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International Architects Series: John Wardle
4 oktober 2016 · 1 uur 11 min
John Wardle, one of Australia’s leading architects, explores the ways his buildings weave together landscape, history, memory and materials.
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Floating Ideas: Plug-In To Housing
4 oktober 2016 · 1 uur 28 min
Floating Ideas: Plug-In To Housing by Royal Academy of Arts
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Floating Ideas: Architecture On The Edge
4 oktober 2016 · 1 uur 11 min
Floating Ideas: Architecture On The Edge by Royal Academy of Arts
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John Partridge RA in conversation with Elain Harwood
12 september 2016 · 1 uur 9 min
As a tribute to John Partridge RA, who passed away this summer aged 91, we present this podcast from our archive, in which the architect is in conversation with Elain Harwood, senior architectural investigator for Historic England. Lees meer
Photo: Dennis Toff
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Portraits and Perceptions
22 juli 2016 · 1 uur
A portrait can be defined as an artistic representation of a person, with an intent to display their likeness, personality and even their mood. But who determines what we really see? As a collaboration between subject and artist, to what extent do they each influence our perception of the person who is being presented? Lees meer
Portrait artists James Lloyd and Daphne Todd, and philosopher Nigel Warburton discuss the roles of the subject, artist and viewer in how we understand a portrait. This event is chaired by writer and broadcaster Charlotte Mullins.
Image caption: 'Dame Maggie Smith' (detail), James Lloyd. 'Lord Armstrong in blue' (detail), Daphne Todd
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An introduction to David Hockney
22 juli 2016 · 49 min
Curator Edith Devaney introduces David Hockney’s portrait exhibition, giving an insight into this remarkable series of work and Hockney’s relationship with portraiture as well as her experiences of being one of Hockney’s subjects.
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Sandy Nairne on Contemporary Portraiture
22 juli 2016 · 47 min
While many contemporary portraits demonstrate a respect for the traditions of portraiture, others are places for experimentation and play, employing various media and different approaches to depiction. Lees meer
Writer and curator Sandy Nairne, former director of the National Portrait Gallery, explores developments in contemporary portraiture, and examines how this well-established genre within Western art has been used by artists such as Hockney to innovate.
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Summer Exhibition Stories
22 juli 2016 · 46 min
Discover the origins, characters, behind-the-scene stories as well as the experiences of visitors and artists in the history of the RA Summer Exhibition, the world’s largest open submission of contemporary arts, with the RA Senior Curator of Collections Helen Valentine. Lees meer
Image caption: The 163rd Summer Exhibition, 1931: Sending In Day and works of art are being moved into the Academy for selection. / Unidentified photographer working for Sport and General Press Agency
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Richard Wilson RA In Conversation with Tim Marlow
22 juli 2016 · 49 min
Richard Wilson RA is internationally celebrated for his interventions in architectural space which draw heavily for their inspiration from the worlds of engineering and construction. He is best known for his provoking and playful installations, such as 20:50, a sea of reflective sump oil which is permanently installed in the Saatchi Collection. Lees meer
Here, the artist discusses his celebrated career with Tim Marlow and some of his ideas behind the coordination of this year’s Summer Exhibition.
Photo: Harry Borden
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Cartoons, My Dad and Dementia: Tony Husband
22 juli 2016 · 40 min
When Ron Husband started to forget things - dates, names, appointments … daft things, important things - it took a while to realise that this was ‘a different form of forgetting’. But it was just the first sign of the illness that gradually took him away from the family he loved. Lees meer
In support of Dementia Awareness Week Tony Husband talks about his work as a cartoonist and his inspiration and journey through creating the book 'Take Care, Son: The Story of My Dad and Dementia', a touching illustrated story framed as a chat between Tony and his dad.
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RA and Pin Drop Short Story Award 2016, with Juliet Stevenson
22 juli 2016 · 49 min
Critically-acclaimed British actress Juliet Stevenson reads this year’s winning story of the RA and Pin Drop Short Story Award. Lees meer
With this special literary award, the RA and Pin Drop offer a unique platform for emerging and established writers to showcase their short stories.
