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Today we turn up the spice with gourmet gastronomes Tony Singh and Cyrus Todiwala. The chefs are joined by David Harper and Natasha Raskin. Setting off from Dundee they snake down the east coast of Scotland to the village of Rosewell in Midlothian for an auction. Cyrus proves to have a flair for negotiating and Tony’s not shy at naming his price. Tony discovers why one Scottish city was home to many millionaires and Cyrus finds his sea legs as he learns why Anstruther was a pivotal fishing port in the 19th century.

A celebrity couple Road Trip – award winning journalists John Stapleton and Lynn Faulds Wood. Joining them on this jolly jaunt are Thomas Plant and Margie Cooper. With £400 in their pockets the teams kick off in Wrightington, Lancashire and head to Stockport for auction. Lynn and Thomas find themselves literally knee deep in antiques while hunting for old biscuit tins while Margie tries to convince John some rare lamps will make a profit. Also John learns how an American revolutionised British public transport and Lynn sees why snakes are milked in Liverpool.

Bosch's hometown in the Netherlands has no paintings by the painter, yet for the major "Visions of Genius" exhibition held on the anniversary of his death in 2016, the Noordbrabants Museum has managed to bring together almost all of Bosch's paintings and drawings. "Visions of Genius" was the most ambitious exhibition ever dedicated to the Dutch painter. This documentary will plunge you into the strange, visionary world of Hieronymus Bosch.

Life-size figures, silhouettes escaped from an invisible theater, offbeat scenes interacting with street furniture: Levalet's universe transforms Paris into a huge poetic playground. Through his black-and-white work, the artist highlights the absurdity of everyday life, revealing the humor, fragility, and contradictions of our modern lives. This episode delves into his artistic process: from meticulous drawings created in his studio to collages made at night in the streets, each work becomes an encounter between fiction and reality.

In June 2017, a major exhibition opened in Paris at the Musée d'Orsay. For the first time, this exhibition brought together all Cézanne's portraits. This was an opportunity to analyze Cézanne's work with the help of international experts and to tour the rooms of the National Portrait Gallery in London and the National Gallery of Art in Washington.

With loans from across the world, this major retrospective brings together Vermeer’s most famous masterpieces including Girl with a Pearl Earring, The Geographer, The Milkmaid, The Little Street, Lady Writing a Letter with her Maid, and Woman Holding a Balance. In all, 28 of his surviving 37 works. This film invites audiences to a privileged view of the exhibition, accompanied by the director of the Rijksmuseum and the curators of the show. A truly once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to discover the genius of Vermeer and his fascinating and mysterious life.

"I envy the Japanese", wrote Van Gogh to his brother Theo. Thanks to the exhibition on which this film is based, at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, we understand why. Although Vincent van Gogh never visited Japan, it remains the country that had the greatest influence on him and his work. By visiting Japanese art galleries in Paris and creating his own image of Japan after extensive research, print collections and lengthy discussions with other artists, the discovery of Japanese art took van Gogh's career in an exciting new direction.

Narrated by Gillian Anderson, this episode of Exhibition on Screen follows the footsteps of French artists such as Renoir and Monet, the American Impressionist movement forged its own path. Painted over a period of 40 years, these paintings reveal the United States both as a nation and as a creative breeding ground. The history of this movement is closely linked to the love of gardens and the desire to preserve nature in a country undergoing rapid urbanization. This enchanting journey through workshops, gardens and famous sites in the USA, UK and France is a feast for the eyes.

Find a selection of commented works by the artist Anne-Louis Girodet (1767-1824). We find numerous works of the artist with many precise details.

Discover the greatest works that represent laughter, an emotion that painters have tried to retranscribe in their paintings each in their own way. From "Contract" by Quentin Metsys to "Democritus" by Diego Velazquez, you will learn more about the different ways to animate a painting through this emotion.

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Actors and friends from Casualty Susan Cookson and Suzannne Packer swap surgery scrubs for a 1965 Sunbeam Tiger as they battle it out on around the North West of England, assisted by James Braxton and David Harper. Susan discovers her inner haggler as Suzanne keeps the purse string very tight as she bids to discover an item with some real age. As the trip winds across Yorkshire there is the chance to meet a very special woman from Sheffield and a look around some incredible gardens with an amazing history.

In this episode, the two candidates, Anouar Hendrixx and Gwenaëlle David, will compete on the imposed theme of the fairground. They will have one hour to make the best possible photograph, then they will have to edit their photos for 30 minutes.

