Discovering Hammershøi




Royal Academy of Arts (archive) show

Summary: An evening lecture in support of the exhibition 'Vilhelm Hammershøi: The Poetry of Silence', 28 June - 7 September 2008. Michael Palin talks about how he first came across the work of Hammershøi, what it was about it that so impressed him, and how he and his colleagues from BBC Glasgow set about the tricky task of finding out more about the artist himself. This event took place at the Royal Academy of Arts on 4 July 2008.