Martin Kemp
A leading expert on the work of Leonardo da Vinci and the art and science of sight, Oxford-based art historian Martin Kemp has curated for the V&A, Barbican and Hayward galleries. His new book is From Christ to Coke.
A leading expert on the work of Leonardo da Vinci and the art and science of sight, Oxford-based art historian Martin Kemp has curated for the V&A, Barbican and Hayward galleries. His new book is From Christ to Coke.
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The Naked Truth
How does the body in art relate to physical-being? Is nudity ever more than a sales tactic?
How To Change the World
Arts power to pack political clout is clear. But is this a reduction of great art?
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The Immortal Now
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Emperor's New Genes
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The Beautiful Universe
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The Mystery of Music
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Banksy and the Media Barons
Julian Stallabrass charts the rise of a generation of media-savvy artists raking in millions.
Michelangelo vs Damien Hirst
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Duchamp's Deception
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The Evolution of Desire
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Defeating Aging
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Truth and Poetry
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The Secrets of the Uncanny
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The New Bodies
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The Emperor's New Art
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Orgasmatron
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Con Art
Should we redefine conceptual art?
After Darwin
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Becoming Human
Can art change who you are?
Beauty Bites Back
Could beauty be real rather than subjective?
After Evolution
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Music's Mystery
The secret to music's emotion
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Is beauty something we now buy?
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Life On The Edge
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Artist Susan Hiller looks back on her career with Serpentine co-director Hans Ulrich Obrist.
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The Best is to Come
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What is the Power of Art?
The work of art in the age of mass consumption
Art as Gossip
Do we have to see art to appreciate it?
Dying for Dior
Is fashion an aesthetic art form?
Why We Are Who We Are
The epigenetic revolution
Planet of the Clones
Should we clone human beings?
The Uniqueness of Humanity
Is evolution progress?
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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
Genes, Cells, and Brains
Taking on the bioscience industry
A Paradigm of Health
What are the limits of western medicine?
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?
Cyborg Future
Microprocessors & nano-robots in the human body
Inside the Mind’s Eye
The Solitary Self - Darwin and the Selfish Gene
Your Life in the Balance
Should we trust doctors less than we do?
Documenting Death
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Docs in the Dock
What can we do about medical errors?
The Limits of Art
Art Couture
Are Hospitals Bad For Us?
Social justice impacts our health more than medicine
Why Genes Are Not Selfish and People Are Nice
Neoliberalism makes for crude science
Morality, Hypocrisy and Health
Drugs and Western imperialism
Sex, Science, and Stereotypes
Why women have evolved differently from men
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
How Science Tells Us Who We Are
George Ellis | Nature vs nurture
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
Designing Life
The Art of Activism
Patricia MacCormack | Creative protest for impact
How to Live Forever
A future without morality
Hitler's Art War
Taking Over the Gallery
Yes, It Really is Beautiful!
Pollock on Pollock Squared
The Cinema of Ideas
Medicine's Mistakes
Should we distrust medicine?
Meat, Metal, Code
Human and Superhuman
Is the pursuit of eternal youth fair on the young?
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
Should We Change Our Genes?
Is ‘gene-doping’ a threat to humanity?
Cultures of the Body
The Music of Revolt
The Mystery of Life
If we find extraterrestrial life, will we recognise it as life at all?
Losing It
Does comedy challenge society, or reinforce it?
Stem Cells and the Future of Medicine
Can stem cells ethically transform medicine?
Trust Me, I'm Google
Medicine in a digital age
How To Change the World
Arts power to pack political clout is clear. But is this a reduction of great art?
Imagination, Inc.
Does public patronage awaken or stifle the arts? Do cuts spell the end of creativity?
A Change for Culture
The future of the art scene
Dressed: A Philosophy of Fashion
The Secret Life of Clothes
How to See Life's Patterns
Harnessing the power of nature's design
The tyranny of the new
Is innovation unstoppable?
Brian Eno's philosophy of art
Insights from a music legend
Writing The Future
Bringing life back to theatre
Artists' crusade
The politics in art
Status and wonder
How vital is art to our lives and culture?
The stories that make us
How stories shape our understanding of reality
Money, fame and value
Are today's artists monuments to status?
The new artistic revolution
How the digital landscape has revolutionised art
Trash, trends and the transcendent
Has culture lost sight of the sublime?
How to create art: by a scientist
Exploring creativity in its various forms
Popularity and prejudice
How do we measure artistic greatness?
How to do philosophy with Moby Dick
Uncovering truth through fiction.
Infinity in the palm of your hand
Can art uncover the essence of the world?
The betrayal of beauty
Can we separate art from beauty?
The importance of bad art
Extending art to change the world
Rebellion and rebirth
What activism teaches us about the world
Challenging the caricature
A life fighting stereotypes
The Life and Philosophy of Billy Bragg
Billy Bragg on the power of music and protest
The truth of fiction
Harnessing the power of story
Creativity and freedom
Should there be limits on creative freedom?
After Darwin
Evolution beyond the selfish gene
Gene Editing in the Wild
The ethics of CRISPR technology
What's wrong with us?
Is it time for AI to do more to help doctors?
The cause of death
Nobel laureate challenges lockdown
The Uncanny Valley
How to model a pandemic
Risk, Evidence and Lockdown
The right response to Covid-19?
Science to the Rescue
How do we decide on the truth?
The virus vs lockdown
Will we be on the right side of history?
Editing the future
The influence of CRISPR-Cas9
For your own good
Longevity vs. wellbeing
Life as we know it
What does it mean to be alive?
Science, hypocrisy and lies
The truth deficit
Human blueprints
An interview with Robert Plomin
How we became who we are
Politics in the nature vs nurture debate
Our saviour or our downfall
Does reliance on science doom us to a grisly fate?
Chicken or egg
Are we looking at life wrong?
The Future Human
The potential of CRISPR technology
The oddity of life
Our explanation for life will be counterintuitive
The matrix or the miracle
The future of the family
Trust, science and neutrality
Is science the gold standard of objective truth?
The pattern seekers
Why can humans alone invent?
Alien thinking
An exploration of possible alien minds
The making of us
Are humans shaped by genetics or environment?
Evolutionary Masters of the Universe
How gene editing technology will change humanity
Wave goodbye to being human
The transhumanist dream
Memes all the way down
Is Dawkins' concept useful?
Extra-terrestrial life
Are we the sharpest cookie in the jar?
Beyond the self and non-self
Is the biological self a delusion?
Dawkins re-examined
Dawkins' legacy
Living forever
Should we want to live forever?
Dawkins on the crisis of rationality
In conversation with Richard Dawkins
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Exploring the next stage of humanity
The medicine myth
The failure of medicalising philosophy
Why Dawkins is wrong
An interview with the renowned biologist
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Is our neurobiology at odds with the modern world?
Free will is not an illusion
Biology against determinism
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Fertility, sex and the future
The goodness paradox
Humans are neither good or bad
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Esteemed biologist reflects on life and career
The return of eugenics?
The danger of eugenics
The origin of life
The mystery of life's beginning