Remembering Greek Expressionist Giorgos Mavroides | A. G. Leventis Gallery
This A. G. Leventis Gallery video recalls the life and work of the 20th-century Greek artist of Cypriot origin, Giorgos Mavroides (1912-2003). Having studied law...
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Tech plus art: Jen Lewin’s mesmerising light and sound sculptures
In this video we meet Interactive Light artist Jen Lewin, whose extraordinary, interactive sound and LED art works can be the scale of an entire...
‘Ai-Da: Portrait of the Robot’ at the Design Museum
In this video, The Art Channel assesses an exhibition robot’s creativity, opining as to whether or not artwork made by an Artificial Intelligence can be...
New Medici show charts Renaissance rulers’ political might
In this video, we join Keith Christiansen, the John Pope-Hennessy Chairman of the Met’s Department of European Paintings, and guest curator Carlo Falciani, Professor of...
Sebastião Salgado: photos of hell, photos of hope
In this video, award-winning photographer Sebastião Salgado presents the five photos that changed his life, taking him from the depths of horror, despair and a...
Avant-garde contrarians: getting to the art of Dadaism
Why is a urinal considered artistic expression? What does the word Dada represent? What are Dada soirées? What does Dadaist poetry sound like? And can...
Woman in black: Sargent’s scandalous ‘Portrait of Madame X’
In this video, we take a closer look at a painting that set off a scandal from which neither its artist nor its subject emerged...
Chasing shadows: the story (so far) of the ‘lost Leonardo’
In this video, we learn the shadowy story of the ‘Salvator Mundi’, a painting touted as the lost masterpiece of Leonardo Da Vinci, which, after...
The glass blower who turns old bottles into works of art
In this video, we meet Melbourne-based glass blower and artist, Ruth Allen, and discover her amazing designs made from recycled glass bottles. Her finely honed...
Spirit path to the tomb of the first Ming Emperor
In this video, art historians Dr. Kristen Brennan and Dr. Beth Harris discuss the cultural significance of the Xiaoling Mausoleum, the elaborate resting place of...
Nero: new exhibition challenges infamy of Roman ruler
In this video, curators Thorsten Opper and Francesca Bologna introduce an exhibition running presently at the British Museum, dedicated to Nero, a Roman emperor steeped...
The battle of life: L.S. Lowry’s ‘Going To the Match’
In this video, Sotheby’s head of modern and post-war British art Frances Christie presents L.S. Lowry’s ‘Going to the Match’. At a time when the...
Major allure: the secrets behind great Bond theme music
In addition to exotic locales, extravagant action sequences and ingenious gadgetry, Bond films are memorable for the unique scoring of their opening credits. In this...
Benaki Museum CLOSE UPS: a 19th-century mirror case from Iran
For non-Greek speakers, this video requires captioning. After clicking the video’s play button, hover your mouse cursor over the lower border of the video, then...
Expressing alienation: why you should read Virginia Woolf
How can we understand the inner experience of alienation? English writer Virginia Woolf, in both her essays and her fiction, shapes the slippery nature of...
Creative distortions: the mathematical art of M.C. Escher
In this video, Professor Ian Stewart of Warwick University explores the mathematical influences in the works of Dutch artist M. C. Escher. “If you wander...
Bending convention: the fluid, dynamic structures of Zaha Hadid
In this Curious Muse video essay, we get better acquainted with the work of Zaha Hadid (1950-2016), a British Iraqi architect, recognised as a major...
Fleeting world: ‘Seven Silent Songs’ by Avish Khebrehzadeh
What do a baby rhino, soldiers on stilts and humans dragging a whale mean to Iranian artist Avish Khebrehzadeh? In this video, we observe her...
The birth of portraiture: bronzes from the Hellenistic age
In this video, we look back at an extraordinary exhibition of bronze statues from the Hellenistic age – a period that began over 2,000 years...
Where there’s a chill: Stephen King’s path to ruling horror
In this video, world-renowned horror writer, Stephen King, offers his insights on his creative process, and also takes us behind the scenes of the latest...