art
Let there be light
Alan Yentob presents an overview of the state of light art – mainly composed of pieces in London last year (UVA’s Volume at the Southbank centre, Anthony McCall at the Serpentine, Liliane Lijn at Riflemaker), but with interesting forays around the world to see other artists – notably James Turrell, and his amazing 30 year [...]
The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition
What I wanted to post here was the quite amazing edition of Classic Albums I saw last night about Jay-Z’s first album Reasonable Doubt, what with it being all topical and everything. But I can’t do that because somebody—most likely the record label’s Senior Vice President for Stupid—has forbidden the BBC from putting the show [...]
Imagine: Annie Leibovitz
I think I can justify another Imagine so soon after Beeker’s contribution last week because the films in the series are all so different. Imagine is more like a documentary strand than an arts series—and they don’t all have Yentob in them. Anyway, this one is gorgeous: a really tender portrait of a woman I’d [...]
Masterpieces of Vienna
Thirty minutes of television about a sofa: and it’s a repeat, too. Masterpieces of Vienna is an arts documentary series of the old school. Don’t expect expensive looking camerawork, CGI reconstructions or Andrew Graham-Dixon buzzing around in a mini; you’ll be getting some nice solid rostrum work, talking heads, a smattering of archive footage and [...]
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