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Cornelia Parker talks prints, process and inspirations
17 juli 2017 · 56 min
To fully enjoy this podcast, we recommend listening while viewing the images Cornelia Parker presented alongside her talk: roy.ac/2uuXhFB Lees meer
Cornelia Parker, one of today’s most renowned artists, speaks candidly about what inspires her and her printmaking practice, in conversation with Jan Dalley, Arts Editor of The Financial Times.
Cornelia Parker is well known for her large-scale, often site-specific, installations. Often there is an apocalyptic tone to her work, but Parker also demonstrates a concern with the more insidious effects of global warming and consumerism.
Parker works in a variety of media and has collaborated with institutions such as HM Customs & Excise, Royal Armouries, Madame Tussauds and Victoria & Albert Museum. She was nominated for the Turner Prize in 1997 and appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 2010.
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Designing urban identities: West London
9 juni 2017 · 1 uur 32 min
While much attention has been placed on the drastic changes in East London, there are equally major projects in West London that are reconfiguring the nature of the built environment. Old Oak Common, Earls Court and Acton are just some of the next housebuilding hotspots in London, and with the opening of the East-West Crossrail line and the expansion plans for Heathrow Airport, these projects will drastically transform the economy, cityscape and thus identity of West London. Lees meer
The character of the urban fabric of London varies across the city, and has been shaped over time by varying economic, political and social factors. As new developments emerge they need to both respond to existing conditions and help formulate a future vision and identity for the locale within London. How are these new developments responding to existing and future identities? What is the role of local communities in defining these new areas?
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Designing urban identities: East London
9 juni 2017 · 1 uur 27 min
From Stratford to Royal Docks, the identity of East London is being drastically reshaped, turning this former industrial area into one of the new cultural and financial districts of the city. We look at key projects in development that will have a major impact on East London with architects, planners and social and political commentators. Lees meer
The architectural heritage of London varies between sub-regions, boroughs and local communities, creating a city with many different characters. Will this be the case in the future, and how are new developments responding to existing identities and shaping new ones? And indeed, how important are these identities to the city’s future strength and prosperity?
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International Architects Series: Aires Mateus
8 juni 2017 · 57 min
Portuguese architects Aires Mateus talk about their calm approach to architecture, exploring light and form through their recent projects. Lees meer
Over the last thirty years, Aires Mateus have gained international recognition for their delicate and respectful contemporary reinterpretation of Portuguese architectural tradition. Their portfolio started with the small-scale residential projects for which they became best-known and has now expanded internationally, with commissions for a wide range of public and private clients.
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The Soviet state and the avant-garde
24 mei 2017 · 1 uur 4 min
Professor Christina Lodder and writer and curator Konstantin Akinsha explore the complex relationship between the Soviet leadership and the avant-garde art movement in Russia between 1917-32, in a discussion chaired by art historian Theodora Clarke. Lees meer
Avant-garde artists were some of the first to embrace the Bolshevik cause, with a common interest in “a new art for a new society”. As Anatoly Lunacharsky, People’s Commissar of Enlightenment, declared in 1918 to composer Sergey Prokofiev, “You are revolutionary in music as we are revolutionary in life”.
Members of the avant-garde took key posts in the new regime and benefited from state resources. However within a few years, the state began to withdraw its support, feeling that abstract art could not advance the communist cause if the masses could not understand it. A more persuasive and recognisable art best suited the party’s requirements. By 1932, the politicised figurative art of Socialist Realism became the dominant style and independent artistic movements vanished.
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Maggi Hambling in conversation with Tim Marlow
24 mei 2017 · 57 min
Painter and sculptor Maggi Hambling discusses her work with the RA’s Artistic Director, Tim Marlow. Lees meer
One of Britain’s foremost contemporary artists, Hambling is perhaps best known for her compelling portraits, paintings of the sea and her celebrated and controversial public sculpture, including 'A Conversation with Oscar Wilde' (1998) and 'Scallop' (2003). Her work is represented in major British Collections including the British Museum, the National Gallery, National Portrait Gallery, V&A and Tate.
