Isabel Hilton examines new work by Frank Auerbach and Lucien Freud as they become the first living painters to be exhibited at the Victoria & Albert Museum.
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On Night Waves tonight Isabel Hilton examines new work by Frank Auerbach and Lucien Freud as they become the first living painters to be exhibited at the Victoria & Albert Museum. The curator, art critic and artist's model, Bill Fever, explains why he has chosen to display them together and the conversation he hopes the paintings will have with each other.
Also in the Night Waves studio, Gautam Malkani, a thirty year old editor at the Financial Times discusses his first novel examining the explosive mixture of religion, race and youth culture in the suburbs west of London. His book Londonstani was the subject of a ferocious bidding war and was eventually bought for a six figure sum - how much does he feel the weight of expectation? And how did he negotiate the bringing together of economics and extreme violence in one novel?
And Isabel reviews the new film Lost Embrace by the young director who is being labelled the Argentinean Woody Allen. Join Night Waves for all this and more, live tonight here on BBC Radio 3.
Further information
Auerbach and Freud at the V&A: New Paintings is on until May 29th
Alan M. Dershowitz's Preemption: A Knife That Cuts Both Ways is available now published by Norton
Gautam Malkani's novel Londonstani is published by Fourth Estate
Lost Embrace directed by Daniel Burman is in selected cinemas from Friday 28th April, certificate 15.
