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Shows that Go OnS2:E6 Britain can make it, 1946In this episode Malika Browne talks to design academic Dr Harriet Atkinson about landmark exhibition Britain can make it, V&A 1946 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2025-05-0936 min
Shows that Go OnS2: E5 The Weather Project, 2003In this episode Malika Browne talks to art historian, author and museum director Will Gompertz about Olafur Eliasson’s unforgettable installation in the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern in 2003. Was it an exhibition in the strictest sense of the word? Or was it an installation, a happening or even an ‘environment’? It was certainly a landmark event in London that decade. Will worked at Tate at the time, and has fascinating insights into the exhibition and how it came about. This is a Froody Music production. Thanks to Martin Lumsden Hosted on Aca...2025-04-0932 min
Shows that Go OnS2: E4 Cybernetic Serendipity, 1968In this episode Malika Browne talks to Melanie Lenz, digital curator at the V&A about the groundbreaking exhibition Cybernetic Serendipity at the ICA in `London in 1968 in a discussion that explores the origins and the military uses of cybernetics, the difference between cybernetics and AI, and the effect this show had on its visitors in the pre-computer age.DO NOT MISS Electric Dreams at Tate Modern on til 1st June 2025, about art and technology before the internet. It has a whole room about Cybernetic Serendipity! Further Reading:"Cybernetic Serendipity": The...2025-02-2633 min
Shows that Go OnS2: E3 Sensation, 1997In this episode Malika Browne talks to art historian and author Dr Ben Street about the shocking exhibition Sensation at the Royal Academy in London in 1997, and describes the rise of the YBAs (Young British Artists) and what a pivotal moment it was for British art in the decade when the UK was dubbed Cool Britannia. Further Reading:Lucky Kunst by Gregor MuirThis is a Froody Music production. Thanks to Martin Lumsden Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2024-12-2148 min
Shows that Go OnS2: E2 The Great Exhibition 1851In this episode Malika Browne talks to journalist, novelist and biographer A N Wilson about the Great Exhibition of 1851, which took place in Hyde Park over six months and attracted over 6 million visitors. The profit from the wildly popular international commercial exhibition led to the founding of London’s now famous South Kensington museums, and the area known as Albertopolis. The Royal Commission for the 1851 exhibition goes on to this day, dispensing grants to scientists.Further Reading:Prince Albert: The man who saved the monarchy by A N WilsonThe World for a...2024-11-2043 min
Shows that Go OnS2: E1 Manet and the Post Impressionists 1910In this episode, art historian and curator David Boyd Haycock describes Roger Fry’’s legendary exhibition, Manet and the Post Impressionists held at the Grafton Galleries in 1910. In her essay Mr Bennett and Mrs Brown, Virginia Woolf wrote that on or about 1910, “human character changed”, a statement generally accepted to be a reference to the Post Impressionists show. Further Reading:A Crisis of Brilliance by David Boyd HaycockRoger Fry, an autobiography by Virginia Woolf The Sultan of Zanzibar by Martyn Downer about the spectacular hoaxes of Horace de Vere Cole, in...2024-10-2343 min
Shows that Go OnS1: E6 The Armory Show, 1913In this episode, art historian Irene Walsh describes the now legendary Armory Show of 1913 in New York City. Irene wrote her PhD on art collector Lillie P Bliss, and she tells us about the groundbreaking show's shock value, the mockery that surrounded some of the paintings in it, and their unexpected effects on the American public and the art market. She tells us how the show led to the founding of New York's MoMa in 1929.Further Reading:The Story of the Armory Show by Milton W Brown, Abbeville Press Inc.,U.S. 1988...2024-07-0937 min
