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Front Row: Maestro, reality TV Squid Game, Brutalist architecture

Maestro, reality TV Squid Game, Brutalist architecture

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Bernstein film Maestro, reality TV Squid Game, proposed Brutalist architecture museum.

Bradley Cooper's film Maestro's portrait of composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein, a reality TV version of Squid Game and our love-hate relationship with Brutalist architecture.

Bradley Cooper’s prosthetic nose has attracted a lot of media attention for Maestro, his portrayal of the composer Leonard Bernstein. Tom Sutcliffe asks music critic Nicholas Kenyon and writer and cultural commentator Zoe Williams what they thought of Cooper’s directorial debut – which he spent years preparing for, studying his speech patterns and copying how he conducted Mahler symphonies. They also review Netflix’s Squid Game: The Challenge – a new reality TV spin-off of the hit Korean drama. 

Love it or hate it, Brutalism is an architectural form which could get its own museum – in a school assembly hall in north London. Architectural designer Ben Pentreath who works in traditional and classical styles and Catherine Croft, Director of the Twentieth Century Society assess its impact.

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