MK Gallery, Benjamin, Northern Ballet's Victoria, Sadie Jones, Memes and Selfies on BBC4
Milton Keynes re-opening its art gallery, Simon Amstell's film Benjamin, Northern Ballet's Victoria, Sadie Jones's The Snakes, and Memes and Selfies on BBC Four.
Simon Amstell directs his first cinema release - Benjamin. The title character is a thinly-disguised version of himself with nervous lack of self esteem who is directing a film about himself. It's all very meta but is it marvellous?
Milton Keynes has just reopened its art gallery. Much enlarged and architecturally improved, the first exhibition there is The Lie Of The Land, charting how the British landscape was transformed by changes in free time and leisure
The bicentenary of Queen Victoria's birth has seen lots of artistic projects to mark the moment. Norther Ballet has commissioned a work by choreographer Cathy Marston which looks at the Queen's life through her relationship with her youngest daughter.
Sadie Jones won the Costa First Novel award for her book The Outcast and her latest The Snakes is set in contemporary London and Burgundy.
BBC4 marks the 30th anniversary of the creation of the World Wide Web with programmes including Me My Selfie and I presented by Ryan Gander and How To Go Viral: The Art of the Meme With Richard Clay
Tom Sutcliffe's guests are Ellen E Jones, Jen Harvie and Toby Lichtig . The producer is Oliver Jones
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Sadie Jones

The Snakes by Sadie Jones is published by Chatto and Windus
Photo: Jonathan GreetBenjamin

Benjamin (Cert 15) is on limited release
Victoria

Northern Ballet’s production of Victoria is touring nationally
Image: Emma Kauldhar
MK Gallery

The Lie Of The Land is at MK Gallery in Milton Keynes until 26th May
Image: Henry Moore, Working Model for Reclining Figure, Festival 1950. Photo: Sarah Mercer
The Art of the Meme with Richard Clay

Me, My Selfie & I with Ryan Gander

Both TV programmes How to Go Viral: The Art of the Meme with Richard Clay and Me, My Selfie And I with Ryan Gander are on BBC4.at 2100 on 20th March 18th respectively
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