A Masterpiece Podcast
23 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThis podcasts bring together Masterpiece exhibitors in different fields to discuss, from personal and aesthetic perspectives, a single material that is shared across those fields: how the speakers relate to the material, what they’ve learnt about it over time, what makes it beautiful; its versatility; how it has been handled, worked, manipulated, transformed by artists; and why and how collectors prize and preserve it today. The series takes a tangent on cross-collecting by exploring what disparate type of objects have in common – and what we can learn about them by placing them together.
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Episodes
Masterpiece London 2022 | Stones of Rome
December 07, 2022 17:25 - 28 minutes - 39 MBHosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Masterpiece London 2022 | RA Hosts: Artist In-Conversation with Rebecca Salter PRA and Thomas Marks
August 01, 2022 11:07 - 56 minutes - 130 MBPrintmaker and President of the Royal Academy of Arts, Rebecca Salter, will be in conversation with writer and critic, Thomas Marks, about her work and her role as President. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Masterpiece London 2022 | Artist Talk: Anila Quayyum Agha
August 01, 2022 11:05 - 56 minutes - 129 MBAnila Quayyum Agha is a Pakistani-American artist who works in a cross-disciplinary fashion with mixed media. She creates artwork that explores global politics, cultural multiplicity, mass media, and social and gender roles. Agha is perhaps best known for her immersive, large-scale light installations in which she laser-cuts elaborate patterns into three-dimensional cubes. Suspended and lit from within, the cubes cast lace-like, floor-to-ceiling shadows that transform the surrounding environ...
Masterpiece London 2022 | Collecting Natural Treasures from the Mineral Kingdom
August 01, 2022 11:01 - 1 hour - 151 MBMinerals, masterpieces of the natural world that include precious gemstones and some of the rarest substances on earth, have been coveted and collected by royal enthusiasts and other elite members of societies throughout history. Today these natural wonders are sought after by a much wider range of collectors. From prominent museums to high-net-worth individuals and celebrities, mineral specimens can be as highly prized as art and antiques, or like fine wines and vintage cars. If you have a...
Masterpiece London 2022 | Finding Inspiration in Collaboration: The Story of an Exhibition
August 01, 2022 10:59 - 59 minutes - 137 MBFirst opening at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in December 2021 and then moving to the Wallace Collection where it is now on view, Inspiring Walt Disney: The Animation of French Decorative Arts has proven to be a critical success and a crowd-pleasing exhibition in both New York and London. It is the result of the close collaboration between the two museums across several departments, and with the Walt Disney Animation Research Library, and above all between the two curators. In this panel, W...
Masterpiece London 2022 | RA Hosts: Artist In-Conversation with Mali Morris RA and Rebecca Lyons
August 01, 2022 10:57 - 59 minutes - 137 MBJoin Mali Morris, painter and Royal Academician, and Rebecca Lyons, Director of Collections and Learning at the RA, as they discuss Mali’s work and influences. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Masterpiece London 2022 | William Klein – A Technique of No Taboos
August 01, 2022 10:51 - 1 hour - 143 MBThis talk gives an insight into the scope of William Klein’s career and why his approach to photography and image-making was pioneering. He is well known for his fashion photography and distinctive gritty style of street photography together with his unconventional approach to subject matter. This talk will consider all aspects of his career including his training as a painter and work with film set against the wider context of art historical developments at the time, particularly Surrealism...
Masterpiece London 2022 | The Shape of Creative Spaces
August 01, 2022 10:48 - 39 minutes - 90.9 MBIf living through lockdowns has taught us one thing, it is that the spaces we live and work in have an enormous effect on our wellbeing. Carefully curated art and design can help us understand ourselves better, while also teaching us to look outwards – but how to create an environment that balances form with function, heritage with modernity, the personal with the universal? In this thought-provoking conversation, our three panellists will reflect on what good curatorial practice looks like t...
Masterpiece London 2022 | Sculpture in and of our times
August 01, 2022 10:44 - 52 minutes - 121 MBFrom the personal to the political and the universal, sculpture past and present has often reflected on identity, the human condition and societal changes. Exploring the multifaceted languages of contemporary sculpture, this panel discussion will consider innovative investigations of form and matter, and how other disciplines may inform and enrich sculptural practice, whether through the collision of art and science, conjuring up literary influences or looking down the lens of history. In ref...
Masterpiece London 2022 | Lunchtime live Lady Carnarvon
August 01, 2022 10:43 - 46 minutes - 106 MBFiona, 8th Countess of Carnarvon, is the wife of Geordie, 8th Earl of Carnarvon. They live at Highclere Castle, known to millions around the world as “Downton Abbey”. Lady Carnarvon is the best-selling author of 5 books, an historian, an international speaker and fundraiser in the UK and abroad. Lady Carnarvon, her husband and son live 'quietly' with seven dogs, a number of horses and ponies, a brood of chickens, several bee hives and some rare breed pigs, amongst the normal farm animals in ...
Masterpiece London 2022 | Masterpiece [Re]discovery – Avoiding Oblivion
August 01, 2022 10:39 - 56 minutes - 77.2 MBThe Factum Foundation for Digital Technology in Preservation has been working in the Valley of the Kings since 2001, as part of a long-term collaboration with the University of Basel under the aegis of the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities. Adam Lowe will be revisiting the work of the Theban Necropolis Preservation Initiative (TNPI), ranging from high-resolution recordings and facsimiles of major tombs to the training of a fully Egyptian team. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/priva...
