Thom Yorke and Stanley Donwood; Wayne McGregor on Carmen Herrera; Whistlers Mother

Published: June 8, 2023, 11:01 p.m.

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This week: Thom Yorke and Stanley Donwood on their collaborative art, Wayne McGregor on his new choreographic work\\u2014a collaboration with the late Carmen Herrera\\u2014and Whistler\\u2019s Mother returns to Philadelphia.Ahead of an exhibition of their work in London in September, we talk to Radiohead\\u2019s Thom Yorke and Stanley Donwood\\u2014who has created the artwork with Yorke for every Radiohead album since 1994, as well the visuals accompanying Thom\\u2019s solo records and side projects including the recent records by The Smile\\u2014about their collaboration. A new work for the UK\\u2019s Royal Ballet by the choreographer Wayne McGregor premieres at the Royal Opera House in London on 9 June. Untitled, 2023 is a collaboration with the Cuban-American artist Carmen Herrera, developed before Herrera\\u2019s death last year at the age of 106. We talk to McGregor about the piece and the intersection between visual art and choreography. And this episode\\u2019s Work of the Week is one of the most famous pictures in the world: Arrangement in Grey and Black, better known as Whistler\\u2019s Mother, by James Abbott McNeill Whistler. It\\u2019s part of an exhibition called The Artist\\u2019s Mother: Whistler and Philadelphia, curated by Jenny Thompson, and we speak to Jenny about the work and the show.


Thom Yorke and Stanley Donwood: The Crow Flies will be at Tin Man Art, Cromwell Place, London in September \\u2013 exact dates to be confirmed, visit tinmanart.com.


Untitled, 2023, is at the Royal Opera House in London until 17 June, as part of the triple bill with Corybantic Games, a tribute to Leonard Bernstein by the Royal Ballet\\u2019s artistic associate Christopher Wheeldon, and a revival of Anastasia Act III by Kenneth MacMillan.


The Artist\\u2019s Mother: Whistler and Philadelphia, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 10 June-29 October.



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