S02E02: Up a Class | Hayley Goes…

S02E02: Up a Class | Hayley Goes…

Acquiring Culture | BBC Three | 2020 | 35'05''

Hayley Pearce is working-class through and through, but she wants to know how easy it would be to go up a class. Will being posh prov...

Portrait of an Artist: Maggie Evans | Monitor

Portrait of an Artist: Maggie Evans | Monitor

Acquiring Culture | BBC | 1963 | 25'33''

A film directed by David Storey of painter Margaret Evans who lives in Hampstead with her husband Dan Oestreicher and their fou...

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.
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