We talk to the people behind major exhibitions on both sides of the Atlantic: Ben Luke meets Kira Perov, Bill Viola's wife and collaborator, at the Bill Viola / Michelangelo show at the Royal Academy in London, while Nancy Kenney talks to the curator of the new Robert Mapplethorpe show at the Guggenheim.

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Mapplethorpe at the Guggenheim, Bill Viola at the Royal Academy

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Mapplethorpe at the Guggenheim, Bill Viola at the Royal Academy

We talk to the people behind major exhibitions on both sides of the Atlantic. Produced in association with Bonhams, auctioneers since 1793.