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1: A Fashion Democracy - The High Street Look | British Style Genius

What makes British fashion and style so distinctive, beginning with a look at how the High Street made f...

1: A New Reality | Age of the Image

James Fox explores how technological advances in the early 20th century created new ways of seeing the world, making links between artist...

1: A Style of One's Own | Standard Grade Art and Design

Program follows two photographers, Ian Phillips and Roslyn Gaunt, as they each fulfill a fashion photography brief fo...

1: Andy Warhol | Modern Masters

Alastair Sooke explores the life and works of the 20th century's most important artists. He begins with Pop Art's king, Andy Warhol, a man ob...

1: Ethiopia | African Renaissance: When Art Meets Power

Afua Hirsch traces Ethiopia's proud 3,000-year history through its art and culture, exploring a civilisation as signi...

1: Galen and Leonardo | The Beauty of Anatomy

Adam Rutherford begins his series investigating the close relationship between discoveries in anatomy and the works of art that...

1: Gang of Four | The Impressionists: Painting and Revolution

Waldemar Januszczak explores the revolutionary achievements of the Impressionists. He delves into the back stor...

1: Ghosts in the Machine | The Genius of Design

The story of the birth of industrial design, from celebrated names to the work of anonymous designers responsible for prosaic...

1: Liberty, Diversity, Depravity | The Art of Gothic: Britain's Midnight Hour

In 18th century England, out of the Age of Enlightenment came a Gothic obsession with monsters ...

1: Lights in the Darkness | Art That Made Us

In this alternative history of the British Isles, working artists explore an era once known as the 'dark' ages, finding mysterio...

1: Living the Dream | Andy Warhol's America

How Warhol both glorified and critiqued American culture on his journey from childhood poverty in Pittsburgh to the A-list of New...

1: Looking for Paradise | Art of America

Andrew Graham-Dixon begins his history of American art with portraits of Puritan settlers and the dark truth behind Benjamin West's ...

1: Manet's A Bar at the Folies-Bergere | Decoding the Masterworks

Dr Janina Ramirez decodes Edouard Manet's masterpiece A Bar at the Folies-Bergere with Prof Griselda Polloc...

1: Paris | Sex and Sensibility: The Allure of Art Nouveau

Stephen Smith explores the objects of Parisian Art Nouveau and learns how some of the 19th century's most glamorous...

1: The Future Is Now (1907-1939) | Great Artists in Their Own Words

Documentary series unlocking the archives to tell the story of modern art, as told by the artists at the ...

1: The Making and Breaking | Becoming Frida Kahlo

When an accident changes Frida's life, she channels pain and heartache into a new passion: painting. She meets Diego Rivera...

1: The Man Who Wanted to Know Everything | Leonardo

Dramatised reconstruction of the life of Leonardo da Vinci. Documentary examining the life of Leonardo da Vinci, from his...

1: Upstarts | Sensationalists: The Bad Girls and Boys of British Art

A look at the origins of the Young British Artists in the art schools of the mid-80s, a shocking and pro...

1: Vienna 1908 | Bright Lights, Brilliant Minds: A Tale of Three Cities

Dr James Fox tells the story of Vienna in 1908, when Klimt painted The Kiss and Freud revealed the Oe...

140: Philip Johnson | Monitor

Susan Sontag spoke to the architect Philip Johnson at his office in the Seagram Building in New York and his home in New Canaan just outside Ne...