Art and Stuff

Art Fund

Taking a closer look at some of the most fascinating stuff inside our museums. From bits of buried treasure to iconic portraits to outlandish furniture, what do these things say about us? Each episode, we hear from a range of people who share their expertise and passion, revealing the incredible stories behind the objects we collect, curate and cherish.Art and Stuff is published by Art Fund, the UK’s national charity for art, which raises money for museums and galleries through the National Art Pass – a neat little card that gets you free or reduced-price entry to hundreds of grea...

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Art and Stuff

Episodes (11)

Feb 18, 2021 Lobster Telephone
Feb 11, 2021 Spirit of the Carnival
Feb 4, 2021 Puppet of Aloysius Parker from Thunderbirds

Art and Stuff

Feb 18, 2021
23¼ minutes
53 MB

In this episode Ben uncovers the curious history behind a defining work of 20th-century Surrealism, Salvador Dali’s Lobster Telephone, part of the collection of National Galleries Scotland. Ben hears from curator Patrick Elliott, who reveals more about the genesis of the work and the man who commissioned it, Edward James; academic Dr Sarah Jackson, whose ‘Crossed Lines’ project examines the representation of the phone in modern literature; and finally, Jamie Ruers of the Freud Museum in London, who reveals more about the connection between Dali and Freud’s theories of the unconscious mind. You can see an i...

Art and Stuff

Lobster Telephone

Art Fund

00:00 -23:20