Episode 5: Anselm Kiefer, the $50 Million Art Swindle and who stole the gold toilet?

We're serving BACK to BACK exhibition content for our listeners this month. It's October, when the art world wakes up in London and we've been running around soaking up as much content as our beady eyes can take in. Art from emerging megalopolises at the Palais de Tokyo, art in skips, William Blake at the Tate Britain, Tim Walker at the V&A and much more. We then dissect the documentary that shook the art world: The $50 Million Art Swindle, and keeping our art detective hats on we ruminate over who stole Maurizio Cattelan's gold toilet, and where is it now? Stolen artworks lead us into our October Artist Focus, Anselm Kiefer. Join us as we attempt to summarise an artist who has captured the holocaust through painting, sculpture and photography, but if you didn't think he had anything in common with the sitcom Will and Grace, think again!SHOW NOTESThe Art Gorgeous September 'Sheroes': https://theartgorgeous.com/september-art-sheros/Palais de Tokyo 'Prince/Princesses de Ville': https://www.palaisdetokyo.com/fr/evenement/princesses-des-villesV&A LGBTQ Monthly Tours: https://www.vam.ac.uk/event/96W7yE6o/lgbtq-tour-2019 After Jessie's tenuous knowledge of Britain's gay kings, here's a more informative guide: https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2017/12/19/the-gay-royals-you-arent-taught-school/ Skip Gallery: https://www.skipgallery.com/ Clare Woods 'Doublethink' at the Simon Lee Gallery: https://www.simonleegallery.com/exhibitions/168/press_release/ Jasmine Thomas-Girvan & Chris Ofili 'Affinities' at David Zwirner: https://www.davidzwirner.com/exhibitions/affinities Tim Walker 'Wonderful Things' until 8 March 2020 at the V&A: https://www.vam.ac.uk/exhibitions/tim-walker 'It's Her Factory: Helen Beard' at Unit London: https://theunitldn.com/whats-on/44/ Peter Doig 'Paintings' at Michael Werner, until 16 November 2019: http://michaelwerner.com/exhibition/5790/ Rhiannon Salisbury 'Habitual Submission' at Delphian Gallery: https://delphiangallery.com/portfolio/habitual-submission/ William Blake at the Tate Britain until 2 February 2020: https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/exhibition/william-blake-artist Bored Panda's A Silly But Accurate Guide on How to Recognize Famous Painters by Their Art: https://www.boredpanda.com/famous-paintings-artists-how-to-recognize/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=organic The $50 Million Art Swindle on BBC2: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0008rt3 and disclaimer, yes we know Steinbeck is the novelist, and Steinway is the piano! Slight slip of the tongue there. The stolen golden toilet: the perfect punchline to an 18-carat joke: