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Art Programmes on TV: weeking strarting Monday 30 January 2012:

January 30, 2012

Art on the telly this week: Last week we had no art programmes to recommend. Having scoured the pages of TV Times looking at all the terrestrial channels and Sky Channels we could find anything to recommend and it isn’t much better this week With art exhibitions drawing record crowds in London there is clearly [...]

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ART Programmes on TV: Week starting Monday 16 Jan 2012

January 15, 2012

Thursday 19 Jan: BBC 4 at 10.00pm “Fig Leaf: The biggest cover up in history”. The life of the fig leaf in art is explored by Stephen Smith. The use of the fig leaf as a token to modest is well know in Renaissance art. The humble fig leaf can cause great controversy when works [...]

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ART Programmes on TV: Week starting Monday 9 Jan 2012

January 9, 2012

Art programmes on the telly. Two programmes worth catching this week and both are on Sky Arts 1 , a channel which is only available on satellite. It is a barren period for art programmes on BBC. We might need to start a campaign for more art programmes on BBC. Having said that the interview [...]

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Art programmes on TV at New Year.

December 28, 2011

Thursday 29 Dec: Sky Arts 2 at 7.30 pm: The Tomb of the Unknown Craftsman. Tim Marlow presents this programme which features a tour of the current exhibition at the British Museum, London. The exhibition showcases the work of ceramists, potter, Turner Prize winning artist, Grayson Perry alongside alongside historic artefacts which Perry has gleaned [...]

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Art programmes on TV: Week beginning Monday 19 Dec 2011:

December 19, 2011

Art on the telly on Christmas Week: Well! – the outstanding programme to catch this week is on BBC 4 “The Art of the Night” which was made by ZCZ and is also out on DVD. Wednesday 21 Dec: BBC 4 at 9.00pm: The Art of the Night. The programme and [...]

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Art programmes on TV: Week beginning Monday 12 Dec 2011:

December 12, 2011

Art on the telly: Sorry but missed the rerun of the excellent series on Leonardo da Vinci. No doubt this has been prompted by the sell out exhibition of Leonardo at the Nation Gallery in London. The first programme in the series was shown on BBC 2 at 11.20pm. on Tuesday 13 Dec. There are two more [...]

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Art programmes on TV: Week beginning Monday 5 Dec 2011:

December 5, 2011

Art on the telly this week: Well! The big event this week is the announcement of the winner of the Turner Prize and it is live on TV. An Update. Well we now know that Martin Boyce is this year’s winner which means that this is the third year in a row where the winner [...]

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Art programmes on TV: Week beginning Monday 28 Nov 2011:

November 28, 2011

Art on the telly this week. Not a lot to get excited by this week. The excellent” Art of America” series continues on BBC4 but apart from that there are only some repeats on the Sky Arts channels.

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Art programmes on TV: Week beginning Monday 21 Nov 2011:

November 21, 2011

Art on the telly this week. We haven’t put up a post on visual art programmes on TV for a few weeks – mainly because there has been little to get excited about. The focus in the art world has been on exhibitions, including the Leonardo exhibition in London. But there is one stand out [...]

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Art Programmes on TV: Week beginning Monday 24 Oct 2011

October 24, 2011

TV programmes on the Visual arts starting Monday 24 Oct 2011: Two of the most interesting art programmes are on early this week, that is on Monday 24 Oct and both are on BBC4. Remember you can watch BBC programmes for seven days after broadcast on the BBC iplayer.

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