Programme Details

This evening on Night Waves, Mary Allen and guests discuss the role of the crowd and the individual in twentieth-century art. A new exhibition traces the history of figurative art in the last hundred years - but how has the relationship changed between the artist and the urban masses in the years since Manet memorably depicted the crowds outside the Paris opera? The painter John Keane and the art historian Anna Moszynska are in the studio to discuss these ideas.

And as the result of this year's Turner Prize is announced, art critic Waldemar Januszczak reports from Tate Britain on who's won.

Night Waves reviews Elijah Moshinsky's production of Gilbert and Sullivan's operetta The Pirates of Penzance - and asks whether it's possible to update a work that's so typical of its time.

The battle for the soul of the wine industry is laid bare in a new film which follows the fortunes of some of those involved. Mary talks to the film's director, Jonathan Nossiter, who explains why American tycoons and French vineyard owners are at loggerheads, and why a genial Frenchman threatens to change the world of wine for ever.

And as part of a series devoted to great sacred buildings, the architecture critic Nicolai Ouroussoff gives an appreciation of the Roman Catholic cathedral in Los Angeles, which opened two years ago to great acclaim.

Join Mary Allen for Night Waves at 9.30pm.



Presenter: Mary Allen
Producer: Thomas Morris






Additional Information:

 Faces in the Crowd: Picturing Modern Life from Manet to Today is at the Whitechapel Gallery in London until 6th March 2005.
www.whitechapel.org

Mondovino is on selected release from Friday, certificate PG.

The Pirates of Penzance is at English National Opera until February 15th. www.eno.org

Pictures of the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in Los Angeles can be seen on its website: www.olacathedral.org/