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Shows that Go On

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Malika Browne
Why do some museum exhibitions achieve legendary status? Why are some shows still talked and thought about long after they are over? From Tutankhamen (1972) to...
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  • S2: E2 The Great Exhibition
    In 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 Shilling by Michael Leapmanhttps://royalcommission1851.org/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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  • S2: Ep1 Manet and the Post Impressionists
    In 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, including the Dreadnought Hoax of 1910. Mr Bennett and Mrs Brown - an essay by Virginia WoolfThis is an Ictus Media production, edited by Leo Hornak and produced by Howie Shannon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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  • S1: E6 The Armory Show, 1913
    In 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. 1988The Armory Show at 100: Modernism and Revolution by Kushner, Orcutt and Blake, 2013The chapter on the Armory show in The Shock of the New: Seven Historic Exhibitions of Modern Art by Ian Dunlop, 1972This is an Ictus Media production, edited by Leo Hornak Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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  • S1: E5 Seeing Salvation, 2000
    In 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) by Gabriele Finaldi (2000-11-10)Seeing Salvation by Neil MacGregor and Erika Langmuir (2000)This is an Ictus Media production, edited by Leo Hornak Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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  • S1:E4 Beaton Portraits, 1968
    In 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 YoutubeThis is an Ictus Media production, edited by Leo Hornak Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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