Photo: Portrait of Juliet Stevenson, courtesy of Pin Drop
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Giorgione and his World: Problems of Attribution
4 mei 2016 · 48 min
Giorgione was one of the greatest artists who ever lived, yet it is difficult to establish exactly what he painted. Art historian Professor David Ekserdjian examines in detail the works by Giorgione as well as the artistic influence of this enigmatic master. Lees meer
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Provocations in Art: Portrayals of Age and Beauty
4 mei 2016 · 55 min
“That fair face will as years roll on lose its beauty, and old age will bring its wrinkle to the brow” - Ovid Lees meer
Beauty is habitually associated with youth, especially for women, and artistic portrayals of age and ageing have long been a contentious issue in our society. Painted during his all-too-brief artistic career, Giorgione’s La Vecchia is a rare example of a realistic portrayal of an elderly woman in the early 16th century, a period in which portraits of young, idealised ‘beauties’ were more often celebrated. In her hands, the woman holds a scrap of paper inscribed with the words ‘With Time’, referencing the passage of time and a reminder that we all shall age. Using La Vecchia as a starting point, our panel will explore the depiction of ageing in art in conjunction with wider societal considerations of age and beauty.
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An introduction to ‘In the Age of Giorgione’
4 mei 2016 · 53 min
Though Giovanni Bellini was still the leading artist in Venice at the turn of the 16th century, a younger generation, including Giorgione and Titian, started to emerge from his shadow. Their innovations, combined with the influence of visitors such as Albrecht Dürer and Leonardo da Vinci, ushered in a new dawn of Venetian art. Lees meer
One of the first artists to arise was also the most mysterious: little is known about Giorgione’s life, and few works can be definitively attributed to him, yet the elusive poetic quality of his work is so powerful that, despite his early death, his legacy was profoundly felt in Venice and beyond.
In this podcast, curator Per Rumberg explores the idealised beauty, expressive force and sensuous use of colour that became the hallmark of Venetian Renaissance painting.
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The art of horticulture: planting and painting the ‘modern garden’
18 april 2016 · 1 uur 9 min
Meet Monet protecting his peonies with straw, Caillebotte inspecting orchids in his hot-house, Liebermann planning his Wannsee rose-bower, and Matisse thumbing the latest seed catalogues, in this podcast by Clare A.P. Willsdon, Professor of the History of Western Art at the University of Glasgow. Lees meer
Image caption: video still of the dahlias in Emil Nolde's garden © Royal Academy of Arts
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Easels in Eden: Monet’s gardening and painting at Giverny
18 april 2016 · 53 min
From the 1890s until his death in 1926, Monet created over 500 paintings of his private paradise at Giverny. In this talk, Dr Eric Haskell (Scripps College, Claremont University Centre, California) places the Giverny period within the context of the painter’s phenomenal trajectory, then examines how Monet moved beyond representation to abstraction and thus prefigured the Modern aesthetic in the most subtle of terms. Lees meer
In this podcast, Dr Eric Haskell highlights the relationship between Claude Monet’s gardening aesthetic and painterly techniques as he practised and perfected them in his iconic garden at Giverny.
Photo courtesy of Eric Haskell
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"My most beautiful masterpiece": Monet and his garden
18 april 2016 · 33 min
Claude Monet lived at Giverny for 43 years, from 1883 to his death in 1926. A passionate horticulturalist, his garden became a work of art as well as a subject for his paintings. From the Iris garden to his huge waterlily canvases, the garden at Giverny was the focus for some of Monet’s greatest works of art. Lees meer
In this podcast, James Priest, head gardener at Giverny, is in conversation with garden designer and writer James Alexander-Sinclair, discusses Monet’s cultivation of and relationship with the garden that inspired some of his most famous paintings.
Image caption: video still Monet's garden at Giverny © Royal Academy of Arts
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The Future of Housing: What’s the Future of Public Art?
