Slebs: Warhol, Beaton and celebrity culture

Arts & Ideas

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Society & Culture

4.2 • 599 Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2020

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Entertainment writer Caroline Frost, New Generation Thinker Lisa Mullen and historian & podcast host Greg Jenner join Matthew Sweet as exhibitions about Cecil Beaton and Andy Warhol open in London.

Greg Jenner presents the BBC Sounds podcast You're Dead to Me and has just published a book called Dead Famous: An Unexpected history of celebrity from Bronze Age to Silver Screen Cecil Beaton's Bright Young Things runs at the National Portrait Gallery from March 12th to June 7th. Andy Warhol runs at Tate Modern from March 12th to September 6th. Caroline Frost is a writer, broadcaster and entertainment journalist. Lisa Mullen is a New Generation Thinker on the scheme run by the BBC and AHRC to put academic research on the radio. She's the author of a book called Mid-century Gothic: The Uncanny Objects of Modernity in British Literature and Culture After the Second World War

Producer: Alex Mansfield

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the home of the oxymoron. Evil genius. He asked the newspaper to print his obituary early so he'd enjoy it. That's like hiding at your own funeral. Yeah, a big, great gig. I'm Russell Kane. Join me to weigh in on whether the biggest players in history are more evil or genius. Becoming that rich, I'd say that is some level of genius. It also helps that it's a long time ago, right?
0:23.3	It's like the podcast version of telling your kids the ice cream van plays music when it's out of ice cream.
0:28.8	Listen to Evil Genius on BBC Sounds.
0:32.1	Hello, this is the introduction to the Arts and Ideas podcast, and this is Matthew Sweet reading it.
0:37.4	This edition is dazzling and glamorous.
0:40.3	It has Andy Warhol, and it has Cecil Beaton,
0:43.2	and Cecil wants to take you somewhere where you'll always be looking your best.
0:47.6	Listen to him and some messages.
0:50.1	Because it was part of the feeling of the time, I mean, I created a fantasy. I created a sort of dream world. And in that dream world, you didn't want to see crow's feet and veins in the neck.
1:04.8	Hello, I'm Jessica Curry, host of the Sound of Gaming podcast. If you love video game music or chatting over a cup at with
1:12.4	some amazing composers as much as I do, then you really must come on over and join us. I'll be
1:18.7	meeting a different composer each week to talk about their work in games, chatting about the
1:24.0	music in some of my favourite scores and lifting the lid on just what us composers
1:28.9	are getting up to behind the curtain while you're playing. Search BBC sounds for Sound of
1:34.7	gaming and hit subscribe to listen now. This is Freethinking, the Love Island of BBC Radio 3.
1:45.6	No, let's go one better, the Casa Demore, that extra special bit of Love Island where the really meaningful exchanges occur.
1:54.4	We don't have decking, we don't have a jacuzzi, not with a pandemic on, but we do have studio space to discuss glamour, celebrity, youth, beauty,
2:03.7	the intersection of the body and capitalism, and maybe the German philosopher Jürgen Habermas's
2:09.3	idea of the public sphere, so plenty that might interest the sidebar of shame.
2:15.0	And we'll give the red carpet treatment to new exhibitions
2:18.2	that demonstrate the star power of two major 20th century artistic figures.
2:23.8	The photographer Cecil Beaton. Here's a bit of him.
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