Rhian Samuel
Rhian Samuel is a Welsh composer. She is Professor of Music at City University.
Rhian Samuel is a Welsh composer. She is Professor of Music at City University.
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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
Art as Gossip
Do we have to see art to appreciate it?
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
Losing It
Does comedy challenge society, or reinforce it?
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?
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
When myth becomes reality
The power of misinformation