Hambling has never been afraid of addressing big themes and delivers the simultaneous presence of life and death in her work. Following her recent retrospective at the British Museum, her exhibition, Edge, at Marlborough Fine Art (1 March–13 April), presented a new series where polar icecaps melt, Aleppo and its inhabitants fall, ghosts hover and Hamlet questions.
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Peter Wormersley: forgotten master of architecture
24 mei 2017 · 1 uur 21 min
Scottish architect Neil Gillespie and historian Simon Green discuss the intriguing yet often overlooked contribution of Peter Womersley to Scottish modern architecture. Lees meer
Trained at the Architectural Association in London, most of Womersley's first commissions were private homes for clients including textile designer Bernat Klein. These experimental and poetic houses show their debt to Frank Lloyd Wright, while his larger public commissions followed a more brutalist tradition with in-situ concrete and strong geometric forms. These include the Gala Fairydean Stadium with its distinctive concrete origami structure and soaring cantilevers, designed in collaboration with Ove Arup, and the highly sculptural Boiler House, for the Melrose District Asylum. Although most of his works are located in the Scottish Borders, with others across the UK, he was a frequent traveller and lived and worked briefly in both Hong Kong and Kuwait.
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Black art and activism
18 mei 2017 · 1 uur 21 min
Artists Sonia Boyce RA, Dr Kimathi Donkor and Jacob V Joyce join arts practitioner and academic Dr Michael McMillan to discuss whether black artists today are expected to challenge global and national issues of race and representation. Can art and spaces for art contribute to an ongoing dialogue between visual culture and activism in the context of racial prejudice? How do artists see their role? Is art an effective vehicle for protest, grief or hope? Lees meer
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The art of the 1930s American dream
19 april 2017 · 1 uur
Professor Sarah Churchwell examines the political, cultural and aesthetic contexts to work by Grant Wood, Edward Hopper, Reginald Marsh and Georgia O’Keeffe, alongside popular films of the Great Depression era. Lees meer
During the Great Depression of the 1930s, the United States confronted for the first time the possibility that the American experiment might have failed. It was during this period that the phrase “the American dream” was first coined and became a catchphrase for debating the promises and failures of the American project. American artists responded to questions about a national or collective sense of identity with works that raised questions about history, politics, social realism and allegory, about the nation’s mythological past, its anxious present and its hopes for the future.
Sarah Churchwell is professorial fellow in American literature and chair of public understanding of the humanities at the School of Advanced Study, University of London.
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Art under state control from the Russian Revolution to today
19 april 2017 · 1 uur 15 min
Throughout history the arts have been subject to varying degrees of state control in different countries across the world. It is evident that art can survive even under a severe curtailment of artistic freedom, but can creativity flourish? State support is significant to the development of the arts, but even in countries where freedom of expression is encouraged, it can also unduly influence its direction through funding, policies and control over education. Should art be connected to the state? To what extent do governments preside over their countries' cultural sectors today? Lees meer
Speakers:
Elena Sudakova – Founder and Director of GRAD: Gallery for Russian Arts and Design
Edmund Clark – award-winning artist who uses photography, found imagery and text to explore links between representation and politics.
Kirsty Lang (chair) – journalist and broadcaster, presenter of Radio 4’s ‘Front Row’.
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The potential and pitfalls of communal living today
19 april 2017 · 1 uur 26 min
Inspired by idealist proposals for a new way of life after the Russian Revolution, the panel interrogate the feasibility of co-living that is accessible to all, and suggest what other aspects of our everyday life could benefit from being more communal. Lees meer
Is there room for shared spaces in an individualistic society? Can a more communal attitude help tackle the issues of contemporary society, or does it make them more acute? Does shared responsibility lead to no responsibility?
