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Let us now praise MoMA. Or more specifically, a recent website from New York's Museum of Modern Art that complements - or perhaps we should should say constitutes - an exhibition of modern photographs from the Thomas Walther more
Let us now praise MoMA. Or more specifically, a recent website from New York's Museum of Modern Art that complements - or perhaps we should should say constitutes - an exhibition of modern photographs from the Thomas Walther more
Welcome indeed is the appearance today on BBC Arts Online of Ken Russell's 11-minute film profile from 1959 of the two Scottish painters Robert MacBryde (1913-66) and Robert Colquhoun (1914-62). The film, which was more
You have just one week to catch the truly remarkable Anselm Kiefer exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts, which closes on 14 December. In recognition of this we have posted on our YouTube channel a more
To the Clapham Picturehouse for an evening with David Hockney. First up was Randall Wright's new film biography of the artist, Hockney, which has been co-produced by the BBC. This was followed, to make it more of a more
Click on the title to go to 30 Years of The Turner Prize, a 3-minute film that we put together last week for Tate and the Guardian. It's also showing alongside the Turner Prize 2014 exhibition more
Only rarely does writing about the arts really rile me. But today I read two pieces on the same topic that I regard as nostalgic, ignorant and elitist twaddle. The topic is the relaxation of the ban on photography for more
The Tate Britain exhibition Kenneth Clark: Looking for Civilisation closes tomorrow, Sunday 10 August. I remain thrilled to have contributed to this by curating the television extracts and writing a catalogue essay about the television programmes that Clark made for ATV more
At 10.15pm on Wednesday 10 September 1952, just after an edition of the fortnightly film review show Current Release, BBC Television broadcast a 15-minute programme titled Shapes and Sounds. In its listing pages Radio Times described the transmission as 'an experiment more
Tate Britain this week has opened the exhibition Kenneth Clark: Looking for Civilisation, which runs until 10 August. There is no sense that I can be impartial about the show, given that I contributed by curating the television more
Remarkably, astonishingly, the image agency Getty Images has announced a new initiative to allow the embedding of many of its photographs for non-commercial use in blogs (like this one) and social media channels. A simple new embed tool more