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Finding Frida Kahlo?
Five decades after her death, the Mexican artist Frida Kahlo is at the centre of a controversy as bizarre and gripping as the scandals that define her in the popular imagination, following the discovery of an astonishing trove of letters, notebooks, paintings, sketches and personal effects that is either one of the greatest art finds of the century or the most brazen hoax since the Hitler diaries.
A portrait of Elizabeth Peyton
Her oil on board portraits are elegant miniature and trashy fanzine, like Edouard Manet in the NME. They are rarely bigger than a sheet of A4 and often considerably smaller. In daring, broad brushstrokes that explore the boundary between realism and abstraction, they depict her imagined relationships with Liam Gallagher, Jarvis Cocker, Jackie and John Kennedy, Oscar Wilde and his lover, Bosie.
Robert Wilson - Trailblazer
This edition of the BBC World Service documentary strand, Close-Up, focused on the work of pioneering American theatre director Robert Wilson. Presenter Harriet Gilbert interviewed Wilson himself. I reported from the launch party of his redeveloped Watermill Centre on Long Island, speaking with artists inspired by Wilson, among them actress Isabella Rosselini and songwriter Lou Reed.
