
A weekly BBC Two magazine programme focusing on the best of the week's arts and culture news, covering books, art, film, architecture and more.
Air Date: 2004-11-11
Verity Sharp presents an accessible guide to the best exhibitions, books, films and music. As Disney's effects-laden ...
Air Date: 2004-11-18
As the newly expanded Museum of Modern Art in New York reopens, world-renowned art critic Robert Hughes is offered a ...
Air Date: 2004-11-25
Ahead of its official opening by the Queen, Charles Hazlewood gets an advance look inside the Wales Millennium Centre...
Air Date: 2004-12-02
Dissected livestock, a cast of a house, a painting with elephant dung and an electrical time switch - all past winner...
Air Date: 2004-12-09
Germaine Greer meets artist Paula Rego and Andrew Graham-Dixon uncovers the secret of Velazquez's 'Lady with a Fan'. ...
Air Date: 2004-12-16
A report on Gateshead's new Sage music centre, which opens tomorrow, plus the rest of the top stories in art and cult...
Air Date: 2005-01-13
Reports on Charles Saatchi 's rediscovery of painting, the competition to be recognised as Britain's best museum and ...
Air Date: 2005-01-20
The review of the latest developments on the arts and culture scene includes a report on the Celtic Connections music...
Air Date: 2005-02-03
London's Abbey Road Studios opens its doors to the public next month for the first time in 20 years. Mariella Frostru...
Air Date: 2005-02-10
Kurt Vonnegut's novel Slaughterhouse Five was inspired by his experiences in Dresden during the devastating Second Wo...
Air Date: 2005-02-17
Director Martin Scorsese explains the influence of Caravaggio on his films, particularly with regard to light, shadow...
Air Date: 2005-02-24
A report from Ferryside in Carmarthenshire where a trial for TV's digital switchover is taking place. Plus Liam Neeso...
Air Date: 2005-03-03
Woody Allen talks about his latest film Melinda and Melinda, starring Radha Mitchell and Chloe Sevigny, and there's a...
Air Date: 2005-03-10
As well as an interview with 1960s counter-culture cartoonist Robert Crumb at his house in France, there's analysis o...
Air Date: 2005-03-17
Damien Hirst, dubbed Britain's most expensive living artist, discusses his recently opened exhibition of paintings in...
Air Date: 2005-04-14
Composer and Master of the Queen's Music Sir Peter Maxwell Davies talks about his career, there's an interview with m...
Air Date: 2005-04-21
Sylvie Guillem - widely considered one of the greatest dancers of her generation - is interviewed in the week she and...
Air Date: 2005-04-28
Conductor and pianist Daniel Barenboim, director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and music director of the Deutsche...
Air Date: 2005-05-05
As Tate Modern celebrates its fifth birthday, Charles Hazlewood considers the extent of its cultural impact. Plus, Ma...
Air Date: 2005-05-12
American crime novelist Ed McBain talks about turning real life into fiction and discusses his battle with cancer. Pl...
Air Date: 2005-05-19
Lawrence Pollard reports on a new approach to public art being trialled in Bristol, with temporary exhibits taking th...
Air Date: 2005-05-26
Gillian Ayres discusses her work and Louisa Buck visits two art exhibitions. Lawrence Pollard considers whether 'book...
Air Date: 2005-06-02
Germaine Greer and artist Susan Wilson are among the women explaining what Mexican artist Frida Kahlo's work means to...
Air Date: 2005-06-09
Maverick artists Gilbert and George discuss their work for the British Pavilion at the 51st Venice Biennale. Ewan McG...
Air Date: 2005-06-13
U2 talk about music, politics and 25 years together, on the eve of the UK leg of their world tour. There's a rare int...