Catching up…
It has been just over a month since I last posted, for which I can only apologise. Not that I haven't had things to write about. Rather too many of them, in fact. Which in part accounts for my failure more
It has been just over a month since I last posted, for which I can only apologise. Not that I haven't had things to write about. Rather too many of them, in fact. Which in part accounts for my failure more
In March 1958, for the second programme of his ATV series Is Art Necessary?, Sir Kenneth Clark filmed at the British Museum with the sculptor Henry Moore. They did so at night, illuminating the ancient artworks, including the Elgin Marbles, with powerful more
By making available in perpetuity programmes without too many rights issues, the online BBC archive collections are proving to be invaluable resources for researching television history. A parallel archive release from BBC Four (oddly unlisted on the more
In another post from the blog's archive (previously published on 17 July 2010) I take a look at the visual arts on BBC Television between 1936 and 1939. I was reminded of this because I am teaching again at the more
In Sunday's Observer Tim Adams wrote a fascinating article about the the Picasso show at the Tate Gallery in 1960. Suggesting that this was the world's first 'art block-buster', he explored 'the moment when Picasso, and modernism, finally arrived in more