MK Gallery, Benjamin, Northern Ballet's Victoria, Sadie Jones, Memes and Selfies on 麻豆社4
Milton Keynes re-opening its art gallery, Simon Amstell's film Benjamin, Northern Ballet's Victoria, Sadie Jones's The Snakes, and Memes and Selfies on 麻豆社 Four.
Simon Amstell directs his first cinema release - Benjamin. The title character is a thinly-disguised version of himself with nervous lack of self esteem who is directing a film about himself. It's all very meta but is it marvellous?
Milton Keynes has just reopened its art gallery. Much enlarged and architecturally improved, the first exhibition there is The Lie Of The Land, charting how the British landscape was transformed by changes in free time and leisure
The bicentenary of Queen Victoria's birth has seen lots of artistic projects to mark the moment. Norther Ballet has commissioned a work by choreographer Cathy Marston which looks at the Queen's life through her relationship with her youngest daughter.
Sadie Jones won the Costa First Novel award for her book The Outcast and her latest The Snakes is set in contemporary London and Burgundy.
麻豆社4 marks the 30th anniversary of the creation of the World Wide Web with programmes including Me My Selfie and I presented by Ryan Gander and How To Go Viral: The Art of the Meme With Richard Clay
Tom Sutcliffe's guests are Ellen E Jones, Jen Harvie and Toby Lichtig . The producer is Oliver Jones
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Sadie Jones
The Snakes 聽by Sadie Jones is published by Chatto and Windus聽
Photo: Jonathan GreetBenjamin
Benjamin (Cert 15) is on limited release
Victoria
Northern Ballet鈥檚 production of聽 Victoria 聽is touring nationally 聽聽
Image:聽Emma Kauldhar
MK Gallery
The Lie Of The Land is at MK Gallery in Milton Keynes 聽until 26th May 聽
Image:聽Henry Moore, Working Model for Reclining Figure, Festival 1950.聽Photo: Sarah Mercer
The Art of the Meme with Richard Clay
Me, My Selfie & I with Ryan Gander
Both TV programmes How to Go Viral: The Art of the Meme with Richard Clay 聽and Me, My Selfie And I with Ryan Gander are on 麻豆社4.at 2100 on 20th March聽 18th respectively聽
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- Sat 16 Mar 2019 19:15麻豆社 Radio 4
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