Speakers:
Helen Jarvis – Reader in Social Geography at Newcastle University, whose research interests include the “social architectures” of shared space and self-governance in collaborative living arrangements.
Anna Puigjaner – Co-founder of Barcelona-based MAIO studio, winner of the 2016 Wheelwright Prize for her proposal to study collective housing models across the world and their approaches to organising domestic spaces.
Andy Willimott – Lecturer in Modern Russian/Soviet History at the University of Reading, author of 'Living the Revolution: Urban Communes & Soviet Socialism, 1917 – 1932'.
Clem Cecil (chair) – Executive Director of Pushkin House, co-founder of the Moscow Architecture Preservation Society, Trustee of SAVE Europe’s Heritage, former director of SAVE Britain’s Heritage and SAVE Europe’s Heritage
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American Gothic: Grant Wood's personal and stylistic influences
19 april 2017 · 1 uur 10 min
Art historian R. Tripp Evans delves deep into the significance and origins of Grant Wood’s iconic American Gothic – a painting at once one of the most recognisable and enigmatic images in American art. Lees meer
When American Gothic debuted at the Art Institute of Chicago in the autumn of 1930, critics from New York to Berlin hailed the work as a “national portrait”. Some championed the image as a tribute to a lost agrarian age, while others perceived in it a wicked satire of American provincialism. Decidedly more gothic than it is American, the painting conjures the ghosts and family secrets of Wood’s own past, casting each of its haunting figures in multiple roles.
Art historian R. Tripp Evans is the award-winning author of 'Grant Wood: A Life' (2010) and professor of art history at Wheaton College, Massachusetts.
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Back to the future: the remnants of Modernism's postwar ideals
19 april 2017 · 1 uur 20 min
Looking to the future was an essential part of Modernism; its postwar advocates believed that they were building a new and better world. In a second age of austerity, when we face housing shortages once more, do the utopian ideals of postwar Modernism offer any solution? Lees meer
Speakers:
Peter Barber – architect, principal, Peter Barber Architects, and lecturer, University of Westminster
Farshid Moussavi RA – architect, founder, Farshid Moussavi Architecture (FMA), and Professor in Practice of Architecture, Harvard Graduate School of Design
Douglas Murphy – architect, architecture correspondent, Icon magazine, and author of 'Last Futures: Nature, Technology and the End of Architecture'
Adrian Forty (chair) – Emeritus Professor of the History of Architecture, The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL
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Introduction to ‘Revolution: Russian Art 1917–1932’
5 april 2017 · 56 min
Exhibition co-curator Professor John Milner introduces ‘Revolution: Russian Art 1917-1932’ and investigates how artists from Kazimir Malevich to Alexander Deineka made Russian art revolutionary in the first 15 years after the Bolshevik revolution of 1917. Lees meer
The revolution triggered radical innovations in Russian art. Encouraged to work collectively to promote the revolution, artists began to make a face for the Bolshevik regime, replacing signs of the Imperial command with an art for the people. Artists including Kandinsky, Malevich, Tatlin, Rodchenko and Popova turned the storm of the Russian Revolution into a radical experiment in art and society.
In 1932, the work of these artists was celebrated and exhibited in 'Artists of the Russian Federation over Fifteen Years', a diverse survey held in Leningrad and curated by the critic Nikolai Punin. Yet later in the same year, all independent art groups were dissolved, and Socialist Realism became the dominant force in the Russian art world.
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Art in the service of the Russian Revolution
28 maart 2017 · 55 min
Dr Natalia Murray, co-curator of the RA's ‘Revolution: Russian Art 1917-32’, explores how visual art was used to propagate revolutionary and communist ideas in the aftermath of the Russian Revolution. Lees meer
The Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 aimed to destroy the old bourgeois society and build a new, homogenous socialist state. Overnight becoming the ruling party in Russia, the Bolsheviks aimed to use the power of mass propaganda to establish their founding mythology and disseminate their ideas to an overwhelmingly rural and illiterate population. The leader of the new Bolshevik state, Vladimir Lenin, proclaimed that culture should support political needs, which effectively meant that all culture was now viewed as propaganda. The Bolshevik regime also believed that culture should not be for a privileged minority, but should be of mass appeal, promoting a so-called “proletarian” art.
