Revolution at the V&A, Ben Hur, Anthropoid, Maggi Hambling
Reviews the V&A exhibition You Say You Want A Revolution and the remake of Ben Hur. Plus, film director Sean Ellis on Anthropoid and Maggi Hambling's sketches at the British Museum.
"You Say You Want A Revolution"? asks the Victoria and Albert Museum. John Wilson takes a tour around its new blockbuster show which explores the great changes in civil rights, multi-culturalism, consumerism, youth culture, fashion and music that took place between 1966 - 1970 and examines how they changed the world.
As the Ben Hur remake hits our cinema screens, Kate Muir reviews the biblical epic.
"Operation Anthropoid," was the code name of a daring mission to assassinate SS officer Reinhard Heydrich, the main architect of the Final Solution and the leader of Nazi forces in Czechoslovakia. Sean Ellis is the director of a new film telling the extraordinary true story which stars Cillian Murphey, Jamie Dornan and Toby Jones as the Czech resistance.
The artist Maggi Hambling is best-known for her celebrated and controversial public works - a sculpture for Oscar Wilde in central London and Scallop, a 4-metre-high steel shell on Aldeburgh beach - as well as for her large and colourful portraits. Drawing though has always remained at the heart of her work and a new exhibition at the British Museum captures that. She talks about the creative experience of charcoal, graphite or ink on paper.
Image: The Beatles Illustrated Lyrics, 'Revolution' 1968 by Alan Aldridge (c) Iconic Images, Alan Aldridge.
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Stephen Smith reviews You Say You Want A Revolution at the V&A for 91热爆 Arts.
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You Say You Want A Revolution?
Duration: 09:47
Ben Hur
Duration: 04:33
Anthropoid
Duration: 06:52
Maggi Hambling - Touch: works on paper
Duration: 06:40
You Say You Want a Revolution? Records and Rebels 1966 - 70
,听London 听from 10 September 2016 鈥 26 February 2017听
Image:听 John Wilson with Victoria Broackes, co-curator of the exhibition.
听Ben Hur
Ben Hur is in cinemas nationwide, certificate 12A.
Image:听听 Messala Severus (Toby Kebbell)听 and Judah Ben-Hur (Jack Huston).听
Credit: Philippe Antonello,听 漏 2016 Paramount Pictures and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Inc.听
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Anthropoid
Anthropoid is released nationwide on Friday, cert 15.
Image:听 Cillian Murphy as Josef听Gab膷铆k.听听 Credit:听听 Icon FilmsMaggi Hambling 鈥 Touch: works on paper
, 8 September 2016 - 29 January 2017
Image:听 Rosie, the stuffed rhinoceros in Ipswich Museum, 1963.听 Ink 48.3 x 34.9 cm, Maggi Hambling 漏 The Trustees of the British Museum听
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Role Contributor Presenter John Wilson Producer Philip Sellars Producer Rebecca Armstrong Broadcast
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