The Beautiful Universe

Is beauty hardwired into our world?

The Mystery of Music

Explaining the transcendental

Banksy and the Media Barons

Julian Stallabrass charts the rise of a generation of media-savvy artists raking in millions.

Michelangelo vs Damien Hirst

Has contemporary art lost its way?

Duchamp's Deception

Julian Spalding | Was Duchamp a fraud?

Truth and Poetry

Andrew Motion | Where does poetry gets its power?

The Secrets of the Uncanny

What does our sense of the uncanny say about us?

Seizing the Means of Production

Brian Eno: What the Future Could Look Like

The Emperor's New Art

From where does art get its value?

Con Art

Should we redefine conceptual art?

On Ugliness

Why 'ugliness' is a virtue

Becoming Human

Can art change who you are?

Beauty Bites Back

Could beauty be real rather than subjective?

Music's Mystery

The secret to music's emotion

Life, Beauty and Being

Is beauty something we now buy?

American Surreal

Artist Susan Hiller looks back on her career with Serpentine co-director Hans Ulrich Obrist.

Broken Beauty

How can art combat the power of oil and money?

The Best is to Come

What is the future of art?

What is the Power of Art?

The work of art in the age of mass consumption

Dying for Dior

Is fashion an aesthetic art form?

Nicolas Roeg

The legendary director makes the case for cinema defined by risks, accidents and adventure.

On the Air with Annie Nightingale

Reflections on a life at music's cutting edge

Art and the Artful

Concept, craftsmanship and art

The Good, the Bad and the Artist

Should we separate the artist from the art?

Is Beauty Back?

The future of art

The Naked Truth

How does the body in art relate to physical-being? Is nudity ever more than a sales tactic?

The Limits of Art

Art Couture

Reinventing Film

The rise of independent cinema

The Emperor's New God

Can art replace religion?

Of Wonder and Terror

Science, art, and the sublime

The Schlock of the New

The strange vulnerability of giant corporations

The Screen Age

A Wonder Full World

Is the sublime real?

Blowing in the Wind

Pop-star revolutionaries

Time and Tate

the story of art in Britain

The New Beautiful

The Art of Activism

Patricia MacCormack | Creative protest for impact

Hitler's Art War

Taking Over the Gallery

Yes, It Really is Beautiful!

Pollock on Pollock Squared

The Cinema of Ideas

Abstract Graffiti

New British Art Double-Bill

Maps of Mystery

Can art help us catch sight of the ineffable? Or, do we mystify existence at our peril?

Six Billion Characters in Search of an Author

The View From Outside

Cultures of the Body

The Music of Revolt