Best Paul Rifkin Podcasts (2025)

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S3 Ep4: Experiments in Art Writing: Roger Robinson 40:56

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This series, Experiments in Art Writing, features a set of highly innovative UK-based art writers, asking them to describe the encounters, materials, voices and texts that have shaped the very form of their writing. Episode image: Bartholomew Dandridge, A Young Girl with an Enslaved Servant and a Dog, c. 1725, oil on canvas, 121.9 x 121.9 cm. Yale …

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S3 Ep3: Experiments in Art Writing: Maria Fusco 40:07

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This series, Experiments in Art Writing, features a set of highly innovative UK-based art writers, asking them to describe the encounters, materials, voices and texts that have shaped the very form of their writing.By Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art

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S3 Ep2: Experiments in Art Writing: Adrian Rifkin 46:32

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This series, Experiments in Art Writing, features a set of highly innovative UK-based art writers, asking them to describe the encounters, materials, voices and texts that have shaped the very form of their writing. This programme contains a description of suicide taken from the novel La Fin De Cherí, by Sidonie Gabriel Collette. If you’d prefer to…

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S3 Ep1: Experiments in Art Writing: Catherine Grant 35:35

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This series, Experiments In Art Writing, features a set of highly innovative UK-based art writers, asking them to describe the encounters, materials, voices and texts that have shaped the very form of their writing. Episode image: Anna Bunting Branch, W.I.T.C.H. ("Wild Imaginations Transform Chauvinist Hegemony"), oil and acrylic paint on folded al…

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S2 Ep3: Ryan Gander: DIFFICULT TRUTHS TO LIVE INSIDE - TROUBLE WITH TIME 26:51

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Ryan Gander’s inventive, shapeshifting and associative works materialise in many forms ranging from sculpture and writing to painting and performance. His engagement with histories is not without mischief, in his 2006 work A Future Lorum Ipsom, Gander invented a palindromic word, ‘Mitim’, designed to be inserted without comment into newspapers, mag…

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S2 Ep1: Lucy Skaer: Leaving the House 43:27

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Lucy Skaer has exhibited extensively and has had recent solo exhibitions at the Museo Tamayo, Mexico, SMAK, Gent and Kunstwerke, Berlin, and a current solo show at Bloomberg Mithraeum, London. She was nominated for the Turner Prize in 2009 and was awarded the Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award in 2016. She works in collaboration with as Nashashibi / Skae…

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S1 Ep7: The Medicinal Garden 44:12

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The garden has long been an important subject matter of the British history of art, but what of the medicinal garden, its visual culture and aesthetics, its significance as a sensory and experimental site, and for artists? This episode brings together a set of scholars whose diverse researches shed new light on the physic, botanical and medicinal g…

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S1 Ep6: “Things in their natural surroundings”?: Marketing the British Country House as Home 36:15

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When John, 13th Duke of Bedford, opened up Woburn Abbey to the paying public in 1955, he took care to maintain the sense that this was his family’s home, even though they occupied only a section of the house, away from the tourist route. As he recorded, his wife, Lydia, ‘succeeded most cleverly in arranging the main state-rooms for show while still…

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S1 Ep5: Exploring London's Art Scene in the 1960s 27:15

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Lisa Tickner, a leading historian of British art, has just published a new book on the dynamic art world that emerged in 1960s London. In this podcast, she talks with Mark Hallett about the remarkable array of artists, curators, galleries, art-schools, films, publications and documentaries focused on in the course of her research, and about the hig…

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S1 Ep4: Hard Times and Late Victorian Art 33:09

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This talk focuses on a key instance of the social realism that played an important role in late Victorian art and culture. Hubert von Herkomer’s Hard Times (1885), has to do with conditions of migrant and insecure labour at the time. Artistically, and in its address to vital social issues, it is an intriguing and complex creation. It continues to s…

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S1 Ep3: The English Carthusians and the Art of Abstinence 30:20

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The Carthusian order was founded in the late eleventh century in France. It spread rapidly and widely, and experienced great popularity during the later Middle Ages, when dozens of new charterhouses were founded against a background of sharp decline in monastic foundation in general. The main reason for Carthusian popularity was the order’s consist…

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S1 Ep2: “What Will Survive of Us Is Love”: Memory and Emotion in Late-Medieval England 31:14

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Medieval tombs often depict husband and wife lying hand-in-hand, immortalised in elegantly carved stone: what Philip Larkin would later describe in his celebrated poem, An Arundel Tomb, as their ‘stone fidelity’. These gestural monuments seem to belong to a broader tendency towards ‘expressivity’ in late-medieval sculpture. Whereas the figures on R…

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S1 Ep1: William Etty and the Classical Body 34:12

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William Etty was obsessed with the female form. At the height of his career as a history painter, long after his election to Royal Academician in 1828, he sat side-by-side with novices to study naked models, a practice he continued even as his health faded toward the end of his life. Whether posed alone or in groups, these models served as template…

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Only Small Actors - Finale 20:08

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All four protagonists get a happy ending. Well, it is a comedy, right?By Kawfeedave

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Only Small Actors - Part 4 30:10

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Further Adventures in Hollywood and Kansas including two bedroom scenes. No worries. It is pretty much good clean fun. Well almost.By Kawfeedave

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-Only Small Actors Part Three 24:24

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We go to Kansas to meet Miss Boop. Seymour gets a shiner. Bitsy considers giving a warning. Albert gets a job in stand up. Byron has a three-way and we hear beer and grass jokes. And learn what Hitler's stage name was.By Kawfeedave