Mark Miodownik looks at how materials have enabled us to indulge our curiosity about the world arou...
Mark Miodownik shows that some of the everyday objects that are often taken for granted are in fact...
Report from the RHS Hampton Court Garden Show about how the trend for the year was sustainability in growth and how important the ...
Joan Bakewell looks back on her interview with legendary French artist and sculptor ...
When Leonardo da Vinci, the great Renaissance painter, was invited to paint a huge fresco in Florence - he could not have ...
In October 1942, the great French artist Marcel Duchamp designed a surrealist exhibition in New York. Someone who helped hi...
A documentary fiction about Marcel Duchamp's groundbreaking work The Fountain, presented by art-historian Ben Street.
The industrial designer Marek Reichman meets the graphic artist and designer Peter Saville.
Speaking to some of Glaser's contemporary graphic designers and critics, I Heart Milton Glaser explores a form of art that surrounds us every day and t...
Matthew Bannister on the graphic designer Milton Glaser who came up with the iconic ''I heart New York'' logo - but didn't make a penny from it.
Janina Ramirez explores the BBC archives to create a TV history of Leonardo Da Vinci, discovering what lies beneath the Mona...
Dr Janina Ramirez visits the Ashmolean museum in Oxford to decode the 15th-century masterpiece by ...
Dr Janina Ramirez visits Tate Modern in London with Professor Dawn Ades to try and unravel the mysterie...
Dr Janina Ramirez decodes Edouard Manet's masterpiece A Bar at the Folies-Bergere with Prof Griselda ...
Alan Yentob tells the story of the most famous work of art in the world - the Mona Lisa. He discovers who she is, and why she ...
Leonardo pursues his obsession with flight, and becomes embroiled in a rivalry with Michelangelo.
Dramatised reconstruction of the life of Leonardo da Vinci. Documentary examining the life of Leonardo da Vinci, from his...
Leonardo designs fanciful flying machines, studies light and shadow, investigates gravity, dissects cadavers and pours the sum of h...
Leonardo apprentices as an artist and craftsman in Florence, where the Renaissance is in full bloom. He shows extrao...
Michelangelo's rivalry with Raphael reaches new heights in Rome, while a violent religious schism engulfs Europe and makes ...
Against a backdrop of political upheaval in Florence, Michelangelo and Leonardo jostle for artistic supremacy. But the arri...
Michelangelo and Leonardo struggle to make their reputations in the brutal world of Renaissance Italy, as both must play a ...
Andrew Graham-Dixon looks at Jasper Johns' images of flags, targets and numbers, which inspired some of the most significant art move...
Stephen Smith explores how Vienna's artists rebelled against the establishment in the late 19th century and brough...
Stephen Smith explores Britain's art nouveau heritage, from the controversial life of Aubrey Beardsley to ...
Stephen Smith explores the objects of Parisian Art Nouveau and learns how some of the 19th century's most glamorous...
Documentary in which architect Jonathan Adams travels America exploring the work of Frank Lloyd Wright, possibly America's grea...
An Arena special on the life and works of Salvador Dali, the events & things that influenced him and his paintings.
Barney meets Jonathan Ive, the British designer of the famous Apple products.
Alexander McQueen's image is famous around the world. But just a handful of iconic shots and private snaps reveal a new stor...
The Works follows fashion designer Alexander McQueen at London Fashion Week and records preparations for his Givenchy pret-a-porter show in Paris.
An intimate look inside the world of Alexander McQueen, celebrating his radical and mesmerising genius whilst telling a thought-provoking fable about the price of gl...
Documentary film reflecting on the extraordinary career of Dame Vivienne Westwood, looking closely at her artistry, her activism and her cultu...
Kirsty Wark interviews the fashion icon Vivienne Westwood about her career as one of Britain's most inventive and influential fashion ...
Kirsty Wark looks back on the life and work of the Godmother of Punk, Vivienne Westwood and her ground breaking designs.
Documentary profiling Philippe Starck. Design journalist Marcus Fairs talks to critics and collaborators in an attempt to discover what makes him ...
The ground-breaking building was the first American museum to be designed by a woman. Critics hailed it as one of...
Architect Zaha Hadid considers the influence of Russian abstract artist Kazimir Malevich's avant...
Architect Zaha Hadid looks at Sir Norman Foster's Willis Corroon building in the centre of Ipswich, Suffolk.
Alan Yentob profiles the most successful female architect there has ever been, the late Zaha Hadid, who designed buildings around...
Dieter Rams has left an indelible mark on the field of product design. Why, at the age of 87, does he now regret ever taking up the profession?
A celebration of the life and work of one of the world's most innovative architects and designers who, at the turn of the century, to...
Documentary in which Glasgow artist Lachlan Goudie examines the life, work and legacy of Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Scotland's m...
As a Charles Rennie Mackintosh exhibition opens at RIBA in London, the architect Amanda Levete assesses the man behind the Glasgow Scho...
After the drab days of the late 70s, an explosion of wild creativity defined the 'designer decades' of the 80s and early 90s.
In the 1950s and 60s, plastic, combined with the miracles of electronic miniaturisation, allowed designers to offer...
A look at the rival war machines designed and built during World War II, and how definitions of good design shift dramatically w...
In the 1920s and 30s, with the world at the tipping point between two global wars, design suggested dramatically different ideas...
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