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Malika Browne talks to James Birch about Francis Bacon's exhibition at the Union of Artists in Moscow in 1988, the first by a foreign artist in the USSR since 1917. Why did Francis Bacon agree to it? How hard was it to organise a Western art show in the USSR in 1988? Find out by listening!

Further reading:

Bacon in Moscow by James Birch, Cheerio 2022

With Gilbert and George in Moscow by Dan Farson, Bloomsbury 1991

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In this episode, guest Sir Simon Jenkins explains how a simple yet powerful exhibition of black and white photographs shamed and shocked the government and the public, and brought about a change in policy towards country houses.

Further Reading:

England's 1000 best Houses (2003) by Simon Jenkins

Life in the English Country House: A Social and Architectural History (1978) by Marc Girouard

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The Destruction of The Country House 1875-1975 by Roy Strong, Marcus Binney and John Harris

England's Lost Houses: From the Archives of Country Life (2002) Aurum Press by Giles Worsley

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Malika Browne talks to former art critic Ian Dunlop about the landmark art show for Swinging London at the Tate, in 1964 for which the museum's Duveen Galleries were turned into a claustrophobic labyrinth of new art from America and Europe, putting London firmly on the art map.

Further reading:

The Shock of the New: Seven Historic Exhibitions of Modern Art by Ian Dunlop, 1972

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London’s New Scene: Art and Culture in the 1960s by Professor Lisa Tickner, Yale University Press in 2020.

Watching:

Pop Goes the Easel by Ken Russell, 1962

Blow Up by Michelangelo Antonioni, 1966

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In this episode, guest Susanna Brown explains why the Cecil Beaton show of 1968 was groundbreaking, both for photography as an art, as well as for the National Portrait Gallery. Both its content and its design changed the museum, exhibitions, and photograph in Britain forever.

Further Reading:

Cecil Beaton's diaries in 6 parts in particular The Parting Years: 1963-74, Sapere Books, 2018

The Roy Strong Diaries 1967-1987, Weidenfeld & Nicholson 1997

Beaton's Bright Young Things, Robin Muir, National Portrait Gallery, 2020

Beaton by Bailey - watch on Youtube

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In this episode, guest Dr Xavier Bray, director of the Wallace Collection, describes the surprise hit exhibition in London in 2000: Seeing Salvation, Image of Christ, at the National Gallery. He shares his memories of being an assistant (and very junior) curator of the show and explains why images of Christ still resonate and matter. He talks about the impact of art on us and suggests what sort of exhibition the world perhaps needs at this troubled time.

Further Reading:

The Image of Christ: The Catalogue of the Exhibition "Seeing Salvation" (National Gallery of London) by Gabriele Finaldi (2000-11-10)

Seeing Salvation by Neil MacGregor and Erika Langmuir (2000)

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In this episode, art historian Irene Walsh describes the now legendary Armory Show of 1913 in New York City. Irene wrote her PhD on art collector Lillie P Bliss, and she tells us about the groundbreaking show's shock value, the mockery that surrounded some of the paintings in it, and their unexpected effects on the American public and the art market. She tells us how the show led to the founding of New York's MoMa in 1929.

Further Reading:

The Story of the Armory Show by Milton W Brown, Abbeville Press Inc.,U.S. 1988

The Armory Show at 100: Modernism and Revolution by Kushner, Orcutt and Blake, 2013

The chapter on the Armory show in The Shock of the New: Seven Historic Exhibitions of Modern Art by Ian Dunlop, 1972

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In this episode, art historian and curator David Boyd Haycock describes Roger Fry’’s legendary exhibition, Manet and the Post Impressionists held at the Grafton Galleries in 1910. In her essay Mr Bennett and Mrs Brown, Virginia Woolf wrote that on or about 1910, “human character changed”, a statement generally accepted to be a reference to the Post Impressionists show.

Further Reading:

A Crisis of Brilliance by David Boyd Haycock

Roger Fry, an autobiography by Virginia Woolf

The Sultan of Zanzibar by Martyn Downer about the spectacular hoaxes of Horace de Vere Cole, including the Dreadnought Hoax of 1910.

Mr Bennett and Mrs Brown - an essay by Virginia Woolf

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