V&A Podcasts

The August 2006 edition of Culturecast features…

• A sneak preview of the new V&A Medieval and Renaissance galleries, due to open in 2009
• Visitors to the Sixties fashion exhibition reminiscing about life and fashion in swinging London
• An unusual new addition to the photography collection - an Edwardian gardener’s album of fruit photography

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The music in this podcast is by Mark Bordenet and The Hard Parts. Check them out on music.podshow.com

The July 2006 edition of Culturecast features:

• Design historian David Crowley discussing Che’s image in the cultural context of the 1960’s
• V&A artist-in-residence Sue Lawty giving a gallery talk about 20th century tapestries on display in the textile galleries
• Gallery educator Stuart Frost talking about the magnificent Portico de la Gloria in the Cast Courts

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The music in this podcast is by Mark Bordenet and has been downloaded from music.podshow.com

The June 2006 edition of CultureCast features:

• three graphic designers (Tony Allen, Nick Bell and Chas Bayfield) discussing how they’ve re-interpreted Korda’s iconic image of Che Guevara in their own works
• assistant curator Simon Carter discussing the turbulent history of the Easby Cross, an early medieval standing cross currently on display in the V&A Cast Courts
• winners from this year’s Inpsired By… competition talking about how they’ve drawn inspiration for their own work from objects in the V&A’s collections

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The music in this podcast is by Rachel Kann and Mark Bordenet. Check them out on music.podshow.com

The May edition of the V&A CultureCast features:

• a preview of the Che Guevara: Revolutionary and Icon exhibition
• Christopher Wilk, curator of the Modernism: Designing a New World exhibition, talking about his favourite exhibit, the Frankfurt kitchen
• A review of April’s Friday Late event, which this month took the theme of Utopia

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The music in this podcast is by Mark Bordenet, Hugh Flyn and Amado. Check them out on music.podshow.com

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For those of you who have been following the Ceramic Points of View podcast series over the past few months - thanks for listening. We hope you enjoyed them. I certainly learned a lot about studio pottery from editing them - a craft I knew next-to-nothing about beforehand.

I loved the mysterious vocabulary of pottery - slipside, terra sigillata, ‘runs and drips of glaze’. The quest for a ‘truth to material’ among the leading potters of the British studio pottery makers struck me as a sound ideal to strive for.

The difference of opinions displayed towards each object by the critics, makers and art historians was often quite extreme. Over the course of the 10 episodes I started to see a consistency in each speaker’s approach to the pots and to get a sense of the specific qualities of a pot each of them would respond strongly to.

This podcast series will remain available on the podcast feed for the next few months.