Since the 1980s, street art has crept into cities and its artists are taking a growing place in urban space, but also in art collections. Installed in Lille, Jef Aerosol is part of the historical French Street Art with stencil option. His genre is the portrait, and he has long drawn on the world of music to express his passion. The artist is collected today by the greatest amateurs of Street Art.

Take an hour break to discover the work of a Italien painter, Leonardo da Vinci. You will discover his labour with the Joconde, Salvator Mundi, The Cène.

Take an hour break to discover the work of a Netherlands painter, Rembrandt. You will discover his labour with The night round, the return of the prodigal son, Danaé.

Pablo Picasso is one of the world's greatest artists, and until his death in 1973, he was its most prolific. How did it all begin? After being ignored for too long, it's time to focus on the artist's early years and the upbringing that enabled him to achieve the extraordinary. Three cities played a key role: Malaga, Barcelona and Paris. Young Picasso traverses them and explores their influence on the artist, analyzing specific works from his early years.

Pieter Bruegel the Elder, (1525-1569) is one of the most renowned Flemish painters of the Renaissance. Although influenced by Italian art, his paintings maintained a typically Flemish tradition. A “peasant” painter, he depicted the lives of his country’s common folk as in the “Peasant Wedding”. In “Netherlandish Proverbs”, he wittily transcribes dozens of popular sayings. Admire also his incomplete “Tower of Babel”, a theme which Bruegel made into his own speciality. Enjoy your visit!

Zaha Hadid is the only woman architect on the international scene. Her museum is an unusual object that sits on the edge of the railroad tracks, between the station and the bridge leading to the Autostadt. A spaceship, a large triangle of concrete and glass.

In 64 episodes, fun and educational, you will know how to draw an airplane, a fireman, a haunted mansion, a soccer player, a sunset, a lion, the Eiffel Tower, seashells, a fairy... Our master draftsman Gia-Haï Phan will show you the basics of a successful drawing: proportions, perspectives, values, contrasts, volumes, blending, everything is covered.

Raphael Federici (street artist), Marine Goodmorning (illustrator), Luca Fiore (cartoonist) and Harry Boudchicha (drawing teacher) reveal their best drawing techniques. Each episode focuses on a specific subject: movement, oil painting, shadows, hair... For the first 10 minutes, each artist gives a theoretical lesson illustrated by sketches. Then they each start working on their creation. Finally, they end with a debrief, comparing and explaining their techniques

Test and develop your artistic culture with Art Quiz, the game that will allow you to become unaware of art. Whether it's artists, works of art, artistic trends, the price of works... nothing will be a secret for you anymore. Now it's your turn to play!

Graffiti World is a short program dedicated to contemporary urban art around the world. Each episode explores a specific city, highlighting iconic works of street art. Local soundscape accompanies the images for an authentic, commentary-free immersion. The program showcases the creativity and diversity of artistic expression in public spaces. An invitation to discover the richness of graffiti as an art form in its own right.

Today we’re in the North East of England with top wheelchair paralympians Tanni Grey-Thompson and Jade Jones. Tanni has a record haul of medals and records, while her promising young protégé Jade is just starting out on her athletics career. In the company of experts Phil Serrell and David Harper, the Baroness from County Durham and Middlesbrough’s Jade will be on the lookout for antiques to take to auction in Harrogate. Tanni also tries her hand at traditional glass making and Jade learns about the man who was a design champion of the region.

Every Rembrandt exhibition is eagerly awaited, but this exhibition organized by London's National Gallery and Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum was an unprecedented event. The documentary highlights the historic Rembrandt exhibition, while tracing his life. Rembrandt is one of the greatest artists who ever lived, and this deeply moving documentary seeks to explore the truth about the man behind the legend.

David Hockney, generally considered one of Britain's most popular artists, is enjoying worldwide success, with exhibitions in London, New York, Paris and elsewhere attracting millions of visitors. Now in his eighties, Hockney shows no sign of letting up or losing his legendary audacity. This film reveals intimate, previously unseen interviews and focuses on two successful exhibitions that took place in 2012 and 2016 at the Royal Academy of Arts in London.

Raphael Federici (street artist), Marine Goodmorning (illustrator), Luca Fiore (cartoonist) and Harry Boudchicha (drawing teacher) reveal their best drawing techniques. Each episode focuses on a specific subject: movement, oil painting, shadows, hair... For the first 10 minutes, each artist gives a theoretical lesson illustrated by sketches. Then they each start working on their creation. Finally, they end with a debrief, comparing and explaining their techniques

Private Tour takes you to discover the second exhibition of "Japanese art brut " at the Halle Saint Pierre. With this exhibition, we try to question and understand what makes the success and originality of art brut. Among the works on display you will be able to discover works by the iconic Japanese artist Sawada who participated in the Venice Biennale in 2013.

