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The MoMA in New York is the first choice for aficionados of modern and contempoary art. Art collectors Abby Rockefeller, Lillie Bliss, and Mary Sullivan laid the foundations for the museum, which opened its...
Robert Seidel, who studied at the Bauhaus University Weimar, creates video installations, media façades and experimental films. Seidel pushes the boundaries of abstraction to the sublime and organic through...
Costumes and masks, makeup and style, dolls and mannequins, stage and cinema: what strategies do we use to refashion identity? Do we seek out excess and extremes in order to see ourselves more clearly? The...
How do we organise life? What are the ways in which we capture knowledge and attempt greater understanding? The Art21 documentary Structures explores these questions in the work of the artists Roni Horn,...
How does contemporary art address the idea of spirituality? How do artists working today reveal and question commonly held assumptions about faith, belief, meditation, and religious symbols? SPIRITUALITY...
"When speaking of light, in connection with black, this sounds paradoxical. However, in reality, black is a colour of light. You cannot imagine there to be light without black being there, also," explains...
Hidden away in the canyons of a top-secret military base on the edge of the Mojave Desert is the largest concentration of rock art in North America. Created over thousands of years by a now vanished culture,...
Historian and novelist Peter Ackroyd embarks on a tour of Venice based on his book ‘Pure Venice’, Ackroyd. The four-part series features chapters on The City as Architecture; The City as Art; The City as...
Andrew Graham-Dixon explores the history of art, architecture and culture in the Low Countries, examining how the artists of Belgium and Holland were driven to search for anidentity in an area that was...
Based on the short story ‘Strange Event in the Life of Schalcken the Painter’ by Sheridan Le Fanu, this programme was originally shown in the Omnibus strand on BBC 2 during Christmas 1979. The story...
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