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Concrete fetishes: the ghost of Brutalism's radical social agenda
28 maart 2017 · 1 uur 3 min
Today, although its monuments are vanishing, Brutalism enjoys a ghostly afterlife. Following decades of official and public contempt, its rehabilitation began when concrete tower blocks featured prominently in 1990s music videos by Britpop groups such as Blur and Suede. This revival continued in mid-2000s blogs by writers such as Owen Hatherley, and today it flourishes in Instagram accounts, soft furnishings, art galleries and coffee-table books. Lees meer
Meanwhile the buildings themselves have become hot property, changing hands for sums that are far beyond the means of their intended inhabitants. What are the causes of this strange resurgence in Brutalism’s popularity? Is it simply nostalgia, or does it represent a form of opposition to the politics that caused the demolition of so many of its exemplars?
Why does Brutalism seem so at home in new media that are the very opposite of its material ideals? Are its fans interested in the ethic or just the aesthetic, to appropriate the terms that Reyner Banham used to interrogate Brutalism in the 1950s? If it’s the latter, what does this fetishism tell us about our current situation?
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Film and the Soviet avant garde
27 maart 2017 · 1 uur 2 min
Ian Christie discusses the place of film as an art form after the revolution in Russia and the relationship between Soviet filmmakers and other artists of the time. Lees meer
The status of film as an art form rose considerably after the revolution, with Lenin claiming that “of all the arts, for us the cinema is the most important”. However, cinema’s success created bitter divisions among artists seeking support from the generally conservative regime, and encouraged disdain among some of the leading avant-garde artists of the time.
Christie is Anniversary Professor of Film and Media History at Birkbeck, University of London and advisor on film in the RA's exhibition 'Revolution: Russia 1917-1932'.
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Exploring the relationship between gender and materials in art
27 maart 2017 · 54 min
A panel discussion exploring the relationship between art, gender and materials and how an artist’s process, biography and scale of work can shape our reading of gendered art practice. Lees meer
The panel is comprised of artists Ann Christopher RA, Coco Crampton and Mark Dunhill (of Dunhill and O’Brien, and chaired by Helena Reckitt, Senior Lecturer in Curating at Goldsmiths University
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International Architects Series: Izaskun Chinchilla
27 maart 2017 · 1 uur 8 min
Izaskun Chinchilla leads a discussion that asks how architectural design practices can be used to empower women. Would an architecture that is more in tune with the needs of women be more beneficial for everyone? How can planning policy adapt to the fact that men and women use public space in different ways? Would embracing the aesthetics associated with women allow architecture engage a wider public? Lees meer
Chinchilla is characteristic of a new generation of architects focusing on the connections between social and scientific thinking. While her practice and research are are consistently informed by a dedicated attention to “how a fully developed female mind-set can create new business, cultural, social and environmental opportunities".
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Architecture and urbanism in Moscow today
27 maart 2017 · 56 min
Architect, curator and teacher Daria Paramonova discusses the aesthetics, economics and ethics of Moscow's cityscape today. Lees meer
As Moscow faces a remarkable stage of urban redevelopment, it is forced to engage with spaces that have been forgotten since the fall of the Soviet Union 25 years ago. With an unprecedented emphasis on pedestrians, safety, ecology and technology, the city is rebuilding its buildings, streets and public spaces, transforming into an urban environment with new parameters of comfort.
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Anthony Green RA in conversation with Timothy Hyman RA
23 maart 2017 · 56 min
This conversation with painter Timothy Hyman RA explores Green’s career from the 1960s to the present day, focusing on his new exhibition at the RA; the centrepiece of which is a never-before-shown painting telling the story of Green’s mother’s second marriage, seen through his eyes as a 13-year-old boy. Lees meer
The paintings of Anthony Green RA are immediately recognisable from their characteristically irregular shapes and the artist’s acutely personal choice of subject matter; his work has been a fixture in the Academy’s Summer Exhibition for the last 50 years.
