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Victorian colour, jewellery and metalwork
Man-made gems are the subject of research being undertaken by jeweller Sofie Boons. She joins presenter Nandini Das alongside Matthew Winterbottom, t…
2 years, 6 months ago
New Thinking: Work and protest
Jane Eyre and Shirley by Charlotte Bronte both refer to the unrest in Yorkshire which took place in the early years of the nineteenth century as new …
2 years, 6 months ago
Being Blonde
What links “the British Marilyn” Diana Dors, the last women to be hanged in Britain Ruth Ellis, the artist Pauline Boty and the soap and film star Ba…
2 years, 6 months ago
The Frieze/Radio 3 Museum Directors Debate 2023
Nicholas Cullinan from the National Portrait Gallery, London (NPG) and Elvira Dyangani Ose from the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Barcelona (MACBA) …
2 years, 6 months ago
Art, Kew, a symphony and nature
An accidental invention which revolutionised plant collecting has inspired an artwork from Mat Collishaw, created in collaboration with video artists…
2 years, 6 months ago
New Thinking: Modernism, exile and homelessness
DH Lawrence described outcasts living by the Thames, Mina Loy made art from trash, calling her pieces “refusées", Wyndham Lewis moved from England to…
2 years, 6 months ago
Faith, consciousness and creating meaning in life
I've been Thinking is the title of a memoir from philosopher and cognitive scientist Daniel Dennett. Philip Goff is a Professor at Durham University …
2 years, 6 months ago
Refuge and National Poetry Day
Loss and belonging are explored in an installation at the Barbican Centre in London from Sierra Leonian poet and artist/filmmaker Julianknxx which he…
2 years, 6 months ago
Slavic culture and myth
Tales of adventure and magic connect the Slavic lands: East Slavs (Russia, Ukraine, Belarus), West Slavs (Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland) and South…
2 years, 6 months ago
Hobbes and New Leviathans
"Solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short" is the way Thomas Hobbes described the life of man in a state of nature in his 1651 book The Leviathan. Th…
2 years, 6 months ago