Masterpiece London 2022 | Lunchtime live Zavier Ellis
August 01, 2022 10:33 - 37 minutes - 86.1 MBZavier Ellis is an international curator, artist and originator of multiple art-based initiatives. He was born in Windsor in the United Kingdom in 1973. He read History of Modern Art at Manchester University (1993-1996) before undertaking a Masters in Fine Art at City & Guilds of London Art School (2003-2005). Zavier is founder and director of CHARLIE SMITH LONDON, a curatorial gallery project that runs off-site exhibitions in diverse locations. He was also co-founder and co-curator of the mu...
Masterpiece London 2022 | Lunchtime live John Makepeace
August 01, 2022 10:32 - 32 minutes - 75.1 MBJohn Makepeace OBE is internationally regarded as one of Britain’s most influential designer-makers. He was an early proponent of material innovation and sustainability, setting up the acclaimed Parnham College for furniture designers in 1976 and initiating Hooke Park in 1982, as a School for Woodland Industries and Forestry Management. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Precious Stones
July 08, 2021 10:34 - 28 minutes - 39.2 MBWelcome to Encountering Beauty, a series of podcasts brought to you by Masterpiece London. I’m Thomas Marks, editor of Apollo magazine, and in these podcasts we’ll be exploring the enduring relevance and resonance of what have long been some of the most revered and versatile materials that artists have had at their disposal. In each conversation I’ll be joined by two art dealers who exhibit at the leading art fair that is Masterpiece London – experts in different artistic fields or perio...
Contemporary Sculpture
June 21, 2021 16:16 - 29 minutes - 40.9 MBHello and welcome to Masterpiece Conversations, a series of podcasts that in each episode brings together a leading curator and art dealer to offer a taste of what people are really talking about in a particular field. I’m Thomas Marks, editor of Apollo magazine, and I’ll be your host for these discussions, in which we’re aiming to override the perceived ‘church and state’ separation between museums and the art market – or at least to explore what conversation and collaboration between t...
Post War Design
June 21, 2021 16:12 - 28 minutes - 39.8 MBHello and welcome to Masterpiece Conversations, a series of podcasts that in each episode brings together a leading curator and art dealer to offer a taste of what people are really talking about right now in a particular field. I’m Thomas Marks, editor of Apollo magazine, and I’ll be your host for these discussions, in which we’re aiming to override the perceived ‘church and state’ separation between museums and the art market – or at least to explore what conversation and collaboration...
Post War & Contemporary Art
June 21, 2021 16:08 - 28 minutes - 39.3 MBHello and welcome to Masterpiece Conversations, a series of podcasts that in each episode brings together a leading curator and art dealer to offer a taste of what people are really talking about right now in a particular field. I’m Thomas Marks, editor of Apollo magazine, and I’ll be your host for these discussions, in which we’re aiming to override the perceived ‘church and state’ separation between museums and the art market – or at least to explore what conversation and collaboration...
Antiquities
June 21, 2021 13:50 - 29 minutes - 40.3 MBHello and welcome to Masterpiece Conversations, a series of podcasts that in each episode brings together a leading curator and art dealer to offer a taste of what people are really talking about right now in a particular field. I’m Thomas Marks, editor of Apollo magazine, and I’ll be your host for these discussions, in which we’re aiming to override the perceived ‘church and state’ separation between museums and the art market – or at least to explore what conversation and collaboration...
Ceramic
June 08, 2021 13:34 - 29 minutes - 40.9 MBWelcome to Encountering Beauty, a series of podcasts brought to you by Masterpiece London. I’m Thomas Marks, editor of Apollo magazine, and in these podcasts we’ll be exploring the enduring relevance and resonance of what have long been some of the most revered and versatile materials that artists have had at their disposal. In each conversation I’ll be joined by two art dealers who exhibit at the leading art fair that is Masterpiece London – experts in different artistic fields that ne...
Bronze
May 05, 2021 10:09 - 24 minutes - 33.5 MBWelcome to Encountering Beauty, a series of podcasts brought to you by Masterpiece London. I’m Thomas Marks, editor of Apollo magazine, and in these podcasts we’ll be exploring the enduring relevance and resonance of what have long been some of the most revered and versatile materials that artists have had at their disposal. In each conversation I’ll be joined by two art dealers who exhibit at the leading art fair that is Masterpiece London – experts in different artistic fields that ne...
Pigment
April 06, 2021 11:43 - 29 minutes - 40.8 MBToday we’ll be talking about pigment and the ingredients of paint – that is, how a range of coloured substances, usually ground into powders and mixed with oil, water or another type of binder, have been the starting point for paintings from prehistoric murals to Pop art and beyond. We’ll be discussing how far an understanding of pigment has been fundamental to the painting of the past, including how certain colours have been valued or venerated – and we’ll explore what contemporary painters...
Wood
February 18, 2021 16:26 - 25 minutes - 34.8 MBToday we’ll be talking about wood – a material that is in a sense very ordinary but which has been made extraordinary by artists from many different cultures, and for thousands of years. It has been carved and turned, joined and inlaid, polished and painted – and in many cases, its endurance against the odds has lent it a fragile preciousness that only adds to the sense of wonder that it inspires. Featuring Patrick Mestdagh, whose gallery in Brussels presents objects from outside Europe – f...
Marble
February 04, 2021 09:59 - 25 minutes - 34.7 MBWelcome to Encountering Beauty, a series of podcasts brought to you by Masterpiece London, with Thomas Marks, editor of Apollo magazine. These podcasts we’ll be exploring the enduring relevance and resonance of what have long been some of the most revered and versatile materials that artists have had at their disposal. In this episode we’ll be hearing about the marvels of marble, a material that since antiquity has captured the imaginations of sculptors and architects. Across cultures an...