Dorothy Bohm, Edward Burtynsky, Sean Scully, Dada, Elizabeth Price, Edmund de Waal All of these programmes are available as Arts and Ideas podcasts via the Downloads tab.
Art historian Martin Kemp and painter Emma Safe, parallels with Proust and a Dante website
Anne McElvoy talks to the directors at London's National Gallery, Yale and New York's Met.
Matthew Sweet looks at the connections between the arts and coal mining communities.
Rana Mitter and guests explore the art and culture of Iran, and why people abandon cities.
Owen Hatherley, Emily MacGregor and Paul Greenhalgh go back to the future.
Shahidha Bari and guests look at labour saving devices and revamping the 1950s home.
Eric Parry and Alison Brooks; writers Fiona Mozley and SI Martin and pianist Belle Chen.
The role of masks in African traditions, Greek tragedy and Covid conspiracies
Jennifer Higgie, Adjoa Osei, Veronica Ryan, and Lydia Yee talk to Shahidha Bari.
A project to reimagine the Dada arts movement now, and reflections on satire and nonsense.
Olivia Laing, Charlie Porter and Ekow Eshun join Shahidha Bari.
Matthew Sweet questions the critic's role while Vid Simoniti looks at algorithms and art.
Lisa Mullen, Caroline Frost and historian & podcast host Greg Jenner join Matthew Sweet.
Philip Dodd finds out about the Turner Contemporary’s impact. Plus writer Maggie Gee.
Salman Rushdie is one of Matthew Sweet's guests for a conversation about the imagination.
From ice photos by Wayne Binitie to 140 ideas from artists collated by Hans Ulrich Obrist
Historians Catherine Fletcher, Selina Todd and art critic Jonathan Jones join Rana Mitter.
From Virginia Woolf's writings on art to dance, stillness and movement in lockdown.
Claire Wilcox, fashion curator of the V&A, talks to Shahidha Bari and other researchers.
Museum directors from Asia and France join Anne McElvoy and an audience at RIBA.
Director of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Michael Govan talks art with Philip Dodd.
Rana Mitter talks to Jason Webster, Ed Morales, Iain Sinclair and Iwona Blazwick.
The art of Cindy Sherman plus art critic Laura Cumming on the days her mother disappeared.
Anne McElvoy watches George Clooney in Catch-22 on TV and looks at recycling fashion.
