Stanley Spencer's wives, the damage to culture in Beirut, Angie Cruz
Love, Art, Loss: The Wives of Stanley Spencer; the cultural destruction of Beirut; novelist Angie Cruz.
The Wives of Stanley Spencer are the subject of a new exhibition Love, Art, Loss at the Stanley Spencer Gallery in Cookham, Berkshire. Artist and illustrator Si芒n Pattenden reviews.
The explosion in Beirut two weeks destroyed thousands of buildings in the Lebanese city, including many of the art galleries and museums. Sursock Museum Director Zeina Arida and gallery owner Saleh Barakat consider the damage done to the city's culture as well as its infrastructure.
Continuing Front Row's interviews with all the authors shortlisted for this year's Women's Prize for Fiction,Angie Cruz discusses her novel Dominicana. Ana is a schoolgirl muddling through adolescence on a small farm in the Dominican Republic, but her mother marries her off to a man twice her age, whom she sees as the ticket to America for the whole family. Ana, fifteen, with no English, no money and no autonomy, arrives on a false passport to begin a new life in cold, grey New York.
Presenter Samira Ahmed
Producer Jerome Weatherald
Image above: Portrait of Patricia Preece, 1933 by Stanley Spencer
(C) Estate Stanley Spencer & Bridgeman Images, London
Courtesy Southampton City Art Gallery
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Stanley Spencer
Love, Art, Loss: The Wives of Stanley Spencer is at the , Cookham, Berks until Autumn 2021.
Images:
Main image above: Portrait of Patricia Preece, 1933
Oil on canvas
(c) Estate Stanley Spencer & Bridgeman Images, London
Courtesy Southampton City Art Gallery
Image to the left: Stanley Spencer painting in the Cookham churchyard 1958
Image credit: courtesy of Stanley Spencer Gallery Archive
Beirut
Image: The Beirut, Lebanon before the huge explosion on 4th August 2020.
Image credit: (c) 2015 Joe Kesrouani
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Angie Cruz
Angie Cruz's book is out now in hardback, softback, as an eBook and an audio download.
It has been shortlisted for the 听2020.
Image: Angie Cruz
Image credit: Erika Morillo
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