Marcel Duchamp and His Fountain | Witness History

Marcel Duchamp and His Fountain | Witness History

Art and Design | BBC World Service | 2016 | 8'53''

In October 1942, the great French artist Marcel Duchamp designed a surrealist exhibition in New York. Someone who helped hi...

Tracey Emin on Louise Bourgeois | Secret Knowledge

Tracey Emin on Louise Bourgeois | Secret Knowledge

Art and Design | BBC News | 2014 | 28'57''

Tracey Emin offers an insight into the life and work of one of the great artists of the last century, Louise Bourgeois, fa...

Barbara Hepworth | Sunday Feature

Barbara Hepworth | Sunday Feature

Art and Design | BBC Radio 3 | 2011 | 43'33''

Historian Juliet Gardiner profiles Barbara Hepworth, Britain's most successful 20th century female sculptor. She visits Hepworth's studio a...

Barbara Hepworth

Barbara Hepworth

Art and Design | BBC | 1961 | 28'37''

A contemporary of Henry Moore, Yorkshire-born Barbara Hepworth has made Cornwall her home. This film by John Read examines how the Cornish landscapes have i...

A range of materials | Art: Contemporary Visions

A range of materials | Art: Contemporary Visions

Art and Design | BBC Two | 2007 | 8'21''

An artist displays their use of unusual materials to create hanging sculptures.

Tourism and art | Meet You at the Hippos

Tourism and art | Meet You at the Hippos

Acquiring Culture | BBC Scotland | 2022 | 1'34''

The public art in the new-towns instilled identity, which was challenged when the art was moved or painted much to the ambivalence o...

Art and marketing | Meet You at the Hippos

Art and marketing | Meet You at the Hippos

Acquiring Culture | BBC Scotland | 2022 | 1'52''

Malcolm Robertson considers how much of his public art created for Glenrothes evolved from art into advertisments for the town.

Art as a flood defence | Meet You at the Hippos

Art as a flood defence | Meet You at the Hippos

Acquiring Culture | BBC Scotland | 2022 | 4'25''

Denis Barnes discusses the simple ways he created public art initially with zero budget and how some even aided the natural w...

What’s the point in public art? | Meet You at the Hippos

What’s the point in public art? | Meet You at the Hippos

Acquiring Culture | BBC Scotland | 2022 | 2'09''

Camille Archer ponders what public art is and why it is important to communities.

Concrete Elephants | Meet You at the Hippos

Concrete Elephants | Meet You at the Hippos

Acquiring Culture | BBC Scotland | 2022 | 1'54''

Steve Bonnar discovers his concrete elephants have lost their trunks since he installed them, leaving him philosophical about art...

Town planner or Artist | Meet You at the Hippos

Town planner or Artist | Meet You at the Hippos

Acquiring Culture | BBC Scotland | 2022 | 5'36''

Brian Miller was just a town planner but was adamant to make new towns vibrant with murals and sculptures that all could enjoy.

Environmental art | Meet You at the Hippos

Environmental art | Meet You at the Hippos

Acquiring Culture | BBC Scotland | 2022 | 1'58''

Andrew Dimitrius considers what environmental art is and how that differs from historic public art in the way of plinths and monum...

Concrete Hippos | Meet You at the Hippos

Concrete Hippos | Meet You at the Hippos

Acquiring Culture | BBC Scotland | 2022 | 2'33''

Steve Bonnar reflects 38-years later about his first new town public art project amounting in some concrete hippos.

First Town Artist | Meet You at the Hippos

First Town Artist | Meet You at the Hippos

Acquiring Culture | BBC Scotland | 2022 | 4'28''

In the 1970's the town planners of Scotland's new-towns hired "town artists" to make public work that would complement the community.

Birth of new towns | Meet You at the Hippos

Birth of new towns | Meet You at the Hippos

Acquiring Culture | BBC Scotland | 2022 | 1'58''

The post-war government were keen to build communities as well as just housing but equally wanted to reduce the population of Gla...

Art in Scottish ”new-towns” | Meet You at the Hippos

Art in Scottish ”new-towns” | Meet You at the Hippos

Acquiring Culture | BBC Scotland | 2022 | 2'12''

Actor Mark Bonnar details Scotland's building boom of "new-towns" in the post-war era.

Glaze | Handmade in Japan

Glaze | Handmade in Japan

Art and Design | BBC Four | 2017 | 3'29''

The Hamadas are a famous family of potters, and we see Tomoo at work, shaping his pots and firing them in a wood-fuelled kiln.

Pottery traditions | Handmade in Japan

Pottery traditions | Handmade in Japan

Art and Design | BBC Four | 2017 | 2'49''

The Hamadas are a famous family of potters, and we see Tomoo at work, shaping his pots and firing them in a wood-fuelled kiln.
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