Art Speak
Art videos, artist interviews, mini-documentaries and podcasts from leading figures and fresh faces on the UK culture scene
The unrealised interviews.
The artists and curator of Cornerhouse’s latest group show speak on camera about Unrealised Potential
The doyenne of British photography: Dorothy Bohm
Manchester Art Gallery’s current major exhibition, A World Observed, traces the career of one of the doyennes of British photography, Dorothy Bohm, and plunders this octogenarian’s archives to put together the first real retrospective exhibition of her work ever to be staged – featuring 250 works that trace a career spanning six decades and several continents. In this exclusive vodcast, Dorothy talks candidly about her career to her daughter (and co-curator of the exhibition), Monica.
Leo Fitzmaurice at The Lowry
Find out more about the colour-drenched world of Leo Fitzmaurice. Here, the artist talks in detail about his latest site-specific, Pop art-bright artwork, Panoramia, now on show at The Lowry.
Contemporary Art Iraq
The Turner Prize nominated sculptor Richard Wilson talks exclusively to the co-curators of Cornerhouse’s latest art exhibition, Contemporary Art Iraq: Adalet Germiany and Sarah Perks
Anthony d’Offay in conversation with Keith Hartley
Art collector-turned-philanthropist, Anthony D’Offay talks to the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art’s Keith Hartley about ARTIST ROOMS, the series of touring exhibitions that take some of the most important artists of recent years to galleries across the UK.
Ideas Worth Fighting For
Stuart Maconie, the broadcaster and travel writer once described by The Times as a ‘national treasure’, talks Andy Pearce at the People’s History Museum about democracy, protest and how a Northern town turned local politics into a global issue.
Cairo: The Breaking Up of the Ice.
Ahead of a new exhibition at Cornerhouse, Jacob Cartwright and Nick Jordan talk about the wild west, the confluence of the Mississippi and Ohio rivers, and how a 19th century ornithologist inspired their latest work
A Manual for the 21st Century Gatekeeper
Can arts organisations meet the challenges posed by the web 2.0? New York curator, Michael Connor talks art and technology with Cornerhouse’s Sarah Perks
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The unrealised interviews.The artists working on Cornerhouse's latest group exhibition speak on camera about Unrealised Potential Curator Mike... »
A thoroughly modern woman.Kevin Bourke on a photography exhibition at Manchester Pride that celebrates the activism and achievements of gay and bisexual... »
Dark Horse. Simon Patterson Q&A.The artist speaks to Jessica Lack about Unrealised Potential at Cornerhouse – and explains why he wants to make the Lisson... »
To bee, or not to be?Jo Nightingale discovers a photography project with a real buzz about it You’d have to have had your head in, well,... »