Private tour takes you to discover the "Calder-Picasso" exhibition at the Picasso National Museum in Paris. The works of Pablo Picasso and Alexander Calder are exhibited and respond to each other, offering a real experience to the viewer. You will discover sculptures such as "Woman in the Garden" or "Shark and Whale".

During the Renaissance the male body was portrayed less frequently than its female counterpart. With the advent of studies at the French Academy in Rome, the male nude became, on the contrary, the most important exercise for the student painter, to the point where a work portraying a naked man became known as “Academy Study”. Look at the figure in “Charon Ferrying the Shades” by Subleyras or the “Male Nude or Hector” by David. The male nude also represents the heroic nude, for example in Ingres’ painting “Oedipus and the Sphinx”. Enjoy your visit!

Zaha Hadid is the only woman architect on the international scene. Her museum is an unusual object that sits on the edge of the railroad tracks, between the station and the bridge leading to the Autostadt. A spaceship, a large triangle of concrete and glass.

Life-size figures, silhouettes escaped from an invisible theater, offbeat scenes interacting with street furniture: Levalet's universe transforms Paris into a huge poetic playground. Through his black-and-white work, the artist highlights the absurdity of everyday life, revealing the humor, fragility, and contradictions of our modern lives. This episode delves into his artistic process: from meticulous drawings created in his studio to collages made at night in the streets, each work becomes an encounter between fiction and reality.

In June 2017, a major exhibition opened in Paris at the Musée d'Orsay. For the first time, this exhibition brought together all Cézanne's portraits. This was an opportunity to analyze Cézanne's work with the help of international experts and to tour the rooms of the National Portrait Gallery in London and the National Gallery of Art in Washington.

Test and develop your artistic culture with Art Quiz, the game that will allow you to become unaware of art. Whether it's artists, works of art, artistic trends, the price of works... nothing will be a secret for you anymore. Now it's your turn to play!

Graffiti World is a short program dedicated to contemporary urban art around the world. Each episode explores a specific city, highlighting iconic works of street art. Local soundscape accompanies the images for an authentic, commentary-free immersion. The program showcases the creativity and diversity of artistic expression in public spaces. An invitation to discover the richness of graffiti as an art form in its own right.

Römer and Römer, a couple of painters, have decided to settle in Berlin. They share their passion for the world around them and for the perpetual staging of social life. Römer and Römer, enchanters of reality, transmit the singularity of their view on the moments of encounters and celebrations of our lives.

In this episode, we will meet the artist Richard Orlinski. In 2004, this artist decided to devote himself entirely to art. Imbued with pop-culture, the artist created a colorful universe, inspired by the wildest animals and iconic objects that marked their generation.

In this episode, we will meet David Bellemere, fashion, celebrity and beauty photographer. He discovered his love for photography in school. For two years he traveled to Asia, and it became the most influential theme in his photographic style. The time spent in Asia allowed him to focus his work on the use of natural light and architecture while adding feminine sensuality and fashion, in order to reproduce "erotic" but graceful images.

In this episode we will meet Henri Dauman, photographer. He emigrated to the United States in 1950 and became a journalist. He collaborated with all the major American and European titles. Through his snapshots of Andy Warhol, Brigitte Bardot, Elvis Presley, or Marilyn Monroe, for recognized newspapers, his priority remains to tell stories.

Today we’re in the North East of England with top wheelchair paralympians Tanni Grey-Thompson and Jade Jones. Tanni has a record haul of medals and records, while her promising young protégé Jade is just starting out on her athletics career. In the company of experts Phil Serrell and David Harper, the Baroness from County Durham and Middlesbrough’s Jade will be on the lookout for antiques to take to auction in Harrogate. Tanni also tries her hand at traditional glass making and Jade learns about the man who was a design champion of the region.

It’s a journey into antiquity with glamorous historians Suzannah Lipscomb and Kate Williams. Paired with experts David Harper and Catherine Southon they Road Trip from Bletchley in Buckinghamshire to an auction in London. There’s also opportunity to hear how Mrs Beeton became the first ‘domestic Goddess’ and why Luton played a critical role in the fashion world when hats were de rigueur daily wear. David and Suzannah gamble on a giant ant while Catherine and Kate plump for a very large tea urn.

