Muses and women's creativity
Arts & Ideas6 Maalis 2024

Muses and women's creativity

Iseult Gonne is the daughter of the Irish suffragette, actress and republican who became a muse for WB Yeats. Novelist Helen Cullen has been researching her troubled life. Rochelle Rowe's research looks at women of colour who modelled for artists including Jacob Epstein and Dante Gabriel Rosetti, tracing the histories of women like Fanny Eaton and Sunita Devi. Tabitha Barber is curating an exhibition of women's art opening at Tate Britain in May. Naomi Paxton hosts a conversation about muses, women making art and carving out a public name for themselves.

Victorian Radicals: From the Pre-Raphaelites to the Arts and Crafts Movement runs at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery until 31 October From16 May, Tate Britain opens Now You See Us: Women Artists in Britain 1520 - 1920 Angelica Kauffman runs at the Royal Academy (1 March - 30 June 2024) Julia Margaret Cameron runs at the National Portrait Gallery (21 March - 16 June)

You can find a collection of episodes exploring Women in the World on the Free Thinking programme website

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Free Thinking - Figuring Out Abstract Art

Free Thinking - Figuring Out Abstract Art

Scientist Susan Greenfield, painter Fiona Rae, poet Paul Farley and artist and TV presenter Matt Collings discuss abstract art past and present. The event recorded in front of an audience at the Starr...

18 Syys 201443min

Free Thinking - Martin Amis

Free Thinking - Martin Amis

Martin Amis talks to Philip Dodd about his reputation for courting controversy and his 14th novel The Zone of Interest. Recorded in front of an audience as part of the BBC Proms.

17 Syys 201439min

Free Thinking - Lenny Henry

Free Thinking - Lenny Henry

Rudy's Rare Records stars Lenny Henry as the son who works alongside his father in a record shop. The Radio 4 comedy has been adapted for stage and is being performed with live music at Birmingham Rep...

16 Syys 201443min

Free Thinking - Culloden

Free Thinking - Culloden

Peter Watkins' film Culloden is 50, and in front of an audience at the Edinburgh Festival, Matthew Sweet discusses its influence on portrayals of Scotland's Highland identity in book and film with Dia...

15 Syys 201443min

Proms Poetry Competition

Proms Poetry Competition

The poet Daljit Nagra and Radio 3 presenter Ian McMillan introduce the winning entries in this year's Proms Poetry Competition - and welcome some of the winners on stage to read them. In association w...

12 Syys 201436min

Proms Plus Literary - Robert Frost

Proms Plus Literary - Robert Frost

In 1914 the American poet Robert Frost published his collection 'North of Boston'. It was hailed as 'one of the most revolutionary books of modern times' by the English poet Edward Thomas. Matthew Hol...

8 Syys 201420min

Prom Plus Literary - Philip Larkin

Prom Plus Literary - Philip Larkin

Poets Andrew Motion and Kate Clanchy discuss the writing of Philip Larkin and his collection, 'Whitsun Weddings', which was first published 50 years ago in 1964. This programme presented by Matthew S...

8 Syys 201421min

Proms Plus Literary: Martin Amis

Proms Plus Literary: Martin Amis

Novelist Martin Amis discusses 'The Zone of Interest', his 14th novel, in which he revisits the Holocaust for the first time since his controversial book, 'Time's Arrow'. This programme presented by ...

29 Elo 201421min

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