An art magazine show guest-edited by a different personality each week.
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Art critic Waldemar Januszczak delves into the heart of Mannerism, as he explores the development of the art style, examines its characteristics, and questions what it achieved.
Delve into the world of video game box art with the artists responsible for some of gaming’s most iconic images ever created. Hear about the creation process, discover easter eggs hidden in plain sight, see alternate cover art options, and learn how the gaming industry evolved from infancy until now. Welcome to Video Game Box Art: The Stories Behind the Covers.
On a journey through a dozen countries, Anik Magny met contemporary artists who are exploring the secrets of desire and the forbidden, creating stunning works that stimulate the senses and give us pause.
Andrew Graham-Dixon undertakes an epic journey to uncover the art of China.
A series of 6 Arts Documentaries, fronted by supermodel, actress and Cambridge Arts graduate, Lily Cole. Lily gets unprecedented access to some of today's most revered and successful contemporary artists. In the name of Art; she navigates the desert with 'wrap' artist Christo, learns the art of boomerang throwing with Mexican artist Gabriel Orozco, models for a nude portrait for Contemporary artist Fiona Banner, has a drawing lesson with the sculptor, Antony Gormley, touches down in Monaco for Marc Quinn's latest exhibition and paints pictures with the doyenne of celluloid film, Tacita Dean. These intimate portraits of artists at home and at play show a side to them rarely seen before. Largely observational documentary in style, there are also contributions from high profile curators, collectors and art commentators; from Ralf Rugoff, Director of the Hayward Gallery to Germaine Geer and, champion of public art, Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
Women write art history – but in turn are systematically ignored by it. LOST WOMEN ART tells the story of the suppressed female avant-garde and by doing so introduces a new art history.
Dr Adam Rutherford investigates the close relationship between discoveries in anatomy and the works of art that illustrate them.
The mythical properties of light in glass captivated not only Czech medieval culture. History of Czech glassmaking from centuries-old traditions to modern techniques.
Danny Baker, Simon Callow, Richard E Grant, Cerys Matthews, Miriam Margolyes and Michael Sheen follow in the footsteps of their favourite British artists.
First broadcast on October 2, 1989, these 18 original 30-minute episodes provide a panorama of 2000 years of architecture, painting and sculpture, and studies the art masterpieces as reflections of the Western culture that produced them.
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Seven Ages of Britain is a BBC television documentary series which is written and presented by David Dimbleby. The seven part series was first aired on Sunday nights at 9:00pm on BBC One starting on 31 January 2010. The series covers the history of Britain's greatest art and artefacts over the past 2000 years. Each episode covers a different period in British history. In Australia, all seven episodes aired on ABC1 each Tuesday at 8:30pm from 7 September 2010.
An educational French TV documentary series which goes into depth during each episode into the analysis of a single painting.
Series that explores national museum collections at a time of enforced closure.
Features the stories of artists, makers, and creative institutions right here in our backyard of Western New England and across the country. A celebration of all things creative, AHA! features everything from the traditional to the innovative.
Andrew Graham-Dixon explores the history of Scandinavia through its art.
Miniseries dramatizing the life of the Italian Renaissance polymath Leonardo da Vinci.
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How did an Indian Buddhist shrine influence a Japanese pagoda? How are Italian pigs and cowry shells related to porcelain? Why did the ferocious warriors of Mongolia wear silk underwear? And how did wood block printing bring about a revolution in Japan and in European culture? These intriguing questions are investigated in Artifacts, a series that explores the origins and hidden connections among the art and artifacts of the great cultures and belief systems across Asia - on a journey through time and across continents from India to Thailand, China and Japan - to understand the impact of calligraphy, porcelain, architecture, metallurgy, wood block printing and silk on Asian history and on the history of the world in general.
Art writer Waldemar Januszczak explores the revolutionary achievements of the Impressionists.
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4 episodes • 2015
| # | Episode | Air Date | Rating |
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| 1 | Maxine Peake | Mar 6, 2015 | 0.0 |
| 2 | Lynn Barber | Mar 13, 2015 | 0.0 |
| 3 | Armando Iannucci | Mar 20, 2015 | 0.0 |
| 4 | Chris Dercon | Mar 27, 2015 | 0.0 |
18 episodes • 2015
| # | Episode | Air Date | Rating |
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| 1 | Andrew Marr | Jun 19, 2015 | 0.0 |
| 2 | Lily Cole | Jul 3, 2015 | 0.0 |
| 3 | Lynn Barber | Jul 10, 2015 | 0.0 |
| 4 | Samira Ahmed | Jul 17, 2015 | 0.0 |
| 5 | Martha Lane Fox | Jul 24, 2015 | 0.0 |
| 6 | Richard Wilson | Jul 31, 2015 | 0.0 |
| 7 | Irvine Welsh | Sep 25, 2015 | 0.0 |
| 8 | Hofesh Shechter | Oct 2, 2015 | 0.0 |
| 9 | Ben Okri | Oct 9, 2015 | 0.0 |
| 10 | Will Gompertz | Oct 16, 2015 | 0.0 |
| 11 | Lynn Barber | Oct 23, 2015 | 0.0 |
| 12 | George the Poet | Oct 30, 2015 | 0.0 |
| 13 | Josie Rourke | Nov 6, 2015 | 0.0 |
| 14 | Clara Amfo | Nov 13, 2015 | 0.0 |
| 15 | Edmund de Waal | Nov 20, 2015 | 0.0 |
| 16 | Kwasi Kwarteng | Nov 27, 2015 | 0.0 |
| 17 | Ana Matronic | Dec 4, 2015 | 0.0 |
| 18 | Juergen Teller - Fame, Fashion and Photography | Dec 11, 2015 | 0.0 |
12 episodes • 2016
| # | Episode | Air Date | Rating |
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| 1 | David Baddiel | May 6, 2016 | 0.0 |
| 2 | Nicholas Serota | May 13, 2016 | 0.0 |
| 3 | Lionel Shriver | May 20, 2016 | 0.0 |
| 4 | Charlotte Church | May 27, 2016 | 0.0 |
| 5 | Paul Mason | Jun 3, 2016 | 0.0 |
| 6 | Kieran Long | Jun 10, 2016 | 0.0 |
| 7 | Lynn Barber meets Mumford & Sons | Jun 17, 2016 | 0.0 |
| 8 | Maria Balshaw | Jul 8, 2016 | 0.0 |
| 9 | A Tribute to Carla Lane | Jul 15, 2016 | 0.0 |
| 10 | Val McDermid | Jul 22, 2016 | 0.0 |
| 11 | Lynn Barber Meets John Lydon | Jul 29, 2016 | 0.0 |
| 12 | Meg Rosoff | Aug 5, 2016 | 0.0 |
5 episodes • 2016
| # | Episode | Air Date | Rating |
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| 1 | Poets at the BBC | Oct 1, 2016 | 0.0 |
| 2 | Michael Palin Meets Jan Morris | Oct 8, 2016 | 0.0 |
| 3 | When Julie Walters Met Willy Russell | Oct 15, 2016 | 0.0 |
| 4 | The Man Booker Prize 2016 | Oct 22, 2016 | 0.0 |
| 5 | 2016 The Year of King Lear | Oct 29, 2016 | 0.0 |