13 april 2016 · 50 min
In conjunction with Historic England’s exhibition Out There: Our Post-War Public Art (2 February – 10 April 2016), which explores the connections between public art and architecture in the post-war decades, this podcast looks at the future of public of art in Britain. What are the ideals and motivations behind the creation of public art? What are its uses? How can we protect public art threatened by redevelopment? Should we be doing so? What, ultimately, does public art say about us as a society? Lees meer
Image caption: Sculpture by Henry Moore in the Brandon Estate, London / Photo © Owen Hopkins
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Mavericks: The Artist as Maverick Architect
13 april 2016 · 1 uur 3 min
Sean Griffiths, co-founder of FAT, one of the architects featured in Mavericks, chairs this discussion exploring the different perspectives artists can bring to the making of architecture. Lees meer
Architecture is no longer solely the domain of architects, but of artists too. Recent years have seen the work of a number of different artists cross into what we usually class as architecture, in some instances as far as whole buildings. Whether working on their own or in collaboration with architects, as is also increasingly common, artists bring a very different way of thinking about both the meaning and function of buildings and space.
Image caption: A House for Essex by FAT and Grayson Perry RA for Living Architecture (2014) / Photo courtesy of Living Architecture / Jack Hobhouse
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Mavericks: A thing of the past
13 april 2016 · 49 min
In this debate about architectural education and opportunities for young architects, our panel explore if there is any future for mavericks in architecture. Lees meer
What marks out mavericks from other architects is the way they embrace risk – whether professionally, by striking out on their own, or creatively, by refusing to conform to the norms of architectural taste or convention. Recent years, however, have seen the risks for young architects grow considerably. Seven years’ training leaves most architects beginning their careers saddled with tens of thousands of pounds worth of debt, putting pressure on even the best young creative minds to conform. At the same time, as land prices skyrocket developers are becoming more and more risk-averse and less willing to roll the dice and embrace unorthodox or original approaches.
Engineering block at University of Leicester, 2010
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Mavericks: Does Architecture Need Mavericks?
13 april 2016 · 1 uur
Beginning with an introduction by Owen Hopkins, curator of Mavericks: Breaking the Mould of British Architecture, a panel debates the role of mavericks in architecture past and present. What makes an architect a maverick? What uses do mavericks and maverick positions have? How has the meaning of maverick evolved over history? What, above all, does it mean to be a maverick architect in today’s world of parametric design and building information modelling? Lees meer
Speakers:
Charles Holland – Director, Ordinary Architecture; co-founder, FAT
Owen Hopkins – Architecture Programme Curator, Royal Academy
Maria Smith – Director and Co-Founder, Interrobang; former director, Studio Weave
Catherine Slessor – writer and critic; former editor, The Architectural Review
Sean Griffiths – Professor of Architecture, University of Westminster; co-founder, FATImage caption: A House for Essex by FAT and Grayson Perry RA for Living Architecture (2014) / Photo courtesy of Living Architecture / Jack Hobhouse
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The Future of Housing: A return
13 april 2016 · 48 min
One year on from a major season on the ‘Future of Housing’ in the UK, we look again at this ever more urgent question. Lees meer
In the lead up to last year’s General Election, the RA organised the Future of Housing season, which looked with a critical eye at the various possible futures for housing in the UK. One year on, we survey the changed political landscape, and a housing crisis that, if anything, has only intensified. As the Housing Bill, which notably extends the right to buy to housing association tenants as well as putting a new focus on starter homes, passes through Parliament, our panel consider the challenges and possibilities that have emerged both independently and as a result.