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Pin Drop: short stories with Siân Phillips and Eileen Atkins
23 maart 2017 · 1 uur
In this exclusive joint appearance, leading stars of stage and screen Siân Phillips and Eileen Atkins read selected works of exceptional Russian literature. The readings conclude with a Q&A chaired by Pin Drop founder Simon Oldfield.
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International Architects Series: Hollwich Kushner
17 maart 2017 · 42 min
New York-based practice Hollwich Kushner / HWKN put people at the centre of their projects to create innovative social experiences, through the exploration of new functional programmes and building typologies. Lees meer
Their projects are rich in personality and responsive to local context – in 2012 the practice gained widespread international attention with an air-cleaning blue spiky installation called Wendy, with which they won the MoMA PS1’s Young Architects Programme. They are also the founders of Architizer, one of the world’s largest online platforms for architecture and design, revolutionising the dissemination of architecture.
Recent built projects include a sculptural timber leisure pavilion at Fire Island Pines in New York, the historic centre of gay vacation culture, and the transformation of a 20th-century paint factory into an innovation centre at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Architecture: Carme Pigem of RCR Arquitectes
17 maart 2017 · 48 min
With the news that little-known Catalan studio RCR Arquitectes has won this year's Pritzker Prize, we revisit a 2010 talk given at the RA by one third of the trio, Carme Pigem. Lees meer
All three studied at the School of Architecture in Vallès, and then set up their practice in their home town of Olot, Catalonia, in 1988. The studio has tackled everything from athletics track to library and winery to kindergarten. In this talk, Pigem discusses her career and the studio's thoughtful work so far.
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Architecture: Modernism in everyday life
23 februari 2017 · 53 min
Think of postwar Modernism and images of monumental buildings inevitably come to mind. However, there were also figures working to introduce architectural modernity on a more approachable scale: the artists who illustrated Ladybird books, for instance, and the designers who created the first chain pubs. Lees meer
By expanding our focus to incorporate these minor modernisms we can develop a more holistic understanding of the period and move beyond the canonisation of certain buildings as icons to picture a more vibrant, living modernity.
Speakers:
John Grindrod – Writer and author of 'Concretopia: A Journey Around the Rebuilding of Postwar Britain'Ben Highmore – Writer, Professor of Cultural Studies, University of Sussex, and author of 'Culture (Key Ideas in Media and Cultural Studies)' and 'The Great Indoors: At Home in the Modern British House'
Penny Sparke – Pro Vice-Chancellor and Director, Modern Interiors Research Centre, Kingston University
Joe Kerr (chair) – Architectural historian, Co-editor of 'London: From Punk to Blair' and an occasional bus driver at Tottenham garage
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International Architects Series: Vo Trong Nghia
10 februari 2017 · 1 uur
The Vietnamese practice Vo Trong Nghia aims to create a green architecture for today's world. They boast a series of award-winning projects with an innovative capacity to integrate inexpensive, local materials with contemporary aesthetics and a high level of social and ecological awareness. Vo Trong Nghia has become a leading proponent of using bamboo as a building material, proclaiming it will “…become the ‘green steel’ of the 21st century.” Lees meer
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David Bailey in conversation with Tim Marlow
31 januari 2017 · 1 uur 3 min
Listen to legendary photographer and filmmaker David Bailey in conversation with the RA’s Artistic Director Tim Marlow, discussing his influential work and innovative portrait photographs from the last 60 years. Lees meer
With a career spanning over half a century, David Bailey is one of the world’s most celebrated photographers. Discarding the rigid rules of a previous generation of portrait and fashion photographers, his work defined a new era and shaped the future of photography. In 1971, Bailey’s photos appeared in the landmark exhibition SNAP! at the National Portrait Gallery, a show of modern portraiture that also featured painted portraits by David Hockney RA. Bailey has since produced some of the most famous portrait photographs that have featured in major exhibitions and publications worldwide.
