This week: Thom Yorke and Stanley Donwood on their collaborative artwork, Wayne McGregor on his new choreographic work—a collaboration with the late Carmen Herrera—and Whistler’s Mom returns to Philadelphia.
Forward of an exhibition of their work in London in September, we speak to Radiohead’s Thom Yorke and Stanley Donwood—who has created the paintings with Yorke for each Radiohead album since 1994, as effectively the visuals accompanying Thom’s solo data and aspect tasks together with the current data by The Smile—about their collaboration.
A brand new work for the UK’s Royal Ballet by the choreographer Wayne McGregor premieres on the Royal Opera Home in London on 9 June. Untitled, 2023 is a collaboration with the Cuban-American artist Carmen Herrera, developed earlier than Herrera’s dying final 12 months on the age of 106. We speak to McGregor concerning the piece and the intersection between visible artwork and choreography.
And this episode’s Work of the Week is likely one of the most well-known footage on this planet: Association in Gray and Black, higher referred to as Whistler’s Mom, by James Abbott McNeill Whistler. It’s a part of an exhibition referred to as The Artist’s Mom: Whistler and Philadelphia, curated by Jenny Thompson, and we converse to Jenny concerning the work and the present.
• Thom Yorke and Stanley Donwood: The Crow Flies will probably be at Tin Man Artwork, Cromwell Place, London in September – actual dates to be confirmed, go to tinmanart.com.
• Untitled, 2023 is on the Royal Opera Home in London till 17 June, as a part of the triple invoice with Corybantic Video games, a tribute to Leonard Bernstein by the Royal Ballet’s inventive affiliate Christopher Wheeldon, and a revival of Anastasia Act III by Kenneth MacMillan.
• The Artist’s Mom: Whistler and Philadelphia, Philadelphia Museum of Artwork, 10 June-29 October.