Party Hard
We were at the preview party for the last night, filming for next Thursday's special on the RA Summer Exhibition. Not to mislead you, in this case 'we' means the Culture Show team not including me - I was at home trying to catch up on the sleep I'd missed when trying to launch the site on Tuesday. By all accounts it was a glamorous event, in fact if you were to glean your only impression of the event from the you would be forgiven for thinking that the party was exclusively attended by models, TV presenter Alexa Chung and a hung-over Lily Allen.
In our programme we follow Gavin Turk making a bronze sculpture for the show - a very convincing pile of ash. Each room in the exhibition is hung by a different RA member, and as a new Academician has been putting together her first room; we peered over her shoulder as she made decisions. Our final film in the special is a Tim Marlow interview with . The RA currently have a video on their site of , a powerful piece that will dominate the courtyard during the run of the show.
One notable contribution that The Culture Show made to last night's party was the presence of , playing a brand new song entitled Angela. The torrential rain of the last week had made everyone very nervous about an outside performance, but in the end we had a beautiful evening and captured Jarvis during the soft light of the . We'll have the performance on the website next week.
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