Speakers:
Jack Self – writer and co-curator British Pavilion, Venice Architecture Biennale 2016
Paul Karakusevic – Partner, Karakusevic Carson Architects
Claire Bennie – architect and development consultant; former Development Director, Peabody
Richard Blyth – Head of Policy, Royal Town Planning Institute
Jane Dudman – Editor, Housing and Public Leaders Networks, The Guardian (chair)Photo: Houses, Robert Harding World Imagery / Alamy Stock Photo
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Mavericks: After the Age of ‘Starchitects’
13 april 2016 · 47 min
The idea of a maverick in architecture – and arguably in art, literature and even science – is inextricably associated with the myth of the creative genius. From perhaps Leonardo da Vinci onwards, creative genius has been popularly associated with disregard for social conventions, isolation, and of the individual overcoming adversity – traits that are often understood in masculine terms. In architecture, the creative genius trope has helped give rise to the ‘starchitect’, the name given to an almost exclusively male group of celebrity architects, whose work is defined by its avant-gardist novelty, and signature, iconic forms. Lees meer
As the gravitational pull of the ‘starchitect’ consumes media attention with ever increasing ferocity, our panel discusses its distorting effects and explores what might lie beyond it. To what degree is the ’starchitect’ a creation of the media? In what ways does the ‘starchitect’ system act to exclude women, if indeed it does? How might we begin to celebrate architectural achievements without perpetuating the myth of the ‘starchitect’? What, in short, might life be like after the age of ‘starchitects’ and how might it be reached?
Speakers:
Karen Cook – founding partner, PLP; former partner, KPF
Owen Hopkins – Architecture Programme Curator, Royal Academy of Arts (chair)
Hana Loftus – founder, HAT Projects
Catherine Pease – founder, vPPR
Vicky Richardson – Director, Architecture Design Fashion, British CouncilImage caption: Fred May, 'Caricature of dinner at RIBA (detail)'. Original drawings from “The Tatler” sketch 22 Feb 1939. Pencil & wash with white highlights on Card/board. 555 x 405mm. © RIBA Collections, London.
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Short stories with Lionel Shriver
13 april 2016 · 1 uur 10 min
Orange Prize-winning novelist Lionel Shriver treats us to a short story reading. Shriver ('We Need to Talk about Kevin' and 'Big Brother') reads her short story 'Vermin'. Lees meer
On performing her short stories Shriver says: “When it works I like [the works] better. I like being able to deliver a line well… It’s nice to be able to deliver passages in the spirit that I wrote them, so that you can hear them as I hear them.” In partnership with Pin Drop.
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Contemporary Urban Gardening
1 april 2016 · 1 uur 1 min
This panel event explored the current state and future potential of contemporary urban gardening. Chaired by journalist and horticulturist Alys Fowler, the subversive and exciting work of guerrilla gardener and author Richard Reynolds, forager John Rensten and artist Wendy Shillam are brought to the table. Lees meer
Image caption: video still of the dahlias in Emil Nolde's garden © Royal Academy of Arts
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A Work of Art: Colour and the Garden
1 april 2016 · 1 uur
Monet and his fellow artist-gardeners applied their artistic eye to the composition of their gardens, using nature’s palette of flowers and foliage to create horticultural works of art. In this event, we consider how the artistic principles behind the use of colour and composition can be applied to planting and landscaping to transform garden design, creating harmony or contrast, and evoking different moods and a sense of space. Lees meer
Garden designers Dan Pearson, Tom Stuart-Smith and Sarah Price, and artist Stephen Chambers RA explore how colour is used in modern garden design, in a panel discussion led by critic and historian Tim Richardson.
Image caption: video still of the dahlias in Emil Nolde's garden © Royal Academy of Arts
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Revolutionising the Garden, Revolutionising Art: An International Perspective
1 april 2016 · 43 min
Claude Monet’s artistic and horticultural achievement at Giverny was not unique. Other contemporary artists sought similar fusions between garden design and art. In this talk, MaryAnne Stevens touches upon artists’ gardens in Spain, Germany and Denmark, concluding with one in Norway which sought to provide artistic motifs as well as to fulfil economic, ecological and national ideals. Lees meer
Art historian and curator MaryAnne Stevens discusses the role that the gardens created by artists such as Sorolla, Liebermann, Tuxen and Astrup, played in their search for new modes of artistic expression.
