Visual Arts
Dorothy Bohm, Edward Burtynsky, Sean Scully, Dada, Elizabeth Price, Edmund de Waal All of these programmes are available as Arts and Ideas podcasts via the Downloads tab.
Women, art and activism
Naomi Paxton and guests on exhibitions at Tate Britain, the Barbican and Modern Art Oxford
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The Frieze/Radio 3 Museum Directors Debate 2023
Directors of the National Portrait Gallery, London and MACBA, Barcelona join Anne McElvoy
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New Thinking: Rediscovering women making film and sculpture—Arts & Ideas
Kathleen Collins’ film scripts and women sculptors working in wax
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Greek myth, goddesses and art
From classic myths rewritten by Natalie Haynes to the art of John Craxton in Crete.
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Victorian colour, jewellery and metalwork
Nandini Das visits Colour Revolution at the Ashmolean in Oxford and talks to a jeweller.
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Art, Kew, a symphony and nature
Artist Mat Collishaw, composer Jimmy López Bellido, academics Vid Simoniti and Sarah Casey
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Humboldt, soil, gardens and Frank Walter
Jago Cooper, Barbara Paca, Jim Scown and Camilla Allen talk trees, soil, art and advocacy.
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African identity via China and photography
Teju Cole, Noo Saro-Wiwa and Tate curator Osei Bonsu talk to Laurence Scott.
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Sankofa and Afrofuturism
Curator Ekow Eshun, academic Sarah Jilani and sculptor Zak Ové with Shahidha Bari.
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Childhood and play
The V&A has re-opened its museum of childhood as Young V&A plus how kids learn to speak.
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Black Atlantic
Artist Jaqueline Bishop and curator of an exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge.
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Liverpool Biennial and art at MIF
Catherine Fletcher talks to three artists with new works at the Liverpool Biennial.
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Hilma af Klint
The spiritual paintings of the Swedish artist are discussed by Matthew Sweet and guests.
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The Rossettis and Walter Pater
Matthew Sweet and guests visit a Tate Britain show and look at Pater's Renaissance ideas.
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Diva
As the V&A opens an exhibition about performers, Naomi Paxton discusses what makes a diva.
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The Kitchen: art, film, life
Sarah Kent, Marianne Hem Eriksen, Melanie Williams and Angela Hui join Matthew Sweet.
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Portraits
The NPG re-opens. A look at portraiture in art, photography, documentary and oral history.
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Decadent Art
New research into ideas about decadence and connections with France, England and Iran.
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Queen Charlotte, fashion and music
Shahidha Bari and guests on a Royal Collection exhibition and the new Bridgerton spin-off.
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Caruso, Elsie Houston, Peter Brathwaite
Exploring the flow of cultural influences in both directions across the Atlantic.
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Pirates
From Treasure Island to Kynance Cove, Anne Bonney to Captain Pugwash. Anne McElvoy hosts.
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Tartan, Kidnapped and Highland writing
Tartan at V&A Dundee, RL Stevenson's Kidnapped on stage, and the Highland Book Prize 2022.
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How do we look at art?
Turner Prize shortlist, the vogue for surround-sound projections, and shows about sight.
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Plastic and Clay
Lisa Mullen and guests compare the extraordinary uses of two contrasting materials.
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