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Episode 9 - Constable & The Hay Wain
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Episode 9 - Constable & The Hay Wain

This episode looks at John Constable’s The Haywain, currently in a special focus exhibition at The National Gallery in London, to celebrate its 200th anniversary.

Podcast host Wendy Earle talks to artist Dido Powell about whether the National Gallery has repeated or avoided the mistakes Tate Britain made in their exhibition about William Hogarth a few years ago, where there was a widespread public outcry against the politicised character of the labels and information panels.

They also take a close look at the painting and what makes Constable one of the great English landscape artists, and The Haywain an icon of British art. 

Dido Powell is an artist and art history teacher. She leads the Arts & Society Forum tours of London museums and galleries.  

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Arts First challenges the contemporary view of the arts as tools for social change; highlights how freedom of expression is compromised by political activism and institutional cowardice; explores what is unique and special about the arts; and celebrates new artistic achievement and courage in the face of today’s challenges. Arts First is produced by the Academy of Ideas Arts. and Society Forum.