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The best of the world's arts, film, music, literature and music brought to you every day. Presented by Bidisha.
On today's programme: Polaroid Auction, Chris Rock, Jain Manuscripts.
Photo: Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico, Ansel Adams.
Polaroid Auction
The famous Polaroid Corporation collapsed in 2008, and this week more than 1,200 of the most iconic works by the likes of Ansel Adams and Andy Warhol have been placed at auction in Sotheby's in New York.
They are expected to raise between $8m and $12m - we hear from the sale room.
Bidisha also talks to the film director Stephen Poliakoff as he reflects on the emotional and social power of photography collections.
Chris Rock
Chris Rock. Photo: PA Wire.
US sell-out comedian Chris Rock turns documentary-maker in his new film Good Hair.
Rock sets out to explore the idea of what makes "good hair," for African-Americans after his daughter asked why she didn't have good hair.
The answers presented in the film are by turns, absurd and fascinating. For African-Americans burdened by the legacies of slavery and racism, good hair has traditionally been defined as hair more like white people's.
Chris Rock talks to Simon Pitts about hairshows and folicles.
JAIN MANUSCRIPTS
Pages from an Uttaradhyayanasutra manuscript, Gujarat, India about 1450
© V&A Images
In the quiet halls of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London is a small but remarkable exhibition of sixteenth century Jain manuscripts from western India. They have not seen the light of day since 1879 and they tell us how this important religious community in India viewed the world and incorporated that view into their religious practice four hundred years ago.
Clearing Winter Storm, Yosemite National Park
Ansel Adams
Clearing Winter Storm, Yosemite National Park
Mural-sized, flush-mounted, framed, 1938, probably printed in the 1950s or 1960s.
Sotheby’s New York
Photographs from The Polaroid Collection.
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