Party Hard
We were at the preview party for the Royal Academy's Summer Exhibition last night, filming for next Thursday's special on the RA Summer Exhibition. Not to mislead you, in this case 'we' means the Culture Show team not including me - I was at home trying to catch up on the sleep I'd missed when trying to launch the site on Tuesday. By all accounts it was a glamorous event, in fact if you were to glean your only impression of the event from the bloggers you would be forgiven for thinking that the party was exclusively attended by models, TV presenter Alexa Chung and a hung-over Lily Allen.
In our programme we follow Gavin Turk making a bronze sculpture for the show - a very convincing pile of ash. Each room in the exhibition is hung by a different RA member, and as a new Academician Tracey Emin has been putting together her first room; we peered over her shoulder as she made decisions. Our final film in the special is a Tim Marlow interview with Sir Anthony Caro. The RA currently have a video on their site of Anthony Caro installing his sculpture Promenade, a powerful piece that will dominate the courtyard during the run of the show.
One notable contribution that The Culture Show made to last night's party was the presence of Jarvis Cocker, playing a brand new song entitled Angela. The torrential rain of the last week had made everyone very nervous about an outside performance, but in the end we had a beautiful evening and captured Jarvis during the soft light of the 'golden hour'. We'll have the performance on the website next week.
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surrealist artist - its good to read about the londonites and the established artists as here but what about brilliant artists from liverpool who are mad surreal original and diverse like jasmine maddock on www.artwanted.com/wonderful and videos www.youtube.com/jasminebeautyfairy please do a feature about her - from 30s filmstars with mini versions of themselves in their hair to drag toy cats battling the world with dog breath weapons- she has been exhibited egg cafe deptford x dotart loads more yet she is considered too weird and unusual to be well known and documented. a shame.
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Cheers for the links. We certainly don't want to focus exclusively on London, and in fact the programme is made alternate weeks in London and in Glasgow (so Andrew Graham-Dixon was looking at Scottish 'land' art last night from the perspective of the Culture Show chopper).
Let us know about musicians, filmmakers and artists of all sorts who you think are doing brilliant work and that we should be covering – the everyone on the team reads the blog and we're delighted to get suggestions.
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