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Architecture: Britain's forgotten estates
18 januari 2017 · 1 uur 7 min
How have Britain’s post-war housing estates become a battleground of differing political and architectural ideologies? As increasing numbers of estates are threatened with redevelopment, this discussion considers the ideals that created them and the legacies they have today, as both places to live and as repositories of meaning and memory. Lees meer
Speakers:
Jessie Brennan – Artist; author of Regeneration! Conversations, Drawings, Archives & Photographs from Robin Hood Gardens (2015)
Mark Crinson – Professor of Architectural History, Birkbeck, University of London
Kate Macintosh – Architect, formerly of the London Boroughs of Southwark and Lambeth, and East Sussex and Hampshire County Councils; designer of Dawson’s Heights, East Dulwich (1964–72)
Dr Paul Watt – Reader in Urban Studies, Birkbeck, University of London
Owen Hopkins – Architecture Programme Curator, Royal Academy (chair)You can also watch a video of this talk on YouTube at roy.ac/estates
Listen to a related talk about the future of Britain's estates: roy.ac/future
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Architecture: Britain's future estates
18 januari 2017 · 59 min
Following a previous debate exploring the changing status of Britain’s post-war housing estates, this discussion looks at estate regeneration and the range of alternatives that exist to the growing threat of demolition. Lees meer
Speakers:
Geraldine Dening – Architect and founder, Architects for Social Housing
Adam Khan – Founder, Adam Khan Architects
John Lewis – Executive Director Thamesmead, Peabody
Sarah Wigglesworth – Architect, director of Sarah Wigglesworth Architects
Oliver Wainwright – Architecture critic, The Guardian (chair)Listen to a related talk about Britain's forgotten housing estates: roy.ac/forgotten
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Figurative painting in the twentieth century
13 december 2016 · 48 min
Painter and writer Timothy Hyman RA and curator Roger Malbert discuss the artists who have chosen to pursue figurative painting over the last century. Lees meer
With the arrival of abstraction and movements such as Abstract Expressionism in the 20th century, people began to see figurative painting as outdated and at odds with the very concept of modern art. Discussing Hyman's new book 'The World New Made: Figurative Painting in the Twentieth Century', Hyman and Malbert highlight a range of Modernists who, despite their awareness of abstraction, chose to work in narrative and confessional modes. Works by often-marginalised artists such as Max Beckmann and Stanley Spencer, Marsden Hartley and Alice Neel, Charlotte Salomon and Henry Darger, express the possibility of a new kind of figuration, as well as a foundation for our questioning of formalist readings of 20th-century art.
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Architecture and 'Origins': a discussion with Ordinary Architecture, Joseph Rykwert and Kieran Reed
13 december 2016 · 51 min
Charles Holland and Elly Ward of Ordinary Architecture discuss the ideas that informed the 'Origins' project at the RA, and reflect on its implications for the ways architecture is typically created and understood. The distinguished architectural writer Joseph Rykwert and artist Kieren Reed both respond, before a panel discussion and questions from the audience. Lees meer
'Origins' is a series of interventions which form an intriguing contemporary counterpoint to various ‘origin myths’ of architecture that have arisen over history. Realised through a number of techniques and materials, the interventions are grouped according to particular themes, which together pose a new set of origin myths for how architecture is both created and experienced.
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The Eclectic Art of James Ensor
13 december 2016 · 56 min
Herwig Todts, Conservator of Modern Art at the Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp, examines the eclectic nature of James Ensor's work and his creative process. Lees meer
The work of Ensor is so extremely varied that his oeuvre has been viewed by some as verging on incoherent. Ensor wrote many satirical texts, and through close analysis of these texts an explanation begins to emerge for this inconsistency: Ensor did it on purpose. He developed each of his artistic projects from a different starting point. Whether he was solving a stylistic problem or following a specific technique, the different artworks he produced as a result were impressively diverse.
