David Hockney live from LA

25th November 2014

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

Standing up for the selfie

14th August 2014

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

Lord K, once more

9th August 2014

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

A ’52 TV ‘experiment in abstract art’

6th August 2014

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

Lord K

21st May 2014

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