Image caption: video still of the dahlias in Emil Nolde's garden © Royal Academy of Arts
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An Introduction to Painting the Modern Garden: Monet to Matisse
1 april 2016 · 59 min
Exhibition curator Ann Dumas examines the different ways that artists ranging from Claude Monet to Henri Matisse painted the garden in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Lees meer
Image caption: video still of the dahlias in Emil Nolde's garden © Royal Academy of Arts
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Women in Focus: Perspectives of a Female Artist
1 april 2016 · 59 min
Is the gender of an artist significant in the creative process? Does being a female artist influence how a work is created and perceived? How significant is ‘the female gaze’ in contemporary art – work that is presented from a female perspective or reflecting female attitudes. Lees meer
As part of our International Women’s Day 2016 celebrations, a panel of artists discussed what it means to create work from a female perspective in today’s contemporary art world.
In this podcast, Eva Rothschild RA, Vanessa Jackson RA and Josie Cockram discuss these issues and the extent to which being a female artist has influenced their work.
The event was chaired by Hilary Robinson, Professor of Visual Culture at Middlesex University and editor of 'Feminism-Art-Theory 1968-2014'.
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Short stories with Ben Okri
1 april 2016 · 44 min
The RA and Pin Drop welcomed Booker Prize-winning author Ben Okri for an evening of short fiction and storytelling, inspired by the exhibition ‘Painting the Modern Garden: Monet to Matisse’. Lees meer
Ben Okri has published eight novels, including The Famished Road and Starbook, as well as collections of poetry, short stories and essays. His work has been translated into more than 20 languages. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and has been awarded an OBE as well as numerous international prizes, including the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Africa, the Aga Khan Prize for Fiction and the Chianti Rufino-Antico Fattore.
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Architecture and freedom: Farshid Moussavi
22 maart 2016 · 1 uur 15 min
In the final lecture of the series, Farshid Moussavi discusses architecture’s function as an agent in shaping everyday life. For Moussavi, architecture “produces platforms for the way people engage with uses of buildings” – an idea which she has explored through practice, education and research. Lees meer
A co-founder of Foreign Office Architects, which won international attention with the Yokohama Ferry Terminal, Moussavi established her own practice in 2011, which has since completed the acclaimed Cleveland Museum of Contemporary Art in Ohio. Moussavi is Professor in Practice of Architecture at Harvard University Graduate School of Design, and has published a number of books deriving from her research and teaching.
Image caption: Farshid Moussavi RA © Dan Stevens
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Architecture and Freedom: Spaces Of Freedom
22 maart 2016 · 52 min
Spaces of freedom are typically seen as synonymous with public space, where freedom of assembly and expression are inherent rights. Increasingly, though, public space, especially in cities, is being eroded by private, often commercially driven forces. At the same time, we have seen the rise of the digital realm heralded as a new free and democratic space for self-expression and debate. Lees meer
This, however, is also under attack through both corporate and state-sponsored surveillance and data collection. While services on the Internet are “free” to use, the business models that sustain them depend on the collecting and commercialisation of our every digital interaction.
Image caption: Granary Square, Kings Cross © Monica Wells/Alamy
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Architecture and freedom: Reinier De Graaf
22 maart 2016 · 54 min
In this podcast, Reiner de Graaf reflects on architecture’s different roles in today’s globalised world. An architect, academic and writer, de Graaf is a partner of OMA and director of AMO, the practice’s think tank and research studio based in Rotterdam. AMO’s work extends beyond architecture to encompass media, politics, sociology, renewable energy, technology, fashion, curating, publishing, and graphic design. Lees meer
In addition to his work for AMO, De Graaf is responsible for a number of the OMA’s building and master-planning projects in Europe, Russia, and the Middle East. In this lecture, de Graaf considers architecture’s social, economic and political role in today’s globalised world.
