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JMW Turner: Turner Exhibited – Who was Turner?
Who was JMW Turner? Curator David Brown
JMW Turner: Turner Exhibited – Intro
What can we see in this room? Curator David Brown
Jonas Mekas
The artist describes what this work is about
Glenn Ligon: Untitled – 2
What’s the significance of Ligon’s materials? Francesco Manacorda
Introduction to the Jonas Mekas display
Listen to artist Jonas Mekas introduce his work Diaries, Notes & Sketches a.k.a. Walden 1964–9
Joseph Beuys
Why is Beuys’s work at the heart of this Constellation? Assistant Curator Tamar Hemmes
Pablo Picasso: Goat’s Skull, Bottle and Candle – 2
What political event inspired this work? John Hughes
Pauline Boty: The Only Blonde in the World – 2
How was Pauline Boty’s work was rediscovered? John Hughes
Pauline Boty: The Only Blonde in the World – 1
Parallels between artist and film star. Visitor Assistant John Hughes
Cindy Sherman: Untitled A 1975
Why is Sherman’s work important today? Curator Darren Pih
Cindy Sherman
Is identity something you can perform? Curator Darren Pih
Andreas Gursky: Chicago, Board of Trade II – 2
How does Gursky show us what we can’t see? Lauren Barnes
Andreas Gursky: Chicago, Board of Trade II – 1
How did Gursky make this image? Assistant Curator Lauren Barnes
Georges Braque: Bottle and Fishes c.1910–2
Is this a picture of how we see? Visitor Assistant John Hughes
Cao Fei: Whose Utopia? 2006
How did Cao Fei work with light bulb factory employees? Assistant Curator Lauren Barnes
L.S. Lowry: Industrial Landscape 1955
Is this a real place? Assistant Curator Lauren Barnes
L.S. LOWRY
How do Lowry’s ‘matchstick men’ reflect the world of work? Assistant Curator Lauren Barnes
Bruce Davidson: Untitled, Subway, New York, early 1980s 1980, printed 2006
Graffiti or abstract art? Artistic Director Francesco Manacorda
Ellen Gallagher: Afro Puff – 3
What’s the significance of repetition here? Francesco Manacorda
Ellen Gallagher: Afro Puff – 2
What are Gallagher’s reference points? Francesco Manacorda