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Yinka Shonibare MBE RA and David Shrigley in conversation with Dr Gilda Williams
13 december 2016 · 54 min
Yinka Shonibare MBE RA and David Shrigley discuss new work, as well as their experiences of being commissioned to create pieces for the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square with art critic and lecturer Gilda Williams. Both influential artists share a particular perspective on British humour and reflect on the impact on their respective practices of being commissioned to create art for the Fourth Plinth. Lees meer
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Abstract Expressionism: revisiting the movement
13 december 2016 · 1 uur
Academicians Basil Beattie, Mali Morris, Paul Huxley and Christopher Le Brun PRA discuss their personal responses to Abstract Expressionism and how the new approaches to composition, colour and scale influenced and impacted on the visual arts both then and now. Examining how artists and the arts world internationally responded to Abstract Expressionism, they consider the significance of this influential movement of the 20th century and why its impact still resounds today. Lees meer
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International Architects Series: Christ & Gantenbein
12 december 2016 · 1 uur 12 min
Christ & Gantenbein, designers of the recently opened Kunstmuseum in Basel and the extension to the Swiss National Museum in Zurich, come to the RA to discuss their acclaimed work.
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Women of Abstract Expressionism
12 december 2016 · 49 min
Artists Vanessa Jackson RA and Clare Price, along with curator Gwen Chanzit from the Denver Art Museum, discuss the important female figures of Abstract Expressionism, and explore the relationship between artists and the gendered practice of abstract painting. Lees meer
Although their work has often been overlooked in favour of their male contemporaries, artists such as Lee Krasner, Joan Mitchell and Helen Frankenthaler were major players in the Abstract Expressionist movement. Gallerists Peggy Guggenheim and Betty Parsons also played an instrumental role in promoting Abstract Expressionism and establishing its position in the international art market.
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London Beyond Brexit
12 december 2016 · 52 min
What will be the implications of Brexit on London’s development and status as a global city over the next few decades? Can London remain a global city outside of the EU? Should it, if London’s success comes at the expense of the rest of the UK? Will London become less attractive to investment and if so, what will the effects be on development, especially with regard to housing? What opportunities does Brexit offer for remaking the relationship between London and the rest of the UK for the better? Our panel offers some answers. Lees meer
Panel includes:
Iwona Blazwick – Director, Whitechapel Gallery
Stella Creasy – Member of Parliament for Walthamstow
Paul Finch – Programme Director, World Architecture Festival; columnist, Architects’ Journal
Carol Patterson – Director, UK, OMA
Tom Copley AM – Deputy Chair of the London Assembly Housing Committee; Member of the Planning and Transport Committees
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Luc Tuymans in conversation with Adrian Locke
12 december 2016 · 51 min
Luc Tuymans discusses his distinguished career as a contemporary painter, as well as his curation of the James Ensor exhibition, with Senior Curator Adrian Locke. Lees meer
Since the late 1970s, Tuymans’s easily-recognisable, sparsely-coloured figurative canvases have redefined the traditional genres of the everyday and history painting. Drawing in part on influences which range from Flemish Old Master painting to the contemporary mass media, his works are almost always painted from pre-existing imagery and produced in distinct, thematic series.
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Abstract Expressionism and jazz improvisation with Evan Parker
5 december 2016 · 41 min
A discussion between legendary jazz saxophonist Evan Parker and artist and musician David Ryan, exploring the connections between free improvisation in jazz and the Abstract Expressionism movement. Lees meer
The British jazz saxophone revolutionary Evan Parker transformed the language and techniques of the instrument in the late 1960s and has since become one of the world’s most admired and influential saxophone improvisers. Described by Stewart Lee as “the greatest living exponent of free improvisation”, his solo concerts radiate an energetic atmosphere, creating an intensely personal soundscape that both absorbs and mesmerises his audiences.