Image caption: Reinier de Graaf © Ekaterina Izmestieva/ Strelka Institute
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Architecture and freedom: Architectural Ethics
22 maart 2016 · 38 min
In this podcast, our expert panel consider what architecture’s responsibilities should be to the public good and whether it is time for architects to adopt a new code of ethics. Lees meer
Today with architecture in thrall to private interests to a greater degree than perhaps ever before, it is time to reassess architects’ responsibilities beyond those to the client, and to the broader public good. Do architecture and architects require a new code of ethics? If so, what should be the parameters and who should decide them?
Speakers include Jane Hall, founding member of Turner prize-winning Assemble and Christine Murray, editor of Architectural Review (chair).
Image caption: Tower construction © Artur Bogacki/Alamy
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Architecture and freedom: Patrik Schumacher
22 maart 2016 · 1 uur 4 min
Architect and theorist, Patrik Schumacher, considers the various parameters for architectural practice today. One of architecture’s foremost designers and polemicists, Schumacher is a director of Zaha Hadid Architects, which he joined in 1988, and is involved in all the practice’s projects, playing an active role in each phase of design development. Lees meer
He has taught at architecture schools across the world and has been co-director of the Design Research Laboratory at the Architectural Association since 1996. His writings have frequently appeared in print and across the media. In this lecture, Schumacher reflects on the range of issues and agendas that “burden” architecture in the twenty-first century.
Image caption: Patrik Schumacher / Courtesy Zaha Hadid Architects
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Architecture and freedom: Jürgen Mayer H
22 maart 2016 · 1 uur 12 min
The work of the German architect Jürgen Mayer H stands at the intersection of architecture, design and digital technology. His practice operates across scale and typology: from master-planning to buildings, product design to art. Lees meer
For Mayer, emerging media and materials allow a fundamental rethinking of how we understand space and the potential for new forms of human activity and communication. Mayer kicked off the season with a discussion of his work and its reflection on the potential for architecture to act as a conduit for freedom through participation and social interactivity.
Image caption: Jürgen Mayer H © Joseph Wolfgang Ohlert
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Jean-Etienne Liotard In London
22 maart 2016 · 1 uur
When Liotard travelled to London, his reputation was at its summit. This podcast, with curator William Hauptman, examines Liotard’s astonishing portrait work while there, his impact on the London art scene and his connections with the Royal Academy between 1773 and 1774. Lees meer
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Jean-Etienne Liotard: The evolution and conservation of pastel painting
22 maart 2016 · 55 min
In this podcast, Tate conservator Rosie Freemantle and conservation curator Jo Crook discuss the development of the medium of pastel in the 18th century.
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Jean-Etienne Liotard: pastel pioneer
22 maart 2016 · 1 uur
In this podcast, curator MaryAnne Stevens gives an introduction to the work of the artist Jean-Etienne Liotard. Travelling across Europe to Constantinople, patronised by rulers, aristocrats and the professional middle class, Liotard was internationally acclaimed for his mastery of pastel and his unflinching observation of reality, which he brought to his portraits, genre scenes and exceptional trompe l’oeil compositions. Lees meer
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Chris Wilkinson and Humphrey Ocean discuss drawing
22 maart 2016 · 1 uur 3 min
Architect Chris Wilkinson RA and painter Humphrey Ocean RA discuss what it is to draw, and why the process is central to their work.
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Ai Weiwei and the stuff of Chinese art
22 maart 2016 · 48 min
Ai Weiwei has used and reused a wide range of materials throughout his career, including Han dynasty urns as well as modern porcelain sunflower seeds, and the columns of demolished Ming temples alongside pearls and plastics, marble and gilding. Lees meer
In this podcast, Craig Clunas, Professor of Art History at the University of Oxford, explores this materiality in the context of Chinese art of the past and present.
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Ai Weiwei and architecture
22 maart 2016 · 1 uur 18 min
In this podcast, curator Philip Tinari and architects Daniel Rosbottom and Simon Hartmann explore Ai Weiwei’s architectural practice. Lees meer
Architecture is an important but perhaps lesser-known aspect of Ai Weiwei’s practice. Along with a huge number of buildings realised over a decade with his studio FAKE design and in collaboration with international architects, architectural thinking permeates his art, writing and curatorial practice.