Multi-award-winning director Phil Grabsky takes a fresh look at arguably the world's most beloved artist, using the words of the painter himself. I, Claude Monet reveals new facets of the man who gave birth to the Impressionist movement with one painting, and who was certainly one of the most influential and renowned painters of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Shot on location across Europe, I, Claude Monet is an unprecedented, intimate film exploration of some of Western art's most beloved cult settings.

Lucian Freud, one of the most famous British painters of our time, is also one of the few twentieth-century artists to have portrayed himself so consistently in self-portraiture. His self-portraits provide a fascinating insight into both his personality and his development as a painter, from his first portrait in 1939 to his last. Through fascinating interviews with former models, friends and leading experts, this intensely captivating documentary reveals the work of a master who represents a compelling study of the dynamics of aging and the process of self-representation.

Pablo Picasso is one of the world's greatest artists, and until his death in 1973, he was its most prolific. How did it all begin? After being ignored for too long, it's time to focus on the artist's early years and the upbringing that enabled him to achieve the extraordinary. Three cities played a key role: Malaga, Barcelona and Paris. Young Picasso traverses them and explores their influence on the artist, analyzing specific works from his early years.

With loans from across the world, this major retrospective brings together Vermeer’s most famous masterpieces including Girl with a Pearl Earring, The Geographer, The Milkmaid, The Little Street, Lady Writing a Letter with her Maid, and Woman Holding a Balance. In all, 28 of his surviving 37 works. This film invites audiences to a privileged view of the exhibition, accompanied by the director of the Rijksmuseum and the curators of the show. A truly once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to discover the genius of Vermeer and his fascinating and mysterious life.

Wilhelm Hansen was a visionary businessman who lived in Denmark in the 19th century. He was one of the few collectors to take an interest in the Impressionist painters, at a time when they were attacked and denigrated. The film takes us to Hansen's summer home on the outskirts of Copenhagen, and to the extraordinary exhibition of his collection at London's Royal Academy.

The spectacular sculptures and paintings of Michelangelo seem so familiar to us, but what do we really know about this renaissance genius? Who was this ambitious and passionate man? A virtuoso craftsman, Michelangelo’s artistry is evident in everything he touched. Beautiful and diverse works such as the towering statue of David, the deeply moving Pietà in the Papal Basilica of St. Peter and his tour-de-force, the Sistine Chapel ceiling still leave us breathless today.

Edouard Vuillard (1868-1940), find our comments on the works of this founder of the Nabi movement.

There is great simplicity and troubling realism in the figures of Georges de La Tour (1593-1652). Influenced by Caravaggio’s works, he painted with light tones as in his famous “Cardsharp with the Ace of Clubs”. His works also include several nocturnal scenes with striking chiaroscuro, simply lit up by the flame of a candle as in “Newborn” and “Adoration of the Shepherds”, which are at present conserved at the Louvre Museum. Enjoy your visit!

Test and develop your artistic culture with Art Quiz, the game that will allow you to become unaware of art. Whether it's artists, works of art, artistic trends, the price of works... nothing will be a secret for you anymore. Now it's your turn to play!

Today we turn up the spice with gourmet gastronomes Tony Singh and Cyrus Todiwala. The chefs are joined by David Harper and Natasha Raskin. Setting off from Dundee they snake down the east coast of Scotland to the village of Rosewell in Midlothian for an auction. Cyrus proves to have a flair for negotiating and Tony’s not shy at naming his price. Tony discovers why one Scottish city was home to many millionaires and Cyrus finds his sea legs as he learns why Anstruther was a pivotal fishing port in the 19th century.

In each episode of Photo Contest, two contestants compete on an imposed theme such as rock'n roll, Japan or architecture. They have one hour to take the best possible photographs before editing them for 30 minutes in a studio. The photographs they have selected are then presented to Agnès Grégoire, editor-in-chief of PHOTO magazine, who will have to choose the best photographer.

His white man is a symbol of Street Art in France. Jerome Mesnager was one of the spearheads of the emergence of this movement in the 1980s, in the wake of Ernest Pignon-Ernest and Gérard Zlotykamien. In France and around the world, the artist has multiplied his white man as a message.

Take an hour break to discover the work of a British painter, William Turner. You will discover his labour with London from greenwich park, child hairdo’s pilgrimage, Snow storm.

Take an hour break to discover the work of a French painter, Eugene Delacroix. You will discover his labour with The barque of Dante, Portrait of Aspasie, The assassination of the bishop of liege.