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International Architects Series: Johnston Marklee
2 december 2016 · 1 uur 1 min
Sharon Johnston and Mark Lee are among the leading figures in a new generation of Los Angeles architects. Ranging from the private houses for which they are best known, to cultural projects such as the ongoing Drawing Institute at the Menil Collection in Houston (a commission won against a star-studded field), Johnston Marklee‘s buildings stand apart for their calmness, distilling the complexity of brief or site into a coherent formal purity. Lees meer
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Abstract Expressionism: a legacy for a new generation
2 december 2016 · 50 min
Abstract Expressionism is considered one of the seminal movements in 20th century art. But to what extent do this generation of artists identify with the movement and its ideas? Artists Gabriel Hartley, Lisa Denyer and Selma Parlour explore their connection to Abstract Expressionism and examine the extent to which the spirit of the movement may be identified in the work of today’s young artists. Lees meer
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An introduction to James Ensor
29 november 2016 · 54 min
Senior Curator Adrian Locke introduces the RA's exhibition ‘Intrigue: James Ensor by Luc Tuymans’ and examines the life and work of this truly original artist. Lees meer
Though largely unknown in the UK, James Ensor is celebrated as one of Belgium’s most innovative artists, an enigmatic figure who rejected the academic training of his youth to cultivate his own individual style in the face of considerable opposition and hostile criticism.
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Pin Drop: Short stories with A.C. Grayling
29 november 2016 · 1 uur 8 min
Listen in on an exceptional evening of short stories with philosopher, author and academic A.C. Grayling. Presented in partnership with Pin Drop, a unique initiative that communicates the unforgettable power of storytelling.
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Abstract Expressionism: an American art movement
29 november 2016 · 51 min
In this talk, Professor Sarah Churchwell examines the social and cultural context that created this first truly American modernist movement and the beginning of New York City’s influence as the centre of the western art world. Lees meer
An unparalleled period in American art, the rise of Abstract Expressionism in America in the 1930s and 1940s reflected the broader cultural context of mid-20th-century America. Global economic, social and political developments impacted on the American, and in particular New York, art scene and led to the emergence of a movement that broke with conventions and brought American art to prominence worldwide.
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Writing Architecture
23 november 2016 · 1 uur 40 min
How do we use writing to help us understand architecture and communicate our experience of it? Our panel discuss. With Professor Adrian Forty (The Bartlett), Dr. Kester Rattenbury (University of Westminster) and Professor Vyv Evans (Bangor University). Lees meer
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Architecture: Infrastructure for the 21st Century
8 november 2016 · 1 uur 27 min
Looking beyond traditional notions of infrastructure, speakers put forward a range of propositions for ensuring London maintains its status as a global city over the next few decades.
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Portraits: Tacita Dean in Conversation with Tim Marlow
2 november 2016 · 48 min
Artist Tacita Dean discusses her work, including her 16mm film 'Portraits' with RA Artistic Director Tim Marlow.
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Introduction to 'Abstract Expressionism' with Edith Devaney
19 oktober 2016 · 56 min
Curator Edith Devaney introduces the ‘Abstract Expressionism’ exhibition and examines the key concepts behind this artistic phenomenon. Lees meer
From the moment that it first emerged in the late 1940s, Abstract Expressionism has been a subject of debate. Although perceived to be a unified movement, in reality it was a much more complex and fluid phenomenon. The Abstract Expressionists broke fresh ground with their attitudes towards scale, colour and composition. Artists like Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko and Willem de Kooning challenged accepted conventions to unleash a new confidence in painting.
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Portraits: Tacita Dean RA in conversation with Tim Marlow
19 oktober 2016 · 48 min
Portraits: Tacita Dean RA in conversation with Tim Marlow by Royal Academy of Arts
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International Architects Series: Heneghan Peng
19 oktober 2016 · 49 min
International Architects Series: Heneghan Peng by Royal Academy of Arts