International Interviews

The Men on a Mission to Make People Laugh: Peter Bogdanovich and Owen Wilson say the world needs comedy more than ever

The Men on a Mission to Make People Laugh: Peter Bogdanovich and Owen Wilson say the world needs comedy more than ever EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH GABRIELLA WHITE MCIJ Location: Tokyo International Film Festival 2014 Event: She’s Funny That Way TIFF Film Premiere Peter Bogdanovich, world renowned and one of the most well-respected figures in the history of Hollywood enters the cinema. I instantly detect an empathy about the man. In the lead up to becoming a film director himself, Bogdanovich started out as a film writer,...

08 November 2014 | celebrity, Film, Foreign Film & Theatre, Hollywood, International Interviews, Movies, The Arts | celebrities, comedy, drama, film premiere, Hollywood, Owen Wilson, Peter Bogdanovich, She's Funny That Way, TIFF, tokyo international film festival | 0 Comments

Welcome on board the Nippon Maru – Yokohama, Japan

Join me, Gabriella White, on board the Nippon Maru, a remarkable vessel harboured in the port of Yokohama, Japan. I speak to the ship’s former captain Inoue San, who tells me about his life and adventures on board this ship. Close your eyes and take a walk around the ship with me: experience the sounds, hear stories never before broadcasted and absorb the atmosphere. Let your imagination sail away with you. Listen to Podcast No. 1 Nippon Maru-Yokohama here: http://soundcloud.com/theculturecave/podcast-no-1-welcome-on-board With special thanks to the Nippon Maru and to...

28 February 2012 | International Interviews, Japanese Culture, Podcast Series, Travel, Journeys & Places, TV & Radio | 0 Comments

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s art. And a rabbit.

This feature is also available at the Karen 19 Gallery in Sydney, Australia http://www.19karen.com.au/blog/?p=99 Bangor-based artist Lee Boyd in County Down, Ireland is no ordinary artist. Energetic, entertaining, conscientious, analytical and with an unknown depth I am trying to get to the bottom of, he is an enigma. Despite his bohemian, relaxed aura, there is an edge of jumpiness about him. Full of life and a true chatterbox, Lee’s honest nature, coy grin, nervous laugh and vulnerability make him instantly likeable. He is a deep thinker; a philosopher and an...

16 August 2011 | International Interviews, Media, The Arts, TV & Radio | artist, BBC, Belfast, de Hondecoeter, drawings, interview, Ireland, Lee Boyd, Show Me The Monet, sketches, Sydney, Ulster | 1 Comment

The Man Behind the Scenes: Meeting John Banville

Speaking at York University, I had the privilege of chatting to Booker-prize winning novelist John Banville at York’s Festival of Ideas 2011. The Irish novelist and screenwriter, decidedly Ireland’s cream of the crop has penned remarkable novels including The Book of Evidence and The Sea, his eighteenth novel, which won the Man Booker prize in 2005. Just this year, Banville was awarded the Franz Kafka Prize. Also a master of short stories and theatre and film, Banville is a philosopher, often occupied with the nature of perception and the conflict between imagination...

14 August 2011 | International Interviews, The Arts, Travel, Journeys & Places | author, avant-garde, Banjamin Black, books, crime, dark comedy, English literature, Festival of Ideas, fiction, Ireland, Irish, John Banville, Literatur, literature, literatuur, Man Booker prize, multilingual, murder mystery, philosophy, poetry, screenwriting, theatre, Vladimir Nabokov, York | 0 Comments

The Tibetan Cowboy

As featured in England’s West Country Life magazine and the Western Daily Press… Award-winning travel photographer Barry Cawston from Axbridge in Somerset presented his star photographic fine art piece Tibetan Cowboy on BBC2’s recent debut Show Me The Monet, a show produced in a similar style to the channel’s entrepreneurial series Dragon’s Den, but for artists. The show has proved very popular up and down the country and it is no surprise, when you consider that as many as 5 million people in Britain alone immerse themselves in some kind of art, such as photography,...

