Stella Duffy, New Art Gallery Walsall, Shostakovich's The Nose, Art of Yves Klein
Stella Duffy discusses her novel London Lies Beneath; the future of The New Art Gallery Walsall; Yves Klein in Liverpool reviewed; Director Barrie Kosky on Shostakovich's The Nose.
In 1912, 24 scouts from the slums of South East London set sail from Waterloo Bridge, but in a tragic accident eight drowned. Stella Duffy discusses her new novel, London Lies Beneath, in which she recreates that area of London and imagines the lives of the families involved in the months leading up to the tragedy and beyond.
With news that the £21m New Art Gallery Walsall is being threatened with closure just 16 years after it opened, Bob and Roberta Smith, former artist-in-residence, gives his response.
At the age of 19, Yves Klein identified the blue sky in Nice as his first artwork. It marked the beginning of an artistic career which ended with his heart attack at the age of 34. Art critic Richard Cork reviews a new exhibition of Klein's work at Tate Liverpool.
Barrie Kosky's directorial debut at the Royal Opera House is Shostakovich's The Nose, based on a satirical story by Gogol, with a huge cast of singers and even more noses, all inspired, he says, by a very famous one - Barbara Streisand's.
Presenter Samira Ahmed
Producer Marilyn Rust.
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The New Art Gallery Walsall
Duration: 05:36
Stella Duffy
Duration: 08:39
Shostakovich's The Nose
Duration: 07:57
Art of Yves Klein
Duration: 05:23
Author Stella Duffy
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Stella Duffy's new book, London Lies Beneath, is published by Virago on 27 October 2016.
Images: Main image above, and smaller image to the left: Stella Duffy
Image credit: Gino Spiro
Walsall Art Gallery
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Image:The New Art Gallery Walsall
Image credit: George Benson
The Nose
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Barrie Kosky's production of The Nose by Shostakovich, conducted by Ingo Metzmacher and translated by David Pountney, is at The Royal Opera House, London until 09 November 2016.
Image: John Tomlinson (Left) as Ivan Iakovlevitch and Martin Winkler (Right) as Platon Kuzmitch Kovalov in The Nose
Image credit: Royal Opera House/Bill Cooper
The Art of Yves Klein
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The Yves Klein exhibition is at Tate Liverpool from 21 October 2016 - 05 March 2017.
Image: Untitled Anthropometry (ANT 84) 1960
Dry pigment and synthetic resin on paper mounted on canvas
Image credit: Yves Klein, AGP, Paris/DACS, London, 2016
Credits
Role Contributor Presenter Samira Ahmed Interviewed Guest Stella Duffy Interviewed Guest Bob and Roberta Smith Interviewed Guest Richard Cork Interviewed Guest Barrie Kosky Producer Marilyn Rust Broadcast
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