What makes British fashion and style so distinctive, beginning with a look at how the High Street ...
James Fox explores how technological advances in the early 20th century created new ways of seeing the world, making links between artist...
Program follows two photographers, Ian Phillips and Roslyn Gaunt, as they each fulfill a fashion photography br...
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...
Afua Hirsch traces Ethiopia's proud 3,000-year history through its art and culture, exploring a civilisation as signi...
Adam Rutherford begins his series investigating the close relationship between discoveries in anatomy and the works of art that...
Waldemar Januszczak explores the revolutionary achievements of the Impressionists. He delves into the back stor...
The story of the birth of industrial design, from celebrated names to the work of anonymous designers responsible for prosaic...
In 18th century England, out of the Age of Enlightenment came a Gothic obsession with mon...
In this alternative history of the British Isles, working artists explore an era once known as the 'dark' ages, finding mysterio...
How Warhol both glorified and critiqued American culture on his journey from childhood poverty in Pittsburgh to the A-list ...
Andrew Graham-Dixon begins his history of American art with portraits of Puritan settlers and the dark truth behind Benjamin West's ...
Dr Janina Ramirez decodes Edouard Manet's masterpiece A Bar at the Folies-Bergere with Prof Griselda ...
Stephen Smith explores the objects of Parisian Art Nouveau and learns how some of the 19th century's most glamorous...
Documentary series unlocking the archives to tell the story of modern art, as told by the artists at the ...
When an accident changes Frida's life, she channels pain and heartache into a new passion: painting. She meets Diego Rivera...
Dramatised reconstruction of the life of Leonardo da Vinci. Documentary examining the life of Leonardo da Vinci, from his...
A look at the origins of the Young British Artists in the art schools of the mid-80s, a shocking and pro...
Dr James Fox tells the story of Vienna in 1908, when Klimt painted The Kiss and Freud revealed the Oe...
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...
Exploring what makes British fashion distinctive continues with the tailored look and the British ability to ...
Adam Rutherford tells the story of 16th-century anatomist Andreas Vesalius, who produced the first complete account of the human ...
Stephen Smith explores Britain's art nouveau heritage, from the controversial life of Aubrey Beardsley to ...
Dr Janina Ramirez visits Tate Modern in London with Professor Dawn Ades to try and unravel the mysterie...
Leonardo pursues his obsession with flight, and becomes embroiled in a rivalry with Michelangelo.
In the 1920s and 30s, with the world at the tipping point between two global wars, design suggested dramatically different ideas...
In the 90s, young creatives, grouped together by advertising guru Charles Saatchi, respond provocative...
Now married and living in 1930s America, Frida sees the ugly side of capitalism, while political scandal engulfs Diego. Miscarriage a...
Journalist Alastair Sooke sets out to discover just how much the artist Henri Matisse has influenced our modern lives, and explains why his art i...
Andrew Graham-Dixon discovers how the ambitions of visionary artists and architects helped America remove itself from the shadow of Europe ...
The story of modern art in the words of the artists themselves travels from Bacon's tortured war-inspir...
Dr James Fox tells the story of Paris in 1928, where talents like Magritte, Dali, Bunuel, Hemingway, G...
James Fox explores how mass communication and new technology helped 20th-century image-makers transform society, from Leni Riefenstahl's pr...
From the chaos of the Black Death comes creative renewal - survivors finding their voice through satire and a revived literature...
In Senegal, Afua Hirsch discovers how exuberant hip-hop, film and fashion scenes have fed off colonial history, and sh...
Charting Andy Warhol's response to major events in the 1960s and how he faced his own nightmare when he was shot by a...
As the Industrial Revolution promised more inexplicable wonders of the modern world, Gothic art a...
Waldemar Januszczak continues his investigation of the Impressionists by taking us outdoors to their most...
Documentary shot on location in Glasgow, Greenock, and Castle Toward, aimed at Standard Grade Art & Design students (aged 14-...
Featuring a short film narrated by Cecil Day-Lewis, using the text of Vincent Van Gogh's own letters, the programme explores the artist's life.
Dangerous politics and turbulent love shock Frida's world, while love and trauma shape her final year. As the artist's health deteri...
The language of Gothic came to encapsulate the 20th century's horrors, from Marx's a...
A look at the rival war machines designed and built during World War II, and how definitions of good design shift dramatically w...
Exploring the 'fashion rebel' look and the story of the industry's great mavericks, from Vivienne Wes...
How radical late 20th-century artists took on centuries of art history and won - from the 'bricks' of Carl A...
Schools programme presented by Katy Murphy, exploring the fashion, music, architecture, design, and lifestyles of the...
Afua Hirsch tells the epic story of Kenya, exploring how artists, musicians and writers have responded to the country's ...
The final episode sees a much more cautious Warhol: a man obsessed with money and security as he reflects on the upper eche...
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