Jews who died in the Holocaust - was unveiled in Vienna in 2000 amid heightened political tension. Much of her work focuses on casting hidden spaces, with the inside of a box as the inspiration for the 14,000 boxes which form her latest exhibit, Embankment, on display at Tate Modern, London, until the end of April.[Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]Favourite track: The Köln Concert Part 1 by Keith Jarrett Book: A reference book on the natural history of the island Luxury: Ink, pen, paper and correction fluid

Sue Lawley's castaway this week is the artist Rachel Whiteread. She came to public prominence in 1993 with the life-size concrete cast of a Victorian house in East London. The sculpture prompted a public debate about what conceptual art is - the house was destroyed shortly afterwards. At the same time, Whiteread was named winner of the Turner Prize at the age of 30. She had studied sculpture at the Slade School of Fine Art and became one of the generation of Young British Artists, with her work displayed alongside that of Damien Hirst. Her most controversial work - a memorial to 65,000 Austrian Jews who died in the Holocaust - was unveiled in Vienna in 2000 amid heightened political tension. Much of her work focuses on casting hidden spaces, with the inside of a box as the inspiration for the 14,000 boxes which form her latest exhibit, Embankment, on display at Tate Modern, London, until the end of April. [Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs] Favourite track: The Köln Concert Part 1 by Keith Jarrett Book: A reference book on the natural history of the island Luxury: Ink, pen, paper and correction fluid