Shows that Go OnS1: E5 Seeing Salvation, 2000In this episode, guest Dr Xavier Bray, director of the Wallace Collection, describes the surprise hit exhibition in London in 2000: Seeing Salvation, Image of Christ, at the National Gallery. He shares his memories of being an assistant (and very junior) curator of the show and explains why images of Christ still resonate and matter. He talks about the impact of art on us and suggests what sort of exhibition the world perhaps needs at this troubled time.Further Reading:The Image of Christ: The Catalogue of the Exhibition "Seeing Salvation" (National Gallery of London...2024-06-0239 min
Shows that Go OnS1:E4 Beaton Portraits, 1968In this episode, guest Susanna Brown explains why the Cecil Beaton show of 1968 was groundbreaking, both for photography as an art, as well as for the National Portrait Gallery. Both its content and its design changed the museum, exhibitions, and photograph in Britain forever.Further Reading: Cecil Beaton's diaries in 6 parts in particular The Parting Years: 1963-74, Sapere Books, 2018The Roy Strong Diaries 1967-1987, Weidenfeld & Nicholson 1997Beaton's Bright Young Things, Robin Muir, National Portrait Gallery, 2020Beaton by Bailey - watch on...2024-05-3146 min
Shows that Go OnS1: E3 54-64 Painting and Sculpture of a Decade 1964Malika Browne talks to former art critic Ian Dunlop about the landmark art show for Swinging London at the Tate, in 1964 for which the museum's Duveen Galleries were turned into a claustrophobic labyrinth of new art from America and Europe, putting London firmly on the art map.Further reading:The Shock of the New: Seven Historic Exhibitions of Modern Art by Ian Dunlop, 1972 This is an Ictus Media production, edited by Leo HornakLondon’s New Scene: Art and Culture in the 1960s by Professor Lisa Tickner, Yale Uni...2024-04-3023 min
Shows that Go OnS1:E2 The Destruction of the Country House Show, 1974In this episode, guest Sir Simon Jenkins explains how a simple yet powerful exhibition of black and white photographs shamed and shocked the government and the public, and brought about a change in policy towards country houses.Further Reading: England's 1000 best Houses (2003) by Simon Jenkins Life in the English Country House: A Social and Architectural History (1978) by Marc GirouardThis is an Ictus Media production, edited by Leo HornakThe Destruction of The Country House 1875-1975 by Roy Strong, Marcus Binney and John Ha...2024-04-3039 min
Shows that Go OnS1: E1 Bacon in Moscow, 1988Malika Browne talks to James Birch about Francis Bacon's exhibition at the Union of Artists in Moscow in 1988, the first by a foreign artist in the USSR since 1917. Why did Francis Bacon agree to it? How hard was it to organise a Western art show in the USSR in 1988? Find out by listening!Further reading:Bacon in Moscow by James Birch, Cheerio 2022With Gilbert and George in Moscow by Dan Farson, Bloomsbury 1991This is an Ictus Media production, edited by Leo Hornak Hosted...2024-04-3040 min
Shows that Go OnTrailerThis is an Ictus Media production, edited by Leo Hornak Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2024-04-2900 min
Morning MeetingThe Real Karl Lagerfeld—the Inside StoryThis week, Malika Browne has the riveting story of one of the most notorious serial killers of the 1970s, who is alive and well and living in Paris. Then Stuart Heritage joins from the U.K. with his funny report of two nepo babies who just might be the ultimate bridezillas. And finally, William Middleton, the author of a new book on Karl Lagerfeld, shares new details of "Kaiser Karl" and the man behind (or is it beneath?) the powdered wig. All this and more make this week's show one you won't want to miss.2023-02-2533 min
Morning MeetingIt's a Very Merry Podcast—Our Christmas EpisodeThis week, James Wolcott stops by to reminisce about the wonderful pleasures he discovered as a young man in 1980s New York, when he spent the holiday alone in an empty and beautiful city. Then, speaking of life's small pleasures, Malika Browne joins us from London to discuss the Clink, London's hot new restaurant that is, well, a little rough around the edges. All this and more make this week's show one you won't want to miss.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.2022-12-2420 min