This week: Thom Yorke and Stanley Donwood on their collaborative artwork, Wayne McGregor on his new choreographic work—a collaboration with the late Carmen Herrera—and Whistler’s Mom returns to Philadelphia.
Stanley Donwood x Thom Yorke’s Learn how to fully disappear (2021).
Courtesy of Christie’s and TIN MAN ART
Forward of an exhibition of their work in London in September, we discuss to Radiohead’s Thom Yorke and Stanley Donwood—who has created the paintings with Yorke for each Radiohead album since 1994, as nicely the visuals accompanying Thom’s solo information and aspect tasks together with the current information by The Smile—about their collaboration.
Left to proper: Carmen Herrera and Wayne McGregor
A brand new work for the UK’s Royal Ballet by the choreographer Wayne McGregor premieres on the Royal Opera Home in London on 9 June. Untitled, 2023 is a collaboration with the Cuban-American artist Carmen Herrera, developed earlier than Herrera’s dying final yr on the age of 106. We discuss to McGregor concerning the piece and the intersection between visible artwork and choreography.
James Abbott McNeill Whistle’s Association in Gray and Black (Whistler’s Mom) (1871)
Courtesy of the Philadelphia Museum of Artwork
And this episode’s Work of the Week is without doubt one of the most well-known photos on this planet: Association in Gray and Black, higher generally known as Whistler’s Mom, by James Abbott McNeill Whistler. It’s a part of an exhibition known as The Artist’s Mom: Whistler and Philadelphia, curated by Jenny Thompson, and we converse to Jenny concerning the work and the present.
• Thom Yorke and Stanley Donwood: The Crow Flies can be at Tin Man Artwork, Cromwell Place, London in September – actual dates to be confirmed, go to tinmanart.com.
• Untitled, 2023 is on the Royal Opera Home in London till 17 June, as a part of the triple invoice with Corybantic Video games, a tribute to Leonard Bernstein by the Royal Ballet’s inventive affiliate Christopher Wheeldon, and a revival of Anastasia Act III by Kenneth MacMillan.
• The Artist’s Mom: Whistler and Philadelphia, Philadelphia Museum of Artwork, 10 June-29 October.