14 August 2011 | International Interviews, Media, The Arts, TV & Radio | art, Barry Cawston, fine art, international art, photography, Tibet, Tibetan cowboy, travel | 0 Comments

All By Myself: Discovering the Real David Cobley Behind the Portraits

As featured in England’s West Country Life Magazine and the Western Daily Press… David Cobley Western Daily Thursday newsflash All By Myself – David Cobley – West Country Life – Western Daily Press Royal-portrait painter David Cobley gives me some clues about his famous person’s portrait to be unveiled in London’s National Portrait Gallery next month. I talk to him about his appearance on BBC2’s Show Me The Monet show and his experiences in Japan… English portrait and figure painter David Cobley is on a mission of self-discovery. He...

14 August 2011 | International Interviews, Media, The Arts, TV & Radio | art, Bath, David Cobley, England, HRH Princess Anne, London, National Portrait Gallery, painting, Royal Family, Royal Portrait Painter, self-portraits, West Country Life, Western Daily Press | 0 Comments

Well-connected

Hampstead-based-artist Ronnie Shahmoon was the first to feature on BBC2’s series Show Me The Monet: the BBC’s answer to Dragon’s Den but for artists. Hosted by BBC presenter Chris Hollins and judged by three of the world’s toughest art critics, the show has proved increasingly popular up and down the country. An interesting first candidate, Ronnie Shahmoon from London kick-started the show with a contemporary twist: his large artwork featuring plugs and switches may look banal on face-value, but it actually holds a pretty significant meaning. In 1999, at the age of...

14 August 2011 | Culture Cave, International Interviews, Media, The Arts, TV & Radio | art, BBC, conceptual art, culture, engineering, England, Hampstead, London, Parkinson's disease, philosophy, psychology, Show Me The Monet, UK | 0 Comments

From one Canvas to Another

Published as part of the BBC’s Show Me The Monet series on BBC 2 Between 4 and 5 million people in Britain alone immerse themselves in some kind of art, such as photography, painting and sculpture, studies have shown. It is no surprise, then, that BBC2’s Show Me The Monet show starring Charlotte Mullins, David Lee and Roy Bolton three of the world’s toughest art critics, had millions of viewers glued to their TV-sets over the past two weeks of the show’s debut. It strikes me that too many shows have...

14 August 2011 | Culture Cave, International Interviews, Media, The Arts, TV & Radio | art, BBC, canvas, champion, interview, Liverpool, photography, Royal College of Art, Show Me The Monet, Wirral, wrestler | 0 Comments

Put yourself in my shoes

Published as part of the BBC series Show Me The Monet 2011 Mother-of-three Belinda Durrant from Stroud in Gloucestershire, England took the plunge into the art world when she left her career as a research-technician to go to Art College in 2004. Her sculpture Little Lead Shoes Age 3 made it onto the BBC 2’s Show Me The Monet show, a show produced in a similar style to the channel’s entrepreneurial show Dragon’s Den, but for artists. The tiny, helplessly-posed hand-made shoes Belinda brought to the show’s Hanging Committee instantly struck the judges as having...

14 August 2011 | Culture Cave, International Interviews, Media, The Arts, TV & Radio | art, BBC, feminine fashion, shoes, Show Me The Monet | 0 Comments

Art is Music to the Soul

Published 16 May, 2011 at Liverpool.com and for the BBC’s Show Me The Monet coverage Sound Artist Ashwan doing what he loves Barcelona-based artist Ashwan made it to the final cut on BBC 2’s fortnight-long series of Show Me The Monet, which launched on Monday and is proving increasingly popular up and down the country. Facing the Hanging Committee, Ashwan was the first contestant in the series to receive yes-votes from all three judges. His piece, “Return Of The Life” was valued at £2900 I am catching up...

11 August 2011 | Culture Cave, International Interviews, Media, The Arts, TV & Radio | art, artist, Ashwan, Barcelona, culture, interview, Liverpool, Show Me The Monet, Spain | 0 Comments

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