George Osborne’s comments were made on Thief at the British Museum, which has been released both as a one-off television show and a radio series
Historian acknowledged programme as 1969 "hugely influential" despite it being an "entirely European story"
The head of arts and classical music TV at the BBC also discusses her love for novelist Nikolai Gogol and Australian comedy series Colin from Accounts
Art That Made Us winds through the centuries, exploring the cultural effects of landmark historical events such as the Black Death and the First World War
The national broadcasting company’s funding model will be reviewed by 2027 sparking concerns about its future
Street Art Boy debuted recently on BBC2 and uses unheard interviews to document Haring's upbringing and work
Critics say new strategy means station will become a home for repeats with less investment in arts programming
In an interview for The Week in Art Podcast, Sophie reveals how the support of Henri Matisse's wife Amélie became a central theme of Becoming Matisse
A leading Italian art critic says that it is dictators and populists who fear culture and that the BBC’s creativity will be vital to coronavirus Britain, now and in the aftermath
Hall will leave his top media job in the summer to take up the unpaid position at the museum
Featured on the BBC's Fake or Fortune TV show, the sculptor's Tête qui regarde was badly repaired after it was felled by a family feline
Her unscripted commentaries on Rembrandt, Monet and Leonardo da Vinci turned her into an unlikely television star
The art world has yet to tackle issues around works like Picasso’s $115m child-prostitute portrait
Fifty years on, Joan Bakewell remembers speaking to the pioneering artist for the BBC, shortly before his death
Documentary breaks with many of the assumptions in the art historian’s seminal series, but it also owes a great deal to it
Plus, Stephen Fry as Pope Innocent X
Surgeons and contemporary artists are still inspired by the draughtsmanship of Leonardo and Turner
Four million viewers tuned in to Alan Yentob’s three-part series on the wonders of Da Vinci
Here’s hoping that they keep their trousers
A response to critic Andrew Graham-Dixon’s opinions on the power of images as expounded in his current BBC tv series
Talking about his readymades and his most complicated work “The large glass”, now in Philadelphia, Duchamp reflects on how little he meant to people in the late Fifties, when the painterliness of Abstract Expressionism ruled