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The "readymade" and destruction in art
22 maart 2016 · 39 min
In this discussion, artists Christian Marclay and Cornelia Parker RA – with historians Professor Dario Gamboni and Dr Ros Holmes – discuss the impact of the “readymade” and the destructive process in art, as seen in the work of Ai Weiwei. Lees meer
Many of the strategies that Ai Weiwei employs as an artist can be easily aligned within the legacy of iconoclasm and the notion of art under attack. Works such as Dropping a Han-Dynasty Urn (pictured below), Han Dynasty Urn with Coca-Cola Logo and Kippe all possess an action or process by the artist which subverts the original visual representation and meaning of an object.
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An introduction to Ai Weiwei
22 maart 2016 · 53 min
In this introductory podcast, exhibition curator Adrian Locke explains how Ai Weiwei, since his return to China in 1993, uses his art, not just his words or cyberspace to comment on contemporary Chinese society today. Locke also explores the meanings and stories behind his materials and methodologies, including his use of found rebars (steel rods used to hold buildings upright) in the deeply moving installation Straight. Lees meer
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Short Stories with Will Self
22 maart 2016 · 43 min
Will Self is the author of ten novels, five collections of shorter fiction, three novellas and five collections of non-fiction writing. His latest novel, Umbrella, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and was described by The Daily Telegraph as, “Self’s most ambitious novel to date”. He regularly appears on television and is a frequent contributor to publications including The Guardian, The New York Times and the London Review of Books. Self also writes columns for New Statesman, The Observer and The Times. Lees meer
In this podcast – in association with Pin Drop – Self reads his own short story, The Shore.
Photo: Roy Matthews
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Joseph Cornell, creativity and the mind
22 maart 2016 · 48 min
Joseph Cornell is one of the most famous yet mystifying characters in modern American art. Cornell scholar Lynda Roscoe Hartigan explores what recent studies in creativity and cognition have contributed to understanding his distinctive constructions, collages and films. Lees meer
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William Kentridge Hon RA in conversation with Tim Marlow
22 maart 2016 · 49 min
Kentridge’s work has been exhibited widely throughout the world and appeared in this year’s Summer Exhibition at the RA, where the Small Weston Room was dedicated to a display of his ink drawings and prints of indigenous South African trees. Lees meer
In this podcast, the RA’s Artistic Director Tim Marlow talks to the recently elected Honorary Royal Academician about his diverse artistic practice, which encompasses films, drawings, theatre and opera productions.
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Joseph Cornell as an outsider artist
22 maart 2016 · 42 min
Joseph Cornell has often been referred to as an ‘outsider’ but he was accepted into the art market as a partial Surrealist at a time when the art of the self-taught had no name or definition. If he had been defined as an outsider, would he have had difficulty being accepted into the canon of 20th century art history? How would this definition change our approach to the display, interpretation and market for his work? Lees meer
This panel discussion considers what the new spaces are for outsider art and what the responsibilities are for those involved in the interpretation, collection, curation and sale of these works within the context of today’s art world.
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Short stories with Graham Swift
22 maart 2016 · 59 min
A short story reading by Graham Swift, the Booker Prize-winning author of ‘Waterland’ and ‘Last Orders'. In partnership with Pin Drop, a unique initiative that communicates the unforgettable power of storytelling in inspiring settings. Lees meer
Image caption: Graham Swift / Image courtesy Simon + Schuster
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An introduction to Joseph Cornell with curator Sarah Lea
22 maart 2016 · 51 min
American assemblage artist Joseph Cornell (1903–1972) has been described as one of modern art’s best-kept secrets. In this podcast, join RA curator Sarah Lea to explore the life and work of this enigmatic artist, including a biographical overview, a discussion of Cornell’s working processes and a detailed look at the key collages, box constructions and films presented in the exhibition. The curator considers in particular Cornell’s interest in fields as diverse as natural history to ballet, which fed his long distance love affair with Europe, a place he visited only in his imagination. Lees meer