Bryan Cranston, David Hare, Nikolai Astrup, States of Mind
Arts news with Kirsty lang, including Bryan Cranston on Trumbo, David Hare on adapting Ibsen and Mark Haddon discussing the States of Mind exhibition at the Wellcome Collection.
Bryan Cranston, best known for his role as a drugs baron in hit TV series Breaking Bad, discusses his new role as the screenwriter Dalton Trumbo, who was imprisoned and blacklisted for Communist beliefs, in new film Tumbo.
As Ibsen's The Master Builder opens at the Old Vic with Ralph Fiennes in the title role, David Hare discusses his approach to adapting the play with Fiennes in mind.
The Norwegian painter Nikolai Astrup was a contemporary of Edvard Munch, and his work in Norway is much celebrated but he is little known outside of the country. The Dulwich Picture Gallery hopes to change that with the first UK exhibition dedicated to his work. Jonathan Jones reviews.
Author Mark Haddon and curator Emily Sargent discuss States of Mind, an exhibition at the Wellcome Collection that explores the strange borderland between the conscious and the unconscious, and looks at how mental phenomena such as synaesthesia, sleepwalking, memory loss and anaesthesia have inspired art.
Presenter Kirsty Lang
Producer Rebecca Armstrong.
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David Hare on adapting The Master Builder
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Bryan Cranston
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David Hare
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Nikolai Astrup
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States of Mind
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Trumbo is in cinemas from Friday 5 February, certificate 15.The Master Builder
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The Master Builder runs at the until 19 March.
Photo credit: Manuel Harlan
Nikolai Astrup: Painting Norway
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Nikolai Astrup: Painting Norway runs at the from 5 February until 15 May 2016.
Photo credit: Dag Fosse/KODE
States of Mind: Tracing the edges of consciousness
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States of Mind: Tracing the edges of consciousness runs at the from 4 February to 16 October 2016.听听Credit: Goshka Macuga 'Somnambulist' 2006.
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Role Contributor Presenter Kirsty Lang Interviewed Guest Bryan Cranston Interviewed Guest David Hare Interviewed Guest Jonathan Jones Interviewed Guest Mark Haddon Interviewed Guest Emily Sargent Producer Rebecca Armstrong Broadcast
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